Three shapes
The pill tells you what is live by color: a pulsing red dot for “Recording 2:15”, violet for
“Coaching 5:02”, an amber countdown for “Timer 34:28”, and sky for “Controlling 0:42”. Arro
thinking, listening, and speaking show here too. Move your cursor away from the panel and it
collapses back.
Drawing instructions, computer-control hints, and coaching’s I’ve done this button share a consistent set of prompts.
On a Mac with a notch, the dock lays itself out around it. The handle sits inside the notch, and
the panel stays flush with the top edge with its content starting below, so nothing you need to
read is ever hidden behind it.
Tabs
Your tasks live on the Home tab, which is also where you start a screen recording with Record workflow. A live session gets a tab of its own: Control, Recording, Coaching, or Timer. The dock opens on that tab, so what you are in the middle of is what you see first. Switch back to Home at any time. Plugins, beside Home, lets you search the curated library and install plugins for Arro. See plugins for setup, connections, and availability controls.Background tasks
When a task starts, the dock shows its name with a spinner before returning to rest, and does the same when a task finishes or fails. Open the dock to see each task with what it is currently doing, a button to cancel one while it runs, and an Open button when it produced something worth looking at. A failed task shows Retry, which starts it again. The new attempt knows what went wrong before, so it checks how far the first one got instead of redoing finished work. Finished tasks stay in the list with their outcome until you dismiss them with the ×. When you have a lot of tasks, click the search icon at the top of the dock and type to narrow the list by name, by what a task is doing, or by status. Clear the box or press Escape to see everything again. A device runs at most 12 background tasks at once. Past that, starting another is refused, whether you ask Arro or use Run again, Restart, or Resume, and you are asked to stop one to free a slot. This is a limit on the device, not on your plan, so a second computer gets its own 12. A task split across several agents uses a slot for each of them, so one split task can hold up to five. Tasks working a task board card use these slots but are never refused outright: a card that cannot start keeps its place in the pick-up list and tries again a few minutes later.When a task needs you
A background task cannot sign in, solve a CAPTCHA, or clear a two-factor prompt on its own. When it reaches one, it pauses, switches to a Needs you state, and the dock opens on its own so you do not miss it. The card explains what stopped it. For a browser blocker, the card offers Take over, which opens the task’s live page for you to work in yourself. Sign in, solve the check or enter the code there, then press Continue. A sign-in you make there is kept for later tasks unless you untick the option in that window. A workflow you start yourself can also pause for a missing answer. Respond directly in its Needs you card.
The task continues with your response. You can also answer from the task’s detail page.
When macOS needs permission
On a Mac, the dock is also where Audimate asks for the permissions macOS keeps to itself. A card explains what is needed and why, with Allow and Not now, and Arro says it out loud, because a blocked screen capture or a blocked click otherwise fails silently. Pressing Allow raises macOS’s own dialog. What each card asks for, and what happens if you decline, is in macOS permissions.Hearing about tasks
When a task finishes, fails, or needs you while you are working in another app, Audimate shows a system notification. Click it to open that task. Turn this off with Notify me about background tasks under Arro → General in settings. When a task finishes or fails, Arro can also say a one-sentence summary out loud, even if you have stopped talking to it. To turn this off, open the same page and switch off Announce finished background tasks. Ask for approvals out loud on the same page is off by default, and only matters in Manually approve mode, because in Automatically approve a task never waits on an approval. Switched on, Arro also asks when a task is waiting (“Sort downloads wants to modify your Downloads folder. Allow it for this task?”), so you can answer by voice. It waits until you are not mid-conversation, asks once per pause, and skips the ask if you answer on the card first.Approvals
Configure browser and file access in desktop settings. A task works inside an Audimate folder in your Documents and browses with your dedicated Audimate profile. If it needs a folder outside that, or a site that is not on your Allowed sites list, it pauses and asks.
