Docs & knowledge
Give your agents access to your Dropbox files.
Agents find, read, and upload files, organize folders, share files and file requests, and manage a Dropbox team. Dropbox trigger events start an agent when a file lands in a folder or changes.
5,000 free credits to start.
Agent reach
Dropbox API v2 and Content Processing API
The full surface, searched at run time.
Connect with
- Your own OAuth app
Create a scoped app in the Dropbox App Console, or a team app that a team admin approves for the whole team. For triggers, add the Helios webhook URL to the app.
Event triggers
Yes · 5 events
Plus manual, schedule, and signed webhook.
What the agent can do
What agents do with Dropbox
Helios searches the Dropbox API v2 and Content Processing API at run time. The agent finds the endpoint the task needs and calls it.
- Call Dropbox endpoints allowed by your app's scopes, including uploads and downloads.
- Search files and folders, and read their versions, tags, and properties.
- Download files to read, parse, and summarize them, and upload the results.
- Create folders, and move, copy, rename, tag, lock, and delete files and folders.
- Create shared links, share folders, and create file requests for the files a task touches.
- With a team app, manage members, groups, and team folders, and read the team's activity log.
Examples
Tasks you can hand to a Dropbox agent
Process files added to a folder
When a file arrives in a watched folder, the agent reads it, pulls out what matters, and records it where the team works.
When an invoice lands in /Invoices, extract the vendor, amount, and due date and add a row to the tracker.
- dropbox·download the new invoice
- code·extract the vendor, amount, and due date
- google-sheets·append a row to the invoice tracker
Invoice from Northwind recorded
- $4,820.00 due on November 14
- Added to the invoice tracker
Summarize a folder of documents
The agent reads documents in a folder and posts a summary where the team works.
Summarize the contracts in /Legal/2026 and post the summary to #legal.
- dropbox·list 12 files in /Legal/2026
- dropbox·download each contract
- code·summarize terms and renewal dates
- slack·post the summary to #legal
Summary posted
- 3 contracts renew in the next 60 days
- 2 have no termination clause
Set up new client folders
When someone creates a client folder, the agent adds the standard subfolders and a file request for the client's documents.
When a folder is created under /Clients, add the standard subfolders and a file request for onboarding documents.
- dropbox·create Contracts and Invoices
- dropbox·create a file request
- slack·post the request link
Acme folder ready
- Two subfolders created
- File request link posted to #onboarding
Event triggers
Start a run on Dropbox events
Attach any of these events to a workflow and filter on the fields that matter. Manual, schedule, and signed webhook triggers work too.
| Event | What it means |
|---|---|
file.created | A file is added. Filter by path, such as every PDF in an Invoices folder. |
file.updated | A new version of a file is saved, so an agent can review what changed. |
folder.created | A folder is created, so an agent can set it up for a new client or project. |
item.deleted | A file or folder is deleted or moved away. |
team_member.changed | A team member is invited, joins, is removed, or changes. Team apps only. |
Works with
Dropbox works with the rest of your stack
One agent, one run, several services. It reads from one tool and writes to the next in the same sandbox.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Put an agent on Dropbox.
Connect it once and describe the task in chat. Then reuse the prompt as a workflow on a schedule or a webhook.