The chat workspace
You work with your agent in a streaming chat. As it works, you see everything happen live:- Activity stream — the tools it calls and the steps it takes, in real time.
- Reasoning — the thinking behind a decision, shown as it works through a problem.
- Artifacts — finished outputs (reports, exports, documents) appear as cards you can open.
- File upload — drop in a spreadsheet, PDF, or document and ask the agent to work with it.
The cloud sandbox
Behind the chat, your agent runs in an isolated cloud sandbox with a real terminal and a real browser. That is what separates Ottic from tools that only talk:- Run code — Python and shell for data processing, calculations, file manipulation, and chart generation.
- Drive a real browser — Playwright for live web research, navigating sites, scraping content, and taking screenshots.
- Read and write files — produce CSVs, documents, and reports you can download.