What Agents can do in a Pod - Counso AI

Agents use the Pods skill to work with Pods, conversations, knowledge, tasks, and Pod settings. This skill is available to all Agents by default; there is nothing to enable separately. The available tools are shown in an Agent’s tool execution details.

Pod tools

Work area	Tool	What it does
Pods	`list_pods`	Lists Pods the Agent can access: the user’s Pods by default, or all Open Pods in the workspace.
Pods	`create_pod`	Creates a Pod, Restricted by default, optionally with initial members and starter tasks.
Pod details	`get_information`	Reads the Pod URL, title, description, visibility, pinned Frame, and linked Company Data.
Pod details	`edit_information`	Updates the Pod title, description, or visibility.
Members	`list_members`	Lists Pod members and their Member or Editor role.
Members	`update_members`	Invites, adds, removes, promotes, or demotes Pod members and Editors.
Conversations	`create_conversation`	Starts a conversation in the Pod, optionally triggering an Agent for a task.
Conversations	`add_message_to_conversation`	Adds a message to an existing Pod conversation.
Conversations	`list_conversations`	Lists recent conversations, optionally unread-only or with full transcripts.
Conversations	`move_conversation`	Moves a conversation into a Pod or back to personal conversations.
Knowledge	`semantic_search`	Searches Pod files, linked Company Data, and Pod conversation transcripts by meaning.
Knowledge	`retrieve_recent_documents`	Retrieves the most recently added or updated documents in Pod knowledge.
Knowledge	`add_content_node`	Links a document or folder from Company Data to Pod knowledge.
Knowledge	`remove_content_node`	Removes a Company Data reference from the Pod.
Pod settings	`set_pinned_frame`	Pins a Frame as the Pod banner or unpins the current Frame.
Pod settings	`set_default_agent`	Sets or resets the Agent used for new Pod conversations.
Tasks	`list_tasks`	Lists tasks by assignee (mine or all) and status (open, done, or all).
Tasks	`create_tasks`	Creates up to 30 tasks, assigned to a Pod member or left unassigned.
Tasks	`update_tasks`	Updates task descriptions, assignees, and states, including marking tasks done.
Tasks	`start_task_agent`	Starts an Agent on an open task, creates its linked conversation, and moves the task to In progress.

Agents use shared file-system tools for Pod files rather than Pod-specific file tools. They can browse and read files, create files such as Frames, edit, copy, move, or delete files, and import a file from a URL. Files created or updated by an Agent appear in Files and are available to Pod members and other Agents.

Permission boundaries

An Agent acts on behalf of a user and can do only what that user could do. It cannot access a Restricted Pod unless the user is a member. Managing membership, Pod settings, visibility, and the pinned Frame requires the user to be a Pod Editor. A tool appearing in the list does not override these access rules.