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E2C is being developed to take on more of that continuing work, helping turn your professional methods into a system you can keep using.", "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q01.02" ] }, { "id": "K01.02", "heading": "Working with your Codex", "body": "Your own Codex carries out the work in the environment you authorize. E2C is intended to supply methods and supporting software that help organize the task, connect its steps, and check the result. How the two work together will depend on the product form and its supported connection.", "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01" ] }, { "id": "K01.03", "heading": "Your expertise sets the direction", "body": "You bring the professional knowledge, decide what matters, and grant permission for the work. Decisions that require you or another qualified person remain with those people. E2C does not replace that expertise, and its relationship with Codex does not imply an official partnership or endorsement.", "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01" ] }, { "id": "K01.04", "heading": "A result now, a system for later", "body": "The aim is to leave you with both a useful result for the current task and a professional system that can support later work. That system still needs to be appropriate to each new situation. E2C is not a guarantee of correct results, unattended operation, or success on every task.", "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.02" ] }, { "id": "K02.01", "heading": "Recognize the work you keep repeating", "body": "A new source changes an earlier conclusion. A correction solves one problem but affects another requirement. You find yourself arranging the next round of work again. These are reasons to look more closely at E2C; the importance of your industry or the size of your project alone does not make it the right choice.", "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q02.01" ] }, { "id": "K02.02", "heading": "Keep a method useful as work changes", "body": "E2C is intended for methods you need to keep using as sources, conditions, and requirements change. The goal is to carry more of the work of connecting those pieces and managing revisions, so your team can concentrate on professional decisions rather than reconstructing the process each time.", "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q02.01" ] }, { "id": "K02.03", "heading": "When your existing tools may be enough", "body": "For a short task with a clear goal and a result you can readily assess, Codex on its own may be enough. If you are new to these tools, a manageable first task can help you see what they already do well and where you need more help. There is no requirement to complete a particular project before considering E2C.", "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q02.02" ] }, { "id": "K02.04", "heading": "Judge the contribution in practice", "body": "Models and tools will continue to improve. Sources, task organization, and the checks performed also affect results. The useful question is what you still have to arrange yourself and whether E2C actually reduces that burden. Its value needs to be demonstrated in the work, rather than assumed from limitations in other tools.", "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q02.01", "Q02.02" ] }, { "id": "K03.01", "heading": "Free plugin, paid app", "body": "The E2C plugin is free. The desktop app is the paid product. The plugin is not a paid subscription or simply a trial that requires the app. This policy is separate from availability: a free product is not necessarily available to install yet.", "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q03.01", "Q06.01" ] }, { "id": "K03.02", "heading": "What the plugin provides", "body": "The current E2C plugin provides method guidance for an AI agent. It is a collection of Skills, not an independent engine that executes work, and installing it does not guarantee a correct result. A public installation route and the version available through it have not been confirmed.", "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q03.02" ] }, { "id": "K03.03", "heading": "What is planned for the app", "body": "The desktop app is intended to provide the fuller paid E2C service. Its additional capabilities, supported ways of working, and how existing work could carry over from the plugin are still being defined. The paid form should be judged by what it actually adds.", "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q03.02" ] }, { "id": "K03.04", "heading": "Choosing between the two", "body": "Choose on the basis of the work each released version supports, the requirements it places on your environment, and what you can carry forward. That comparison is not yet complete. Product concepts do not mean that both forms offer every capability shown or that you must use them together.", "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q03.02" ] }, { "id": "K04.01", "heading": "A familiar route to installation", "body": "The planned route is to learn about E2C here, follow a verified link to its published plugin page, and install or enable it through the supported platform. This website does not yet provide a public installation link. When one is available, check the publisher and version before proceeding.", "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q04.01" ] }, { "id": "K04.02", "heading": "The terms, if you need them", "body": "You do not need to learn the terminology before understanding E2C. A Skill gives an agent guidance and resources for a kind of work. MCP is a way for agents to connect to tools or data services. A plugin packages extensions for installation and use; it may contain Skills or connections, but does not have to connect to an external service.", "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q04.02" ] }, { "id": "K04.03", "heading": "Check the platform and permissions", "body": "Installation will depend on the supported platform, account, workspace, permissions, and E2C version. Access in one assistant or workspace does not establish access in another. Support for other tools, including Claude Code, has not been confirmed and should not be inferred from a mention or example.", "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q04.01", "Q04.02" ] }, { "id": "K04.04", "heading": "Check who provides the product", "body": "The platform provides the distribution route; the plugin publisher provides the product. This is similar to the distinction between an app store and an app developer, without implying the same technology or review process. Check the publisher, requested permissions, version, and limitations. A listing is not a guarantee of capability