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Every Digital Worker ships with ten built-in capabilities: Long-term memory, web search, code execution, charts and more. The Digital Worker capabilities panel lets you keep or switch off each one, so the Digital Worker only does what you actually need.
Digital Worker capabilities are the Digital Worker’s baseline, which is different from Skills. A Skill is a procedure you package for the Digital Worker to reuse; a capability is something the Digital Worker can already do and you only decide whether to allow it.

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Open the Digital Worker capabilities panel

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Open the Digital Worker and go to Instructions

On the Digital Worker page, tab Build, select Instructions in the left column.
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Scroll the right Configuration column to the bottom

Look for the Advanced settings group. The Digital Worker capabilities row sits at the very bottom with a counter such as 10/10 showing how many are on.Agent capabilities row in the Configuration column
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Click Edit

The Digital Worker capabilities dialog opens with the full list, one card per capability with its description and a toggle.Agent capabilities dialog

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The ten default capabilities

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Turn a capability on or off

Flip the toggle on the card and you are done, there is no separate save step. The counter in the dialog header follows along, for example from 10/10 down to 9/10. Click Done to close the dialog. Three capabilities interact with others, so watch out when switching them off:
  • Virtual file system - write and Code execution / sandbox: Turning off writing alone is not enough, because code running in the sandbox can still write files. Turn off both to block it completely.
  • Default sub-agent: Switching this off only removes the platform’s shared sub-agent. Sub-agents you created yourself are not affected.
  • Web search: Switching this off does not remove search Connectors you added yourself, they keep working.
Turning off capabilities you do not need keeps the Digital Worker focused and quicker to answer. A Digital Worker that only looks up internal policy needs neither Web search, nor Code execution, nor Charts & widgets.

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Restore defaults

The Restore defaults button in the bottom left of the dialog puts all ten capabilities back to their original state. It only becomes active once you have changed at least one toggle.

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Changes are versioned

Flipping a toggle only changes the Digital Worker’s draft. The Digital Worker serving real users keeps running the capability set of the published version until you publish a new one. Each version records its own capability set, so rolling back to an older version brings that version’s capabilities back with it.
Switch off a capability and forget to publish, and the Digital Worker on your deployed channels still uses it. After making a change, open the Publish dialog and review the Changes section before releasing.
Default capabilities cannot be added or deleted, only turned on or off. The list of ten is fixed by the platform and identical on every Digital Worker and every Workspace.