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Custom Agents limitation: Can't access pages I have permission to view - Anyone else experiencing this?

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Hey folks. I tried to create a custom agent in Notion, but I hit a limitation that basically makes it useless for my case.

The agent only sees pages that are either:

  • Visible to everyone in the workspace, or
  • Manually added one by one in the agent’s access settings

It doesn’t automatically use all the pages I personally have access to. For a custom agent that should pull context from all my meeting notes and project docs, this means I’d have to either open up a lot of pages to the whole org or manually wire everything up.

Has anyone else abandoned a potentially useful agent because of this?
Did you find any workaround that doesn’t involve changing your entire permissions model or doing tons of manual setup? I know I can have a "master page" for meetings and/or for project docs, but in this case I would need to insert pages manually sometimes, which increases the potential of human error (because I know I'll forget to do that).

Posted Feb 26, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

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