or safety.", "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q04.01" ] }, { "id": "K05.01", "heading": "Planned platforms and availability", "body": "The desktop app is planned for Windows and macOS as the fuller paid E2C product. Direct downloads, the Mac App Store, and Microsoft Store are being considered. These are planned channels, not available downloads or approved listings; supported operating-system versions still need confirmation.", "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q05.02" ] }, { "id": "K05.02", "heading": "What installation should make possible", "body": "An installed app could bring E2C's methods, supporting programs, and compatible dependencies together in your authorized working environment. The reason to install it would be the useful work that combination supports. Its specific capabilities still need confirmation; download size alone says little about its value.", "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q05.01" ] }, { "id": "K05.03", "heading": "Where the work and data go", "body": "A desktop app can still use a remote execution or model service. Local processing and sending information to a service are separate questions, and both browser and desktop products can combine local and remote components. A desktop window alone does not establish greater speed, reliability, or privacy.", "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q05.01" ] }, { "id": "K05.04", "heading": "Requirements before you choose", "body": "The app's capabilities, system requirements, installation size, resource use, permissions, and update process have not been finalized. These details will matter when deciding whether it fits your work. Any performance comparison needs evidence from the actual product under stated conditions, rather than an assumption about plugin size or desktop software.", "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q05.01", "Q05.02" ] }, { "id": "K06.01", "heading": "Your execution service remains separate", "body": "E2C does not resell agent accounts or model tokens. Where an E2C product uses a third-party execution service, you need your own valid access to a supported service and permission to use it. Purchasing E2C does not include that access.", "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q06.02" ] }, { "id": "K06.02", "heading": "Who charges for what", "body": "The plugin is free, but using a third-party execution service may still incur charges. E2C's paid app and the execution provider are billed separately, with each supplier responsible for its own transaction and billing information. A Codex subscription does not include the paid E2C app.", "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q03.01", "Q06.01" ] }, { "id": "K06.03", "heading": "Pricing is not yet available", "body": "The desktop price, billing period, currency, taxes, payment methods, and purchase terms have not been confirmed. The chosen connection will also determine which third-party subscription rights, limits, or other charges apply. No price example should be read as an offer.", "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q06.01" ] }, { "id": "K06.04", "heading": "Understanding provider usage", "body": "For Codex access and usage, refer to the applicable OpenAI account information. Claude Code is provided by Anthropic; mentioning it here does not mean E2C supports it. Each provider sets its own charges, while the work performed, including how E2C organizes it, can affect the usage a task generates.", "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q06.02" ] }, { "id": "K07.01", "heading": "Two services, different accounts", "body": "An E2C account would identify your access to E2C's service; your Codex account provides access to a separate execution service. The connection needs to make clear which service you are signing in to and what permission you are granting. Account requirements for the free plugin have not been established and should not be assumed to match the desktop app.", "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q07.01" ] }, { "id": "K07.02", "heading": "Before you authorize a connection", "body": "You should be able to see where you sign in, who handles your credentials, what access you grant, and how to sign out or revoke it. E2C's connection method and the permission for that specific use and distribution still need confirmation. General documentation about an interface does not establish that every integration is permitted.", "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q07.01" ] }, { "id": "K07.03", "heading": "Devices and account access", "body": "The proposed E2C account policy is one person per account, with one device signed in at a time. Its application to each product, including the free plugin, is not final. Switching devices, recovering a lost device, and restoring account access also need to be defined. Your execution provider's account and simultaneous-use rules apply separately.", "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q07.02" ] }, { "id": "K07.04", "heading": "What carries between environments", "body": "Using the same provider account does not necessarily carry projects, files, workspaces, or conversation history between clients. Simultaneous access, sign-in requirements, limits, and continuity depend on the services and configuration. Automatic synchronization and uninterrupted access across clients have not been confirmed.", "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q07.02" ] }, { "id": "K08.01", "heading": "The intended product boundary", "body": "E2C is designed to work with your authorized environment without adding a separate file-hosting, synchronization, or project-management service. The aim is to avoid routing business files through LBAI's cloud or keeping an additional company copy of your Codex conversations. Those boundaries still need to be verified in the implemented product.", "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q08.01" ] }, { "id": "K08.02", "heading": "Files, outputs, and technical records", "body": "Your source files, requested outputs, execution records, temporary data, diagnostic logs, crash reports, and telemetry may follow different paths. What each component reads or writes, where it sends information, who can access it, and how long it is retained still need confirmation. Having no upload button does not establish that no data is processed or stored.", "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q08.01", "Q08.02" ] }, { "id": "K08.03", "heading": "Your execution provider's role", "body": "Codex processing under your authorization is separate from LBAI's services. A file can stay on your disk while some of its contents are sent to an execution or model