One answer settles it, so an allowed site does not ask again during the task. A task allowed to read
a folder still asks before it changes anything in there. The same prompt appears before a task runs
a plugin tool set to Needs approval, and Always allow switches
that tool over for good.
You can answer by voice: tell Arro “allow it” or “deny that” while a task is waiting. A spoken answer
only ever covers that one task, so making something permanent takes a click on Always allow.
These cards appear only when your approval mode is Manually approve. The default is
Automatically approve, where a safety check decides
instead: clearly safe actions run, and anything that looks unsafe is declined.
After a task finishes, you can ask Arro to take it further, for example “now also email that
report”. It starts a fresh task building on what the finished one did, rather than starting over.
Task history
Open the Tasks view for everything Arro has run in the workspace you are in. Narrow the list by type, Assistant for one-off tasks and Workflows for runs of a saved workflow, and by date range. A status filter narrows to Running, Completed, Failed, Cancelled, Paused, or Interrupted tasks. Click any task to replay it step by step, with a screenshot for each action, and to Open what it made, Run again a finished task, or Restart one you cancelled. A finished task also lists Outputs: the files it made for you, with the main result pinned at the top and badged as such. Working files the task created for its own use, such as pages it downloaded to read, are not outputs and are cleared when it finishes. Each row opens the file or shows it in your file manager, and See these in Creations filters the Creations library down to that one task. A workflow run over many tasks lists each task as its own entry rather than nesting them under the run, because each one is claimed straight off the task board’s pick-up list. What a task did, its steps, its screenshots, and its summary are stored only on the device that ran it and are never uploaded. Audimate keeps a short record that the task ran: who started it, how long it took, and how it ended, never the contents. That record stays private to you, except for runs of a saved workflow, which admins and owners also see under Organization → Runs because a workflow is a shared org resource. Each device keeps 90 days of task history per workspace.Switching workspace or signing out
Task history is per workspace as well as per device, so switching shows you that workspace’s tasks. Arro’s background tasks run on your machine for the workspace you are in, so switching pauses anything still running, and you can pick it up again from the Tasks view when you come back. Audimate asks first, and the confirmation names what it is about to stop.If Audimate closes unexpectedly
A task never sits stuck on Running. A task working a task board card
needs no button at all: quitting hands its card back to the pick-up list, and Audimate picks it up again
next time you open it. It is also the one kind of task where Run again is refused, because a
card is started from the task board. Audimate tells you to put the card back in the task board’s pick-up list.
Coaching sessions
While Arro is coaching you, the dock gains a Coaching tab holding every step of the session, so you never have to ask it to repeat itself. Each step is a card showing what Arro was looking at with its highlight on it, plus what it told you to do. The newest step is marked Current, and that is the one “I’ve done this” always advances from, wherever you have scrolled to.
The most recent steps show a picture, and older cards keep their instructions without one. The
session is held on your computer only and is discarded when it ends or you sign out. Nothing about
it is uploaded.
Control
During computer use, the dock gains a Control tab showing how far Arro has got. See Pause or stop for its controls and keyboard shortcuts.Timers
Ask Arro for a timer the way you would ask a person: “set a timer for 10 minutes”, “pause the timer”, “cancel it”. Arro only sets one when you ask. While a timer runs, the dock shows an amber countdown next to the word Timer and gains a Timer tab with a pause/resume button and an X to cancel. At zero, an alarm rings every few seconds and the pill reads Time’s up until you stop it, from the tab or by saying so. The alarm rings even with Arro’s sound effects switched off, though it follows their volume setting.- One timer at a time. Ask for a second and Arro offers to replace the current one.
- Up to 24 hours. Anything longer is better as a calendar reminder.
- It lives on this device. The timer is not synced, and signing out clears it.
Related
Arro
The assistant that lives in the dock: how to talk to it and point at things.
Work
Background tasks and watch-once workflows that report here.
Desktop app
Computer use, allowed sites and folders, and approval modes.