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An agent is an AI teammate. It has a name, a role, its own computer, and the credentials it works with. Every task runs as an agent, and the work is attributed to the agent that performs it: unlike a session you drive by hand, an agent has a persistent identity, so its commits, pull requests, and model usage resolve to the agent rather than to you. When work is routed to an agent, that agent does it as itself and stays on it through every review round, wait, and retry until the change merges.

The Team Page

Open Team on the dashboard to see your account's agents and people. The native app starts on task history and chats. Its configuration links open the dashboard, where you hire and manage agents. Personal settings stay in the app.

The Team roster lists Employees and People. Open an agent to see its profile, work, reveries, performance, and overheard conversations. The app may show this information read-only; choose Edit on the dashboard, Manage integrations, or Pause or offboard to change configuration. Admin or owner access is required to manage agents and their credentials.

The Agent Profile

An agent's profile shows its identity and its work. On the dashboard, manage its job description, computer, model, effort, integrations, credentials, and status. The app keeps the Profile, Work, Reveries, Performance, and Overheard views for reading. It does not edit an agent's configuration. See Handbook, Environments, Models, and What an Agent Remembers.

Handbook pages the role page links to are delivered with it, in full, on every session the agent runs, so it works from them rather than deciding whether to go and read them. When those instructions are too large to send inline, Wallfacer retrieves the complete copy before the turn starts. Codex loads the complete AGENTS.md instead of stopping at its default size limit.

If Wallfacer cannot retrieve or write the instructions, the turn ends with a startup error rather than running on an incomplete copy. Optional Codex tool servers have up to three seconds to start; a server that remains unavailable may still leave its tools unavailable for that turn.

The agent's reveries are delivered alongside those pages and do not compete with them. A reverie calibrates a page, saying how this agent carries the process out for the people it works with, and it never restates or overrides what a page says. Where the work contradicts a page, or a page is silent about something that keeps coming up, the agent's dream records a handbook.finding event on the account and changes nothing. Your handbook is edited by people.

Google Workspace access

An active Google Workspace connection remains available to agents when a health check hits a temporary Google 5xx, 429, or timeout. Wallfacer retries the check after 1, 5, and 15 minutes, then returns to its hourly check. A connection already marked unhealthy stays unavailable until a later check confirms recovery. Confirmed authorization or domain failures still mark the connection unhealthy and block Google access.

Calls and Call Records

Open an agent's Work section and select Calls. Completed phone calls and meetings appear with their start time, duration when available, and participants. Open a call to read its summary, speaker-attributed transcript, completed actions, and commitments. If the caller cannot be identified, the call shows an unidentified caller label and remains in Calls without adding a person to Team. Tasks created during the call link to their task pages; a task can also link back to this record. When present, the record includes the meeting link and timestamps for transcript turns. An interrupted agent turn notes how much of it played.

Choose the agent's call voice in its model settings on the dashboard. Select Voice, or choose Default to restore the platform voice. An offboarded agent's voice cannot be changed.

Creating an Agent

Hiring is two screens.

  1. On the dashboard, open Team and choose Hire AI Employee. In the app, Hire on the dashboard opens that page.
  2. On Hire an agent, pick a role template (for example, a software engineer or a code reviewer) or start from a blank slate, and give the agent a name. Wallfacer suggests a handle from the name; edit it if you want a different one, and the form checks for known conflicts as you type. Press Hire: the agent exists from that moment, and Wallfacer provisions its computer and seeds the role's starter playbooks.
  3. Set up collects the access this employee needs, in any order, because none of it is ordered: a Slack grant (offered here only when hiring did not already create the Slack app for you), a Google account, and Keys and code access: a model key so it can work, and a GitHub identity if it will touch code. Model access is what the agent needs to work; Google and Slack are optional. A GitHub identity is what lets it clone, push, and open pull requests. There is no computer step: the computer was created by Hire. Anything you skip here can be configured from the agent's dashboard page afterwards.

Hiring ends in a conversation rather than on a confirmation screen: you get a compose sheet addressed to the new agent, or a message to it in Slack once your workspace is connected.

When the account has no agents, the task recipient picker shows No agents yet and offers Onboard an agent, which opens the Hire an agent screen.

