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A trainer with a toolbox.

Most training chatbots can only answer from memory. Coach can open your dog's notebook, replay tonight's session, rewrite the plan, check the research and set a reminder to see how it went. And Coach shows you every step.

  • 65+ tools
  • Remembers every dog
  • Shows its work
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CCoachNettle
She did the closet door with me tonight and took every treat! What’s next?

Coach shows its work

Every time Coach uses a tool, the chat says so. You never have to wonder where an answer came from.

1Everything Coach did

Folds into one line. Tap it to see each session Coach reviewed and each note it read or wrote.

✓Reviewed tonight’s session · Step 2 · 5 of 6
✓Looked at 5 key frames · Oct 4 · 6:12 PM
+1
✓Added tonight to Nettle’s notebookNettle · 212 bytes

2What you’ll want to open

A new plan version, a check-in, a goal: outcomes get a card of their own. Tap to open.

✓PlanEdited Nettle and the VacuumSaved as v2 · 10 steps · 2 changesOpen →
  • +Touch the doorknob of the vacuum closet
  • +Open the vacuum closet door then close it
4e1c9a2 · add closet opening steps

3The busywork

When Coach checks forty notes at once, you see a count, not forty lines.

✓Searched 38 files and 2 other actions
List files×1Read file×38Search goals×1· script

What's in the toolbox

65+ tools, grouped by what they do for you and your dog. Next to each group, the cards Coach leaves in the chat when it uses them.

Remembers your dog

Coach keeps a notebook for every dog: what scares them, what they love, how each week went. Coach reads it before answering and writes in it as you go, and can search your past chats for the thing you mentioned once, weeks ago.

  • See what’s in the notebooklist_files
  • Read a noteread_file
  • Find a line in a notefind_in_file
  • Start a new notecreate_file
  • Add to a noteappend_file
  • Edit a passagereplace_file_text
  • Rewrite a notewrite_file
  • Move a notemove_file
  • Copy a notecopy_file
  • Delete a note (asks you first)delete_file
  • Search your past chatssearch_chats
  • Reread a past chatread_chat
  • List your past chatslist_chats
✓Read Nettle’s notebook · 89 lines
✓Searched past chats for “closet” · 1 chat · scriptNettle’s first week (Sep 14)
✓Searched Nettle’s notebook for “vacuum” · 7 matches · script
✓Added tonight to Nettle’s notebookNettle · 212 bytes

Reads your training

Every rep you judge is recorded. Coach can replay a finished session rep by rep, follow along live while you train, look at the key frames from a clip, and move the session on when you ask.

  • See where today’s session isread_training_context
  • Follow the live session, rep by repread_live_session
  • Look back over past sessionsread_training_history
  • Replay a finished sessionread_session_recording
  • Look at frames from a clipview_session_frames
  • Watch a step’s demo videowatch_step_video
  • Move the session along for youcontrol_player
  • Check in during a live sessioncoach_note
✓Looked back over 6 sessions · Since Oct 1
✓Reviewed tonight’s session · Step 2 · 5 of 6
✓Looked at 5 key frames · Oct 4 · 6:12 PM
+1
✓Spoke up during the session · “Nice and loose. Two more, then a sniff break.”

Writes and edits plans

Coach writes step-by-step plans shaped around your dog, edits them as you learn, and saves every version so nothing is lost. Before writing one from scratch, Coach checks the library for a plan that already fits.

  • Browse your planslist_plans
  • Read a planread_plan
  • Ask the plan librarianconsult_plans
  • Search every shared plansearch_public_plans
  • Read a shared planread_public_plan
  • Open the plan-writing guideload_skill
  • Write a new planwrite_training_plan
  • Edit a planpatch_training_plan
  • Edit the plan you’re training, liveupdate_training_plan
  • Save a versioncommit_plan
  • Look back through versionsplan_history
  • Compare two versionsdiff_plan
  • Copy a plan to make it yoursfork_plan
  • Make one dog’s own versionscope_plan_to_dog
  • Try a variationbranch_plan
  • Switch versionscheckout_plan
  • Combine two versionsmerge_plan
  • Bookmark a versiontag_plan
  • List a plan’s variationsplan_branches
  • See which dogs use a planlist_dogs
  • Open a plan, ready to trainload_plan
✓Searched shared plans for “settle while I vacuum” · 3 plansPlace · Settle · Go to Bed
✓Read Go to Bed · Everyday Manners
✓PlanEdited Nettle and the VacuumSaved as v2 · 10 steps · 2 changesOpen →
  • +Touch the doorknob of the vacuum closet
  • +Open the vacuum closet door then close it
4e1c9a2 · add closet opening steps
📖Nettle and the VacuumTraining plan · 10 steps · starts at step 3Start →

Goals, games and treats

Coach tracks what your dog has earned and sets new goals with you, starts proofing games that test a skill in new places, keeps the treat list ranked, and adds side trails to your dog’s Journey.

  • Read your dog’s goalslist_goals
  • Find goals, earned or notsearch_goals
  • Add a goaladd_goal
  • Update a goalupdate_goal
  • Set goals in bulkset_goals
  • Start a proofing gamelaunch_game
  • Read the treat listlist_treats
  • Update the treat listset_treats
  • Read your dog’s Journeyread_journey
  • Add a side trail to the Journeyedit_journey
✓Nettle’s goals· scriptNew goal: Go to Bed while the vacuum runsNext room over, door open
Go to Beddistractionvacuum runningWorking on it
✓Nettle’s Journey· scriptAdded a side trail to Nettle’s JourneyView →
  • Side trail: Vacuum confidenceSo the vacuum stops being scary before Go to Bed asks her to settle near it.
✓Nettle’s treats· scriptRanked Nettle’s treatsCheese is the jackpot
cheesechickenliver biteskibble

Checks the research

When the honest answer depends on evidence, Coach searches the published studies and answers from what they found, with the papers attached. For a hard question, Coach sends Professor off to dig deeper and report back.