service. The provider's handling depends on the actual product configuration and applicable terms, not on whether the interface is a browser or a desktop app.", "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q08.01", "Q08.02" ] }, { "id": "K08.04", "heading": "LBAI's own responsibilities", "body": "LBAI's planned cloud services concern E2C accounts, authorization, and payments. Those services handle information too. LBAI remains responsible for its own software, distribution, updates, integrations, and credential handling; using a third-party service does not remove those responsibilities.", "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q08.02" ] }, { "id": "K08.05", "heading": "Questions on this website", "body": "Questions asked on this website are handled separately from project work. Read how your chat data is used before sending a question. Do not include passwords, access keys, sensitive personal information, or confidential business information in a product question. You can also read Help articles and prepared answers without starting a conversation.", "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-05", "related_question_ids": [ "Q08.02" ] }, { "id": "K09.01", "heading": "Begin with what you already have", "body": "Relevant conversations, reports, plans, charts, and existing project work can provide a starting point in your own authorized Codex environment. E2C is intended to build on that investment, without asking you to reconstruct the full history or write a new formal specification just to begin.", "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q09.01" ] }, { "id": "K09.02", "heading": "Use ordinary language", "body": "The intended experience keeps the way you already talk to Codex: describe what you want to accomplish in ordinary language. You should not need special E2C commands, internal asset names, or another project-management system. Necessary clarification, suitable materials, and permissions still matter.", "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q09.02" ] }, { "id": "K09.03", "heading": "Read first, then ask what is missing", "body": "The first useful response should show an understanding of your existing work: what is available, how it relates to your goal, what remains uncertain, and what can happen next. The design calls for reading and comparing the materials before asking you to repeat them, then raising only the gaps, conflicts, or decisions that need your input.", "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q09.01" ] }, { "id": "K09.04", "heading": "Keep permission specific", "body": "Existing material helps explain the task; it does not prove every statement is correct or authorize every possible change. A request to understand the work is different from permission to modify or execute it. Make clear what may be read, proposed, changed, or used.", "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q09.01", "Q09.02", "Q13.02" ] }, { "id": "K09.05", "heading": "Starting is different from finishing", "body": "Exact starting steps and automatic handoffs still need to be verified for each product form. Enough material for an initial review does not guarantee enough to complete the task. Keep project files and repositories in your own authorized working environment; website consultation is for brief text questions, not those materials.", "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-05", "related_question_ids": [ "Q09.01", "Q09.02" ] }, { "id": "K10.01", "heading": "Product guidance while you browse", "body": "The planned E2C Agent will help with questions before you begin and while using the product, connecting a short answer to official guidance and a useful next step. The same information remains available in Help articles, so you do not need a conversation to read it.", "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q10.01" ] }, { "id": "K10.02", "heading": "Start with a brief description", "body": "What are you working on? How far have you gotten? What is difficult, or what would you like to improve? These are optional ways to begin, not a form you must complete. A short, non-confidential question is enough for product guidance; any follow-up should ask only for a detail that matters.", "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q10.01" ] }, { "id": "K10.03", "heading": "What this consultation covers", "body": "Website consultation explains E2C and points to relevant guidance. It does not accept folders, repositories, or business files, run projects, certify results, or decide professional or business eligibility. It also does not process purchases, change accounts, or handle complaints.", "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q10.01", "Q10.02" ] }, { "id": "K10.04", "heading": "When the question needs your project", "body": "Deeper investigation belongs in your own Codex environment, with a clear scope and permission to read or change the work. Any E2C-specific steps depend on the version and capabilities actually available. A product inquiry does not grant access to your project.", "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q10.02" ] }, { "id": "K10.05", "heading": "Available help today", "body": "You can read Help articles, browse the prepared answers, or email LBAI at service@lbai.ai. Website guidance does not include a dedicated case-handling service or a guaranteed response time.", "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-05", "related_question_ids": [ "Q10.01", "Q10.02" ] }, { "id": "K11.01", "heading": "Start with the decision you need to make", "body": "Does the result answer the business question you set out to address? Do the important requirements still hold together? A calculation can be correct and a document can be polished without giving you enough to make the intended decision.", "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "K11.02", "heading": "Look at the evidence for this result", "body": "Review the sources and method, the version that was checked, and the conditions still unresolved. A previous success or a large volume of output does not establish that the current result is ready to use.", "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q11.01", "Q11.02" ] }, { "id": "K11.03", "heading": "Consider the work it took off your hands", "body": "E2C is intended to take on more of the continuing organization. To assess its contribution, ask whether you still had to reconstruct requirements, arrange each revision, or reconnect the steps yourself. Consider both the immediate result and the system left for later work. The benefit needs to show up in practice.", "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "K11.04", "heading": "Keep approval separate", "body": "A process finishing