Agents belong to the account. Only account admins can create, change, or offboard them. Offboarding disables an agent rather than deleting it, so the record of what it did stays intact.

Handles

Alongside its display name, each agent has a handle: the one name it answers to everywhere. The handle is the part before the @ in the agent's Google address and the name people type after the @ to reach it in Slack. Until a Google Workspace is connected, the handle is only the agent's Slack name.

A handle is lowercase and 2 to 64 characters long. It may contain letters, numbers, periods, hyphens, and underscores, must start and end with a letter or number, and cannot contain two periods in a row. Google and Slack both accept every handle that meets these rules, so one handle works as an address and as a mention.

A well-formed handle also has to be free. Wallfacer checks it against every agent in the account, including offboarded ones, against names held by agent apps in this account's Slack workspace, and, when it can reach a connected Google Workspace, against addresses in that domain. The hire form and rename control check as you type and explain any known refusal. If Google cannot be checked, the form may accept a handle that Google later refuses during provisioning.

Renaming a Handle

Rename a handle from the agent's Identity settings on the dashboard. It is safe on an agent that is already working:

  • The old Google address keeps delivering as an alias, so mail already sent, shared documents, and calendar invitations still reach the agent.
  • Google takes a few minutes to show the new address everywhere. Until it does, the row says the new name is still landing.
  • The agent's Slack handle changes to match, so colleagues type the new one.

If one provider refuses the rename, the row names the account still on the old handle. An agent with no Google account and no Slack app has nothing holding the name yet, so there is nothing to rename until you give it one.

Onboarding Status

An agent is ready once its computer is set up and it holds the credentials its work needs. Until then, the signal sits on the agent's own page: a short block under the name states the one thing still outstanding and gives you the button that fixes it. The Team roster does not repeat the setup steps, and shows only Paused or Offboarded beside a name.

  • Ready for work. Fully onboarded. The block is gone and the page says nothing about setup.
  • Computer needed. No computer is assigned yet. Choose one so the agent has somewhere to work.
  • Preparing computer. The agent's computer is still building. Wait for the environment's snapshot to finish; you can carry on configuring the agent while it does.
  • Computer setup needs attention. The snapshot failed or stalled. The agent and its configuration are saved, so this is a retry rather than a rebuild.
  • Model access needed. No model credential is connected, or the one selected needs renewing. Connect an Anthropic or OpenAI credential under Advanced work access on the agent's dashboard page.
  • GitHub access needed. The agent's computer clones repositories but has no GitHub identity. Connect one so the agent can clone, push, and open pull requests. This is optional for a computer that clones no repositories, though a connected identity is still worth having there: it is what lets the agent create a repository, or clone one you point it at, on a computer that declares none.
  • Paused. The agent is stopped on purpose and takes no new work until someone resumes it. Its setup is untouched.
  • Offboarded. The agent is disabled. Its history stays, but it can no longer be assigned work.

Assigning Work

Starting a task begins by choosing who does the work:

  1. On iPhone or Android, choose New Chat from task history and pick the agent. On web, open the agent from Team and choose Assign work. Its computer, model, and harness are set automatically; there is no separate environment picker or per-task model choice.
  2. You land in the task screen, empty, with the ordinary chat input at the bottom.
  3. Type your first message and send it. Sending it creates the task and starts the run.

To skip the recipient step on web, open the agent from Team and choose Assign work. In the native app, use New Chat and select the agent, or choose New chat from a pinned agent shortcut. An offboarded agent cannot be assigned work.

You can always type a message, but sending is held until the agent can act on it. When an agent isn't ready, the screen shows the one thing to fix: its computer isn't set up yet, its computer is still being set up, or it needs a GitHub identity. Fixing the blocker lets the task start.

Credentials

Each agent works with two kinds of credentials, both under Advanced work access on its dashboard page: a GitHub identity and model keys. These are what the agent runs as. The third-party logins it uses while working, an API key for a service or a username and password, live on the account's keychain and are granted to the agent from Logins on the dashboard.

Everything you enter here is write-only. Wallfacer shows whether a credential is connected, but never displays the secret again. When a model credential is left unset, the agent falls back to the platform default. A connected credential that has expired or been revoked does not fall back: the agent's next turn fails immediately with an error naming the credential, so replace it here.

