Set up your bot
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Set up your bot
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Sign in to meet your bot
A bot is a helper program you chat with. It answers you, and it does jobs for you. This page gives you its secret code, saves how yours is set up, and files your first fix.
Your plan lives under your email. Put the email you paid with below, and we will send you a link. Tap the link in that email, then come back to this page.
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So there is nothing to set up yet. When your plan is on, this page walks you through the rest, one short step at a time.
One thing to do: go back, pick a plan, and pay. Then come back to this page.
Set up your bot
A bot is a helper program you chat with. It answers you, and it does jobs for you.
First, your secret code — it is yours from the start. Then a few short questions write your bot down: if it ever goes away, they are what we rebuild it from. The questions can wait, and you can skip them.
Step 1 of 8Your code
Your bot so far
Your bot takes shape here as you answer.
Here is your secret code
Your code comes first — before any questions. Tap the button below, and your code shows here, on this screen.
Your bot uses this code to send new rules here when you approve them, so we know they really came from your bot. It also uses the code to read the rules it follows.
You won't see this code again here — if you lose it, your account can make you a new one.
You don't paste this code by itself — in a few steps, you'll give your bot a message to paste in, and this code is inside it.
Keep it somewhere safe, like a password app, or a note only you can read.
You saw your code once before, so it is not kept here to show again. Paste it here — your answers save with it when you finish the questions.
Your code is the one you pasted — it is not shown again here.
How is your bot set up?
Pick the one that is closest. There is no wrong answer, and you can change it later.
What do you call the main bot?
The name you use when you talk to it, or talk about it. A short name is fine.
Does it pass jobs to any other bots?
If it does, add each one below: its name, and what it does. If it works alone, pick that below instead.
If it has helpers, add them here:
What can your bot do?
Tap everything your bot can do.
That's your bot — saved. If it ever goes away, we can rebuild its setup from the answers you just gave.
What does it use?
Name the apps and accounts it works with, like email, a calendar, or a notes app. One on each line is fine.
Names only. Never type a password or a secret code here.
Give these words to your bot
Copy the words below.
Paste them into your bot's chat as one message.
Then come back here.
For your bot — you don't need to read this part
You are signed up with Bot Manners, by 29Court…
You are signed up with Bot Manners, by 29Court. PLAN_LINE_GOES_HERE Your secret code is: KEY_GOES_HERE
How to send a fix:
- Send it to: POST https://manners.29court.com/api/corrections with a body like this: {"enrollment_key": "KEY_GOES_HERE", "rule": "The rule, in one plain sentence.", "artifact_type": "output"}
- artifact_type is one of: decision, text, output.
- A fix counts only when the reply says ok: true. If the reply says 401, the code is wrong: stop and ask your human to check the code.
- Do not try to sign yourself up. Signing up needs your human's own account, and it will refuse you.
When to send a fix:
- The moment your human corrects you. Turn the fix into one plain rule, in one sentence. Leave out names and private details.
- Show the rule to your human first. Send it only when they say go. The rule by itself is all that leaves your house.
Your rules:
- Read your rules when you start work, and when your human asks: GET https://manners.29court.com/rules/KEY_GOES_HERE.txt
- Your human can read the same rules at https://manners.29court.com/rules/KEY_GOES_HERE
Say this back to your human, in your own words, so they know you got it: you are signed up, you know when to send a fix, and you will show each rule before you send it.
If your bot cannot send web requests from where it runs, it cannot send fixes itself. It can still keep its own copy of its rules on its side, and you can file fixes for it by hand from your account.
Bot not answering right now?
That is usually the limit that brought you here. Two ways forward:
Paste it into Muse today. The same words work there — copy the block above and paste it into a Muse chat instead. Your rules live on your rules page either way.
Or save your place and wait for your bot. Your welcome email already holds your code and these same words — that email is your reminder, in your inbox. This button also keeps your place on this device, and brings you straight back to these words next time:
Write one rule for next time
Think of one thing it got wrong — then write what it should do instead, in one plain sentence.
Short on ideas? Tap one and make it yours:
Filed. Here is your rule, the way your bot will read it:
You are done
Your bot is set up. Your answers are saved, your bot has its words, and your first fix is on its rules page.
What happens next
- When your bot gets something wrong, correct it — it shows you the rule first.
- Say go to your bot, in its chat, and the rule is saved here — your bot reads its rules when it starts work.
- Your rules page shows each rule and when it was filed. Your account is where you change rules, get a new code, or see everything in one place.
Your first rule:
Stuck? Email hello@29court.com and a person will help.