  • Search published studiessearch_studies
  • Ask Professor for deep researchask_professor
  • Search the websearch_web
  • Read a webpage or PDFread_webpage
  • Send a helper to research the webask_web_agent
✓ProfessorAsked Professor about floodingRead 14 papers · 3 citedSources →

There’s no evidence flooding works. The slow version has evidence: stay under the startle threshold and pair every dose with food.

3 sources attached
✓Searched the studies on noise fears · 11 found
✓Searched the web for “quietest stick vacuums” · 6 results

Checks in on you

Coach can set itself a reminder to look in on you: the evening after a hard session, or the day a new step starts. When the time comes, Coach reads how training went and messages you first.

  • Schedule a check-inschedule_wakeup
  • List upcoming check-inslist_scheduled_wakeups
  • Cancel a check-incancel_wakeup
Oct9✓Check-inCheck-in Thursday at 6:00 PMAsk how step 3 went, and read the sessionCheck-ins →

Asks before it acts

Coach asks when it should: quick multiple-choice questions you can answer with a tap, and your say before anything is deleted. On bigger jobs Coach keeps a checklist you can watch tick along.

  • Ask you a quick questionask_user
  • Keep a checklist for a big jobwrite_todos
Coach asks

When the vacuum comes out, what does Nettle do?

✓ Leaves the roomFreezes and staresBarks at it
Coach’s checklist · 3 of 4
  • ✓Review tonight’s session
  • ✓Look at frame 4 again
  • ✓Add closet steps to the plan
  • Schedule Thursday’s check-in

Knows all your dogs

Tell Coach about a new dog and Coach sets up their profile, their notebook and their Journey. Send a photo and Coach can make it their profile picture.

  • Add a dogcreate_pet
  • Update a dog’s profileedit_pet
  • Set a profile photoset_pet_avatar
  • Look at a dog’s photoview_pet_photo
N✓Your dogsAdded NettleIcelandic Sheepdog
How Coach works

Errands in one trip

Some jobs mean doing one small thing many times: checking every note for a word, adding up a month of sessions. Instead of asking for each one, Coach writes a few lines of instructions and runs them all at once, in a sealed sandbox that can only use Coach's own tools. Only the answer comes back to Coach.

It's quicker, and your Coach energy goes further. The chat still shows every tool the script used and how many times, and you can peek at the script itself: each line lights up as it runs.

Running a scriptLooking through every note for the vacuum and the closetSearched 38 files and 2 other actions
List files×0Read file×0Search goals×0→ 4 notes and 1 goal came back
1-- Every note that mentions the vacuum or the closet
2local listing = tools.list_files({path = "/SharedPets/Nettle"})
3local hits = {}
4for _, f in ipairs(listing.content.files or {}) do
5  if string.ends_with(f.path, ".md") then
6    local r = tools.read_file({file_path = f.path})
7    if r.ok and regex.match(r.content, "(?i)(vacuum|closet)") then
8      hits[#hits + 1] = {path = f.path, lines = #regex.scan(r.content, "(?i)(vacuum|closet)")}
9    end
10  end
11end
12local goals = tools.search_goals({dog = "Nettle", query = "vacuum"})
13return {hits = hits, goals = goals.content}

A light toolbelt

Coach keeps the everyday tools on its belt and fetches the specialist ones from the toolbox only when a conversation needs them. Less to carry means every reply starts light.

✓Searched the toolbox
Oct9✓Check-inCheck-in Thursday at 6:00 PMAsk how step 3 went, and read the sessionCheck-ins →

Helpers for the big jobs

Some questions deserve a long look. Coach hands those to a helper and carries on with you while it works.

  • Professor

    Goes off to research a hard question properly, then reports back with the papers.

    ask_professor
  • The librarian

    Knows every plan in the library and finds the ones that fit your dog.

    consult_plans
  • The web helper

    Searches and reads the web, and brings back only what matters.

    ask_web_agent

Coach's rules

  • Kind methods only

    No quick fixes that aren’t real, and no shortcuts that hurt your dog. Coach won’t suggest prong, choke or shock collars.

  • Cites, or says so

    When Coach answers from research, the papers come with it. When the evidence isn’t there, Coach tells you.

  • Asks before deleting

    Nothing in your dog’s notebook is removed until you say yes.

  • Shows every step

    Every tool Coach uses leaves a line or a card in the chat, scripts included.

Under the hood

For the technically curious.
The model
Coach runs on Claude Opus 5.5, from Anthropic. Professor runs on Claude Fable 5.1 and works with Assistant, Claude Haiku 5.5, to read studies.
Code mode
Scripts are Lua, run in a sandbox with a fuel budget per script. Tool results stay inside the script as tables; only the return value reaches the model.
Tool search
Rarely used tools are deferred and found with server-side tool search, so they never sit in the prompt until a conversation needs them.
Skills
Long guides, like plan writing, load mid-conversation only when Coach needs them.
How it runs
Run a script: many steps in one go call_luaFetch a tool from the toolbox tool_search_tool_regexHand a side job to a helper task

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