What a scout is
Each scout is one skill, run on a schedule, with a scope and a spending limit:The Email follow-ups scout
Finds email threads where the last message is from the other side and a reply from you is overdue. Each thread becomes one Signal, ranked by how long the other person has waited:
Newsletters, notifications, automated mail and calendar invites are skipped. The scout reads your mail; it never drafts or sends a reply — that stays with you.
Switching a scout on
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Open Scouts
Click Scouts in the sidebar (or press g then w). Each row is one scout: whether it is On, what it Watches, how often it Runs, its Last run, what it Found this week and its Cost this month.
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Switch it on
Use the switch at the start of the row. The scout keeps the schedule shown; change it from the Runs picker.
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Run it now, or wait
Click Run now to start a run immediately, or let the schedule start the first one. While a run is in flight the row says Running now; afterwards it shows Finished with how long ago — hover it for the exact date and time.
New workspaces get a What Orbis watches step during onboarding; the scouts you switch on there are the same ones this page shows. Everything can be changed later.
What a scout found
Click a scout’s name to open its page: its schedule, what it watches, when it next runs, and every run newest first — when it ran, who started it (Run now or On schedule), the outcome, how long it took and what it cost. Each run shows a short Summary and its Findings: one line per thing found, with how important and how confident the scout is, and a link to open the thread in your Inbox or the source page. Findings become Signals — see Signals for where they go and what you can do with them. A run that did not finish says why in plain words — it reached its spending limit, the model did not answer, or something was not set up right — with details available.Notifications
When a scout finds something new, the person who switched it on gets a notification, A scout found something, that opens the Signal — that holds for organization-wide scouts too. If a scout stops working you get A scout stopped working. Both are on by default and can be turned off under Settings → Orbis → What Orbis tells you.Switching everything off
Settings → Orbis → Scouts has an organization-wide switch. Turning it off stops every scout from running — nothing is deleted, and switching it back on resumes the schedules.What scouts do not do
- They do not send email, create drafts, change contacts or move tasks.
- They do not run when switched off, when the organization switch is off, or past their spending limit.
- They do not share what they find beyond the scope they watch: a scout on Your accounts produces Signals only you can see.