Connector
A connector is the link between an AI platform and a system it needs to read from or act in, such as Slack, Gmail or Salesforce.
A connector does more than fetch data. It authenticates as a specific person or service, maps that system’s objects into something the AI platform can reason about, keeps its view current as things change, and exposes the actions the system allows. The read path and the write path are different problems: reading a CRM record is straightforward, updating one correctly requires knowing the company’s conventions for that object.
Connectors are also where permissions are enforced in practice. A well-built connector carries the acting person’s access through to the source system, so the AI platform can only see and change what that person could. That is what makes it safe to connect a tool broadly rather than to a carefully chosen subset of it.