is not the same as a result being suitable for use. Revisit the basis for a decision when sources, methods, permissions, or conditions change. Professional approval, experiments, safety review, and certification cannot be replaced by a completion message.", "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q11.02" ] }, { "id": "K12.01", "heading": "Choose a useful next step", "body": "Start with a question to answer, a method to review, or a change whose effects need to be understood. Keep the wider goal in view, but give the next piece of work a clear boundary. A long-term project need not become one unrestricted instruction.", "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q12.01", "Q12.02" ] }, { "id": "K12.02", "heading": "Use the material already in the project", "body": "E2C is intended to compare your goal with the work already done, recover the relevant requirements, and ask about what remains unclear. Existing reports and project files should provide a starting point. You should not have to rewrite them or map the entire project before an initial review.", "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q12.01", "Q12.02" ] }, { "id": "K12.03", "heading": "Explain changes in ordinary language", "body": "Describe the new goal or change, and identify decisions that require you or another responsible person. Use what the existing material already explains, then clarify genuine uncertainties. Asking for an explanation of a change does not, by itself, authorize carrying it out.", "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q12.01", "Q12.02" ] }, { "id": "K12.04", "heading": "Use guidance that fits the version", "body": "These are working principles, not step-by-step instructions for a released E2C version. Specific operating guidance and experience reports need a clear product version, context, and supporting evidence. The fictional stories explain an approach; they are not verified user results.", "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q12.01" ] }, { "id": "K13.01", "heading": "Describe the point where work stopped", "body": "Say what you were trying to do, which step or result is affected, and what you expected instead. Include the product version if it matters. For a website inquiry, keep that description brief and non-confidential; you do not need to provide an entire project or log.", "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "K13.02", "heading": "Separate the possible causes", "body": "A source may be missing, two requirements may conflict, a tool may be unavailable, or a method may no longer fit. Another step may need a decision or permission that has not been given. These situations call for different responses; product guidance cannot diagnose an unseen project from a short description.", "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q13.01", "Q13.02" ] }, { "id": "K13.03", "heading": "Check what a correction affects", "body": "The intended approach is to use the available evidence, identify the effect of the gap, and continue within the agreed permissions. A correction needs to be checked against the other requirements it could affect. Missing evidence should stay visible rather than be replaced by a plausible guess.", "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-03", "related_question_ids": [] }, { "id": "K13.04", "heading": "Take project investigation to the right place", "body": "Specific troubleshooting instructions need to match the product version. When those instructions are not available, Help can explain the limit and point to relevant guidance. Investigation of the actual project belongs in your own authorized environment; a website answer cannot certify the result or guarantee a fix.", "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q13.01", "Q13.02" ] }, { "id": "K14.01", "heading": "Usage reflects the work performed", "body": "A higher or lower usage figure does not, on its own, show that E2C helped or hindered the task. Inputs, task complexity, model choice, execution steps, retries, and checks can all change how much work the execution service performs.", "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q14.01" ] }, { "id": "K14.02", "heading": "Separate usage from pricing", "body": "The provider determines its metering, allowances, and charges. E2C's methods and organization may influence the steps taken, so usage is not necessarily independent of E2C. The provider's usage charges and E2C's product fees remain separate.", "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q14.01", "Q14.02" ] }, { "id": "K14.03", "heading": "Make a useful comparison", "body": "Compare similar goals, inputs, models, and completed work using the task and account information available to you. Extra checks or repeated attempts may explain a change. Lower usage is not an improvement if necessary work was skipped; higher usage alone does not show useful progress.", "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q14.01", "Q14.02" ] }, { "id": "K14.04", "heading": "No fixed saving is promised", "body": "E2C has not established a fixed percentage saving or increase in execution usage, or an included third-party allowance. Available usage displays and billing details depend on the supported connection and service. A specific cost claim would need evidence under comparable conditions.", "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q14.02" ] }, { "id": "K15.01", "heading": "A new fact is not a new method", "body": "In the fictional research story, an additional revenue source resolves a missing comparison. That helps answer the current question, but does not automatically improve the method for later analysis. The story is an illustration, not a customer case or evidence of investment performance.", "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q15.01", "Q15.02" ] }, { "id": "K15.02", "heading": "Decide what the next task should inherit", "body": "A useful lesson might be to establish the comparison basis first, identify the conclusions that depend on it, and check whether the method still applies. E2C is intended to organize that work with Codex, reducing the need for a professional team to reconstruct each dependency on every task.", "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q15.01" ] }, { "id": "K15.03", "heading": "Approve and check the change", "body": "A responsible person decides whether an improvement should be retained. It then needs to be implemented and checked for its effects on existing requirements. A good result once does not prove suitability for every later situation, and a new version does not change the record of earlier failures.", "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q15.01", "Q15.02" ] }, { "id": "K15.04", "heading": "Keep