Agents as colleagues New in 0.9.0
They hand each other work and carry on with the answer, pick up email meant for them, learn from the corrections you approve, and know the goals their work is for. Every step stays on your Taskboard and your Line, and nothing goes out that you didn't allow.
The new colleagues tool lists who is on the team, hands a piece of work to another of your agents with hand_over, and follows what it handed out with handed.
Each hand-over is a Taskboard task under Between your agents, linked to the task the agent was on.
The colleague's answer goes back to the agent that asked, in that task, and the work carries on. With no board task, it comes to its chat.
The turn's mail permissions travel with the work, read by code, not by the model. The right to send a Gmail reply never passes on.
No handing to itself or back along the chain, at most 4 agents in a chain, 60 hand-overs per owner a day, and your token allowance.
Each agent's ⋯ → Identity & email says which Colleagues it may hand work to. Hand-overs happen only on the owner's own turns under Flight Deck.
Identity & email In the agent's ⋯
Give an agent a Role, What it does, Its own inbox, Addresses that land in your inbox and Names it answers to. Every 60 seconds Flight Deck reads your Gmail, Outlook and IMAP inboxes, and mail meant for an agent becomes its task under Email for an agent.
Automatic, bulk, list, no-reply and agent-sent mail is skipped, and the first look at a mailbox only sets a baseline. Those turns write drafts only, except from the agent's own IMAP inbox, where that inbox's sending setting decides.
you+researcher@gmail.com lands in your inbox, and reaches the Researcher.
A subject that names the agent is for that agent.
"Hi Rita," or "@Rita" at the start of a message.
On for every agent after the upgrade. Switch Pick up email meant for ‹agent› off under Email in its settings, or set FD_AGENT_MAIL=off for the deck.
Give agents with common-word names a specific name to answer to.
Replies in your Gmail, per agent. Only that one reply to that sender, with no cc or bcc, and it still goes through your Google email-sending switch, allowlist and daily limit.
The default. The reply waits in your Drafts for you to read and send.
When the email came from you.
When Gmail verified the sender.
Outlook replies stay drafts.
Email (IMAP) Connections
Connections → Email (IMAP) connects up to 20 IMAP/SMTP inboxes per person. Type the address and the server settings fill in.
The new imap_mail tool lists, searches, reads, drafts, files and sends. It never deletes, and never moves mail to Trash or Junk.
It's sealed, and the IMAP and SMTP work happens inside Flight Deck.
Until you tick Let my agents send email from this inbox, with Only to these recipients and a Daily limit (50 by default, up to 500).
Its own signature and sender name, Receive only, and Which agents can use this inbox.
When a host blocks port 465, it offers Use port 587 (STARTTLS).
Needs sign-in on, or the desktop app. FD_IMAP_SEND=off stops IMAP sending for the whole deck. Mail & channels has Gmail, Outlook and the guards.
Lessons to approve A badge beside the bell
Correct an agent or state a standing rule in chat ("too long", "always CC Marko", "ask me before booking"), and it drafts one lesson. Lessons to approve, beside the bell and in each kiosk agent's ⋯ menu, shows it with your words it came from.
Nothing is taught without your yes, and Just learned keeps an Undo.
A word check lets through only messages that read like a correction, so the rest cost no model call. 12 a day at most.
Insights, reflections and playbooks no longer keep "tool X doesn't work", guesses about your traits, or a one-off request as a standing preference.
On by default; lesson_proposals.enabled: false in an agent's config.yaml turns it off. External memory shares what all of a person's agents learn.
Course Workspace → Course
Goals for The deck (set by an admin, read by everyone), for You and for Your agents, each Strategic, Long-term, Medium-term or Short-term, in a tree. Every agent working for you gets the live goals in its prompt and uses them to decide what matters next.
course tool, and Flight Deck suggest goals. They wait on your Line: Accept, Edit on Course or Decline.In the kiosk: Settings → You → Course. Admins set horizons, caps and suggestion limits on Admin console → Settings → Course.
The deck · Strategic
Ten new clients in marine insurance
└─ You · Medium-term
Every renewal quote out in 48 hours
└─ Policy Analyst · Short-term
Compare this week's renewals by FridayTested how: hand-overs, lesson proposals and agent email were tested with stand-in models and stubbed mailboxes; IMAP was tested live against GreenMail and Dovecot. · The Flight Deck guide
Colleagues & email docs · Course docs · The Taskboard holds every hand-over · The Line holds the suggestions
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