How do I…?

Short answers, by what you want to do. Most things in UFO can be done just by asking your agent in plain words — the agent has the tools to do it. Where there's a button, the path is given too.

#Get work done in the background

#Get a report every morning

Tell the agent: "Every weekday at 9am, summarize last night's CI failures here." It books a repeating schedule. See and cancel schedules in Schedule on the left.

#Be told when a long job finishes

Tell the agent: "Run the build and tell me when it's done." It books its own check-in, or has the job report back when it ends. A countdown card shows in the channel. More in Scheduling & automation.

#Approve something with one tap

Tell the agent: "When I react ✅ to this message, deploy it." Your reaction starts the work.

#Keep agents online 24/7

Leave the machine they run on awake, or use UFO Cloud.

#Teach my agents

#Correct an agent once and have it stick

Say it: "Remember: we deploy from the release branch, never main." It's saved as a memory every agent sees. Read, edit or delete memories in Memory on the left. More in Memory.

#Reuse a procedure that worked

Right after the job: "Save what you just did as a skill." Next time any agent can follow it. Browse them in Skills on the left. More in Skills.

#Give an agent a different personality or model

Agents on the left → pick the agent → change its personality or model. Or ask: "Make yourself more concise."

#Have a plain chat partner with no work context

Agents → pick the agent → turn on Bare mode. It answers from its personality alone — no workspace instructions, memories or tools.

#Limit what an agent can touch

Agents → pick the agent → Computer access: Full, Own folder only, or Web only.

#Give an agent a face

Ask: "Make me an avatar that looks like a small robot." It shows a live preview in the chat — press Save and Apply. All avatars are in Avatars on the left.

#Let agents use my stuff

#Let an agent browse with my own logins

Settings → This device → Let agents use your Chrome. Install the UFO Browser Bridge extension and connect it. Then ask: "Check my Search Console for last week's clicks." It works in a background window, only for your own requests. Step by step: Let agents use your own Chrome.

#Let an agent use an app on my computer

In the UFO desktop app: Settings → This device → Let agents use this computer. Then ask: "Open Numbers and make a chart from sales.csv." A bar at the top shows what's happening, with a Stop button.

#Let an agent use an API key without seeing it

Settings → Credentials → + Add → Service key, keep Hide from agents on, and pick the agents that can use it. They can call the service, but the key never shows up in the chat.

#Connect GitHub, Notion, Slack and other tools

MCP on the left → add the tool → Connect. Or ask: "Hook up the GitHub MCP." More in Connect your tools.

#Talk, find and fix

#Talk to an agent by voice

Press the waveform button in the message box for a call in this channel, or Live at the top of the left bar to talk to the whole workspace. In the desktop app, ⇧⌘1 (Ctrl+Shift+1 on Windows) starts a quick call from anywhere. Choose the voice engine in Settings → Live voice.

#Find out how a UFO feature works

Ask any agent: "How do I connect my Chrome?" It looks it up in these docs and answers with the steps. Or type your question into the search box at the top of this site — any language works.

#Find something someone said weeks ago

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K). Channels jumps to a channel, Keyword searches every message, and Ask answers a question from your workspace's messages and memories — press Search deeper for a harder one. Tab switches between them. More in Search.

#Stop an agent mid-task

Press Stop, or type !stop in the channel.

#Undo a conversation from a certain point

Message menu (⋮) → Rewind to here. Everything after that message is removed, and the agent forgets it too. You see what goes before you confirm.

#Talk with people without the agent jumping in

Type !human. Agents stay quiet in that channel until you type it again. All commands: Chat commands.

#Add one-tap prompts to a channel

Channel settings → Quick buttons, or ask: "Add a quick button that runs the daily summary."

#Keep things safe

#Back up the workspace to Google Drive

Workspace owner: Settings → Data & backup → Google Drive Backup. Every night new messages and attachments are copied, with a full copy once a week. The same screen restores channels, agents, memories and skills.

#Find a file an agent made

Files saved to the shared store are in Drive on the left. Files an agent links in chat live on the machine — ask the agent to "put it in Drive" to keep it for good. More in Drive.

#See what agents are working on

Tasks on the left lists every job an agent picked up and how it ended. Todo is your own list of ideas for later.

#Related

• Quickstart
• Agent playbook — the same features from the agent side
• Troubleshooting & FAQ