BusyBro is the AI teammate built into Busymate DevTools — it answers questions about your live traffic, reverse-engineers captured APIs (redacting secrets), and runs actions on your behalf, all scoped to what your role is allowed to do.
What BusyBro is
BusyBro knows the Busymate codebase and your captured data cold. Ask it a plain-language question and it pulls the live answer — how many devices reported in the last hour, what a specific app's login flow looks like, which device hit a given host — then, if you want, it acts: rename a device, toggle a VPN, route a device through an upstream proxy, tidy your service groups and tags.
It is one shared brain behind three places you can reach it:
- In the dashboard — a floating chat panel with streaming, Markdown answers. See In the dashboard.
- On Telegram — the standalone @busybrobot bot: link your account, chat in a DM, use discussion mode in a group, and send screenshots. See On Telegram.
- Over MCP — the same capabilities as JSON-RPC tools for programmatic clients. See the MCP server and the BusyBro API reference.
Because all three share one brain, the persona, the tools, and the permission model are identical everywhere — only the surface (a chat panel vs. a Telegram message) changes.
What it's good at
- Grounded answers about your data. Device fleet, live status, captured traffic, effective settings, workspaces, tags, and service groups — read from the real database, not guessed.
- Reverse-engineering captured APIs. Point it at a host and it reads the actual captured request/response headers and bodies to explain an auth flow or hand you repro code — with tokens, cookies, and credentials redacted.
- Acting for you. Capability-gated writes (rename, VPN on/off, connection type, external proxy, Live Activity message, service-group and tag edits, remote browser control) — always scoped to your role and the devices you own.
- Reaching beyond the project. Web search for third-party API changes, library docs, and current events when the answer lives outside the codebase.
How it stays safe
BusyBro acts as you. Every read and every action is checked against your role's capabilities (see Roles) and limited to the devices you own. Destructive actions are confirm-gated, and nothing it shows you leaks a secret — repro snippets redact tokens and cookies. Read the full picture in What it can do.
Specialist lenses
BusyBro answers each question through the best-fit specialist lens — including a built-in ⚡ Performance specialist — and you can give any of your own service groups its own expert persona. See Specialist agents.
Tip: New to BusyBro? Open the chat panel in the dashboard and tap one of the suggested prompts, or DM @busybrobot and run
/login.
Where to go next
- In the dashboard — the chat panel, streaming, and threads.
- On Telegram — link your account and chat with @busybrobot.
- Specialist agents — per-service expert personas.
- What it can do — data, actions, web search, and permissions.
- Architecture: BusyBro — how the shared brain is built.