Each card leads with the field and its state. The setup steps written out below sit behind How to get this on the card, one tap away. The cards sit under Advanced work access on the agent's dashboard page.

GitHub Identity

Connect a dedicated bot account's token so the agent can clone, push, and open or review pull requests as that account, kept separate from your own GitHub activity.

  1. Sign in to GitHub as the dedicated bot account this agent should act as, not your own account.
  2. Create a personal access token (classic) with the repo scope, so it can clone, push, and open pull requests.
  3. Give that bot account access to the repositories this agent will work on. Add it as a collaborator or an organization member.
  4. Copy the token it generates. It starts with ghp_ and is shown once. Paste it into the card and select Connect.

Connecting the token does two things: it lets the agent act on GitHub as that login, and it records the agent's GitHub username, which is what makes the agent reachable when someone assigns a GitHub issue to it (see below).

A GitHub identity is optional when the agent's environment clones no repository, since there is no git work to do. Select Disconnect to remove it; steps that run as this identity will have no GitHub access until you connect one again.

Model Keys

Each agent authenticates its Claude runs (Anthropic) and its Codex runs (OpenAI) independently. For each provider, use the toggle to choose one of two methods: an API key or a subscription. Leave a provider unset to use the platform default.

Carrying your own model credential is enabled per account. Where it is not enabled, saving a key or a subscription token is refused and the agent runs on the model access Wallfacer provides and meters, under the daily spend cap. Clearing a credential is always allowed. Ask your Wallfacer contact to enable your own credentials for the account.

On the dashboard, Model keys shows each provider's connection state. Select Manage keys to add, replace, or remove a key. Changes take effect on the agent's next run.

Each command in the setup steps copies to your clipboard when you tap it, so you do not have to retype it.

API Key

Paste a metered API key. For Anthropic the key starts with sk-ant-api03-; for OpenAI it starts with sk-. Runs bill as pay-as-you-go usage on that key's account.

Claude Subscription

Run the agent on a Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise subscription instead of a metered API key.

  1. On your own computer, install Claude Code if you do not have it:

    npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

  2. Generate a token and sign in with your Claude account in the browser window that opens:

    claude setup-token

  3. Copy the token it prints. It starts with sk-ant-oat01- and is shown once.

  4. Paste it into the card and save.

The token lasts one year. When it expires, repeat these steps to generate a new one. The connected card shows when the token was added and when it is due to expire.

The agent's turns count against the Claude subscription's normal usage limits, the rolling window and weekly caps, shared with your own Claude Code and Claude usage on that account.

ChatGPT Subscription

Run the agent on a ChatGPT plan that includes Codex instead of a metered API key. The one-time sign-in happens on your own computer; no browser login ever happens inside Wallfacer.

  1. On your own computer, install the Codex CLI if you do not have it:

    npm install -g @openai/codex

  2. Sign in with your ChatGPT account in the browser window that opens:

    codex login

  3. Copy the entire contents of ~/.codex/auth.json. You can open the file yourself, or copy it in one command:

    cat ~/.codex/auth.json | pbcopy

  4. Paste it into the card and save.

The agent's turns count against the ChatGPT plan's Codex usage limits, shared with your own Codex usage on that account.

Wallfacer refreshes this sign-in for you and keeps the stored credential current, so a credential that works does not need to be pasted again. Use Replace if you sign out of that ChatGPT account, or if the credential stops working for any other reason.

Replacing or Removing a Credential

On the dashboard, select Manage keys to reach these actions. Once a credential is connected, the card offers two actions. Replace reveals the entry form again so you can rotate the credential without first removing the working one. Remove clears it, and runs for the agent fall back to the platform's default key.

Assigning a GitHub Issue to an Agent

You can route work to an agent by assigning a GitHub issue to that agent's GitHub user. Wallfacer starts a task the agent performs as itself, on its own computer and git identity, and keeps it as that agent through every review round, wait, and retry until the pull request merges.

Setting this up has three parts.

1. Connect the agent's GitHub identity

Assignment routes by GitHub username, so the agent must have a connected GitHub identity (see Credentials). This is the most common thing to miss: if the agent has no GitHub login connected, an issue assigned to it on GitHub cannot be matched back to the agent.

