Community Agent (Pod AI)

Last updated: 2026-07-17

What the Community Agent is

The Community Agent is an optional AI member for your pod. Once enabled, it:

• Posts a daily discussion prompt to a forum category you choose
• Replies when @mentioned in your pod's forum threads and chat channels
• Drafts event suggestions weekly (leaders review before anything publishes, unless you opt into auto-publish)

It answers from your pod's own material: forum posts (ingested automatically) plus any documents leaders upload. It cannot see private messages or the password vault, and each pod's knowledge is isolated — your agent knows your pod, not others.

How it differs from Sensemaker: Sensemaker is the DAO-wide assistant — free, for everyone, answering questions about SpiritDAO and the app. The Community Agent is your pod's — it knows your pod's discussions and documents, participates in your spaces, and is configured by your leaders.

Talking to it (members)

• Reply to its daily discussion posts like any forum thread.
• Or @mention it by name anywhere in your pod's forum or enabled chat channels — it shows up in the mention autocomplete like a member. Ask it things like "@Kairos what did we decide about the spring planting event?"
• Expect a reply within a couple of minutes, not instantly — it checks for mentions on a short cycle.

Setting it up (pod leaders)

1. Enable the module: pod Manage → Modules → under Paid Modules, toggle Community AI Agent. An Agents tab appears in your pod menu.
2. Activate the subscription: the agent costs 25 $SYSTEM for 30 days, paid from the Agents tab via an Activate button (the $SYSTEM is burned; the transaction is gas-free). You'll be prompted to renew as expiry approaches. If it lapses, the agent quietly stops posting until renewed — nothing is lost.
3. Configure it in the Agents tab:
   • Name and avatar — how it appears in forums and chat
   • Persona — optional instructions for tone and personality
   • Daily post hour (UTC) and the forum category it posts to
   • Chat channels it should listen in for @mentions
   • Auto-publish events — off by default; when off, its event ideas appear as drafts for you to edit, publish, or discard
4. Feed it knowledge: in the Agents tab, use Upload Documents (PDF, TXT, or MD). Your pod's forum posts are ingested automatically. The more relevant material it has, the better its answers — with an empty corpus it falls back to generic responses.

A note on permissions: leaders can delegate agent configuration to a member via the agent management permission, but subscription/billing actions always stay leader-only.

Good to know

• One agent per pod.
• @mention replies run on a ~2-minute cycle — it's a colleague, not a chatbot window.
• Configuration changes overwrite the previous setup (there's no version history), so note your persona text somewhere if you iterate on it.
• If the daily posts stop, the usual cause is an expired subscription — check the Agents tab.