Delivery rules
A folder layout and a file naming pattern you give the agent at the start of a task.
Agent workshop for beginners
Let your agent do the work. Keep your files.
Most people learn to run an AI agent by losing a folder, filling a drive, or finding out hours later that nothing was happening. Copedal is the route experienced users already follow, written down so you can skip the expensive part.
agent run · task: quarterly reportillustration
writeoutputs/report_v03.docxsaved to the delivery folder
writeC:\Users\you\cache · 4.2 GBredirected to D:\agent-work
deleteclients/2025/ · 212 filesheld · snapshot taken · waiting for you
What a brake layer does: it watches, it holds the risky step, and it never changes how the agent thinks.
Learn · first path
Safe agent work, from day one
Six steps in the order they pay off. Each one removes a mistake that beginners usually find out about the hard way. Open a step to get the full checklist.
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Give the agent its own workspace
One dedicated folder for everything the agent touches. A mistake then has a boundary, and you always know where to look.
Detour avoidedSearching the whole drive for a file the agent made. -
Write the delivery rule once
Decide where finished files go and how they are named, then tell the agent at the start of every task. The template is in the Tools section.
Detour avoidedTen versions with names like final_new_2. -
Keep heavy files off the system drive
Point caches, downloads and project folders at a second drive before the first long job, not after the warning appears.
Detour avoidedA full system drive that stops everything. -
Choose how the agent should answer
A quick question, a full explanation and a task to execute are three different requests. Say which one you mean on every message.
Detour avoidedAn agent that starts editing files when you only wanted an opinion. -
Watch progress from outside the agent
A finished task and a stalled task look the same in a quiet chat. Track progress somewhere the agent cannot report for itself.
Detour avoidedFinding out after hours that nothing was running. -
Keep a way back
Snapshot before anything is deleted or overwritten, so a wrong decision costs a minute and not a week.
Detour avoidedPermanently losing files an agent removed by mistake.
Learn · common detours
Each detour has a fix
The mistakes below come up again and again. Every row points at the tool that removes it.
| Detour | What it costs you | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| System drive fills up | Everything slows down or stops, and cleanup eats an afternoon. | Step 3 · Drive mover |
| Files with random names in random places | You cannot find or hand over what the agent made. | Step 2 · Delivery rules |
| Reply too long, too short, or too eager | Wasted tokens, or edits you never asked for. | Step 4 · Reply gears |
| Silent stall | Hours of waiting on work that stopped early. | Step 5 · Brake Board |
| Wrong files deleted | Lost work, sometimes unrecoverable. | Step 6 · Brake Recovery |
| Agent will not open | You are stuck with no agent to fix the agent. | Rescue plan |
Tools
Small tools, one for each detour
Free and narrow on purpose. The delivery template is ready to copy today. The rest are marked with where they stand.
Drive mover
Move space-hungry folders off the system drive and point the agent at the new location.
Reply gears
Pick the style of each reply with the key you press to send.
Enter normal reply
Shift+Enter concise reply
Ctrl+Enter run it as a task
Rescue plan
When your agent will not open or type, borrow the free tier of another agent to repair it.
agent-work/
2026-11-12_report-draft/
inputs/ what you gave the agent
outputs/ the only place finished files go
logs/ notes and run history
File name: YYYYMMDD_project_what-it-is_v01.ext
Example: 20261112_q4-review_summary_v01.docx
Rules: never overwrite a version, add v02. Never delete
anything. Tell me the full path of every file you create.
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Skills library
36 skills, written while doing the work
Each one is a procedure with a trigger, a working route and a definition of done. They are not one-shot prompts — they are what stops an agent from quietly ruining an afternoon. All of them are published here.
Content & publishing
Feeds and notes into a published piece: article assets, image sets, talking-head scripts, and the pre-flight each platform actually needs.
Video & audio
Script to finished cut: aspect lock, voice, subtitles, B-roll, and a measured pass before export.
Files & workspace
Placement, naming, versioning, a delivery check — the part that decides whether you can find what you made.
Memory & knowledge
Move what you learned out of the chat and into files a later session can actually read.
Brake · products
The brake layer for your agent
Two products for the detours a small tool cannot fix. Both are in development, and neither is open for signups yet.
Brake Board
- Progress bars for each task, across several sessions at once
- Detects stalls and idle spinning from outside the agent
- Tracks deliverables by location, name and size
Status: private prototype, not ready for testers. No release date announced, and pricing is not decided.
Join the Board waitlistBrake Recovery
- Takes a snapshot before a risky operation runs
- Keeps a timeline of what the agent changed
- Restores files an agent deleted by mistake
Status: design stage. Data stays on your machine; it monitors and never intervenes. No release date announced, and pricing is not decided.
Join the Recovery waitlistMonitor only. Brake watches and keeps a way back. It never changes how your agent runs or what it decides.
Quiz
Which detour is costing you most?
Three questions. You get your biggest risk and the part of this site to read first.
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