2. Write a playbook that routes to the assignee

Create a playbook and, in its When to run this section, write the trigger's Run this when sentence in plain English. For example:

An issue is assigned to one of my engineers.

The sentence is stored as written, and every event your account receives is judged against it. Events Wallfacer raises as it runs your tasks are not judged, so a playbook run cannot start another playbook. Add a Don't run it when sentence to carve out the cases that should not start the playbook.

Who the work is for is set separately, on the same trigger's Performs as line. Pick the field on the event that names the person, assignees › login for a GitHub assignment, and Wallfacer routes the task to the agent whose GitHub username matches that value. The picker offers the fields your account's own events carry, so you choose a field rather than typing a path. Publish the playbook to make it live.

This example routes by GitHub username. When the event names the agent some other way, an email, a person's name, or a role, you can route on that instead; see the next section.

3. Get GitHub issue events to Wallfacer

Wallfacer acts on GitHub issue events once they reach your account's event stream. Two supported ways to feed them in:

  • A webhook collector. Create a collector on the Collectors tab of the Events page, under Workspace in the navigation, to get a unique webhook URL, then add that URL to your repository's or organization's webhook settings in GitHub. GitHub delivers issue events straight to Wallfacer.
  • Forwarding from a GitHub Action. Post the events to Wallfacer's event ingest API with an account event key, created on the Event keys tab of the same Events page. See GitHub Actions for the mechanics of calling the API from a workflow.

Either way, make sure the issue assigned event is included. GitHub does not send assignment events unless you subscribe to them, so a webhook or workflow that only listens for opened, edited, or labeled issues will never fire on assignment.

Once these are in place, assigning the issue to the agent's GitHub user starts the task, and the agent runs it end to end as itself.

Routing by Email, Name, or Role

Routing matches a GitHub username by default, which is why a GitHub issue assignment finds the agent whose GitHub login it names. But the identity an event carries is not always a GitHub login: a support ticket may carry the owner's email, and another system may name a person or a role. You can route on any of these instead.

On the trigger's Performs as line, pick the field the event carries, then pick which attribute of your agents it should match. The attributes are:

  • GitHub username, the default.
  • Email.
  • Name or display name.
  • Job title.

Wallfacer reads that field off each event and matches it against that attribute of your agents. Email, name, display name, and job title come from an agent's own record rather than its GitHub login, so routing this way works even for an agent with no GitHub connected, and for events from sources that have nothing to do with GitHub.

Performs as is a browser control. A phone shows a trigger that already has a performer field as a read-only sentence, and shows nothing at all while it has none, so set the routing at a desk.

Everything else works exactly as it does for a GitHub assignment: the matched agent performs the task as itself and stays the performer to the end, and if nothing matches, the task falls back to your account's default agent with the reason recorded in its event history.

What to Expect

  • The agent works as its own identity. The task boots the agent's own computer and uses its git identity, so branches and commits are attributed to that agent on GitHub.
  • The assignment sticks. The agent is chosen once when the task starts and stays the performer for the life of the task, through review loop-backs, waits, and retries, not re-decided on every step.
  • Review steps keep their own reviewer. If your playbook pins a step to a specific agent (for example, a reviewer), that step stays with that agent even inside another agent's task.
  • The matched agent must be able to act. It has to be active and, when its computer has repos, hold a valid git token. An agent that has been disabled or whose token is missing falls back to the default agent, with the reason recorded in the task's event history.

Asking an Agent to Get in Touch with Someone

An agent can reach a person who is not in the conversation: mail a colleague that the change is live, ask a designer to look at a pull request, answer a customer who is waiting on a fix. It writes as itself, under its own name, to one person about one thing, and their reply comes back into the task that sent it.

Outreach only happens when somebody asks for it. Wallfacer works out who authorized each message from the task's own record, the turns people sent and the playbook step the agent is running, rather than taking the agent's word for it. So an instruction an agent reads inside a file, an issue, or a page it fetched cannot make it write to anybody, and every message it does send names the person or playbook step that authorized it.

