---
title: 'Introducing CAO: Your Chief Agent Operator'
description: >-
  CAO is an agent that reviews its own work, brings in sub-agents when it needs
  help, and only stops to ask you when a decision matters.
tags:
  - CAO
  - Agent Teams
  - Tasks
  - Models
---

# Introducing CAO: Your Chief Agent Operator

## Features

- **CAO (Chief Agent Operator).** Your agent can now keep going on its own. It reviews its own work, decides the next step, and continues without waiting for you to say "next." When a decision genuinely needs you, it pauses, tells you what it tried, and asks a clear question. For larger tasks, it can put together a small team of sub-agents and hand off parts of the work while the main agent stays in charge of the plan. You can open any sub-agent's conversation to see its progress. [Learn more about CAO →](https://x.com/lobehub/status/2056371816265097337?s=20)
- **Project skills in the working sidebar**, with a built-in Markdown preview.
- **Per-suggestion models.** Pick a different model for each kind of follow-up suggestion.
- **New model:** Baidu Ernie 5.1.

## Improvements

- Chat input actions show as icon and label, and only the latest reply animates while streaming.
- Cleaner tab bar styling, and task schedule labels no longer wrap awkwardly.
- Recurring tasks are more reliable, with a run-count cap and protection against schedules that fire too often.
- A cleaner Agent Documents view: easier to find what you saved, without old web-crawl clutter.
- DeepSeek is priced at official rates again.

## Fixes

- Desktop no longer signs you out during background token refreshes, and it remembers which page you were on after an update.
- Local-file search handles hidden files that start with `.`, and grep parameters pass through correctly.
- Unsupported documents now fail with a clear message instead of a confusing error.
- Gemini tool calls handle thinking signatures and enums correctly, and per-tool timeouts now hold.
- Task pages keep the right agent context, and memory updates stay out of your main thread.
