The roster

Open Roster from the workspace menu to see the workspace’s agents, with tabs for their runs, routines and skills. A grid shows what each agent can touch, connection by connection: nothing, read, or read and draft. Deleted agents are kept at the foot of the roster for their history.

Every workspace starts with one agent, Scout, which everyone in the workspace can use and which runs on the recommended model. You can rename it, and add more agents when you need different reach or settings.

Create an agent

Choose New agent on the roster. Anyone in the workspace can create one. Its settings:

Name: The only thing an agent needs to be created.
What it is for: A description the agent reads at the start of every run.
Who may use it: Everyone in the workspace, or people you choose. A new agent starts as yours alone. Only owners and admins can make an agent everyone can use.
Model: The AI model it runs on, from those your plan allows. The recommended one is chosen to start. Where the model can reason step by step, that starts on.
Monthly cap: The most credits it may spend in a month. No cap to start. See Spending limits.
The public web: Whether it may search the web. Off to start, and offered only on models that can search.
Drawing pictures: Whether it may draw pictures for decks, reports and memos. On to start, where the workspace has a model that draws.

A picture’s description goes to the provider of the model that draws it. See AI models.

What an agent can reach

A new agent reaches only its workspace: the jobs, documents and board of the projects it works in. It holds no connections and can’t search the web.

A connection’s owner shares it with an agent, to read, or to read and draft. Reading runs without asking. Anything it drafts or sends waits for a person’s approval, unless that kind of change was approved in advance. See Connections.
A workspace connection can go only to an agent everyone can use, and a personal connection only to a private agent. An agent holds one connection for each service.
Agents act under a role of their own, which can change work but can’t approve or judge, and every change they propose to a job waits for a person.

Skills and guidance

A skill is a set of written instructions for one kind of work, such as how your team writes a board update. An agent sees each skill’s name and purpose on every run, and reads its instructions when the work calls for them.

Create one from the Skills tab with New skill: a name, a description that tells agents when to use it, and the instructions, in up to 12,000 characters.
A skill starts private. Share it with the workspace so others can give it to their agents. Its owner can change or delete it, and so can workspace owners and admins once it is shared.
Give an agent skills with Add skills on its page, up to 12 of them. An agent everyone can use holds only shared skills.

Guidance is files an agent reads at the start of every run, such as a style guide. Add them on the agent’s page once it exists: up to 8 files and 12,000 characters in all.

Models

Arbituro chooses the models on offer, and your plan decides which of them your workspace can use. Each agent runs on one. Settings, under Models, lists the workspace’s models for everyone to see: which is the default, any that is being retired and what replaces it, how many agents and runs use each, and the credits each has spent.

If no model is turned on for the workspace, no agent can run, and Settings says so. Arbituro’s support turns them on. See Models and your plan.

Change, switch off or delete

Workspace owners and admins manage agents everyone can use. A private agent is managed by the person who made it. On the agent’s page, changes save themselves.

Switch off: The agent starts no new work until it is switched on again.
Delete: The agent is switched off and its runs in progress are stopped. Its past runs stay in the record, and it stays on the roster’s list of deleted agents.

An agent everyone can use can’t be made private while a routine or a project’s settings depend on it.

Something missing or wrong? Email support@arbituro.com.