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The Kition AI agent in one map: what it can really do
Not just another "chatbot that writes emails." It runs commands, patches files, browses, talks to MCP, edits tables.
Mental model
The agent has six first-class tool families: filesystem, execution, documents, web, browser, tables, plus MCP for external systems. It plans, executes, then reports — that is the difference from "AI chat."
Tasks it can actually do
- Sort 30 scattered docs into topic folders
- Scrape a webpage → save it → summarize → draft a newsletter entry
- Run your project tests, paste failing stacks back into the doc
- Use the Linear MCP to list "tickets assigned to me"
- Open Xiaohongshu via browser, scrape recent comments, classify them in a table
What it cannot do
It is not AGI. Hard judgment calls (should we email the client?) still need your review. Every disk write is shown as a diff first. That is a deliberate design, not a limitation.
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update_plan makes the agent break a big goal into 5-10 actionable steps; you can interrupt and rewrite any step.