# Review connected apps

> Source: https://elaichi.ai/docs/guides/settings/connected-apps/

When you connect an MCP client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, or anything else speaking MCP — it asks for your approval on a consent screen. This is the list of approvals you granted, and where you take them back.

**Where to find it:** **Settings → Connected apps**

No special organization permission is required. The list is **yours**: it shows the apps *you* authorized, not the organization's. Other members see their own.

## What a grant covers

Each grant is pinned to two things at once, which is why the same app can appear more than once:

- **One user** — you. Revoking yours does not touch a colleague's access.
- **One organization** — the list only shows grants for the organization you are currently in. Switch organizations to review the rest.

The **Access** column lists the permissions the app is locked to, exactly as approved on the consent screen. An app cannot widen its own access afterwards; it has to ask again.

## Reading the list

| Column | Means |
| --- | --- |
| **App** | The client's registered name, or its client ID if it never supplied one |
| **Access** | The permissions approved for this grant |
| **Toolboxes** | Which of your toolboxes the app can run tools from — **All tools**, a count like **3 toolboxes**, or **—** if it was never approved to run tools at all |
| **Connected** | When you approved it |
| **Last used** | When the app last called Elaichi, or **Never** |

Filter by app name, by a specific access level, or by usage. **Never used** is the useful one during a cleanup: it surfaces grants approved during a trial and forgotten.

Hover the Toolboxes column for the names, or click the row to open the app's own page.

## What "All my tools" means

If the app was approved to run tools at all, you chose one of two things on the consent screen:

- **All my tools** — every connection you can use, including ones you connect after approving the app. This is the default, and what MCP clients saw before toolbox scoping existed.
- **Specific toolboxes** — only the toolboxes you picked. A toolbox the app can no longer reach (deleted, or a share you lost) simply drops out silently; the app never falls back to seeing everything.

## Manage what an app can reach

Click an app in the list to open its page. Alongside the scopes and Disconnect button, the **Toolboxes** section lists what it's authorized for, with the status of each toolbox (usable, no longer usable, or deleted).

Choose **Edit toolboxes** to change the set — switch between All my tools and specific toolboxes, or add and remove individual ones.

:::callout{type="tip"}
Widening an app's toolbox access is allowed here even though its other permissions can't widen without a fresh consent. You're the one making the change, for yourself, so there's nothing to re-approve.
:::

:::callout{type="warning"}
Changes to an app's toolboxes take effect immediately — on that client's very next call, not after a reconnect.
:::

If an app was never approved to run tools, its page says so and there's nothing to edit; reconnect it from the client to ask for that permission.

## Disconnect an app

Choose **Disconnect** on the row, or from the app's own page, and confirm.

:::callout{type="warning"}
Disconnecting takes effect immediately. The app's next call fails rather than degrading quietly, so expect a running MCP session to start erroring rather than politely stopping. Reconnecting means going through the consent screen again.
:::

## Good to know

- An empty list is the normal state until you connect a client — nothing is authorized on your behalf automatically.
- This is not the same as [Connections](/guides/connections/connecting-an-account), which is Elaichi reaching *out* to third-party accounts. Connected apps is the opposite direction: other software reaching *in* to Elaichi.
- Disconnecting is per-grant, not a global sign-out. To secure the account itself, see [Secure your account](/guides/settings/security).
- A toolbox's own page shows the flip side of this: how many connected apps reach it, and who they belong to. See [Use your toolboxes](/guides/toolboxes/toolboxes).

## Related

- [Use your toolboxes](/guides/toolboxes/toolboxes)
- [Secure your account](/guides/settings/security)
- [Create API tokens](/guides/settings/api-tokens)