Happenstance
Let agents search your network for people with Happenstance.
Happenstance searches the networks of you and your friends and colleagues. Connect it so agents can find people while they work, without you leaving the chat.
What agents can do
Once you connect Happenstance, agents can:
- Search your network, your friends' networks, and your groups for people who match a description
- Research a person's background, role, and career history
- List your groups and the friends whose networks you can search
- Check your Happenstance credit balance
Agents can only see what your Happenstance account can see. Searches and person research use your Happenstance credits, the same as in the Happenstance app.
Setup
Happenstance connects by signing in with your Happenstance account. There's no API key to create.
Go to Workspace Settings → Connectors (or a project's Connectors page) and click Connect on the Happenstance card (or Connect another to add another account).
Step 1: who the connection is for
Choose whether the connection belongs to you or to your team, which projects can use it, and whose agents can use it. Happenstance starts on Personal Account. See connection options for what each choice means.
Click Continue.
Step 2: sign in with Happenstance
Click Continue to Happenstance. Happenstance asks you to sign in and approve access. Approve, and you land back on the Connectors page with Happenstance connected.
Agents then act in Happenstance as whoever signed in, so they can search everything that person can. If you picked Workspace Service Account in step 1, everyone's agents use that access — so sign in with an account whose network you're happy to share.
Reconnecting and disconnecting
If Happenstance stops accepting a connection, the Connectors page shows a Reconnect needed badge on it, and agents run without Happenstance.
Click Manage next to the connection to fix it. There's no key to replace: the page shows Account connection: Connected and, when something's wrong, a Reconnect Happenstance button. You can only reconnect a personal connection you own; for someone else's, Superconductor tells you who to ask.
Disconnect also revokes Superconductor's access at Happenstance. If Happenstance doesn't confirm the revocation, Superconductor tells you to remove Superconductor from your Happenstance account to finish the job.
When to use it
Ask agents to use Happenstance when a ticket involves finding people. For example:
Use Happenstance to find people in my network who have run growth at a developer tools company, and list the top five with a line on why each fits.