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Profiles

A profile defines the agent's role, available tools, model settings, and system prompt for a specific domain.

Current profiles

Fetched live from GET /agents/profiles.

ID Name Model Temp Planning
secretary Personal Secretary gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M 0.7 Yes
server_admin Server Administrator gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M 0.2 Yes
developer Tool Developer gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M 0.2 Yes

Profile descriptions

secretary

General-purpose assistant. Research, writing, analysis, everyday tasks. Uses web search, code execution, file system access. Acts as an orchestrator — delegates sub-tasks to sub-agents when appropriate.

server_admin

Infrastructure and remote ops. SSH access to remote servers, monitoring, troubleshooting. Heavy orchestrator — spawns one sub-agent per host or concern for complex tasks.

developer

Writes, tests, and registers new Navi tools. Direct filesystem access to tools/ directory. Has test_tool and reload_tools for the write → test → fix → reload cycle. Sub-agents used only for research (API docs, codebase exploration).

Profile switching

The agent can switch profiles mid-session using the switch_profile tool. When this happens:

  1. The server emits profile_switched event before the tool completes.
  2. The new profile takes effect from the next user message.
  3. The client should update the profile indicator in the UI immediately on receiving profile_switched.

The session_id is preserved across profile switches — only the profile changes.

Tool availability

Each profile has its own enabled_tools list. Additionally, user-defined tools in tools/enabled.json are merged into every profile automatically.

Notable tool differences:

  • reload_tools, delete_tool, test_tool — only in developer
  • ssh_exec — only in server_admin and developer
  • terminal — only in server_admin and developer
  • weather — only in secretary

The client can fetch the complete tool list for any profile from GET /agents/profiles (the enabled_tools array) or all registered tools from GET /agents/tools.