---
title: Introducing CAO — Your Chief Agent Operator
description: >-
  Meet CAO: agents that review their own work, recruit teammates when they need
  help, and only stop to ask you when it really matters.
tags:
  - CAO
  - Agent Teams
  - Tasks
  - Models
---

# Introducing CAO — Your Chief Agent Operator

## Meet CAO

CAO (Chief Agent Operator) turns short back-and-forth chats into agents that just keep going. Instead of waiting for you to say "ok, next step", your agent now checks its own work, decides what to do next, and gets on with it. When something genuinely needs your call, it pauses, tells you what it tried, and asks a clear question — no more guessing in the dark.

CAO can also bring in help. If a task gets big, your agent can put together a small team of sub-agents and hand pieces off to them. You can peek into any of their conversations to see what they're up to, while your main agent stays in charge of the overall plan.

[Learn more about CAO →](https://x.com/lobehub/status/2056371816265097337?s=20)

## What else is new

- Recurring tasks are more reliable, with a cap on how many times a task can run and protection against schedules that fire too often
- A cleaner Agent Documents view — easier to find what you put there, and no more clutter from old web crawls
- Project skills now show up in the working sidebar, with a built-in markdown preview
- You can pick a different model for each kind of follow-up suggestion
- New model: Baidu Ernie 5.1
- DeepSeek pricing is back to official rates

## Improvements and fixes

- Desktop no longer signs you out from background token refreshes, and remembers which page you were on after an app update.
- Chat input actions show as icon + label, and only the latest reply animates as it streams.
- Cleaner tab bar styling, and task schedule labels no longer wrap awkwardly.
- Local-file search handles hidden files starting with `.`, and grep parameters now flow through correctly.
- Documents fail clearly when they aren't supported, instead of producing confusing errors.
- Gemini tool calls handle thinking signatures and enums correctly, and per-tool timeouts now stick.
- Task pages keep the right agent context; memory updates stay out of your main thread.
