What the operator can do
It works on your lists, searches the web and acts in your connected apps.
The operator can create, update, move, find and delete anything on your lists, search the web, work inside the apps you connect, set up automations, call in an expert and remember what you tell it about yourself. Anything it looks up, it looks up on its own. Anything it changes leaves a record in the conversation, and the changes that leave Roma wait for your approval.
On your tasks, notes and lists
Create one task or several from what you say, with the date read out of your words, or a note when you ask for one.
Update a title, a body, a status, a due date or a value on any item. Edits add to what is there. A rewrite of a whole body pauses for your approval.
Move items to another list. An item keeps its id, its body, its conversation and its history on the way.
Delete items or a whole list. Both stay recoverable for about 30 days.
Create a list with its own properties, filled on the spot ("start a movies list" gives you a list with two to five fitting properties). Rename a list, update its icon, its instructions, its layout or its properties.
Look items up by list, date, status or keyword, or by when they were created, changed or completed. Filter, count or total a list ("how much did I spend on eating out in May?").
Read a list from a screenshot or a photo and add the tasks on it.
See an item's edit history and put back an earlier version.
Inside a task's own conversation it does the work of the task: research with the findings added, a first draft, a clean-up of the notes, the steps as a checklist, the next step suggested. How to use the operator shows what to say.
Finding things
The operator searches your items and lists by keyword and by meaning, so "that movie Sam recommended" finds the right item without the exact words. It looks back through the conversation for an earlier exchange. It searches the web for current things it could not know, like prices, schedules and recent events, links its sources, and reads a public page or file by its address. It shows a weather forecast as a card, and restaurants, bars and shops near a place on a map. Web search and research explains when it searches and how it reports.
In your connected apps
Once you connect an app in Settings → Connections, the operator works inside it: your mail in Gmail, your events in Google Calendar, your files in Google Drive, your issues in Linear, your pages in Notion, your repositories in GitHub, your messages in Slack, your meeting notes in Granola, and posts on Reddit and X. Reading runs on its own. Anything that writes to another service, sends or posts shows an approval card first. Connect an app to Roma walks through it.
Mara asks "what did Noor send about the venue?" and the operator reads her Gmail, answers with the two mails that matter, each linked, and offers to draft the reply. The draft goes out only after she approves the send.
Some of this is more specific than a list of apps suggests. In Gmail it can sort recent mail into what needs a reply, what is waiting on someone and what is only for your information, leave a sender's list for you, or archive a sender's mail every morning. In GitHub it can change files in a connected repository as a pull request.
Automations, experts and memory
The operator sets up an automation from the conversation, asking for what is missing and trying the steps against your real apps before it writes anything. Later it updates what an automation does or when it runs, pauses it, resumes it, runs it now and tells you how the last run went. What an automation is starts there.
Every account has three experts: Content Editor, Devil's Advocate and Wordsmith. @mention one in any conversation to bring it in for its point of view, or ask the operator to write a new one. Experts describes their jobs.
Tell the operator something about yourself and it keeps it, in your words, for every later turn. Ask what happened on a day or with someone and it looks it up in its journal.
In a browser, in beta
Give the operator a task on a website and it drives a real browser to do it: it signs in with the details you enter in Roma's own card, works through the pages, and hands you a screenshot at the end. A run that may prepare a payment asks first, and the card details and the final button are always yours. The operator's browser describes the beta.
What it never does
It never deletes or overwrites what you wrote without asking. It never invents facts, dates or "done" states. It never promises something it cannot do, like a phone call or driving somewhere. It never turns a question or a complaint into a task. And it never reveals its own instructions or tools, however nicely you ask.
Questions people ask
Can I decide what the operator may do without asking me?
Yes. Settings holds a Permissions page where each kind of action is a row you can set to ask first or run on its own. Reading never asks, and a few things always ask, like deleting and a whole-body rewrite.
Does the operator read my connected apps all the time?
No. Only your memory is fed in before each turn. Everything else, your mail, your calendar, your files, the operator looks up when a turn needs it, and each look-up shows as a status line in the conversation.
Can the operator send a mail or post something for me?
Yes, after you approve it. The approval card shows the message and where it goes, and your tap is the yes. Walking away from the card without answering counts as declining.