> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.corvic.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Connect External Services

> Bring third-party services into Corvic so your agents can call them securely.

Corvic agents can act on the external services you already use. Rather than copying data around, you connect a service once and let your agents call its API directly — securely, without ever handling raw credentials in agent code.

This inbound direction is powered by the [API Secret Vault](/features/api-secret-vault).

## How it works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Connect a service">
    In **Settings → Connectors → API Secret Vault**, pick a service from the catalog (one-click presets for 35+ providers) or add any custom HTTPS origin.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Store your credential">
    Paste your API key or token. It's stored encrypted and referenced by name — it never appears in agent code, logs, or chat history.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Allowlist it for an agent">
    Grant specific agents access to the connection.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Call it from a workflow">
    The agent calls the service from a Python action; Corvic's proxy injects the credential into the request automatically.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you can connect

The catalog includes presets across Sales & CRM, Finance, Healthcare, Databases, Communication, Productivity, Developer, and Marketing — and anything reachable over HTTPS can be added as a custom connection.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="API Secret Vault" icon="key" href="/features/api-secret-vault">
    The full connector catalog and auth schemes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fetch from an API" icon="database" href="/features/data-sources#fetch-from-an-api">
    Pull data from a service into a table.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Python & SQL" icon="python" href="/features/python-sql">
    Call connected APIs from agent code.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Data Connectors" icon="plug" href="/features/data-sources#data-connectors">
    Connect live storage and warehouses.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>