A job is something you run. A bot is someone you talk to.

Same machinery underneath, different relationship. You do not think “I need a session”, you think “I will ask Painter”.

What makes a bot different

One thread, forever. A bot has a single conversation that does not reset. You come back next week and it is still there.

It remembers. Not the whole transcript, but the things worth keeping: how you like things done, what you told it about your work. You can read every fact it holds and delete any of them.

It can escalate. Chat is cheap and fast, and it happens on your phone. When what you asked for is real work, the bot offers to open a session and run a job. You see a card naming the job before anything starts.

Adding one

Go to Solutions and look at the bots, or open the Bots half of Sessions. Tap one, and a short sheet asks which agent and model it should use, and where it should run. Add it, and its thread opens.

The style rail

Some bots have a row of pills above the message box. A style is a standing choice about how the bot should work, not what it should do. Painter has looks. A reviewer has how hard to look. The mathematician has how far to go.

Tap one to light it. It rides along with everything you say until you turn it off, and it is remembered between visits. The card you confirm before a job starts names the style, so you can see what you are about to get.

When a bot opens a job

The card says which job, with what instruction, using which agent. Confirm and it becomes a real session, in a real box, with a real audit trail. Everything in the sessions guide applies from that point.

What you typed goes with it. The worker starts knowing what you asked for, not just the job’s generic description.

Bots you will probably keep

• One that reads things: papers, contracts, long documents.
• One that watches something: prices, releases, a competitor.
• One for the work you actually do, whether that is code review, posts, or slides.

Three good bots beat twenty installed ones. They are free to add and free to remove, so try more than you keep.

Making your own

You can create a bot on the phone: name it, give it a personality and standing instructions, pick its agent and its skills. It behaves like any catalog bot afterwards.