Hoot, your assistant

Hoot is the assistant built into Noots. Ask it about your work - "what's due this week?", "summarize the last design meeting" - and it answers from what's in your workspace, with source chips linking back to the task, meeting or budget line each claim came from. It can also *do* things.

What Hoot can do

• Find tasks by project, assignee or status, and read one in full.
• Create, edit and delete a task, including its description, priority, assignee, due date and estimate.
• Add a checklist item, and tick or untick one.
• Comment on a task - attributed to you.
• Update a Noot's description, start date or target date.
• Draft a new Noot - see below.
• Answer with a chart - see below.
• Write a note or a document on a project, when you ask for one.
• Build a data table on a project - grouped rows with statuses, people, dates and rollup totals, filled from the project's own data.
• Send a chat message for you, into a conversation you name - only when you ask it to.
• Add or remove a project member - only when you ask for exactly that, and never beyond what you may do yourself.

Charts from your own data

Ask an analytical question - "are we at risk of going over budget?", "how did the backlog move this month?" - and Hoot computes the answer from real queries and can draw it as a chart. Switching the chart's type, reconfiguring it or re-rendering it is deterministic and costs none of your AI allowance. Open the chart editor to tune the type, source, grouping, measures, filters and time range against a live preview.

A finished chart can go where the team will look: download it (PNG, SVG, PDF or CSV), send it to chat, attach it to a task, save it to the project's Files, insert it into a Grid, or pin it to the project's Overview. A pinned or chat-posted chart re-runs its query under each viewer's own permissions every time it renders, so nobody is shown rows they could not query themselves.

Drafting a project

Ask Hoot to start a project and it writes a draft and hands you a doorway: the ordinary creation card, pre-filled with the name, description, dates and members it worked out. You go through the normal steps and press the button yourself. Members it couldn't match to a real person are dropped and it tells you which. The link is drawn by the app, not typed by the model, so it is a link somebody checked.

What Hoot cannot do

• It cannot create a Noot, and it cannot delete one. It drafts; you create. There is no delete-project tool at all.
• It cannot exceed your own permissions. Every action re-checks what *you* are allowed to do, against the database - not against the conversation. If you can't do it, Hoot can't do it for you, and insisting doesn't change that.
• It cannot see a project you can't. A private Noot you're not on returns nothing, exactly as if it didn't exist.

The bubble above Hoot

Hoot also speaks first, in a small bubble above its launcher, when there is something worth one sentence. It is one at a time and at most one every four hours - except a meeting about to start, which is exempt, because a reminder that waits for a cooldown is not a reminder.

• A meeting is about to start - and only to the people on the invitation; declining takes you off it. If the meeting has a link the bubble carries a Join button.
• Autopilot is waiting on you, on a project you lead.
• Unread mentions of you.
• Work that has gone late, and the check-ins nobody has answered.