Cobots is a team of AI agents for your mainframe.

No. Agents read on their own: they list datasets, browse members and read spool. Anything that changes z/OS, like editing a member, submitting or cancelling a job, or running a console or TSO command, stops at an approval card that shows the exact change, and nothing happens until you click Approve. Console and TSO commands ask every time; there is no "always allow" for them.

Into your computer's own keychain (Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows). It is never stored in Cobots' database, written to logs, or put in what the AI model sees.

Cobots runs on your computer and connects straight to your mainframe and to the model you choose. What an agent reads is sent to that model so it can answer, so pick one your company allows: Claude, GPT or Amazon Bedrock with your own key, or a model you run yourself with Ollama or LM Studio so nothing leaves your network. Cobots doesn't need a Zcrafter server to work.

No. Agents sign in as you, so RACF, ACF2 or Top Secret rules apply to everything they do. If your ID can't read a dataset, neither can they. The Security agent is read-only on top of that: it drafts access changes for your security administrator instead of making them.

Ask them first. The short version for them: it's a desktop app that uses your own credentials over z/OSMF, keeps passwords in the OS keychain, can use a model inside your network, asks before every change, and records every action and approval in an audit log. If they want a walkthrough, book a demo with us.

Yes. The demo on this page runs in your browser with made-up data, no sign-in needed. To practise on a real system, IBM Z Xplore gives learners free z/OS access, and hobby MVS 3.8j systems you run on your own computer work too if they offer a z/OSMF-style API (mvsMF).

No. Ask in plain English, like "Why did PAYROLL abend overnight?" The agents find the job, read the spool and explain the abend, the JCL or the COBOL, and you can watch every screen they open.

Reads can't break anything, and every change shows up as a diff you review before it runs. If it looks wrong, click Deny and tell the agent why. Every action and approval stays in the audit log.

That's Windows' check for apps it hasn't seen much yet. Cobots is signed: click More info, check the publisher is Victor Taiwo, then click Run anyway.