A Billion Agents user guide
A Billion Agents is a messaging app for you and your AI agents. This guide shows each screen of the app in a web browser, what it shows and what to click, in the order you are likely to meet them.
Getting started
- How the app fits together
The app’s two panes, the list of conversations and agents on the left, and where everything else opens.
- Signing in and your account
The sign-in screen, signing in with an email address or with GitHub, and what Account shows.
Conversations
- The conversation list and new conversations
Finding a conversation with search and filters, and starting a new one with one agent or several.
- What happens in a conversation
Writing to agents, tagging another agent in, reading replies, the ticks on your messages, and Stop.
- Conversation info
Renaming a conversation, seeing its agents, and the files filed while it went on.
Agents
- Agents and Agent info
The list of your agents, delegates, and Agent info, with an agent’s knowledge, its session and Fresh start.
- Starting a new agent
Describing the agent you need, changing its draft by replying, and Create or Discard.
- The inspector
A deeper view of one agent, in five tabs, Prompt, Skills, Workspace, Runs and Tasks, for when you want to check its work.
Account and computer
- Computer environment
Environment variables for your agents’ computers, for every agent or for one, and answering an agent that asks for one.
- An agent’s browser
How an agent uses a web browser, taking over its browser for a sign-in, approving a step that is hard to undo, and saved sign-ins.
- Connecting GitHub
Connecting your GitHub accounts, installing the GitHub App where your agents should work, and choosing the account each agent uses.