A coil is an always-on agent with a job. It sleeps until there's something to do, wakes on a schedule, a webhook or a message, does the work, asks before it changes anything that matters, and remembers what it learned. You can see every coil at a glance, because each one is a little snake with a face that shows how it's doing.
The Coils page opens on the Den, one shared grid where all your coils live. Each coil moves in its real state: sleeping coils curl up, working ones roam toward what they're touching, and one that needs you rears up with a "!". Below the Den, each coil has a card with its status, when it wakes next and how much of today's budget it has used. Your coils are also listed in the sidebar, so you can jump to any of them from anywhere in WCode.
3 awake · 1 asleep · 1 needs you
Chats are for working with WCode in the moment. Coils are for the work that should keep happening when you're not there.
Start from a type and it comes with the right job, tools and accessory, so you can tell what each coil does at a glance. Every coil has a face, and it shows how things are going: bright and curious when all is well, worried when it needs you, dizzy when something broke, asleep when there's nothing to do.
A coil spends most of its life asleep, which costs nothing. When a trigger fires it wakes, does its run, and goes back to sleep. Each moment of that life has its own pose, so a glance at the Den tells you what's going on. Pick a state below to see it.
Pick a type, give it a name and a colour, brief it, choose what it may reach, set how active it should be and how much it can do on its own. Try it: the preview updates as you go, and your new coil wakes up when you create it.
Reading is always free, but anything that writes, sends or restarts waits for your OK unless you've allowed it. The request leads with the coil's face so you know who's asking, then says exactly what it wants to do, why, and what it will touch. Approve or deny it here and watch Pip react in the Den above. Coils also reach you through notifications, and their faces stay readable down to the smallest sizes.
The 5xx rate has been at 14% for 6 minutes. nginx -t passes and the upstream API is healthy, so a restart is the runbook fix.
ssh hz-code 'sudo systemctl restart nginx'
You pick a colour when you create a coil, and it follows that coil everywhere: the Den, its avatar, its notifications and its chats. Every colour is tuned for light and dark mode, so your coils stay easy to tell apart either way.