Environments
Choose whether a bot runs on this computer or on Vato Cloud, move it between the two and manage it from any device.
Every bot runs in one place: on This computer or on your Vato Cloud machine, never both at once. You choose when you create the bot, and you can move it later.
This computer
By default, a bot runs on the computer where you created it, with every bot feature, including Computer Use and the full Vato Vault. It only works while that computer is on and Vato is running.
Vato Cloud
Vato Cloud is a private machine hosted by Vato for your agents and bots. A bot there keeps replying and running its routines even when your computer is off.
Set up your machine
- Open Settings → Vato Cloud and click Create my machine. It starts in a few seconds.
- Under Provider accounts, click Copy to Vato Cloud next to each Claude or Codex account your bots should use.
The same page lets you Start, Stop, Restart or Delete the machine. Deleting it erases its workspaces and its bots.
When an account stops working
A copied account shares its sign-in with your computer, so it can expire on Vato Cloud. When that happens, Vato asks Reconnect Claude on Vato Cloud (or Codex):
- Click Reconnect. Your browser opens the provider's sign-in page.
- Approve, then paste the code Claude shows into the dialog. Codex shows a one-time code to enter in the browser instead.
Vato Cloud then keeps its own sign-in, independent from your computer. The message that failed is sent again automatically, and its "Failed to authenticate" error is hidden from the chat. If you click Later, the question comes back the next time you open Vato.
Sleep and wake up
After 4 hours without activity, the machine goes to sleep. Bots, memory and conversations stay exactly where they were.
- A message to a bot on Vato Cloud wakes the machine up, and is sent as soon as it answers.
- If a routine is scheduled, the machine wakes up on its own to run it.
- A machine you stopped yourself never wakes up on its own. Start it again from Settings → Vato Cloud.
What's different on Vato Cloud
| Feature | On Vato Cloud |
|---|---|
| Models | Claude, Codex, Gemini or Vato AI. |
| Computer Use | Not available: the machine has no screen. |
| Vato Vault | Only the items you chose to copy to Vato Cloud. |
| Connected apps | Your apps connected through Composio. |
| Groups | Bots on this computer and on Vato Cloud can't share a group. |
Actions menu sections that your machine doesn't support are hidden for a bot on Vato Cloud.
Move a bot
The button next to the bot's message field shows where it runs.
- Click This computer or Vato Cloud.
- Choose the other place.
- Confirm with Move or Bring back.
If an option is greyed out, the reason is written under it, for example an unsupported model or an account that wasn't copied.
Moving to Vato Cloud takes the bot's memory, brief, routines and recent chat with it, encrypted. The bot stays in your list with a cloud badge, and its copy on this computer is paused. Bringing it back restores its memory and the messages exchanged on Vato Cloud, resumes its routines here, then deletes the cloud copy.
You can also do both from Actions → Advanced settings.
Manage a cloud bot from anywhere
A bot on Vato Cloud is listed on the desktop, in the mobile app and on the web, even with your computer off. From each of them you can chat with it, edit its memory, and run, pause or delete its routines. In the mobile app, a Vato Cloud card at the top of the Bots tab shows whether the machine is online or asleep.
Watch the bot's browser
When a bot on Vato Cloud browses the web, click Session browser (the globe button) in its chat header to watch it live. Click Take control to click, scroll and type yourself: the bot waits until you click Hand back.