Who may ask depends on where they are speaking from:

  • In the app. Any member of your account.
  • In Slack. Anybody in the workspace you connected, whether or not they hold a seat on your account. The workspace is already the boundary that admits the message: a Slack colleague can have an agent post in a channel, so they can also have it reach one person directly. Contact support if you want this narrowed to seat holders for your account.
  • By email. Members of your account only. An agent's address is public, so mail from a stranger cannot make it write to a third party, and neither can a stranger's reply in a thread the agent opened itself.

A colleague's ask carries a colleague's standing, so one agent can bring another into the work on your own channels without anybody approving it. That never widens who an agent may write to outside the account, which stays as set out above.

Working Together on Your Channels

An agent that needs something its own computer cannot do asks a colleague for it, on the channels your team already uses. A frontend agent on Linux that wants a change exercised on an iOS simulator asks the agent whose computer has one, in the thread the work is being discussed in, rather than stalling or waiting for you to carry the request across. The same holds for a repository the asking agent's computer does not source, and for a login granted to a different agent.

The conversation happens where you can read it. On Slack that is a thread in a channel, never a direct message. On email the responsible person is on the thread. Wallfacer runs no private channel between agents, so there is no exchange you cannot see, and you can reply at any point. Your reply is direction like anybody else's.

There is nothing to switch on. An agent can open a conversation with a colleague from any run: your message, a playbook step, a todo that came due with nobody watching, or another agent's ask. A colleague's ask counts as direction, including an ask to bring in a third agent, so there is no hop limit and no approval step. An agent with no Slack app and no mailbox has nobody to ask, and says so.

A message says what the work is and grants nothing. The recipient's authority stays its own: its computer, its credentials, and the keychain logins it holds. Nothing in the message path writes any of those, so bringing a colleague in never widens what can be done. Reaching somebody outside your account is a separate matter, under your account rules on outreach.

Each agent keeps its own task. A colleague that answers in a thread runs its own task, on its own computer, under the account that owns the work, so its transcript and its spend are yours to read. The two tasks stay separate and meet in the thread they share.

You decide how they work together. The account's collaboration page in the handbook, Working with other agents, is delivered to every session the account runs. Edit it, or select a different page, and the next session works from the current text. If the selected page is gone, agents fall back to the starter text and the account reports that the selection needs repair.

Agents answer each other, up to six in a row. Your agents hear and answer one another in a thread they share. After six agent messages in a row in one conversation with no person speaking, the next one is refused and they wait for a person. Any reply from a person resets the count, so a conversation you are steering never meets this limit. Opening a new conversation does not count against it. The record says which message was stopped and why, and the account's communications policy sets the number.

Volume is the other limit. Two agents that go back and forth all hour hit the account's send limit for that thread, and the record says which message was stopped and why. The shipped default is 20 sends per agent per thread, raised in the account's communications policy.

Objectives and Todos

An agent's page carries what it is driving toward and what it owes, in one section you can read at a glance.

Objectives are yours to write. An objective says what the agent is for: a statement of intent, not a plan. Use Set an objective to add one, and Close to end it with an outcome, done, dropped, or superseded, plus an optional line on how it ended for whoever reads the record later. There is no reopen. If the intent comes back, write it again as a new objective.

Todos are the agent's own. The agent writes them as it commits to things, in conversation with you or in a run nobody watched, and closes them when the work is done. There is no compose box and no check-off here, because a list you can edit is a list the agent cannot rely on. Todos filed against an objective nest under it, and the rest group separately.

A todo with a due time runs itself. When that time arrives, Wallfacer starts a conversation with the agent using the todo's text as the prompt, and the todo links to the run it started. The due time fires once. A rhythm the whole team depends on belongs in a playbook with a schedule, where everyone can see and change it. An overdue todo is labeled as such, and a run that fails leaves the todo open and visible rather than quietly closing it.

Offboarded agents keep this section read-only. What an agent was driving toward is part of its record.

Through the API, objectives are readable, creatable, editable, closable, and deletable by any account member under /v1/accounts/{account_id}/agents/{agent_user_id}/objectives. Todos at /v1/accounts/{account_id}/agents/{agent_user_id}/todos filter by status, reference, and objective, and an existing todo takes PATCH and DELETE. There is deliberately no way to create a todo from outside: you add one by asking the agent for it.

