Custom Otto agents

Options for YAML frontmatter configuration of Custom Otto agents.

Examples

reporter.md

---
otto:
  agent:
    name: Standup Reporter
    mcp_servers:
    - slack
    model: gpt-4o
    model_settings:
      temperature: 0.1
    tools:
      - "*"
---

# Standup Reporter

Agent

Below are the properties for the Agent. Each property links to the specific details section further down in this page.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
name		string	Yes	Any name you'd like to refer to your Agent by.
mcp_servers		array[string]	No	Currently, only Slack is natively supported
model		string	Yes	Any available OpenAI model i.e. gpt-4o
model_settings		Model-Settings	No	Temperature and reasoning effort level
tools		array[string]	Yes	Either specific tools that Otto can access or [category].* for all tools in a given category, or * for all tools.

Property Details

Model settings

Configuration options for model behavior and performance.

Property	Default	Type	Required	Description
reasoning		string	No	Specify low, medium, or high effort levels for reasoning models such as o1
temperature		number	No	Specify level of randomness or creativity of the model's output from 0 being the least creative to 1 being the most