What You Can Ask

What You Can Ask

Talk to your AI the way you'd talk to a helpful colleague who knows Linux. A few ideas:

Check on things

• "Is everything okay on web?"
• "How much disk space is left on all my servers?"
• "Which process is using the most memory on database?"
• "When was web last restarted?"

Find out what went wrong

• "My website is slow. Can you find out why?"
• "Show me the last errors in the nginx log."
• "Why did the backup job fail last night?"
• "Is the database container running?"

Fix and maintain (full-access servers)

• "Restart the web service and confirm it's healthy."
• "Clean up old log files in /var/log/myapp, but show me what you'll delete first."
• "Update the packages on staging."
• "Change the upload limit in the nginx config to 50 MB."

Work with files

• "Show me what's in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled."
• "Upload this config file to /srv/app/config.yml."
• "Download the latest 200 lines of the app log."
• "Rename backup.tar.gz to backup-2026-10-19.tar.gz."

Reach a private service

• "Open a tunnel to the database on db so I can connect from my laptop."

  (Turn this on per server with "allowPortForwarding": true in the Settings File.)

What the AI can actually do

Behind the scenes, your AI gets these abilities:

Ability	In plain words
List servers	See which servers you've set up and what's allowed on each
Run a command	Run one command and see its output (with a time limit)
Browse files	List folders and see file details
Read a file	Read text files, even large ones, a piece at a time
Write a file	Create or replace a file
Make a folder, rename, delete	Everyday file tidying (deletes one file or empty folder at a time)
Tunnels	Reach a service that only the server can see, from your computer

Things to know

• Each request starts fresh. The AI doesn't stay "inside" a folder between commands; it uses full paths.
• No interactive programs. Things that wait for typing (like vim or top without options) don't work; the AI knows to use non-interactive versions.
• Long jobs time out after a minute by default. You can raise the limit per server.
• Look-only servers refuse anything that isn't a status or log command, and that's by design.