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Do agents make autonomous decisions or take actions on my behalf?

Updated over 3 weeks ago

When using Agents in le Chat, it’s important to understand the scope of their capabilities, especially around decision-making and taking actions.

Agents are not autonomous

Agents are not autonomous. They do not perform actions or make decisions on your behalf outside the messages you send during a conversation.

Agents are designed to:

  • Assist you by processing your prompts.

  • Provide information, suggestions, and generated content based on their configuration and your instructions.

  • Carry out tasks you explicitly ask for in the chat (for example, “draft an email,” “summarize this document,” “write code for X”).

🔑 They do not continue acting once the conversation instruction ends.

You stay in control. Any action taken as a result of an Agent’s output is your decision, and requires your explicit instruction.

A word about Connectors

Even when an Agent has access to tools or Connectors (for example, calendar, mail, storage), it uses them only when you instruct it within the conversation.

📌 Agents do not run in the background, schedule tasks, or act without your input.

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