Actions

Actions are tools your AI can use to perform actions. Inbox AI can trigger Ask AI actions using an incoming email, voice command, or screenshot. Ask AI actions can trigger any other action.

Actions come in many different flavors, but can be roughly divided in two main categories:

• Custom Actions These actions can be added and customized by you, the user.

• Built-in Actions These actions are fixed and only be used by you, the user.

Each action has several standard fields, the Terminal Command below is used as an example to show the default fields.

An action without configuration

An action with configuration

The common fields are:

• Name (and icon) This is the name you and the AI use to refer to this action.

• Description This is the description that explains what the actions does to you and the AI

• Instructions (optionally) These are instruction for a human, who is using this action. Supports Markdown links.

• Next Action The next action to call after this one. See Next Action Field for more information on this.

The checkbox "Hide action fields by default" allows you to hide complexity and just show the name and instructions for an action. When an action has human Action Variables, this is checked by default and the configuration screen will always show, like in the example below.

The configuration screen.

Most fields in actions support Action Variables and Templating. Refer to the documentation on these for more information.