what remains useful", "body": "The intended outcome is a useful result today and a system whose checked methods can support later work where they apply. Preserve what is still sound and revisit the affected parts. New circumstances still require judgment; this is not automatic learning or a promise of stability or higher business returns.", "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q15.01", "Q15.02" ] }, { "id": "K16.01", "heading": "One body of official guidance", "body": "Help brings together an overview, detailed articles, and short prepared answers. The planned website Agent will draw on that same information and link back to it. You or your own assistant can read the articles directly; important information is not confined to a conversation.", "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K16.02", "heading": "Read the conditions as well as the answer", "body": "Check which product form and, where known, software version the guidance concerns. Notice whether it describes something available, a future plan, or a detail still undecided. Updating an article does not mean the software has changed, and an older description or illustrative example does not prove a current capability.", "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q16.02" ] }, { "id": "K16.03", "heading": "Share an article with your assistant", "body": "You can give your own assistant a link to a relevant public article. Some assistants may be unable to access it, read it completely, or preserve all its qualifications in a summary. Check the cited source and what it applies to before relying on the answer.", "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K16.04", "heading": "Product-specific help", "body": "Help inside the E2C product, including an automatic way for Codex to consult it, has not been confirmed. Detailed operating instructions and experience reports need an identified version, context, and evidence. Verified instructions and user experience reports are not available here yet.", "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q16.01", "Q16.02" ] }, { "id": "K17.01", "heading": "Current availability", "body": "E2C is in development. Product concepts and fictional stories explain its intended direction; they do not establish released capabilities, customer deployments, or an available purchase.", "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "K17.02", "heading": "Before you install", "body": "This website does not yet offer a verified installation, download, registration, or purchase route. When a product becomes available, the relevant information needs to identify its version, capabilities, requirements, and genuine installation route. A planned channel is not an invitation to install from an unverified listing.", "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "K17.03", "heading": "Accounts and purchases", "body": "Registration and sign-in would establish access to the relevant E2C service. Payment would concern the paid app and its purchase conditions. The actual destinations, providers, return paths, and support for account or payment problems have not been confirmed. Website consultation can explain these arrangements but cannot carry them out.", "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "K17.04", "heading": "Information for the action you take", "body": "The terms and privacy information need to match the service and the data it handles. A notice for a website question serves a different purpose from purchase terms or account authorization. Applicable documents and any required acknowledgments are still being established; a general description of the product's data design does not replace them.", "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "K.H01", "heading": "Help", "body": "Find the explanation that helps you move forward.", "href": "help.html#k-h01", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K.H02", "heading": "Explore and continue", "body": "Understand what E2C is intended to add to your own Codex, or find guidance for the work you want to continue. Start with the question that matters to you.", "href": "help.html#k-h02", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K.H03", "heading": "Availability", "body": "E2C is in development. No public download or purchase is offered here yet. Plans and details still being decided are explained where they matter.", "href": "help.html#k-h03", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K.H04", "heading": "Explore E2C", "body": "Understand E2C, how it works with your Codex, and what to consider before getting started.", "href": "help.html#k-h04", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K.H05", "heading": "Using E2C", "body": "Find guidance on assessing results, handling changes, and deciding what to do next.", "href": "help.html#k-h05", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] }, { "id": "K.H06", "heading": "Find the guidance you need", "body": "Browse questions about E2C, read the full articles, or ask a question. You can also share an article with your own assistant.", "href": "help.html#k-h06", "related_question_ids": [ "Q01.01", "Q16.01" ] } ], "questions": [ { "id": "Q01.01", "question": "Is E2C another AI assistant?", "answer": "E2C is being developed to work with your own Codex. Codex carries out the task; E2C is intended to help connect requirements, organize the steps, and check the result. Your professional judgment and permission remain essential. This relationship does not imply an official partnership.", "href": "ask.html#q01-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-01", "label": "What E2C adds to your Codex", "section": "Less work between the steps" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q02.01", "Q03.02" ] }, { "id": "Q01.02", "question": "What would E2C add to my existing work?", "answer": "The intended benefit is less work arranging each next step yourself: reconnecting requirements, coordinating revisions, and checking their effects. The aim is a useful result now and a system you can keep using. E2C still needs to demonstrate that contribution in practice.", "href": "ask.html#q01-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/e2c-and-your-codex.html#k01-01", "label": "What E2C adds to your Codex", "section": "Less work between the steps" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q02.01", "Q03.02" ] }, { "id": "Q02.01", "question": "When might E2C help me?", "answer": "Consider E2C when changes repeatedly force you to reconnect requirements, revisit conclusions, or organize another round of corrections. It is intended for methods you need to keep using. The deciding factor is what it can actually take on for you, rather than your industry