Computer control

When a site has no direct connection, your agent can use the site itself.

It reads the page, it clicks, it types, in a browser window on your own computer that you can watch. You sign in yourself, once, in that window. It is off until you turn it on.

Buying

Watch your agent at a checkout.

Still asks before every order.
Off, as it ships, you finish the order at the computer or on your phone. On, at a shop you listed and inside your limits, it asks, and presses Place order only when you tap Press it for me.

Off until you switch it on. You pick the shops and the limits, and every order still waits for your tap.

It never types a card you pay with. It goes by the price on the page, so for a hard ceiling, use a card from your bank that only works at that shop.

Where the switch lives: an agent’s Connections tab, under Computer control. Your card has to be saved at the shop already.
The tap can come from Archie, your phone, or your chat app, so you do not have to be at the computer.
Never pressed, tap or not: moving money and signing a contract. A subscription needs buying on, and the card says what it repeats at. Closing an account tells you it can’t be undone.
Stops

Where your agent hands the window back.

It never types a password, a card you pay with or a sign-in code; it hands you the window. A site you ruled out ends the job, and every job stops after 10 minutes unless you change it.
On a Mac

On a Mac, your agent can also use the apps you allow, like Numbers or Preview.

In the background

It presses buttons and fills in boxes inside the app’s window without moving your pointer, so you can keep working. If you start using that app, it waits for you.

Only the apps you allow

Off until you turn it on, and macOS asks you once to allow it. It never uses Terminal, password keepers, System Settings, Mail, Messages, Calendar or your web browsers.

The same stops as a website

It never types a password or a card you pay with, and anything it could not undo waits for you.

An app that does not describe its window to macOS can’t be used yet. One that draws its own boxes may not take typing, and your agent says so and asks you to type that part. On Windows, your agent uses websites.

Today

Three add-ons use websites today.

Statement Collector

Downloads each month’s statements and bills, and files them.

Form Filler

Fills in long forms you have filled in before, and stops at Submit.

Flight Check-In

Checks you in when check-in opens and sends the boarding pass.

Or ask your agent for something on a site yourself.

Download Archie, then pick the first website your agent may use.

Download Archie

Already running Archie? Open an agent’s Connections tab, find Computer control, and switch on Let this agent click and type for you. Then ask your agent in the chat. The first time it needs a sign-in, it asks you.