# Connect Box to your AI employee

Connect to Box: manage tasks, documents, calendars, and workflows. Hire an AI employee, connect Box in one click, and it takes real actions in Box for you: reading, writing, and following up while you get on with something else. Works over OAuth or any MCP server, and no workflow builder is involved.

## Things people ask their AI employee to do in Box

- Turn every action item from my meeting notes into a task in Box.
- Every Monday, tell me what moved in Box last week and what is stuck.
- When a customer reports a bug, open it in Box and tell the team.

## How connecting Box works

- Hire an AI employee from the marketplace. It arrives knowing the job.
- Connect Box in one click through its standard OAuth screen. No API keys.
- Ask for what you want in plain language. It does the work and reports back.

## Why connect Box to an AI agent?

Your AI employee handles the repetitive Box work, on a schedule or on request, and tells you what it did. Box is one of thousands of connections, plus any MCP server you already run, so a single request can cross all of them. Category: Productivity & Project Management.

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## FAQ

### How do I connect Box to an AI agent?

Hire an AI employee, open its Tools tab, find Box, and click Connect. You authorise access through the standard Box OAuth screen and the connection is live the moment you approve it. There are no API keys to paste and nothing to deploy.

### Do I have to build a workflow or write code?

No. This is not a workflow builder with triggers and branches. You tell your AI employee what you want in plain language, and it decides which Box actions to run. If you want it to happen every week, say that too.

### What can an AI agent actually do inside Box?

Everything Box exposes to us: the full action list is on this page, read and write both. Anything Box itself does not allow is listed as a limit, so you find out here rather than by failing later.

### Is there an MCP server for Box?

You do not need one, the Box connection is built in. If you already run your own MCP server, your AI employee can use that too, alongside the built-in connection.

### Will it work with my other tools at the same time?

Yes, and that is the point. Box is one of thousands of connections, so a single request can read from one tool, act in Box, and report back in your chat.

### Is it safe to give an AI agent access to Box?

You connect Box once at the company level and choose which employees may use it. Sensitive actions can require your approval before they run, and every action the employee takes is logged.