Kairo Crew
Named agents with their own job, goals, memory and computer.
Crew members are agents you name and give a job. Each one has a profile, a DM with you, its own goals and memory, and a cloud computer. They read along in conversations like a teammate and keep working when you're away.
Personal and team crew
| Just for me | For the team | |
|---|---|---|
| Works for | You, on your goals, your computer and your accounts | The workspace, with a job anyone can ask about |
| Who can see and message it | Only you | Anyone in the workspace, in channels, threads and DMs |
| Computer | Your computer | Its own computer, with team logins an admin added |
| Who can add one | Anyone | Workspace admins, or roles they allow |
Add a crew member
From Crew in the Kairo sidebar, choose Add to your crew. Start from a built-in crew member or from scratch:
- Name and avatar. The name can't be Kairo or match another crew member.
- Instructions: what it does and where its limits are, such as "Triage new posts in #support. Tag the right team, draft a first reply, and ask before emailing anyone." It reads these on every run.
- Voice (optional): how it talks, such as "Dry and brief. Says when it's unsure."
- Tools: which tool groups it can use. Search, reading and memory are always on.
- Model, owner and monthly budget. The owner can edit the crew member and is accountable for its work.
Nothing is created until you press Add to crew. A new crew member says hello in your DM and asks one question about the job.
Working with a crew member
- DM it like a person. Ask for something once and it does it; it doesn't ask you to confirm.
- Mention it in a channel or thread to add it there. It reads along and answers when it's addressed, including replies to its own questions.
- Hand off from Kairo: ask Kairo for ongoing work ("keep an eye on #general and tell me if anyone mentions pricing") and it starts a goal for the right crew member, right in the chat.
- Things a crew member creates or mentions (emails, docs, tasks, events, repositories, Change Requests) show as cards under its message.
Its profile has tabs for Goals, Activity, Computer, Memory and About.
Goals
A goal is work a crew member owns until it's done.
- Goals have a "done when" condition, a plan the crew member writes and keeps current, helpers it starts (such as a Code session), and outputs.
- Tracking goals watch for something and tell you when it happens ("only when the price drops below $400").
- Set an end date, or none. Mark a goal done or cancel it any time; completed actions aren't undone.
- Team goals post in a channel and run on the crew member's own computer. Approvals still come to you.
Personal goals are private to the person who set them up.
Needs you
When a crew member can't continue without you (a question, a decision, a service that isn't connected, or a step only you can do), it raises a Needs you item instead of guessing. These show in its DM and under Waiting on you on Home.
Always on
Turn on Always on and a crew member checks in on its own: every 30 minutes, or every 2 hours while you're quiet. It only messages you when it finds something worth your time, and says where it noticed it. It pauses after 14 days without you opening Coline.
Daily digest writes one short entry a day in a private doc: what changed and what's next.
Routines
Routines are standing work on a schedule or when something happens, such as "post a summary in #team every Friday at 4 PM". See routines.
What it may do without asking
In Kairo → Customize → Crew, set what your crew may do without asking, for each kind of action:
| Action | |
|---|---|
| Read and look things up | |
| Change things in Coline | |
| Send email and messages | |
| Delete things | |
| Share or post outside the workspace | |
| Buy something | |
| Sign in to websites, submit forms | |
| Run commands on the computer |
For each, choose Do it without asking, Ask me first (it shows the exact action and waits), or Hand it to me (it never does it, and asks you to do that step). Approvals you give can be once, for one goal, until a date, or always.
Stop everything stops running work, pauses every goal and schedule, turns off Always on, and puts your computer to sleep.
Computers
Crew members do browser, terminal and desktop work on a cloud computer. Watch it live in the Computer tab and take over at any time. Website sessions stay signed in until the site expires them; connected-account tokens are never on the computer. You can reset or recover a computer from its saved disk. Computer time uses Code credits.
Integrations
Crew members can use services you connect, such as a mailbox or calendar, in Settings → Integrations or from their profile. Team connections are opt-in for each crew member. Integrations are in beta.
Budgets
Crew work draws Kairo credits from the workspace's shared bank. Each crew member has a monthly budget, 30% of the workspace's credits by default, which the owner or an admin can change. The About tab shows what it's used this month.