Copilots: how they work#
A copilot is a pane for the work around the code, with its own CLI agent, memory, rules and activity feed. You answer its questions and reviews in the rail and choose how much it does alone: Assist drafts and asks, Rules acts only under rules you approved, Full acts on its own. Every send, publication or change passes a check on the server first.
Copilots are optional modules: new installs start with none of them. Turn one on with optionalModules in the launcher's config.json, then run npx --yes run-spaceapp@latest repair. Copilots that use the pane browser need the large profile.
Mail Copilot#
A Gmail client for your connected Google accounts, with an agent that works through your mail. Under Assist it drafts replies for your review; under Rules it acts within rules you approved; under Full it acts alone. It learns from what you do with mail, on the web and on your phone too: a consistent habit becomes a rule it proposes. "Send to AI" hands it a mail to check and fix what it needs.
Job Copilot#
Works through a queue of job postings in the pane browser: it fills applications from your CV and profile, researches the salary of each posting and recommends one, asks you for what it cannot answer, hands you CAPTCHAs, and keeps a tracker of every application with evidence.
Marketing Copilot#
Drafts posts from your briefs and campaigns and publishes them on your own accounts through the pane browser: X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, dev.to, YouTube and GitHub. Each channel has its own autonomy cap and post limit; facts come from the public product knowledge, and the published URL is the evidence. It measures each post a day and a week later.
Freelance Copilot#
Finds client work on Upwork, Contra, Fiverr, Toptal, Arc and Braintrust, qualifies leads and writes proposals and messages under daily caps and a budget. Each send is checked for wording and scam signals first, and a client who wants to go ahead is handed to you.
Security Copilot#
Watches CISA KEV, NVD, OSV, distro advisories and security news, and matches them to the packages and container images of your hosts with a fixed read-only probe and Trivy. It fixes what a finding needs through a gate: a backup first, a check after, a rollback ready; reboots, deletes and payments wait for a person. Fixes to code go through your normal review.
Monitoring Copilot#
Reads your Prometheus, Alertmanager and Loki collector and explains each alert in plain words. A critical alert reaches Nous; a warning is noted; a resolved alert closes its card. It repairs what a playbook covers through the same kind of gate: restarts and config changes with a backup, reboots and deletes only with your yes.