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The kind of agent: Agent, Runner or Planner

Choose how SW Agent works for you: an Agent that chooses, acts and answers, a Runner that only runs programs and commands, or a Planner that shows its steps before it does anything.

Describes Sonic Weaver v5.28, released .

Three kinds

Agent, the default, chooses the job, acts, answers your questions, and asks when it is unsure.

Runner only runs programs and commands. Every message becomes a job: a question runs the job that fits it, a choice it would ask you about runs its best reading, and when no job fits it lists the commands that come closest. A job that needs a file you have not attached still asks for it.

Planner shows the steps it would take for anything that makes or changes something, and runs them only when you press Run. Questions and lookups that change nothing, such as finding templates or reading a file, answer at once.

Choosing one

Say "/kind planner", "be a runner" or "/kind agent" in the chat, or choose in Settings, SW Agent, where you can also switch off the suggestions after a job. Your choice is kept on this device.

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