Stack Exchange, without opening Stack Exchange.
Read-only Q&A: find questions like the error in front of you and read the answers.
In your channel
Ask Ray for something in Stack Exchange and it posts this card in the thread. One click, and the task you asked for carries on where it left off.
What Ray can and cannot do in Stack Exchange
Reading is free, because reading changes nothing. Everything that writes waits for you. The rest is not on Ray’s list.
Runs on its own
What Ray reads in Stack Exchange
- Find similar questions
- Get answers by ids
- Get linked questions
- Get questions
- Get questions by ids
- Get question answers
- Get question comments
- Get search results
- Get sites
- Get tag faq
- Get tag info
Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.
Asks first, every time
What Ray answers with
Ray reads Stack Exchange and answers from it in the thread. Writing to Stack Exchange is not switched on yet, so there is nothing here to approve.
Not on the list
Things Ray is never handed
These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.
- Get access tokens
How Ray works with Stack Exchange
No workflow to build, and nothing to maintain when the work changes.
- 01
Connect Stack Exchange
One click, right where you asked. Ray posts a connect card, you authorise Stack Exchange with your own account, and the work you asked for picks up where it left off.
- 02
Ask in plain words
In the conversation you were already having. Nothing to build, no trigger to map, no tab to open.
- 03
Ray answers where you asked
Ray only reads Stack Exchange, so there is nothing here to approve. It looks up what it needs and replies in the thread.
Priya
@Ray the checkout bug is back. Take a look in Stack Exchange, and tell Dana it is being looked at.
Ray
Checked Stack Exchange. The spec was last edited on Tuesday and the open question about refunds is still unanswered.
What does connecting Stack Exchange to Ray actually do?
Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Stack Exchange and it can do the Stack Exchange part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written.
It is not a workflow builder. There is no trigger to configure and no automation to repair when your process shifts. You describe the outcome in the thread and Ray picks the actions, including actions in your other connected tools when the request spans more than one.
Every person on the team connects their own Stack Exchange account, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Stack Exchange shows who actually asked.
Security and permissions
- You authorise Stack Exchange on its own login screen. Your password never passes through Ray.
- Writes are gated in the execution path, not by a prompt. There is no setting that grants blanket approval.
- Each workspace is isolated at the database level, and that isolation is tested by trying to break it.
- Disconnect Stack Exchange in a message, or uninstall Ray and every connection it held is revoked.
More dev & deploys integrations
Ray uses them together in a single run when a request spans more than one.
Put Ray to work in Stack Exchange.
Free to start, no credit card, and it asks before it acts.