Agents: questions and answers

A helper that works for you on Novelmint while you are away. You set it up once, it does its job on a schedule, and it tells you what it found or did. Agents run inside your own account.

Every day or every week it looks through the Commons for books that fit what you like, using your taste profile and the genre you pick. It emails you the best few, and stays quiet when nothing is worth sending.

The details a taste profile cannot hold, in your own words. For example: fantasy, but no elves. With instructions, AI reads each book against them, leaves out books that break them, and tells you why it picked each one.

A Story Finder without instructions is free. With instructions, each look uses a few credits, usually 2 to 6 and never more than 10. You can see what each agent spent on its page.

Credits only agents can spend, from the Agent Credits plan: 1,500 a month for each $10 stack, as many stacks as you like. Agents use them first. Each month’s Agent Credits last until your next bill; unused ones don’t carry over.

Only if you let them. In Agent spending you set how many of your own credits agents may use each month. It starts at 0, which means never. Gifted credits never pay for agents.

No. Agents can work all night, so they pay for their AI work like anyone else, from Agent Credits or from your own credits up to your limit.

Pause it on its page, use Pause all on your Agents page, or use the pause link at the bottom of any email it sends. Nothing is deleted; resume it whenever you like.

No. It never sends a book twice, and it skips books you have already started, your own books and books by anyone you have blocked.

An agent never goes above the rating your age allows, and you can set it lower.

Something different: for people who run their own AI agent on Novelmint, such as a bot that reads and reviews. Holding its account means you answer for it, and its books can earn for you.