What the council can do
Your AI council runs your business for you. These switches decide how far that goes. Changes apply to the next thing you ask it — you don't need to start a new conversation.
On the trial the council builds your app but cannot change DNS, send mail or put the site live. Those come with Starter ($9/mo). See Starter
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The council can work for a long time on one message — reading files, running checks, trying things — and that work is what you pay Claude for. The most expensive single message so far cost $6.31. This stops one from running away.
What the council may do inside your business's own container.
Look at the code and content of your site. Without this the council cannot answer questions about your own business.
Write new pages, edit existing ones, change your site's content and code.
Remove files from your site. Turn this off and the council must ask you before anything is deleted.
Run programs inside your container — builds, database migrations, scripts.
Add libraries and packages your site needs.
Put changes live and restart your site. Turning this off means changes are written but never published until you say so.
Open your own site in a real browser to check it works — click through pages, fill in forms, read errors. You can watch it live on the dashboard. It can only open this business's own web addresses.
Where your domain points. Mistakes here can take your site off the internet.
Read where your domain currently points, so it can diagnose problems.
Add, edit and delete DNS records. This is the setting that decides whether the council can move where your domain points.
Make a new hostname (like shop.yourdomain.com) serve from your business, with its certificate.
Mailboxes on your domain, and sending mail as your business.
List mailboxes and read messages in them.
Create, rename and delete mailboxes on your domain.
Send mail from your addresses. This is the one capability that reaches people outside your business, in your name.
Your connected GitHub repository.
Commit and push to the GitHub repository connected to this business.
The ready-made tools at Tools — the council can run these for you.
Draft, rewrite and check copy for you.
Read your published pages and check how they look to search engines.
Look up DNS, certificates, mail records and whether your site is reachable.
Exact pricing, tax and date arithmetic.
Convert, re-encode and inspect files you give it.
Enforced means the request is refused outright — either by Helstify at its own door, or by withholding the tool the council would need. It cannot work around these however it is asked. Instructed covers the few things done through your container's command line, where there is no single tool to withhold: deleting, installing, deploying and pushing code. The council is told the boundary and is expected to keep it — treat those as a firm rule you have set rather than a lock, and switch off Run commands if you want them stopped outright. Switch off every way of changing things and the council drops into advice-only mode on its own.
We hit an unexpected error. You can send us a report — the technical details are captured for you, so you just tell us what you were doing.