or project size alone.", "href": "ask.html#q02-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-01", "label": "When E2C may help", "section": "Recognize the work you keep repeating" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q09.01", "Q10.01" ] }, { "id": "Q02.02", "question": "When might Codex on its own be enough?", "answer": "Codex may be enough for a short task with a clear goal and a result you can readily assess. If it already meets your needs, start there. As tools improve, reconsider the work you still have to arrange before adding another product.", "href": "ask.html#q02-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/when-e2c-may-help.html#k02-03", "label": "When E2C may help", "section": "When your existing tools may be enough" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q09.01", "Q10.01" ] }, { "id": "Q03.01", "question": "Is the plugin free?", "answer": "Yes. The E2C plugin is free; the desktop app is the paid product. The plugin is not simply a trial that requires the app. Third-party execution charges may still apply, and a public installation route has not yet been confirmed.", "href": "ask.html#q03-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-01", "label": "The free plugin and the paid app", "section": "Free plugin, paid app" }, { "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-02", "label": "E2C fees and Codex costs", "section": "Who charges for what" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q04.01", "Q05.01", "Q06.01" ] }, { "id": "Q03.02", "question": "How should I choose between the plugin and the app?", "answer": "The current E2C plugin provides method guidance for an AI agent. The desktop app is planned for the fuller paid service, but its additional capabilities and how existing work would carry over are still being defined. Choose by the work each released version supports and its requirements.", "href": "ask.html#q03-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-02", "label": "The free plugin and the paid app", "section": "What the plugin provides" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q04.01", "Q05.01", "Q06.01" ] }, { "id": "Q04.01", "question": "How would I get the E2C plugin?", "answer": "The planned route is a verified link from this website to E2C's published plugin page, then the supported platform's installation steps. No public installation link is offered here yet. Before installing, check the publisher, version, requested permissions, and requirements.", "href": "ask.html#q04-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-01", "label": "Understanding the plugin", "section": "A familiar route to installation" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q07.01", "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "Q04.02", "question": "Do I need to understand Skills or MCP first?", "answer": "No. Start with what E2C is intended to help you do. Skills give an agent guidance, MCP connects tools or data, and a plugin packages extensions for use. You can learn those terms when useful; installation requirements will depend on the supported platform and E2C version.", "href": "ask.html#q04-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understanding-the-plugin.html#k04-02", "label": "Understanding the plugin", "section": "The terms, if you need them" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q07.01", "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "Q05.01", "question": "Why install an app if there is a free plugin?", "answer": "An app is worth installing when the work it supports justifies it. The planned E2C app could bring methods, supporting software, and dependencies into your working environment, but its additional capabilities are not yet confirmed. Installation alone does not establish better speed, reliability, or privacy.", "href": "ask.html#q05-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-02", "label": "Understanding the desktop app", "section": "What installation should make possible" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q08.02", "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "Q05.02", "question": "Which computers and download channels are planned?", "answer": "Windows and macOS are planned, with direct downloads and the Mac App Store and Microsoft Store being considered. System requirements, download routes, and update arrangements are not yet confirmed. These plans do not mean a download or approved listing is available now.", "href": "ask.html#q05-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understanding-the-desktop-app.html#k05-01", "label": "Understanding the desktop app", "section": "Planned platforms and availability" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q08.02", "Q17.01" ] }, { "id": "Q06.01", "question": "What would I pay for?", "answer": "The E2C plugin is free; the desktop app is paid. Your execution provider charges separately under its own terms. The app's price, billing period, currency, taxes, and payment conditions have not been confirmed, and no example amount is a price offer.", "href": "ask.html#q06-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/plugin-and-desktop-app.html#k03-01", "label": "The free plugin and the paid app", "section": "Free plugin, paid app" }, { "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-02", "label": "E2C fees and Codex costs", "section": "Who charges for what" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q07.01", "Q14.01" ] }, { "id": "Q06.02", "question": "Does buying E2C include Codex access or usage?", "answer": "No. You need your own valid access to an execution service that E2C supports, under that provider's terms. Buying E2C does not include a Codex account or usage. E2C does not resell agent accounts or model tokens.", "href": "ask.html#q06-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/accounts-and-costs.html#k06-01", "label": "E2C fees and Codex costs", "section": "Your execution service remains separate" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q07.01", "Q14.01" ] }, { "id": "Q07.01", "question": "Why might I sign in to two services?", "answer": "The accounts would serve different purposes: access to E2C's service and access to your Codex execution service. The connection, permissions, and credential handling still need confirmation. The plugin's account requirements should not be assumed to match those of the desktop app.", "href": "ask.html#q07-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-01", "label": "Accounts, access, and permissions", "section": "Two services, different accounts" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q08.01", "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "Q07.02", "question": "Can I use the same account on