Understanding Agent Autonomy

Slashy’s agent drafts emails, searches your inbox, and manages your calendar freely. In chat and iMessage it asks before sending. The exception is a goal you hand off, which can email people without asking each time. Here’s exactly what it can and cannot do on its own.

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What the Agent Does Automatically

No permission required for these actions:

• Search emails — query your inbox, read threads, download attachments
• Search calendar — look up events, check availability
• Draft emails — create, update, and delete drafts (never sent without approval)
• Manage calendar events — create, update, reschedule, delete
• Search the web — look up information, scrape URLs
• Research contacts — pull LinkedIn profiles and professional background
• Manage memories — create, update, and delete stored facts
• Create automations — set up triggers and reminders
• Organize emails — archive, star, label, mark read/unread, create new labels

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When the Agent Asks Permission

The agent stops and waits for explicit approval before:

• Sending any email — always drafts first with full preview of recipients and body
• Sending via iMessage — same approval required in interactive mode
• Sending an email that promises attachments but has none — the agent stops and tells you the draft has no files, so nothing goes out missing an attachment

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Goals and the Assistant Mailbox

When you confirm a goal, or CC the Slashy assistant on a thread, you hand the agent an outcome to own. It then sends email and changes calendar events toward that outcome without asking you to approve each one.

• Goals from chat or iMessage send from your connected inbox.
• Threads you CC the assistant on are answered from the assistant address (slashy@slashy.com or your own assistant mailbox), with you CC’d on replies to other people.
• A thread started by someone else who CCs your assistant is different: the assistant only asks you whether to take it on, and does nothing else until you say yes.

Read Mode still stops goals and the assistant from emailing other people or changing your calendar. Everything else on this page, including ordinary chat requests, keeps the approval step.

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Read Mode

Read Mode is a safety switch that blocks the agent from any irreversible action. Turn it on when you want the agent’s research and drafting help without the risk of it sending emails, modifying calendar events, or organizing your inbox. Where to find it: Settings → Account, or toggle it from the agent sidebar controls. Action-taking automations pause while Read Mode is on. Read-only automations (search, summarize, notify you) continue running.

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Cancelling the Agent

Click the Stop button in the sidebar while the agent is working. Cancellation is instant — partial drafts and in-progress searches are discarded. The stop signal works across multiple server containers.

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Scheduled Invocations

The agent can schedule itself to run later. When a reminder fires:

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Dismissing Threads from the Digest

You can tell the agent to permanently stop surfacing a thread in your daily digest. This is stronger than archiving, because the thread will not reappear even if it stays in your inbox. Say any of these to the agent (in the digest or in chat):

• “Clear this thread”
• “Dismiss this”
• “I don’t need to action this”

When you dismiss a thread:

• It stops appearing in future daily digests.
• Any pending reminder on that thread is cancelled.
• The agent treats it as resolved.

If a new reply arrives on the thread, it returns to the digest automatically so you do not miss a live conversation.

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Automatic Memory Extraction

After every conversation, a background process extracts useful memories. A hidden system trigger also runs on incoming emails to capture contact changes, commitments, and schedule updates. Stale todos (14+ days overdue) are automatically dismissed. Review all memories in Settings > Memories.

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Automation-Triggered Actions

When automations invoke the agent, the same rules apply: emails to others are drafted for review, notifications to you (via iMessage) send directly.

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