# Capabilities overview

Neo combines conversation, reasoning, tools, and artifacts in a single workflow. The exact capabilities available to you depend on your product surface, account, workspace configuration, permissions, and connected services.

## Core capabilities

- Answer questions and explain concepts at a requested level.
- Brainstorm, outline, critique, and refine ideas.
- Write, edit, summarize, translate, and transform text.
- Research current topics and synthesize identified sources.
- Read and analyze documents, tables, code, and images.
- Create files and structured work products.
- Browse websites and inspect linked material when browsing is available.
- Generate or edit images when image tools are available.
- Remember selected preferences and organize durable knowledge.
- Schedule one-time or recurring tasks when scheduling is available.
- Handle bounded, multi-step objectives with progress updates.

## Capabilities can work together

A useful request often spans several categories. Neo might research a market, compare the evidence, draft a briefing, and create a table in one project. State the final outcome and let the workflow follow from it.

> Research the three options in the attached brief, verify current pricing from official sources, compare them against our requirements, and create a two-page recommendation with a source appendix.

## Answers, artifacts, and actions

A response may be:

- an **answer** in the conversation;
- a **plan** for work that has not happened yet;
- an **artifact**, such as a document or structured file;
- a **tool result** based on retrieved information;
- an **external action** that requires authorization or confirmation.

These are not interchangeable. A draft is not a sent message, a plan is not completed work, and a submitted action is not always proof of delivery.

## Choose the right level of autonomy

For exploratory or reversible work, Neo can often proceed with reasonable assumptions. For consequential work, ask it to pause at checkpoints:

> Inspect the inputs and propose a plan. Do not publish, send, delete, purchase, or deploy anything without my explicit approval.

## What good looks like

A strong result is relevant to the goal, grounded in the supplied or cited evidence, clear about uncertainty, and delivered in a usable format. For tool-based work, it should also state what was actually completed, what could not be completed, and how the outcome was checked.

## Limits

Neo can be wrong, incomplete, or overly confident. It may lack access to a source, file, connected service, or current data. Review important outputs and use qualified professionals for high-stakes legal, medical, financial, or safety decisions.