Agents

An agent is an AI app on your computer that browses in Sval. Each session of it works in a Workspace of its own, under the rules you set for the app.

Settings › Agents › Agent access

• Let AI agents on this computer use Sval turns agent access on or off. It’s off until you turn it on, here or when you first set up Sval. While it’s off, no app can connect. It’s a setting of this device.
• The line under the switch says whether access is on and how many agents are paired, or why access couldn’t start.
• Let sites offer tools to agents lets a website offer agents actions of its own, like searching a store or adding to a cart. It’s off by default, and you can change it only while agent access is on.
• Speed limit for polite agents is how many actions a second an agent takes on one site while Be polite is checked on its card. It takes a whole number from 1 to 100, and starts at 1.
• How long agents wait for your answer is how long an agent waits when Sval asks you about one of its requests: 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 12 hours. It starts at 1 hour.
• Delete unused agent Workspaces deletes an agent’s Workspace and its tabs once no session has used it for that long: After 7 days, After 30 days, After 90 days, or Never. It starts at After 30 days.

Settings › Agents › Connect an AI app

One row for each app Sval can set up itself: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex, Cursor, and Mistral Vibe. Each row says where the app stands.

• Not connected. with Connect, which adds Sval to the app’s settings.
• Connected. with Disconnect, which removes it.
• This app points to a Sval that has moved. Connect updates it.
• This app has a Sval entry you changed. Connect replaces it.
• This app points to a Sval that isn’t on this computer. Fix points it to this Sval.
• Not found on this computer. The app isn’t installed.
• Sval can’t read this app’s settings, so it leaves them as they are.

After a change, the line under the heading says how to restart the app.

Other apps is for any other app that runs local MCP servers. It shows the path of the file to run, with Copy, and the JSON to paste into the app’s configuration, with Copy JSON.

Settings › Agents › Paired agents

One row for each app you’ve paired. The row shows the app’s name, how many Workspaces it has, its default for other sites, and how many site rules it has.

• Permissions opens the app’s page.
• Unpair disconnects the app and deletes its permissions, after you confirm.

While agent access is off, the list is hidden. Sval keeps the pairings and permissions.

An agent’s page

• Default for sites with no rule is what the agent gets on a site with no rule of its own.

  • Ask on first visit: Sval asks you the first time the agent opens a site. Your answer becomes a site rule. This is the default.
  • Blocked: the agent can’t open the site.
  • Read only: the agent reads pages. It never clicks, types, or submits.
  • Ask before writes: the agent reads freely. Sval asks you before it clicks, types, or submits.
  • Full: the agent clicks, types, and submits on its own, without asking.

  Whatever the default, Sval asks before the agent opens a service on this computer or a device on your local network, unless the default is Blocked.

• Site tools shows while sites may offer tools. Off hides every site’s tools from this agent. Ask asks you before every tool call. On follows the site’s level, and runs remembered tools without asking.

• Site rules lists a rule for each site, with a search box and a filter. Add site adds one. Each row has these columns:

  • Access: Default, or one of the levels above.
  • Downloads, Uploads, and Console: Ask, Allow, or Deny. An upload rule names the folders it allows files from.
  • Apps: Ask, Deny, or the apps the site has asked to open, each with its own answer.
  • Site tools: shows while the agent’s Site tools is on or Ask.
  • Remove rule removes the row’s rule, and Undo puts it back.

• Unpair disconnects the agent and deletes its permissions.

Settings › Agents › Advanced › WebDriver

• Let WebDriver use your Workspaces’ cookies gives tabs that WebDriver scripts open your sign-ins. When it’s off, those tabs get a Workspace and cookies of their own. It’s off by default, and is a setting of this device.

The pairing alert

Sval shows Pair “…” with Sval? the first time an app asks to use Sval. It lists the app’s task, the app, the folder it started in, and when.

• The line in the box says which kind of Workspace the app asked for: shared with your sign-ins, or isolated and signed out of every site.
• The check box picks the other kind.
• Pair approves the app for every session from then on. It turns on a moment after the alert comes to the front.
• Deny refuses it.

The agent’s window

Each session’s Workspace shows in a window of its own, which opens behind the window you’re using. Its name in the panel and the window’s title is the app’s name, with a robot in place of an emoji.

While the agent works, the window is dimmed and a card in the middle names the agent and says what it’s doing.

• Take control pauses the agent and gives you the Workspace.
• Stop agent ends what the agent is doing and stops it until you select Resume, which takes its place.
• Be polite holds the agent to the speed limit in Settings on each site. It’s checked to begin with.

While you have control, a bar above each page says You control this Workspace., with Give Workspace back to and the agent’s name.

Questions Sval asks about an agent

Sval asks in the agent’s window and brings that window forward. On an address that’s part of a larger site, Remember for chooses whether the answer covers that address or the whole site.

• A new site: Allow, Allow all sites, read only, or Deny. For a service on this computer or a device on your local network, only Allow or Deny.
• What a page is about to send: Allow or Deny answers once. Always allow writes sets the site to Full, and Always deny writes sets it to Read only.
• A download or an upload: Allow or Deny answers once. Always allow and Always deny set a rule. For an upload, Always allow covers chooses This folder only or This folder and the folders inside it.
• The developer console: Allow or Deny, which Sval remembers for the site.
• An app a page wants to open: Allow or Deny, or always for that kind of link.
• A site’s tools: whether the agent can see them, and for each call, whether it can run.

The panel and the Launcher

• Agent Workspaces in the list at the top of the panel lists the agents’ Workspaces after your own. The same heading in a tab’s Move to Workspace menu hands the tab to that agent.
• In the Launcher, Give Workspace back returns a Workspace you took control of, and Agent access settings opens Settings › Agents.