ingestion-and-connectors

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Create, sync, and diagnose Brain sources across all providers (manual, generic, clips, slack, granola, github) — health states, sync scheduling, and credential resolution. Use when adding a source, running or debugging a sync, or the user asks why a source is stale, erroring, or not importing.

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Ingestion and Connectors

For Slack-specific rollout steps (channel allow-lists, pilot runs, scope checklist), read brain-runbook instead — this skill covers the provider-agnostic source lifecycle.

Source Providers

create-source accepts exactly manual, generic, clips, slack, granola, or github (sourceProviderSchema). There is no arbitrary/custom provider string — a generic webhook-fed source uses provider: "generic" with a sourceKey + minted ingestToken, not a made-up provider id.

pnpm --filter brain action create-source \
  --title "Support call transcripts" \
  --provider generic \
  --sourceKey support-calls \
  --visibility org

create-source returns ingestToken in the response once — it is stored only as a SHA-256 hash (ingestTokenHash) on the source row, so it cannot be retrieved again later. Surface it to the user immediately (e.g. for wiring into an external system's webhook config) rather than assuming you can read it back with get-source.

Source Health States

get-brain-health (readBrainHealth in server/lib/brain-health.ts) is the single action to check before telling a user "your source is broken" or "nothing has synced yet." Each source gets one deterministic health value:

Health	Meaning
`error`	Source `status === "error"`, has `lastError`, or its latest sync run failed.
`paused`	Source `status` is `paused` or `archived`.
`needs_setup`	Slack source with no configured channel allow-list yet (`channelIds`/`channels`/`allowedChannels` all empty).
`needs_sync`	Auto-sync-eligible provider (slack/granola/github) that has never completed a sync (`lastSyncedAt` is null).
`stale`	Past its computed `nextSyncAt` by more than a 15-minute grace window.
`healthy`	None of the above.

get-brain-health also reports distillationQueue counts (pending, failed, stale — a processing row untouched for 15+ minutes counts as stale), proposals.pending, sources.attention (every non-healthy source), and ordered setup.nextSteps. Read this before diagnosing a "why isn't X in Brain yet" question — it is cheaper and more reliable than inspecting individual sources by hand.

Running a Sync

sync-source --sourceId=<id> runs one source's connector immediately (requires editor access on that source). Slack scans only its allow-listed channels; Granola polls accessible notes; GitHub imports approved repository issues/PRs.
sync-due-sources sweeps every accessible source whose nextSyncAt has passed. Prefer this for "catch everything up" requests instead of listing sources and calling sync-source in a loop.
Auto-sync only applies to slack, granola, and github sources, and only when the source's own config doesn't explicitly set autoSync: false (sourceAutoSync in brain-health.ts). manual, generic, and clips sources are push/import-driven, not polled — there's no nextSyncAt to wait on for those.

Credential Resolution Order

Every provider-backed source resolves its credential in this order (never skip ahead or ask for a duplicate token if an earlier tier already has one):

Granted workspace_connections / workspace_connection_grants for appId=brain — a shared credential another app or Dispatch already connected and granted to Brain.
Backward-compatible Brain-local SQL credentials (legacy, pre-workspace-grant sources).
Registered vault secrets scoped to the same user/org/workspace.

Brain source credentials do not fall back to raw deploy-level environment variables — .env/.env.local alone will not satisfy a source's credential check. list-connection-providers reports per-provider readiness (connected, granted, needs_grant, not_connected) plus credential health, so check that before telling a user to paste a new token — if a provider shows needs_grant, the fix is granting Brain access to the existing connection, not creating a new one.

Editing And Removing Sources

update-source edits title, config, or visibility on an existing source.
delete-source is a hard delete — there's no soft-archive alternative exposed as an action; setting status: "paused" via update-source is the reversible way to stop a source without losing its captures.
list-sources --provider=<p> --includeArchived=<bool> is scoped by accessFilter — sharing/visibility rules apply the same way they do for knowledge and proposals.

Related Skills

brain — distillation, retrieval, and publish-tier mechanics once a capture exists.
brain-runbook — Slack rollout steps, distillation worker internals, scheduled sync cron wiring, demo/eval seeding, and the generic ingest webhook payload shape.
sharing — the accessFilter/assertAccess pattern used throughout source and capture reads.