Browser Sites and Saved Logins
Browser sites are websites you let the assistant open in a secure remote browser, including sites that sit behind your own login. If you asked August to use a browser, browse a website for you, or log in to a website for you and it replied that the site isn't registered or saved here, adding the site under Browser sites is the fix.
Also called: browser use, browser agent, browser automation, web browsing agent, saved browser site, registered source, browser credentials, or storing your password for a site.
What browser sites are
A browser site is a per-user list entry that tells the assistant it may open that website in a secure remote browser. It's separate from web search and from plain URL fetching: browser sites exist for sites whose search forms or logins need a real browser session.
Saved sites belong to you, not your whole organization. Each person adds their own sites in their own profile.
Why the assistant sometimes says it can't
August only drives a site that is either a registered public source or one of your saved browser sites. If a site is neither, the assistant declines to open its login page or enter credentials, which is why you may see a message that the site isn't currently registered or saved here. Adding the site under Browser sites resolves this.
Add a site
You can add a site and, in the same step, save the login it needs. Open the account menu (your name in the sidebar), select My profile, then select Browser sites (the globe icon, after Emails).
On the Browser sites page, click Add site.
Enter a Name for the site.
Enter the site's URL. It must be plain HTTPS.
If the site needs your account, expand Login (optional) and enter Username or email and Password. The password is stored encrypted and never shown to the assistant.
Click Add site.
Add, update, or remove accounts
Each site can hold up to 10 saved accounts, for example a personal login and a shared team login. When a site has more than one account, the assistant asks which one to use.
Add an account: click Add login on the site's row (or Add account once one is saved), enter an Account name, the username or email, and the password, then click Add account.
Update an account: click Update next to the account, change the fields, then click Save changes. Leave the password blank to keep the saved one.
Remove an account: open the overflow (…) menu next to the account and choose Remove account.
If the site asks for something else after you sign in, such as a client ID or billing number, add it under Additional fields in the account dialog. These values are stored encrypted and filled in the same way as the password.
Security and credential handling
Saved passwords are encrypted before they are stored and are never shown or returned to the assistant. The password is only typed into that site's own sign-in form inside the remote browser session, on your behalf.
The browsing session is scoped to the site's own domain, taken from the URL you saved.
Removing an account or the site destroys the stored credential and the authenticated remote browser profile.
Adding, updating, and removing saved sites and logins are recorded in the audit log.
Requirements and limits
The URL must be plain HTTPS. A URL that is not HTTPS, includes credentials inline (like https://user:pass@…), or uses a non-standard port is rejected.
You can't save two sites with the same URL. The error reads "You already saved a site with this URL."
If saving a login returns an error saying browser logins aren't configured on this deployment, that's an environment or setup issue, not something you did wrong. Contact your administrator or August support.
Editing a saved site so it points at a different domain clears that site's saved logins and learned notes, because neither can safely carry over to a new host.
Learned notes
After the assistant browses a saved site, it records a navigation guide for that site (its search forms, quirks, and where results and documents live) so later runs start from that guide instead of rediscovering the site. That's what "has learned this site" on the row means.
Choose Reset learned notes from the site's overflow (…) menu when the site's layout changes and the assistant's saved notes are stale. To delete a site with its accounts and learned notes, choose Remove site from the same menu; this can't be undone.
Using it in chat
Once a site is saved, ask the assistant in plain language to search or pull something from that site. It can also download documents from the site, either attaching them to the chat as durable August documents or reading them once to answer your current question.
Troubleshooting
The assistant says the site isn't registered or saved. Add the site under My profile > Browser sites.
Sign-in fails on the site. Click Update next to the account and re-enter the credentials.
Results look wrong or the assistant seems lost on the site. Reset learned notes from the site's overflow menu.
You can't save the URL. Check that it's plain HTTPS and that you haven't already saved a site with the same URL.
For the broader picture of what the assistant can reach, see the Integrations Overview.