Automatons that keep watch
Automatons can now watch your work all day. They notice what happens, tell you quietly, and ask first before they send any prompt.
Watching, never acting alone
Tell an automaton what to look out for, in a sentence, and it keeps watch on this Mac. A failed session, a finished run, something new in memory, a connector that changed: it sees these as they happen and leaves a short note in the activity sidebar. It never pops a window in your way.
A watcher can only look. It reads what your connected tools expose as read-only and refuses everything else, with the reason shown. When a watcher wants to prompt a session, it puts a card in front of you that names the session and the exact words it would send. Only Yes sends it. Cards run out after thirty minutes and are still there after a restart.
Four fields to make one
Making an automaton takes a name, a job, a model and how hard it thinks, and each has a sensible default. Everything else sits under More. Bandicot works out what to watch for from your job when you save it. If the job is too vague to read, it still saves, says it is watching everything, and will ask before it acts.
Keeping many in order
Automatons can be put into groups, renamed, moved by menu or by dragging, paused one at a time or a whole group at once, duplicated and deleted. Deleting asks first and also clears that automaton's notes and cards. Search by name and filter by group or state, and each group shows how many are watching and how many notes and cards are waiting.
There is one switch, Keep this Mac awake for automatons, on by default. If the Mac does sleep anyway, every watcher picks up exactly where it stopped and goes through what it missed in order.