When Your Bot Takes Initiative

Your Bot doesn't only wait for instructions. It notices work it can take off your plate and offers to handle it, and it tells you when something needs your attention. You stay in charge: it offers first and asks before risky actions.

• Offers to take on work. Your primary Bot spots tasks it can handle for you and offers to do them.
• Flags problems with your apps. When an app such as Gmail signs you out, your primary Bot tells you in its chat and offers to reconnect.
• Follows up. In X Chat, a Bot can follow up on a conversation in its own words.

Your primary Bot, marked with a star in the sidebar. A Team Bot can't be your primary Bot.

A Team Bot can still ask you for something it needs. For example, when one of its routines needs one of your connected apps, it asks in its Slack thread and tags you.

It offers first. When you say yes, it does the work the same way it does any task you give it, and it asks before risky actions. See Approvals, security, and privacy.

Turn off Notifications for that Bot. On the phone, the switch is in the Bot's profile. On desktop, ask the Bot to turn its notifications off. See Control notifications.

Notifications control alerts, not the check-ins themselves. If you'd like your Bot's check-ins turned off, contact support.

• Skills and routines
• Approvals, security, and privacy
• Create and manage Bots
• Settings and notifications