What Are Humanoids?

#079 0:17 Part of the Rysh video series

An agent that talks to the outside world -- WhatsApp, Slack, email, phone, chat.

What Are Humanoids? — 0:17 walkthrough

What you'll see

Launch rysh; explain a humanoid is an agent plus bidirectional external channels (inbound message -> prompt -> reply via channel).
Double-Escape into rysh mode.
##humanoid spawn support "You are a friendly customer support agent. Answer questions clearly.".
##humanoid list shows status and connected channels.
@support how would you greet a new customer? -- talk to it directly, exactly like any agent.

Commands shown

rysh
##humanoid spawn support 'You are a friendly customer support agent. Answer questions clearly.'
##humanoid list
@support how would you greet a new customer?

Keys used

EnterEscape

Transcript

0:00An agent that talks to the outside world -- WhatsApp, Slack, email, phone, chat.

0:03Launch rysh. A humanoid is an autonomous agent plus bidirectional external communication channels.

0:09An inbound message becomes a prompt; the AI reply goes back out through the same channel. Double-Escape into rysh mode to spawn one.

0:16Spawn it just like an agent: a name and a system prompt. Use ##humanoid spawn instead of ##agent spawn.

0:36You can still talk to it directly with the at-sign prefix, exactly like any agent -- channels just add external reach on top.

0:47Humanoids: your AI, reachable wherever your users already are.

Key takeaway

Humanoids are autonomous agents with external channels (whatsapp/slack/email/phone/chatbot); inbound messages become prompts and replies return through the channel.