About

A written route through the part nobody documents

Copedal exists because most people learn to run an AI agent by breaking something first. This site writes down the order that works, so the lesson costs a page instead of a folder.

Who writes this

Copedal is written and maintained by one person who runs agents on real work every day: documents, files, reports, long jobs that finish or quietly stop. The steps here are the ones that survived daily use, not a survey of what sounds reasonable.

Where a step has not been exercised enough to call it verified, the page says so instead of filling the gap with a story. That is a deliberate choice. A site about not losing things cannot start by inventing evidence.

What this site is

• A route. Six steps in the order they pay off, each with a real workflow, a checklist and a fixed date of last verification.
• A small set of tools. Narrow things that fix one detour each: a delivery rule you can paste, a drive mover guide, reply modes, a rescue plan.
• Two products in progress. Brake Board watches progress from outside the agent. Brake Recovery keeps a way back. Both are monitor-only: they never change what your agent decides.

What this site is not

• Not a review site. We are not ranking agents, and we are not paid to recommend one.
• Not an agent vendor. The steps work with the agent you already use. Nothing here requires switching tools.
• Not a backup company. The free checklist is manual on purpose, and it is honest about what a manual snapshot does not cover.

How the pages are checked

Every step page carries the date it was last verified and the environments it was checked on. The steps are checked on Windows 11 first, and on macOS where the page says so. When an agent changes how it reports progress or where it writes files, the page is rechecked and the date moves.

If a step fails on your machine, that is useful information, not user error. The contact page explains what to send.

How this is funded

The written steps and the free downloads cost nothing. The site may show advertising, and the plan is that the Brake products will be paid software if and when they ship. No release date is announced and no price is set. If any page ever carries an affiliate link, it will be labelled on that page.

Say hello

Corrections, broken steps, and "this did not work on my machine" are all welcome. Contact page.