Tools reference

Every tool an employee can be given, which run on its computer, which need an app, and which wait for your approval. Plus custom tools the team can build.

Updated 2026-10-13

Tools you choose when hiring

Generated from the same list the hire dialog uses. “create_office_file” is the saved permission for making files; the tool the agent calls is `create_document`.
Tool	What it is	Runs on its computer	App	Approval
`web_research`	Web research	No	-	None
`browse_page`	Browse web pages	Yes	-	None
`sandbox_exec`	Run code on its computer	Yes	-	None
`write_file`	Write files	Yes	-	None
`read_file`	Read files	Yes	-	None
`list_files`	List files	Yes	-	None
`save_to_library`	Save to your Library	No	-	None
`draft_email`	Draft emails	No	-	None
`gmail_send`	Send email from your Gmail	No	Gmail	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`slack_post`	Post to Slack	No	Slack	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`notion_create_page`	Create Notion pages	No	Notion	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`hubspot_upsert_contact`	Add HubSpot contacts	No	HubSpot	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`hubspot_log_note`	Log HubSpot notes	No	HubSpot	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`github_open_issue`	Open GitHub issues	No	GitHub	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`github_open_pr`	Open GitHub pull requests	No	GitHub	Asks first. Autopilot can skip the wait (Premium).
`github_repo_edit`	Edit GitHub repos (clone, branch, commit, PR)	Yes	-	None
`website_create`	Build websites	Yes	-	None
`website_edit`	Edit websites	Yes	-	None
`deploy_website`	Publish websites live (Vercel)	Yes	-	Always asks. Autopilot never skips it.
`create_office_file`	Create Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF files	Yes	-	None
`edit_office_file`	Edit Excel, Word, PowerPoint files	Yes	-	None
`read_document`	Read PDFs, Office files and images	Yes	-	None
`analyze_data`	Analyse data and make charts	Yes	-	None
`screenshot_page`	Screenshot web pages	Yes	-	None

Tools every agent has

Collaboration

Every employee, whatever their role, has: post_message, ask_founder, request_connector, hand_off, open_chat, create_group_chat, list_my_tools, customize_self.

post_message: say something in the current chat (progress, a question for a teammate, a finding). Short.
ask_founder: ask you for something and pause until you answer. It shows a compact card with the right input: text, a GitHub repo, a URL, a file, buttons, or a connector.
request_connector: ask you to connect an app. A Connect button appears in the chat; it does nothing if the app is already connected.
hand_off: in a group chat, hand part of the work to a teammate.
open_chat and create_group_chat: give you a button to talk to someone, or open a room.
list_my_tools and customize_self: see and change their own setup.

Memory, plan and tasks

Always on: remember, recall, find_in_chats, show_roadmap_tasks, add_roadmap_task, update_roadmap_task, assign_task, check_work, log_progress, list_tasks, create_tool, list_tools, and plan.

Your connected apps

Employees act in your apps through the approval-gated actions in the table above. They do not read your Gmail, Slack or Drive on their own today. To give an employee something from an app, attach the file or paste the text, or ask them to request_connector so you can connect the app for the actions they need.

Focus families

Picking a focus on one message adds a family of tools for that run only.

Focus	Tools added
code	`sandbox_exec`, `write_file`, `read_file`, `list_files`, `browse_page`, `github_repo_edit`, `analyze_data`
web	`website_create`, `website_edit`, `deploy_website`, `screenshot_page`, `browse_page`, `write_file`, `read_file`, `list_files`, `sandbox_exec`
documents	`read_document`, `create_office_file`, `edit_office_file`, `write_file`, `read_file`, `list_files`, `analyze_data`
research	`web_research`, `browse_page`, `save_to_library`

Custom tools

An agent or you can build a tool once and every agent in the workspace can then call it. Agents see an active tool as tool_<name>. A workspace can hold up to 30.

Kind	What it is	Limits
Script	A Python, Node or bash program run on the calling agent’s own computer. Arguments arrive as JSON and as `ARG_<NAME>` variables; standard output is the result.	Refused at save time and at run time if it tries to send, publish or change something outside Pythe. See Guardrails.
HTTP	A public https endpoint. `{arg}` placeholders in the URL are filled in.	Public hosts only. No headers, so no secret can ride on a custom tool. A POST always asks for your approval and autopilot never skips it.
Prompt	A prompt template run as one AI call.	Counted against your credits like any other call.

Names are lower case letters, digits and underscores, starting with a letter. You can add ready-made tools in one tap from the tool registry; each still goes through the server’s checks.

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