# Function: connectCarrier()

```ts
function connectCarrier(options): Promise<CarryGrant>;
```

Defined in: [packages/core/src/session/connect.ts:400](https://github.com/leifriksheim/minca/blob/main/core/src/session/connect.ts#L400)

Asks a home to use this carrier — a browser extension, say — for the
account. Call it from a click, in a page that stays open until the answer
comes: an extension's toolbar popup closes the moment the home's window
takes focus, and the answer would have nowhere to go.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| ------ | ------ | ------ |
| `options` | \{ `home`: `string`; `key`: [`AppKey`](https://minca.dev/api/session/interfaces/AppKey.md); `name?`: `string`; `timeoutMs?`: `number`; \} | - |
| `options.home` | `string` | - |
| `options.key` | [`AppKey`](https://minca.dev/api/session/interfaces/AppKey.md) | The carrier's own key; it becomes its name to peers |
| `options.name?` | `string` | - |
| `options.timeoutMs?` | `number` | - |

## Returns

`Promise`\<[`CarryGrant`](https://minca.dev/api/session/interfaces/CarryGrant.md)\>

The grant, checked: an invite to a private carry space the account made