Create and edit bots

Choose New bot (Ctrl + N) to make one, or open a bot's settings from its chat. A template fills in a starting job and instructions that you can change.

Identity

Setting	What it does
Name	What you and the other bots call it. @mention it in a group chat by name.
Job	A short description, e.g. "Research assistant".
Shape	Its ink-blot avatar: 18 shapes, tinted in its colour. The blot's face and motion show what it's doing: thinking, working, waiting on you, done, failed or asleep.
Other bots can ask it for	What teammates should hand it, e.g. "code changes, debugging and code reviews". Other bots see this with its name and job.
Instructions	How it should work: tone, rules, what to know about you, what to avoid. It follows these in every chat. A bot can only propose changes to its own instructions, which you approve. Preview the whole prompt shows everything it's sent, with token counts.

Model

• Runs on: the host the bot lives on, This PC or one of your servers.
• Model: any model switched on under Models & API keys on that host.
• Effort: Quick, Balanced, Deep or Max, picked with the model in the model picker by the message box. Quick answers fast with little thinking; Deep and Max let models that reason think longer, which is slower and uses more of your plan or credits.

Where it works

Works in decides how the bot does things on screens:

Choice	Meaning
Auto: the cheapest way that works	Files and commands first, the browser for websites, its computer only when it needs a desktop.
The built-in browser	Websites in the app's browser panel, with your shared sign-ins.
Its own computer	A Linux desktop in Docker that only this bot uses. See Computers.
Your PC	It can see and control your Windows desktop, after asking you.

Can use the built-in browser switches the browser off for this bot entirely. The composer's picker can change Works in for a single message.

Tools and access

• Plugins: which connected plugins it may use (all of them unless you narrow it down). See Plugins.
• Logins: which saved logins it may use. None unless ticked. It can still ask for one it needs, with an approval card. See Logins.
• Blotter and Quill: the sites it works tickets on or edits docs on, each with its own key there. See Quill and Blotter.
• Routines: its scheduled jobs; New routine adds one. See Routines.
• Skills: which skills from the library it uses, and Learn skills from its work. See Skills.

Memory

Remembers facts across all its chats keeps a long-term memory file for the bot. With Learn facts from its chats automatically it adds facts as it goes; you can also add, edit and delete them here, tidy them, or open the memory file. See Memory.

Chief of Staff

One bot can be the team's Chief of Staff. It gets a fuller view of the team, can propose new bots and team changes, and is told first about failed or stuck background work. See Teams.

Danger zone

• Clear conversation deletes the bot's messages and attachments. The bot stays.
• Reset its computer deletes the apps, browser data and sign-ins on its computer. Its folder in the workspace stays.
• Delete bot deletes the bot and its whole conversation, and revokes its keys on Quill and Blotter.