> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Bot guides

> Cortex Bot — a bot with its own computer. Browses, clicks, and works on a desktop you can watch; parks consequential steps behind approvals; runs routines on your local weekday hours.

Cortex Bot is an always-on teammate. Each bot can have a computer — a screen, a browser, files — and you watch it work. Your bots are listed once, in the sidebar; the pane is the open bot, conversation in the middle and its computer on the right. Bots belong to a signed-in account.

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  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/product/bot-public.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=d7136914bc4a6c3dc623d96e45d03b6b" alt="Cortex Bot public page — a bot with its own computer" width="1280" height="800" data-path="images/product/bot-public.png" />
</Frame>

## Start here

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  <Card title="Quickstart" img="https://mintcdn.com/cortex-foundation-add13747-droid-1a2462c9-cor-444-sanitize/f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO/images/banners/bot.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=f_vF1T0UHRUAu9OO&q=85&s=2d9bcb497f39c8206286e7aecd1fef44" href="/bot/quickstart" width="1280" height="853" data-path="images/banners/bot.png">
    Sign in, create a bot, open its computer, give it a first task.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Overview" icon="compass" href="/bot/overview">
    One list of bots, first-run setup, who can drive a bot.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Bot desktop" icon="monitor" href="/bot/desktop">
    A desktop app built around agents, routines, and channels — no Chat or Code sidebar.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Core guides

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  <Card title="Computer" icon="app-window" href="/bot/computer">
    A live desktop on a Cloud guest, not a screenshot slideshow. Open desktop, Sleep, and the three hosts.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tools" icon="wrench" href="/bot/tools">
    The parent catalog — shell, computer use, browser, web, memory, skills, messaging, nested tasks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Approvals" icon="shield-check" href="/bot/approvals">
    Allow / Deny / Always. Nothing consequential runs until you choose.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Routines" icon="calendar-clock" href="/bot/routines">
    Scheduled work on a bot you own, on your local weekday hours.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Skills" icon="book-marked" href="/bot/skills">
    First-party instruction bundles a bot can follow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connected apps" icon="plug" href="/chat/tools">
    A connection reaches Chat, Bot, or both — you pick, under Customize → Connectors.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Advanced

* [How Bot works](/bot/how-it-works) — user-visible bubbles only, no round counter, waking a hibernated guest.
* [Troubleshooting](/bot/troubleshooting) — Connecting versus Stream Unavailable, parked steps, the setup form.