Basics

Personal Autonomous Agent Platform

Prosponsive Basics

This guide introduces the Prosponsive interface, agents, and core features. If you haven't installed Prosponsive yet, start with the Install Guide.

1. Tour the Interface

Once setup completes, you'll see the main Prosponsive interface. Here's what's on screen:

Sidebar (left)

The sidebar has seven tabs, shown as icons when collapsed:

Chat tab

This is where you'll spend most of your time. The Chat tab has two areas:

• Channel list (sidebar) — Shows your conversations, each with a message count. Click a channel to open it.
• Message area (main panel) — Shows the conversation thread. Type at the bottom to send messages.

Agents tab

Lists all available agents. Click one to open its definition in the editor. You can:

• Read the agent's instructions and capabilities
• Modify its allowed tools, routing rules, and behavior
• Duplicate an agent to create a variant
• See which channels the agent is shared to

The default agent is Prosponsive — your general-purpose coordinator. Prosponsive will be in all channels, and can be delegated to by all agents.

n8n tab

Shows connection status and quick-access buttons:

• Workflows — Opens the n8n workflow editor in your browser
• Credentials — Opens n8n credential management
• Documentation — Links to n8n docs

2. Your First Conversation

Let's make sure everything is working.

1. Click the Chat tab in the sidebar.
2. You should see a default channel (or an empty channel list). If empty, just start typing — Prosponsive creates a channel automatically.
3. Type a message:

   What can you help me with?

4. Press Enter (or click Send).

The Prosponsive agent responds. It will explain its capabilities — organizing conversations, moving threads, archiving content, and delegating to specialist agents.

Try one more:

Create a channel called "Project Zen"

Prosponsive proposes a create-conversation tool card. You'll see the tool name, parameters, and a reason. Click Approve to execute it.

A new "Project Zen" channel appears in your sidebar. You've just used your first tool.

3. Understanding Agents

Agents are AI assistants with specific roles, tools, and instructions. Prosponsive ships with three:

Prosponsive (default)

Your strategic coordinator. It can:

• Create, move, and archive conversations and threads
• Delegate to other agents when specialized help is needed
• Organize your workspace

Think of Prosponsive as your desk — it's where incoming work lands and where you decide what goes where.

Prosponsive Support

Collects bug reports and feature requests for the Prosponsive team to make things better for you. If something isn't working right, tell Prosponsive "I want to report a bug" and it will delegate to this agent.

How delegation works

When you ask Prosponsive something that another agent handles better, Prosponsive proposes a delegate-agent tool card. You approve, and the specialist takes over the conversation thread. The specialist's messages show its name and a badge so you always know who's talking.

Sharing agents to channels

Agents must be shared to a channel before they can be automatically routed there. When an agent creates a channel (like the email agent creating "Email Inbox"), it's automatically shared. You can also manually share agents to channels via the channel settings.

Delegation and Sharing working together

Your prompts in a channel will only be routed to agents shared to that channel. They in turn can delegate to agents you've previously configured as allowed to accomplish work on their behalf. Delegated agents that are not shared to the channel will show as "guest" agents.

4. Feedback

Prosponsive has a built-in feedback system for reporting bugs and requesting features. Just tell Prosponsive what's on your mind — it delegates to the Prosponsive Support agent, which handles the rest.

For full details on how the feedback system works and the philosophy behind it, see the Feedback & Philosophy guide.

5. What's Next

You've covered the fundamentals. Here are some directions to explore:

Create your own agents

Open the Agents tab and click Create New Agent. An agent definition is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter. You define:

• System prompt — The agent's personality and instructions
• Allowed tools — Core tools (built-in capabilities) and Custom tools (your n8n workflows) the agent can use
• Delegatable agents — Who the agent can hand off to
• Routing rules — Custom logic for the agent's domain

Build custom tools with n8n

Tools in Prosponsive are n8n workflows. To create one:

1. Open n8n and create a new workflow.
2. Add a Webhook trigger node — this becomes the tool's endpoint.
3. Build your automation (API calls, data transforms, notifications, etc.).
4. Publish the workflow — within a few minutes it will appear in agent tool lists.

For details on naming conventions, parameter design, output formatting, Request Context mapping, and external app links, see the Building Tools with n8n guide.

Set up scheduled prompts

Open Settings and find the Scheduled Prompts section. Set a message, pick an agent and channel, and define a schedule. The prompt fires automatically on that schedule — combined with auto-approvals, it lets Prosponsive complete recurring tasks without any input from you. See the Features guide for details.

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