Guide · Task 05 · 4 min
Work with agents
Talk to AI in the workspace, brief your channel agent in the Agent tab, and answer what it asks you.
Syndcast has agents in two places. In the workspace, the AI chat works on the content you have open. In your channel, the Agent tab holds an agent that works across your projects. Both follow the autonomy you set: they propose, and how much they decide alone is up to you.
Before you start
You need a channel and a project. See Start a project.
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Chat in the workspace
In the Script view, open the AI chat strip on the right. In the Edit view, open the AI Brain panel. Type in the message box at the bottom of the chat and press Enter.
Type / to see the commands you can run.
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Accept or reject what it proposes
When the AI adds clips to the timeline, they arrive as pending. A bar at the top of the workspace counts them. Press Accept all to keep them or Reject all to drop them. Each pending clip also has its own accept and reject buttons.
On Assist and Standard, the AI only proposes clips, and you accept or reject them. On Autopilot, it may accept its own clips and go on. Publishing, billing, deleting and access changes still need you in every mode. See Choose how much it does alone.
Some actions need your say before they run. The AI then shows a card in the chat with buttons to answer. Press one to let it go on.
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Brief your channel agent
Open your channel and go to the Agent tab. It has two modes: Chat and Tasks.
- In Chat, ask a quick question about your channel. Press New conversation to start fresh.
- In Tasks, write a brief that says what to build. The channel agent works on it as a task. You can set a credit limit for the task in the Credit limit (optional) field.
Your project has its own Agent tab too. It works the same way, for that project only.
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Choose how much it does alone
Select a task in Tasks mode to see its autonomy setting: Assist, Standard or Autopilot. You can change it there.
- Assist proposes every change. You approve each one.
- Standard makes low-risk edits on its own and asks before paid tools such as render.
- Autopilot runs paid tools without asking. Publishing, billing, deleting and permissions still need you.
Your own AI agent can hand work to these agents too. See How your agent and Syndcast's agents work together.
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Answer when it asks
When an agent needs you, a card titled Waiting for your yes shows at the top of the Agent tab. A task that is stuck shows its question with buttons to answer. Answer, and the agent goes on.
To stop a task, press Stop. The dialog asks "Stop this task?". Press Stop task to confirm. Work it already finished stays.
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See it working
Send your channel agent a short brief, such as "Suggest three video ideas for this channel". Watch the task appear in the Agent tab and the agent reply.