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In Gmail and Outlook the assistant searches, drafts and sends mail, replies in thread with attachments, forwards, files and labels, and it creates and edits calendar events and syncs contacts.

Recipes add read and write access to Notion pages and databases, Linear and Asana projects, Todoist tasks, GitHub repositories, Vercel and Netlify deployments, Supabase, Ramp spend data, Webflow and Oura, authorized by OAuth or an API key during setup.

Any other service joins as an MCP server added by URL, with an API key or OAuth credentials, or tunneled from a local machine, and Poke discovers and calls the tools it exposes.

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A single assistant carries each request across email, calendar and connected tools, so one text can ask it to send onboarding email, schedule a kickoff, create a Notion project and set check in reminders. Recipes package the integrations, an automation and onboarding questions a job needs, and automations keep running in the background on Pro and Ultra. Multistep work rests on the assistant's own planning inside the conversation, with no workflow designer or team of agents to lay out.

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Answers draw on the user's own mail, calendar, contacts and connected apps, queried as each request runs, with web search for everything else, including maps and directions. Notion pages and databases, GitHub repositories and DeepWiki documentation become further sources once their recipes are added, and Poke can read a photo of a spreadsheet and turn it into a table or chart. The assistant keeps no searchable store of the user's files of its own, so each answer is assembled from those live sources.

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The assistant acts on what the user texts it, drafting and sending email, booking calendar events and running automations in the background. Control comes through the conversation itself, by disconnecting an integration or by asking Poke to trim busy automations, and there is no approval setting or rule that holds a kind of action for sign off. Poke Human brings in a person for hard errands, a service that does the task instead of checking the agent's work.

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Accounts are personal, tied to one phone number and opened through a Google or Microsoft account, with no team workspace, roles or single sign on. Interaction applies reasonable physical, technical and organizational safeguards, follows Google's Limited Use rules for Workspace data, and keeps data from users on Maximum Privacy out of model training. Poke offers buyers no SOC 2 report, ISO certification or trust center.

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Requests and results live in the message thread, where Poke reports back on what it did, and instructions sent through the API land in the same conversation, so the thread doubles as the record. A subscription page tracks usage against the plan's allowance and the next reset, and a status page covers service health. Users get no separate activity log, run history for automations or audit trail of actions taken in connected apps.

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Poke keeps memories about the person it works for and combines them with connected services to act at the right moment, while the human operators behind Poke Human see only the details of their task, never the chat history, memories or integrations. Deleting the account clears data within about 24 hours, with backups and legal holds taking longer. What a memory holds, how long it lasts and how a single memory is reviewed or removed are left unsaid.

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Poke runs only as Interaction's hosted service, reached through messaging apps and the web, and sign ups are open in every region worldwide. Buyers get no hosting location, region choice, private deployment or self hosted option.

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Recipes are ready made setups a user installs in one tap, each bundling integrations, an automation and onboarding questions. Examples include a morning summary of assigned Linear issues, a TripIt import of travel plans, Oura sleep and readiness insights, Notion page organization and Gmail inbox management. The directory groups first party and approved community recipes by category, from calendar, email and finance to health, travel, students and developer tools, and creators publish their own from Kitchen after review.

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Poke is built to message first. Real time automations run in the background on paid plans, reminders and scheduled tasks fire on their own time, and the assistant watches connected services and its memory to step in, for example adding the action items from a Granola meeting to the calendar. Users reach it by text or voice message in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS, and real time sync keeps Gmail and Outlook inboxes current.

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Plans differ by model class. Pro brings frontier models for complex tasks, Ultra runs frontier models on every action, and the free plan falls back to a lighter mode once its allowance is used. Neither the models nor their makers are named, and a user cannot pick one. Cognition has said its own models and infrastructure will power Poke over time.

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The Poke API is one endpoint. A POST with a bearer key from Kitchen delivers a message to the user's own assistant, which carries it out like a text, and the examples cover a browser extension that sends a selected page, a GitHub Action that reports a failed deploy and a Typeform or CRM webhook that hands over a new lead. The poke npm package logs in, adds MCP servers and tunnels local ones, and Kitchen publishes recipes. There is no API for reading conversations or managing integrations, recipes or automations.

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A recipe or automation goes to work once installed, and users have no way to run it against sample input, check its output against expectations or compare versions first. When automations fire so often that a user keeps reaching the plan's limit, the fix is to have Poke review and trim the busiest ones, which manages cost and speed, not quality.

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Poke works through integrations, web search and messaging, and it can build and publish a website, but it does not drive a browser, a desktop or a phone's apps. Errands that need a phone call, an order or a booking go to a human operator through Poke Human on the Ultra plan.

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