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Arena is launching Connectors in Agent Mode — 10 new integrations that give agents direct access to the services where users’ actual work lives. The move extends what began as a benchmark evaluation platform into a production workflow environment.

The 10 connectors now available:

• Vercel — deploy and manage web apps and projects
• Supabase — database management for apps and websites
• Google Drive — find and read documents, sheets, and slides
• Dropbox — store, manage, and share files
• Google Workspace — Slides, Docs, and Sheets
• Linear — look up, create, and update issues and projects
• Gmail — search and read mail, draft or send messages
• Google Calendar — check availability, read or create events
• Notion — search and read pages and databases, write new content
• GitHub — clone repos, review diffs, commit, open pull requests (launched August 2026)

How It Works

Connectors use OAuth authorization flows. Each connector gives the agent a set of purpose-built tools for that service, operating with the same permissions the user has granted. A connector must be both connected (OAuth completed) and toggled on for the current turn before the model can access it. Nothing loads in the background without explicit enablement.

The authorization design is deliberate: users control which connectors are active turn-by-turn, not at session or account level. An agent can only access services the user has enabled for that specific interaction.

Connectors are available to logged-in users at arena.ai/agent.

The Underlying Product Logic

Arena’s stated framing for Agent Mode has been that agents are constrained by their context — they can only act on information brought into the chat window. Without connectors, users become the integration layer, manually shuttling content between the service and the agent.

The GitHub connector in August was the proof-of-concept: letting an agent clone, edit, commit, and manage pull requests rather than requiring users to copy diffs into the chat window. The new batch extends that model to project management (Linear), communication (Gmail), documentation (Notion, Google Drive), deployment (Vercel), and data (Supabase).

The scope of the new connectors maps closely to a typical software team’s daily tool stack. That’s not accidental — Arena’s user base skews technical, and these are the services where code-adjacent work actually happens.

What Changes for the Platform

Arena is primarily known as a benchmark platform — the site where models compete in head-to-head user preference battles and where organizations submit new models for evaluation. Agent Arena extended that to agentic task completion. Connectors extend it further into what the platform’s users would recognize as actual work.

The positioning is different from a standalone productivity tool: Arena’s value proposition involves the ability to switch between frontier models mid-session and compare outputs. Connectors make that comparison concrete — users can test how Claude, GPT-6 Astra, or Gemini 4 Argon each handle a Linear ticket or a Gmail thread using the same underlying data.

Arena says it will keep extending the connector list based on community requests.