# Behaviour and limits — a step-by-step guide

Behaviour and limits decide whether the assistant is live, whether it learns, how many drafts it may write, how much it may spend and how often it looks into the mailbox.

**Before you start**

- **Editor or owner role** — With a read-only role you only see the settings.
- **An open assistant** — They are in Settings → Behaviour and limits.

## Step 1 of 7: Trial mode and learning

On the screen: In Settings → Behaviour and limits, the Settings card with two tick boxes.

Do this: **Trial mode** — drafts are made only in draften and do not go to the mail. When you switch it off the assistant is live and the mailbox owner gets an e-mail. **Learn from my edits of the drafts** — the assistant compares what you changed in drafts and proposes lessons and fact corrections.

> Note: Going live is described in detail in Trial mode and going live.

## Step 2 of 7: How many drafts

On the screen: In the Limits card, three counts: per day, per sender per day and per mail check.

Do this: Limits keep the assistant in check. **Drafts per day** caps the total. **Per sender per day** guards against a loop where two machines keep answering each other. **Per mail check** spreads a big pile: what does not fit is handled at the next check.

> Note: A message that runs into a limit gets the **limit** status in Mail.

## Step 3 of 7: Daily cost cap

On the screen: The Daily cost cap (USD) field.

Do this: How much the assistant may spend on language models per day. Once reached, it writes no drafts, and no wizard step or trial starts; the count starts over in the morning. An empty field means no cap.

> Note: What the assistant spent today and its cap are on the Overview, in the What the models cost card. Prices are described in Models and prices.

## Step 4 of 7: How often to check the mail

On the screen: The How often to check the mail (seconds) field.

Do this: How often the assistant looks into the mailbox. Empty means the default (usually every 5 minutes); at least 60 seconds, at most once a day.

## Step 5 of 7: Deleted draft

On the screen: The Deleted draft: grace period for a reply by hand (hours) field.

Do this: When you delete a draft and write the reply yourself, that takes a while. The assistant waits this many hours before it counts the draft as deleted — otherwise it would miss your own reply.

## Step 6 of 7: Allowed Cc, domains and forms

On the screen: Three fields: Allowed Cc, Allowed link domains and Web-form addresses.

Do this: **Allowed Cc** — the assistant may copy in only these addresses. **Allowed link domains** — a draft linking anywhere else is not created (the knowledge sources' domains are always allowed). **Web-form addresses** — mail from them looks automatic but is written by customers; the assistant handles it.

> Note: One address or domain per line.

## Step 7 of 7: Save

On the screen: At the bottom, the Save button.

Do this: Click **Save**. Changes apply from the next mail check, within 5 minutes.

**The limits are set** — The defaults suit most mailboxes. Change them when you know why — after a flood of mail or unexpected costs, say.

- **Models and their price** — Which model the assistant uses is in Settings → Models and keys; prices are described in Models and prices.
- **A message with the limit status** — Find it in Mail; after changing the limit you can have it processed again.