---
title: "Connect your tools to Garba"
description: "Connect HubSpot, Notion, Linear and other tools to Garba in one click, so Ask Garba and your agents can use them."
url: https://help.garba.ai/en/articles/10742529-connect-your-tools-to-garba
collection: "Setting up Garba"
updated: 2026-11-09
language: en
---

# Connect your tools to Garba

Connect HubSpot, Notion, Linear and other tools to Garba in one click, so Ask Garba and your agents can use them.

### What connecting a tool does

When you connect a tool, Ask Garba and your agents can look things up in it and, where you allow it, make changes in it. A connector is the tool itself. A connection is your link to it, made with your own sign-in.

Garba has a library of popular tools that connect in one click: HubSpot, Attio, Upsales, Notion, Linear, Miro, Apollo, Clay, Stripe and Zapier. Any other tool that offers an MCP server can be added by its address.

### Connect a tool from the library

1.  In Garba, go to **Setup → User → Connectors**.
    
2.  Click **Add Connection**.
    
3.  Pick a tool. Use the category chips or **Search tools** to find it.
    

![The connector library](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelpcenter/ZwbbTB3wIsxq53m67qz9CKu7gSZuXeA7izdgCB4lRjHjLYf21E1AqBvKbdiOaPrpcv7Soprb3vC.png "The connector library")

4.  Under **Who can use this connection**, choose **Only you**, **Your team** or **Everyone in the account**. **Only you** is the default. If you share a connection, your teammates' chats and agents use your login on that tool.
    
5.  Click **Connect**. The tool's own sign-in opens in a new window. Sign in and choose Allow. Garba carries on by itself.
    

![Choosing who can use the connection](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelpcenter/lqvYG2M8GA367sfJfxwcl4IwuleVsDqPyiKJIDUlTt5C3p3wvUW1iyZPhckRYVXcgHpECnx8NLO.png "Choosing who can use the connection")

When it is connected, click **Set up its tools** to choose which of the tool's actions Garba may use, or click **Done**.

If the sign-in is refused or takes too long, Garba tells you and you can click **Try again**.

### Connect a tool from a chat

You do not have to open Setup first. In Ask Garba and in the agent builder, when your request needs a library tool you have not connected, Garba shows a card for it, marked **Not connected**.

Click **Connect Notion** and sign in in the window that opens. When it is done, Garba continues with your request. Click **Not now** to go on without it.

### When a sign-in stops working

A sign-in can stop working, for example when the tool ends it. A library tool whose connection no longer works shows **Not working** in the library. Click **Reconnect** and sign in again.

### Add a tool that is not in the library

1.  Go to **Setup → User → Connectors** and click **Add Connection**.
    
2.  Click **Set it up yourself**.
    
3.  Give the connection a name and the address of the MCP server.
    
4.  Choose who can use it, choose how it signs in, and complete the sign-in.
    

Garba checks that the server answers and lists its tools. If the address is a website's home page, the server is often at a path such as `/mcp`, and Garba suggests that address when it works.

### Who can add connections

Admins can always add connections. Whether managers and users can is an account setting. In **Setup → Account → Settings**, under **AI Tools**, choose the roles in **Who can add MCP connections**.

If you are not allowed to add connections, **Add Connection** is greyed out. In a chat, Garba shows "Connecting tools isn't turned on for users in your account. Ask your Garba admin."

If an admin narrows the setting, the connections of people who lose the right are switched off. They can switch them back on once the right is restored.

### HubSpot

HubSpot connects through Garba's own HubSpot app, so pick it from the library rather than adding it by its address. This is a separate sign-in from Garba's HubSpot CRM integration. Connecting one does not connect the other, and you can use either alone.

The CRM integration syncs your deals, companies and contacts into Garba. For Ask Garba or an agent to create or change anything in HubSpot, such as a task or a note, connect HubSpot here as well.

If your HubSpot account has HubSpot's **Sensitive Data** setting turned on, HubSpot blocks calls, meetings, notes and tasks for connected tools. To change this, ask your HubSpot admin.