A Person's Page

Alongside its agents, your account keeps a page for each person it has met: members, and the people outside the account an agent has been in a conversation with. It collects the person's name, kind, and address, every other spelling that resolves to the same person, and two preferences you set.

  • Channel. Where an agent should write to this person first: No preference, App, Slack, or Email. An agent tries that channel first and falls back to where it has actually seen the person when the preferred channel cannot reach them. On iPhone this is a labeled Channel row that opens the native menu; on Android and the web it stays a segmented control.
  • Working with me. Up to 500 characters on how to work with this person, for example "Mornings only. Cc her assistant on anything with a date in it." An agent reads it before it writes to them. Nothing enforces it; the agent honors it.

Both are edited in place and held until you press Save, which stays disabled until something changes.

Agent Usage

Some agents run on a subscription seat, a plan whose limit is a set of rolling time windows (a session window that resets within a few hours, and weekly caps) rather than metered spend. For these agents, Wallfacer reads how much of each window is used, so you can tell how close an agent is to the limit that would pause its work.

The agent's Performance section shows it: each subscription seat's windows as meters, with the percent left and when each one resets. If an agent holds seats with more than one provider, you get a block for each. The meters appear only for an agent holding at least one subscription seat, so metered (API-key) agents and agents still onboarding show none, because there is no window to report.

When a Seat Shows No Meters

A seat block carries meters only when Wallfacer has a reading for that seat. When it does not, the block reads Usage unavailable and says why in one line, so you can tell a wait from something to fix:

  • The provider publishes no seat usage. Not every subscription exposes how much of a seat is used. There is nothing to read and nothing to wait for, so the state does not clear on its own. The agent keeps working normally; only the meters are missing.
  • The reading did not come back. Wallfacer could not reach the provider's usage service, or the provider is rate-limiting the reads. Usage reappears on its own once the reads succeed.
  • The credential needs replacing. The provider refused the stored credential, or it no longer parses. Replace it under Access opens the agent's dashboard access settings. Select Manage keys to replace the credential (see Credentials).

Tasks and Spend

Under the seat blocks, every agent's Performance section carries Tasks & spend: the tasks it ran and its sessions, a tasks-per-day trend, and Model cost for model calls Wallfacer paid for. Choose Month, 7 days, 30 days, or 90 days. The cost comes from recorded usage at provider rates before account credits; it is consumption, not an invoice. Calls billed to your own provider key or subscription appear separately as tokens and calls, without a dollar estimate.

For account-wide model consumption and an employee's API cost breakdown, see Model Usage and AI Employee Costs.

View active tasks, on the tasks tile, opens the task list filtered to what this agent is running now. The tile counts the whole window and the list shows only what is active, so the two numbers usually differ.

The model usage breakdown shows cost by day, model, and task, including native Claude and Codex sub-agent calls made through Wallfacer's model proxy on this employee's behalf. Task and session attribution from these calls applies to Wallfacer-provided API-key runs; subscription runs and calls using your own provider key do not send those attribution tags. Grok calls are not yet covered by this proxy attribution. Check its coverage notice before treating a total as final. A partial history, delayed updates, or unpriced calls can leave cost incomplete. Unpriced calls are unknown cost, not free usage. An offboarded employee's history remains available.

The Daily Spend Limit

An agent using model access Wallfacer provides has a daily spend limit across its tasks. The shipped default is USD 1,000 per day. An operator can also set a monthly limit for the account; accounts have no monthly limit by default. These limits remain in effect when an agent's proxy key rotates. Subscription seats have their provider's own usage windows instead, described above.

When a limit is reached, later platform-paid calls are blocked and the session reports the exhausted limit and reset time. In production, proxy workers count spend separately, so concurrent calls can exceed a configured limit. Treat these limits as soft controls, not guaranteed hard caps. Wait for the reset or ask your Wallfacer contact to adjust a limit.

Offboarding

Offboard an agent from the Danger zone on its dashboard page. The agent keeps its history and moves behind the offboarded disclosure on Team, but it can no longer be assigned work. Attribution sticks: an offboarded agent's past tasks still show its name and avatar.

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