several devices?", "answer": "The proposed E2C policy is one person per account, with one device signed in at a time. Which products it applies to, device switching, and recovery are not final. Codex has separate rules; one account does not necessarily mean shared files, history, or uninterrupted access across clients.", "href": "ask.html#q07-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/sign-in-and-permissions.html#k07-03", "label": "Accounts, access, and permissions", "section": "Devices and account access" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q08.01", "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "Q08.01", "question": "Would LBAI receive my project files?", "answer": "The design aims to avoid routing business files through LBAI's cloud or keeping another company copy of Codex conversations. That boundary still needs verification, including temporary data and logs. Your authorized Codex processing is a separate path; this is not a guarantee of zero access or storage.", "href": "ask.html#q08-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-01", "label": "Your work and your data", "section": "The intended product boundary" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q10.02", "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "Q08.02", "question": "Does a desktop app keep everything on my computer?", "answer": "No. A file can remain on your computer while some of its contents are sent to an execution or model service. Local components, third-party processing, LBAI account services, and website questions have different data paths. The actual handling needs to be understood for each service.", "href": "ask.html#q08-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/materials-and-data.html#k08-02", "label": "Your work and your data", "section": "Files, outputs, and technical records" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q10.02", "Q17.02" ] }, { "id": "Q09.01", "question": "Do I need to prepare everything again?", "answer": "The intended starting point is your existing work. In your own authorized Codex environment, E2C should help read and compare relevant material before asking about genuine gaps. Exact starting steps still need verification, and enough information for an initial review may not be enough to finish the task.", "href": "ask.html#q09-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-01", "label": "Start with the work you already have", "section": "Begin with what you already have" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q12.01", "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "Q09.02", "question": "Do I need special E2C commands?", "answer": "The intended experience uses ordinary language, without a separate E2C command language or another project-management system. Describe the goal and clarify permissions where needed. Specific starting steps depend on the product version; the website Agent does not execute project work.", "href": "ask.html#q09-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-02", "label": "Start with the work you already have", "section": "Use ordinary language" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q12.01", "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "Q10.01", "question": "What can I ask on the website?", "answer": "You can ask brief, non-confidential questions about E2C, how it may fit your work, or what to do next. The assistant provides product guidance and relevant Help links; it does not assess project eligibility or carry out work. You can also read the prepared answers and articles directly.", "href": "ask.html#q10-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-01", "label": "Asking about E2C", "section": "Product guidance while you browse" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q02.01", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q10.02", "question": "Can I send a repository for assessment?", "answer": "No. The website does not accept repositories, folders, or business files. Product questions should be brief and non-confidential. Investigation of your project belongs in your own authorized environment, with a clear scope and permissions; E2C-specific steps depend on the capabilities actually available.", "href": "ask.html#q10-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/asking-about-e2c.html#k10-03", "label": "Asking about E2C", "section": "What this consultation covers" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q02.01", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q11.01", "question": "How should I evaluate a result?", "answer": "Compare it with the business question and requirements it needed to address. Review the sources, method, checks, and unresolved conditions. Also consider what continuing work E2C actually took off your hands and whether it left a system worth using again. A polished output alone is not enough.", "href": "ask.html#q11-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-01", "label": "Evaluating a result", "section": "Start with the decision you need to make" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q15.01", "Q14.01" ] }, { "id": "Q11.02", "question": "Does one successful run prove a system is ready?", "answer": "No. Review the evidence for the particular result and reconsider it when sources, methods, permissions, or conditions change. A successful run does not establish suitability for every later use. Required professional review, experiments, and certification still apply.", "href": "ask.html#q11-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/evaluate-an-outcome.html#k11-02", "label": "Evaluating a result", "section": "Look at the evidence for this result" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q15.01", "Q14.01" ] }, { "id": "Q12.01", "question": "How can I move a project forward with E2C?", "answer": "Choose a concrete next question, review, or change. Use the relevant material already available, and keep professional decisions and permissions clear. E2C is intended to understand that work before asking about gaps. These are working principles, not verified steps for a released version.", "href": "ask.html#q12-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-01", "label": "Moving a project forward", "section": "Choose a useful next step" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q09.02", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q12.02", "question": "How much should I define before beginning?", "answer": "Give the next piece of work a clear goal and permission boundary. You should not need to rewrite every report or map the whole project first. The intended approach reads what is available, then asks about genuine uncertainties. Understanding a change and carrying it out