Integration
Connect Cognito Forms and Pics.io
When New Entry fires in Cognito Forms, your agent runs Add assets to collection in Pics.io, or Assets Added to Collection in Pics.io to Get Document in Cognito Forms. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
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What do you want Cognito Forms and Pics.io to do together?
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Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.
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Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.
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What Cognito Forms and Pics.io can do together
From Cognito Forms to Pics.io
When New Entry in Cognito Forms
then Add assets to collection in Pics.io
From Pics.io to Cognito Forms
Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.
Everything your agent can do with Cognito Forms and Pics.io
Triggers and actions 12 triggers · 21 actions
- New Entry
Triggers when a new entry is submitted to the selected form.
- Updated Entry
Triggers when an entry on the selected form is updated.
- Create Entry
Creates a new entry on a Cognito Forms form with the field values you supply.
- Delete Entry
Deletes an entry from a Cognito Forms form.
- Get Document
Generates and returns a document for a form entry from one of the form's document templates, including a link to download the file.
- Get Entry
Returns a single entry from a Cognito Forms form, including all of its field values.
- Get Form Entries
Returns the entries submitted to a form, with each entry's field values.
- Get form fields
Returns the list of fields defined on a Cognito Forms form, including each field's name, type and settings.
- Get form schema
Returns the JSON schema of a form, describing each of its fields and their types.
- List forms
Returns all forms in your Cognito Forms organization, with each form's id and name.
- Set Form Availability
Sets when a form is open for submissions: the date it opens, the date it closes, and the message shown while it is unavailable.
- Update Entry
Updates an existing entry on a form, changing only the field values you supply.
- Assets Added to Collection
Triggers when an asset is added to the selected Pics.io collection (including its nested collections).
- Assets Color Changed
Triggers when the color label on an asset in your Pics.io library is set or changed.
- Assets Flag Changed
Triggers when an asset's flag changes to flagged, unflagged or rejected in your Pics.io library.
- Assets Metadata Changed
Triggers when an asset's metadata (title, description, keywords, custom fields and other details) is changed in Pics.io.
- Assets Moved to Collection
Triggers when assets are moved into the chosen collection (or any collection inside it).
- Assets Raiting Changed
Triggers when an asset's star rating is changed in your Pics.io library.
- Metadata Processing Completed
Triggers when Pics.io finishes processing an asset's file metadata, including when metadata is reprocessed for an existing asset.
- New Asset
Triggers when a new asset is added to your Pics.io library, optionally limited to a collection, inbox, lightboard, type or other filters.
- New Collection
Triggers when a new collection is created directly inside the collection you choose (pick the root to watch top-level collections).
- New Comment
Triggers when a new comment is added to an asset in your Pics.io library.
- Add assets to collection
Adds one or more Pics.io assets to a collection, or moves them into it so they leave their other collections.
- Add keyword
Creates a new keyword in the Pics.io keyword tree, optionally nested under a parent keyword.
- Create Collection
Creates a new collection in Pics.io, optionally nested inside an existing parent collection.
- Delete collection
Deletes a collection from your Pics.io library.
- Find assets
Returns the assets in your Pics.io library that match a text search and optional filters such as collection, type, flag, rating, color or creation date.
- Find collections
Returns the collections whose name or description contains the text you search for.
- Find keywords
Returns the keywords in your Pics.io account whose name matches the search text.
- Get assets
Returns the full details of one or more Pics.io assets by their IDs.
- List custom fields
Returns every custom field defined in your Pics.io workspace, including each field's title, type, visibility and allowed options.
- Update asset
Updates an existing Pics.io asset by ID — its file name, title, description, rating, flag and color label — and returns the updated asset. Fields left blank are not changed.
- Update custom field values on assets
Sets the value of one custom field on one or more Pics.io assets at once.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Cognito Forms and Pics.io, answered
What can start an automation from Cognito Forms?
Any of Cognito Forms's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Entry and Updated Entry. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in Pics.io when something happens in Cognito Forms?
Any of Pics.io's 11 actions, including Create Collection, Update asset, Update custom field values on assets and Add assets to collection. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from Pics.io to Cognito Forms?
Yes. When something happens in Pics.io, your agent can act in Cognito Forms too. This page covers both directions: Pics.io's triggers and Cognito Forms's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Cognito Forms or Pics.io?
No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.
Can my AI client use Cognito Forms and Pics.io without building an automation?
Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.
What happens when something fails?
Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.