Operator runs AI agents on machines you own and puts the decisions in your pocket. These guides go in order, and the first three get you from a fresh download to a job you watched finish. Everything else is there when you need it.
Start here
Get Operator running and put it to work in about fifteen minutes.
What Operator does
The shape of the product in two minutes, so the rest of the manual makes sense.
02Install and pair
Get the Mac app running, connect your phone by QR, and add your first model key.
03Your first job
Install a Solution, run a job from your phone, and watch it work in a sandbox on your Mac.
Everyday use
The handful of screens you will actually live in.
Approvals
How an agent asks permission, what gets asked about, and what deliberately does not.
02Sessions and workers
Why work survives the agent that did it, and how to pick up a case days later.
03Solutions and jobs
Installable packs of work, what a job asks you for, and how to pick the right one.
04Bots
Companions that stick around, remember your preferences, and can open real work when the chat is not enough.
Your setup
Models, machines, and the things you connect once.
Models and keys
Bring your own API keys, pick a different brain per job, or run a local model for free.
02Where work runs
Sandboxes on your Mac, the images they are built from, and adding your own machines or cloud.
03Skills and integrations
Teach agents your conventions once, and connect the accounts they need to do real work.
Going further
The parts people find after a week and wish they had found on day one.
Scheduling and automations
Run work on a schedule or when something happens, and the one limit to plan around.
02Moving a running job
Send a job from your Mac to another machine mid-run, conversation and all.
03Documents and knowledge
Turn PDFs and files into something agents can use, without any of it leaving your Mac.
04Memory
What Operator remembers about how you work, and how to read, edit or switch off every bit of it.
05Terminal, files and preview
Get a real shell into a running box from your phone, move files without the cloud, and see the dev server an agent is running.
Reference
Privacy, billing, and what to do when something is wrong.
Privacy and what leaves your Mac
A specific account of what is stored where, what crosses the network, and what nobody but you can read.
02Billing
What the subscription covers, what you pay your model provider, and how to change or cancel.
03Troubleshooting
The things that actually go wrong, in the order people hit them.