Theo Agent

When its approval policy requires a check, the worker pauses and shows you the proposed action. Approve to allow that action or Reject to decline it. Either decision is applied once.

Where: A card in the chat, a message in Slack or Telegram, and a tap in the phone app.

Connect an account once and every worker can use it, with read and write access, until you turn it off for a worker in its settings (GitHub starts read-only; changing code still needs the repositories picked). A worker tells you what its job still needs and puts a Connect or Turn on button right in the conversation, so nothing has to be set up in a settings page first. With your Gmail or Outlook connected, ask any worker to go through your inbox and it offers to keep watching it: one tap starts watching, with every reply waiting for your OK.

Where: The card in the chat, Settings under Connections, and the account-wide Connections page.

Every piece of work is a run: what it did, step by step, how long it took, and what it cost.

Where: The Runs tab on the canvas beside the chat.

Open a run and see where it got things: the pages it read, the company articles it cited and whether they were reviewed, what it sent to whom, and which engine did the thinking.

Where: Inside any run on the Runs tab.

Some jobs take longer than one sitting. A mission keeps going: it works, waits when it has to, and picks up where it left off, for hours or days, without you keeping the tab open.

Where: Type /plan and a goal in the composer, or the Missions tab.

A standing job with a name and a schedule. One worker can hold several: the 8am brief and the 6pm inbox sweep are two routines on one colleague, not two workers.

Where: The Routines tab, or just ask the worker to do something every day and it will offer to set one up.

A group chat with several of your workers. Address one by name and only that one answers; leave the name off and the lead takes it. They hand work to each other in the open, the answer comes back to whoever asked, and a worker that is busy elsewhere is shown as busy and picks the message up when it is free. A worker can ask to open a room of its own, and you approve it like anything else.

Where: The Rooms band in the worker picker, and the Rooms window on the Theo Agent desk.

Ask a worker to show you something and it makes you a small live app: your inbox laid out by what happened to each email (what needs you, the drafts waiting — send, edit or discard them right there — what it replied and how, what it tidied, what it skipped), or a tracker over a list it keeps. Apps update on their own as it works. A worker reading your inbox keeps a log of what it did with each email (the subject, the sender, its one-line summary and the reply it sent, never the email itself), and you can switch that log off. An app's buttons only ask the worker, open a link or let you mark an item, so an app can never do more than the worker already may.

Where: The Live tab of the worker's computer, a card in the chat, and a window of its own on the Theo Agent desk.

Tell a worker that watches your inbox to let you approve replies first, and every reply it writes waits as a draft instead of going out. Send it as written, edit it first, or discard it, in any order and as many as are waiting, while the worker keeps working through the rest of your mail. A reply that needs something only you know is drafted with that part marked [[like this]], and Send stays off until you fill it in. You get one notification when drafts are waiting, a thread you discard stays with you until somebody writes again, and the worker can only make replies stricter on its own: letting them go out without you is your choice, in its settings.

Where: The Inbox app, on the worker's computer and in a window of its own on the Theo Agent desk. The notification opens it.

When a worker keeps doing the same kind of task, it can propose a tool for it: a name, what it is for and the steps it follows, built only from things it may already do. Nothing changes until you accept it, every step still asks when your Rules say so, and you can remove it any time.

Where: Settings, Advanced, under Tools it made.

Every worker can open a computer of its own, with files, a terminal and a browser, and do the work there instead of describing it. Anything it leaves on its desk lands in your Drive.

Where: The Work tab on the canvas.

See the page the worker's browser is on, live. When it hits a login, a code or a payment step, it asks you to step in; you type into the real page and hand it back. It never sees or stores what you typed.

Where: The Browser tab under Work.

Give it a code repository and it reads the code, makes the change, runs the tests and opens the pull request, with every command and edit on a timeline you can watch.

Where: The Work tab, and the Software Engineer starter.

Duplicate a worker you have tuned, or share its setup with your team or as a link. The goal, persona, tools and settings travel; accounts, passwords and memories never do.

Where: Settings, on the Identity tab.

Approve the same kind of action a few times in a row and the worker stops asking for that kind, and only that kind. One no resets the count. Deleting is never earned.

Where: Settings, at the foot of the Guardrails tab.

Before you change its engine, its instructions or its tools, replay its own past runs against the new setup and see what would change. Nothing is sent and nothing is done; it only thinks.

Where: The Evals tab, and Add to eval suite on any run.

Running out of credits is a pause, not a failure. The worker warns you once when a task looks bigger than your balance, lands what works first, and stops exactly where it is. A top-up resumes the same work.

Where: An amber card above the composer with Buy credits and Resume.

Which engine does the thinking. Let Theo choose per step, go economy, or pin one engine; pick how hard it thinks with Fast, Smart or Deep.

Where: The pill in the composer footer, or Settings on the Brain tab.

Your company wiki in front of it always or when it decides to look, and what it has learned about you: browse, edit, pin or forget any memory, and optionally let it learn how you write.

Where: Settings, on the Knowledge and Memory tabs.

The list of your workers shows what each one is doing right now, what it last said, and puts the ones that need you first.

Where: The worker picker and the Theo Agent list in the chat sidebar.