Get contacts in Z-API, without opening it
Z-API exposes 3 operations and a companion can work all of them: send a text, modify a chat and get contacts. Anything that changes a record waits for your click.
Open the chat. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Z-API afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a chat until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Z-API exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 3 operations, 1 read and 2 writes. In practice that means it can send a text and modify a chat, and work across the chats, contacts and texts.
The Z-API API stops at Z-API. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the chats or ask you for them?
1 of the 3 operations is a read.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can get contacts, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Z-API's documentation.
The chats are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the contacts. A companion can hold all 3 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Z-API admin becomes a queue you review.
- Get Contacts
Which chats wait for your approval?
All 2 write operations wait for you.
A companion can send a text and modify a chat, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the chat, the field and the new value before it lands in Z-API.
Nothing in Z-API is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the chat exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Send Text
- Modify Chat
Does the chat sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Z-API chats pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the messages, the Z-API chats sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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