Guide

Guide is Arro showing you how to do something instead of doing it for you. It reads what is on your screen and draws on top of it, so guidance happens where you are working. Use it when you want to keep your hands on the work and learn or verify as you go.

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Answer about what you see

Ask a question about whatever is in front of you. Arro reads the screen, answers, and highlights where the answer came from. You do not have to describe or paste anything. Instead, draw while talking. With more than one monitor, Arro looks at all of them. It starts with the screen your cursor is on and says which one that is. When a task only involves one screen, Arro looks at that screen alone.

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Point things out

When it is easier to show than to say, Arro draws directly on your screen, each with a short caption:

• An outline around a region or a table.
• A circle on a chart point.
• A line or arrow to a spot.
• A shape traced over a diagram.

Captions sit beside each shape with a gap, keeping its outline and arrowhead visible. If several things matter, Arro draws them one at a time and leaves them up together.

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Walk you through it

Ask Arro to explain a diagram, a chart, or a flow and it gives you a narrated tour, like a tutor at a whiteboard. It highlights the first part and explains it out loud, then moves to the next. You can cut in with a question at any point. Arro can start with the first part while it prepares the rest. Highlights and narration stay in order. If narration fails, the tour stops and its highlights clear. Ask Arro to explain it again. The tour ends with a brief offer of further help, without repeating the explanation.

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Coaching

When you want to do a task yourself with Arro alongside, it coaches you through it. Arro highlights one control and waits while you do that step, rather than racing ahead. Tell it you have finished in whichever way is easiest:

• Click the “I’ve done this” button that appears.
• Double-tap your action key, Left Shift by default.
• Say “done” or “next”.

You can also keep going without telling it. After you click or type, Arro checks your screen and moves on once the step looks finished. Turn this off with Move on when I finish a step in Settings → Arro → General. Arro checks your screen after Done before choosing the next instruction, and the button shows a spinner until that instruction is ready. You can advance while it is still talking. Every step is kept on the Coaching tab of the dynamic dock, so you can replay or finish a step from there. Talking or typing interrupts the current instruction. Ending coaching removes the step button and highlight. Ask for guidance again when you want to continue learning.

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Coaching through a saved workflow

Coaching also works from a saved workflow, so the procedure is the one your team agreed on rather than whatever Arro works out from the screen. Start it from Start workflow → Guide me in the workflow header, or ask by name, like “walk me through my expense workflow”. Arro starts from the workflow’s playbook, turned into a checklist of the steps to get through, and can look at its screenshots to recognize the controls each step uses. It then coaches you from what is actually on your screen, and tells you when what it expected is not there. When a step needs a value from you, Arro asks for it at that step. The Coaching tab shows the workflow’s name, Step N of M and the step you are on. That counts steps of the checklist, not things you have done, so it can hold still across several instructions. One step is often a few separate moves for you.

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Do it for you

To have Arro carry out the steps in your open app, use Computer use. That page covers setup, stopping control, and switching between coaching and action.

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