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Security and permissions: what the assistant sees and refuses

The assistant works with your own permissions, and the system itself checks every action. It doesn’t see your teammates’ conversations, and it doesn’t follow instructions written inside your data.

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Your permissions are its limits

The same permission levels: Allowed, Team-wide access, If responsible and Denied, record by record. There’s no separate permission for the assistant.

The owner and super admins go past the permission matrix as usual, but deleting needs their confirmation too. During a support session, this bypass is turned off.

Reading chats needs the permission to see chats, and reading email needs the permission to see the mailbox.

Privacy

Every conversation belongs to its owner only. The assistant can’t reach other workspaces.

Protection from hidden instructions

Text inside records, comments, messages and email is data, not instructions. If the assistant finds text that looks like an instruction, it warns you about it.

Even if the model were tricked, every action is checked by the system and needs your approval.

If a reply comes out garbled, it’s deleted instead of shown, and nothing changes.

What it refuses

Revealing its instructions or its list of tools, claiming it has no limits, or naming the company or the model it runs on.

Changing permissions or billing, sending invitations, connecting messaging accounts, reading files, and diagnosing product faults. It points you to the right page or to support.

If something goes wrong

What you see
Why
What to do
The assistant doesn’t see some data
Your permissions don’t cover the unit.
This is on purpose. See Create a role and set its permissions.
“That reply went wrong and was discarded rather than shown”
A garbled reply.
Send your request again.

A real example

Basma Clinics
The situation

The receptionist asked the assistant about the doctors’ salaries.

What they did
  1. The salaries unit is denied in her role.
The result

The assistant found nothing, because it sees only what she sees.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.

Good to know

It never goes past your permissions.
It doesn’t read attached files.
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