require different permissions.", "href": "ask.html#q12-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/working-on-a-project.html#k12-01", "label": "Moving a project forward", "section": "Choose a useful next step" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q09.02", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q13.01", "question": "What should I do when work gets stuck?", "answer": "Describe the affected step, what you expected, and the product version if relevant. Missing sources, conflicting requirements, an unavailable tool, and a professional decision call for different responses. Keep website inquiries brief; investigating the project itself belongs in your own authorized environment.", "href": "ask.html#q13-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-01", "label": "When work gets stuck", "section": "Describe the point where work stopped" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q11.01", "Q16.02" ] }, { "id": "Q13.02", "question": "Can website support approve my result?", "answer": "No. Website consultation can explain E2C and point to guidance, but it cannot certify an unseen project or approve a professional result. That requires the relevant evidence and responsible review. A website answer also cannot authorize execution on your behalf.", "href": "ask.html#q13-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/when-work-gets-stuck.html#k13-02", "label": "When work gets stuck", "section": "Separate the possible causes" }, { "href": "help/start-with-existing-work.html#k09-04", "label": "Start with the work you already have", "section": "Keep permission specific" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q11.01", "Q16.02" ] }, { "id": "Q14.01", "question": "Why might my Codex usage change?", "answer": "Inputs, task complexity, model choice, execution steps, retries, and checks can all affect usage. E2C may change how those steps are organized; the provider sets metering and charges. Compare similar tasks and the work actually completed before attributing a difference to one cause.", "href": "ask.html#q14-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-01", "label": "Understanding usage", "section": "Usage reflects the work performed" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q06.01", "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "Q14.02", "question": "Does E2C guarantee lower execution costs?", "answer": "No fixed saving has been established. E2C may influence usage through the work it organizes, while your provider sets the charges. Compare similar conditions and completed work: lower usage is not an improvement if necessary steps were omitted.", "href": "ask.html#q14-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/understand-usage.html#k14-02", "label": "Understanding usage", "section": "Separate usage from pricing" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q06.01", "Q11.01" ] }, { "id": "Q15.01", "question": "What should happen when sources or methods change?", "answer": "Revisit the affected conclusions and steps while preserving what still applies. A new fact may answer today's question without improving tomorrow's method. A method change needs approval, implementation, and checks of its effects before reuse. The fictional research story illustrates that distinction.", "href": "ask.html#q15-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-01", "label": "When sources or methods change", "section": "A new fact is not a new method" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q11.02", "Q12.01" ] }, { "id": "Q15.02", "question": "Does a successful task automatically improve the system?", "answer": "No. A responsible person must choose the improvement, it must be implemented, and its effects on existing requirements must be checked. Later use still depends on the circumstances. The fictional story is not evidence of automatic learning or investment performance.", "href": "ask.html#q15-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/continue-after-a-change.html#k15-01", "label": "When sources or methods change", "section": "A new fact is not a new method" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q11.02", "Q12.01" ] }, { "id": "Q16.01", "question": "Can my own assistant read the official guidance?", "answer": "You can share a public article with your assistant. Not every assistant can access it, read it fully, or preserve its qualifications in a summary, so check the cited source. An automatic connection to Help from within E2C or Codex has not been confirmed.", "href": "ask.html#q16-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-01", "label": "Using official guidance", "section": "One body of official guidance" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q17.01", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q16.02", "question": "How do I know which guidance applies?", "answer": "Check the product form and software version where known, and read the conditions attached to the statement. Plans and undecided details are not available capabilities. An article update is not a software release, and a fictional example does not establish what your version can do.", "href": "ask.html#q16-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/use-official-guidance.html#k16-02", "label": "Using official guidance", "section": "Read the conditions as well as the answer" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q17.01", "Q13.01" ] }, { "id": "Q17.01", "question": "Can I download or purchase E2C now?", "answer": "No download or purchase is offered here yet. E2C is in development, and this website does not provide a verified public installation, registration, or purchase route. Product concepts explain its direction, rather than establish availability.", "href": "ask.html#q17-01", "sources": [ { "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-01", "label": "Availability and service details", "section": "Current availability" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q03.02", "Q10.01" ] }, { "id": "Q17.02", "question": "Where will accounts, payment, and terms fit?", "answer": "Sign-in would establish access to the relevant E2C service; payment would concern the paid app and its terms. The actual destinations and support routes are not confirmed. Appropriate terms and notices need to accompany each action. Website consultation can explain them but cannot register you or process payment.", "href": "ask.html#q17-02", "sources": [ { "href": "help/availability-and-service-details.html#k17-03", "label": "Availability and service details", "section": "Accounts and purchases" } ], "next_question_ids": [ "Q03.02", "Q10.01" ] } ], "content_sha256": "d1990fb43523ec548112ff3d668102dc0034e8eea8f9f583b40906d429f2bba9" }