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Create your own actions

Aureole’s actions cover everyday needs: correcting, summarizing, translating. For a need of your own, write your own action: what it asks the AI, with which model, and where its answer goes. You then launch it like any other, from the Aureole Bar or the selection popover.

Create an action

1. Open the creation window

   Open Settings›Actions. Below the list of actions, the  button opens the “New Action” window. Here it is filled in, for an action that drafts a reply to a message:

   

2. Give it a name and a category

   Under “Identity”, the “Name” is the one you’ll see in the bar, and the one its search will find. The “Description”, optional, shows under the name, in Settings.

   The “Category” decides where the action goes in the menu: it’s added at the end of that category’s folder. Finally, pick an “Icon” from twenty symbols.

3. Write its two prompts

   The “System Prompt” tells the AI what role to play and how to answer: the tone, the length, what to avoid. It applies every time the action runs.

   The “User Template” is the request itself. The selected text takes the place of {text}: click the {text} pill, below the field, to add it after what you’ve typed, or type it yourself where you want it. Always keep it in the template: without it, the AI may not receive your text.

4. Save

   The name and both prompts are required: “Save” stays dimmed while one of them is empty. Once saved, the action joins the “My actions” section, at the bottom of the list, and it’s available right away in the Aureole Bar and the selection popover.

Its model and its destination

Once saved, your action is set up like Aureole’s own, to the right of the list:

“Model Configuration” chooses the provider and model that handle it, and their parameters. The lower the “Temperature”, the more consistent and predictable the answers; the higher, the more varied. The models guide explains the rest.

Under “Options”, the “Response destination” starts as “Where the action is launched”: the bar for an action launched from the bar, the chat window everywhere else. The destination guide covers the other choices.

“Force image generation” and “Force video generation” make the action produce an image or a video, instead of text, from your request. Only one of the two can be on at a time.

Edit, duplicate, delete

To change the name, the category or the prompts, select the action, then click “Edit Action”, at the top right: the same window opens, filled in. If the action was still in its old category’s folder, it moves to the new one’s; placed elsewhere, it stays put.

Below the list, the second button  (“Duplicate”) copies the selected action, one of yours or one of Aureole’s. The copy keeps its prompts, its model and its destination, and joins “My actions”; the original doesn’t change. It’s the shortest way to an action that does almost what you want.

The  button, on the right (“Delete”), deletes the selected action, after confirmation. It only works on your actions: Aureole’s can’t be deleted, they’re removed from the menu instead (Customize the actions menu).

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