--- title: "Connect The Old Reader to Voiceflow - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New item\" fires in The Old Reader, your agent runs \"Send Message to Agent\" in Voiceflow." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-voiceflow" --- # Connect The Old Reader to Voiceflow When **New item** fires in [The Old Reader](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-old-reader), your agent runs **Send Message to Agent** in [Voiceflow](https://apiant.ai/connections/voiceflow). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. The Old Reader **1** trigger The Old Reader **12** actions Voiceflow **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want The Old Reader and Voiceflow to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app 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. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client 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. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What The Old Reader can start in Voiceflow - When **New item** in The Old Reader then **Send Message to Agent** in Voiceflow - When **New item** in The Old Reader then **Send message to conversation** in Voiceflow 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 The Old Reader and Voiceflow ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 22 actions - Trigger **New item** Triggers when a new item arrives in your reading list, a folder or a subscription. - Action **Add subscription** Subscribes the account to a feed or website by its URL and returns the new subscription's stream id. - Action **Delete folder** Deletes a folder in The Old Reader and moves its subscriptions to the default folder. - Action **Delete subscription** Unsubscribes from a feed in The Old Reader. - Action **Get items** Returns the full contents (title, body, author, feed, read/starred state) of one or more items by their ids. - Action **Get unread counts** Returns unread item counts for the whole reading list and for each folder, subscription and friend. - Action **List folders** Returns the list of folders in your The Old Reader account. - Action **List items** Returns the items (articles) in a stream such as your reading list, starred items, a folder or a subscription. - Action **List subscriptions** Returns every feed subscription in your The Old Reader account, with each feed's title, folders, site URL and icon. - Action **Mark all items as read** Marks all items in a stream (everything, a folder, a subscription or a friend's shares) as read, optionally only those older than a given time. - Action **Update folder** Renames a folder in The Old Reader. - Action **Update item** Updates an item's state: marks it read or unread, starred, liked or shared. - Action **Update subscription** Renames a subscription or moves it between folders. - Action **Add knowledge base URL document** Create a knowledge base document sourced from a URL. - Action **Add playbook** Adds a playbook (a set of instructions that drives an agent toward a goal) to a Voiceflow project environment and returns the created playbook. - Action **Delete conversation state** Deletes the stored conversation state for one user, so their next turn starts the conversation from the beginning. - Action **Delete knowledge base document** Delete a knowledge base document by id. - Action **Find transcripts** Returns up to 20 transcripts (recorded conversations) in a Voiceflow project that match the given session, date range, environment, version and property filters. - Action **Send Event to Agent** Sends a custom event to a Voiceflow agent for a user's conversation, advancing it by one turn, and returns the traces the agent produced in reply. - Action **Send Message to Agent** Sends a user's text message to a Voiceflow agent, advancing the conversation by one turn, and returns the agent's reply. - Action **Send message to conversation** Sends a message into a user's conversation with a Voiceflow agent (a message-type turn) and returns the agent's reply. - Action **Start Agent Conversation** Starts (launches) a conversation with a Voiceflow agent for a user and returns the agent's opening reply. - Action **Update conversation variables** Merge variable values into a user's conversation state. ## Each app on its own - [ **The Old Reader** RSS reader](https://apiant.ai/connections/the-old-reader) - [ **Voiceflow** Voiceflow is a chat and voice AI platform that allows teams to build, test, and deploy AI agents.](https://apiant.ai/connections/voiceflow) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from The Old Reader - [ **The Old Reader to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-trello) - [ **The Old Reader to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-zoom) - [ **The Old Reader to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-twilio) - [ **The Old Reader to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-typeform) - [ **The Old Reader to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-webflow) - [ **The Old Reader to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/the-old-reader-to-wix) ## More into Voiceflow - [ **HubSpot to Voiceflow** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-voiceflow) - [ **Salesforce to Voiceflow** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-voiceflow) - [ **Slack to Voiceflow** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-voiceflow) - [ **Google Sheets to Voiceflow** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-voiceflow) - [ **Gmail to Voiceflow** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-voiceflow) - [ **Google Calendar to Voiceflow** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-voiceflow) Questions ## The Old Reader and Voiceflow, answered ### ### What can start an automation from The Old Reader? Any of The Old Reader's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New item. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Voiceflow when something happens in The Old Reader? Any of Voiceflow's 10 actions, including Send Event to Agent, Send Message to Agent, Send message to conversation and Update conversation variables. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Voiceflow to The Old Reader? Voiceflow has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in The Old Reader. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Voiceflow's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for The Old Reader or Voiceflow? 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 The Old Reader and Voiceflow 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.