No data in an answer

1. 1Sources list empty → retrieval never ran. Check the workspace and connection status.
2. 2Sources present, content empty → wrong account, wrong period, or a filter that excluded everything.
3. 3Permission error → the scope is missing or the account cannot access the record.
4. 4Works for someone else → different workspace or different connected account.

• Wrong workspace — the connection lives in another workspace.
• Wrong account connected — the data belongs to a different account than the one authorised.
• Date range excludes the data — relative phrases resolve strictly.
• Sharing rules — a file you cannot open in the provider cannot be read by OpenbirdAI.
• Service not exposed — the connected account does not have that service, such as Analytics on a personal account.
• Provider sync lag — the provider exposes synced rather than live data.

"List the five most recently modified items you can see in <service>."

If this returns nothing, the connection is not usable for that service. If it returns items, your original question is scoped too narrowly.

OpenFeather can often narrow the problem itself, because it knows which stage of the request failed.

"Did you read any sources for that answer? If not, tell me which gate failed."
"What would need to be connected or authorised for this question to work?"

A useful reply names the failing gate. A reply that guesses at data is itself the signal that retrieval did not run.

Sometimes there genuinely is no data in range, or the record is not accessible to the connected account, and OpenFeather says so instead of inventing an answer. That is the intended behaviour — prefer a verified empty result to a plausible fabrication.