Agents

Agents let AI operate Starlight for you. Open the panel with the Agents button (or press A) on any page to chat with an assistant that can search leads, judge their fit, draft outreach, and — with your sign-off — send it. You can also create virtual SDRs: persistent agents that run on a schedule and work even while you sleep.

Chat

The Chat tab is a command surface for everything in Starlight. Ask things like "find 10 leads that match our ICP and judge their fit" or "draft personalized outreach to my best unsent contacts." The agent uses the same tools you do — every search lands on the Search page, every draft waits in Messages.

Before recommending any send, the agent runs an independent quality judge over each draft. It will always ask for your explicit confirmation in the conversation before approving anything for sending.

You can stop the agent at any time. While it is working, the send button becomes a Stop button (or press Esc). Stopping halts the agent immediately: no further steps run and no further credits are spent. A step that was already underway is allowed to finish rather than be cut off halfway, so the conversation tells you exactly where things landed — what completed, what was interrupted, and that nothing new was started.

The chat agent also knows your workspace setup — whether your email and calendar are connected, whether the Chrome extension is installed and active, and whether your booking page is ready — so it can flag gaps before a campaign instead of guessing. And it can manage your virtual SDRs directly from the conversation: ask it to create an agent, adjust a quota or schedule, pause or resume one, kick off a run right now, or report what an agent did on its last run. A clear ask is all it needs — request an Autopilot agent and it creates it that way in one step, telling you plainly that passing drafts will send without review. It only asks follow-up questions when your request leaves out something material, and deleting an agent always requires your confirmation.

Virtual SDRs

The My Agents tab manages persistent agents. Each one has a goal, an ideal customer profile, a drafting brief, a weekly lead quota, and a schedule. On each run the agent:

1. Sources leads from its query set — paging deeper into searches that are already working, and planning fresh complementary angles only when those are drained

2. Scores every result 0–100 against the ICP and keeps only strong fits (50+ by default), skipping anyone it has already contacted

3. Adds the keepers to Contacts and drafts a personalized sequence for each

4. Scores every draft for personalization grounding, tone, and spam signals

Because the agent paginates a query that fits instead of reinventing one each run, a well-targeted ideal customer profile keeps producing fresh, relevant drafts run after run rather than running dry after the first page. It only pauses itself once it has genuinely exhausted every angle — if that happens, broaden the profile or lower the fit bar and resume.

Set the weekly lead quota to match the volume you want; higher quotas contact more new people each week. Sustained high volume also depends on your sending capacity — see Deliverability.

Every run produces a timeline you can audit — the searches it ran, the judge scores, and why leads or drafts were rejected.

Autopilot

By default, everything an agent drafts waits in Messagesfor your review — nothing sends without you. Flip an agent's Autopilot toggle and it will approve and send drafts that pass its quality bar on its own:

• Email sends from your connected Gmail or Outlook account on the normal schedule
• LinkedIn requires the Chrome extension with its own Autopilot toggle enabled — while Chrome is open, the extension sends approved LinkedIn messages automatically, capped at 25 per day to protect your account

Use Starlight from Claude Code, Codex, and other AI tools

Starlight ships a hosted MCP server, so any MCP-capable AI tool can run your prospecting and outreach. In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http starlight https://joinstarlight.com/api/mcp

Your browser opens, you sign in to Starlight (or create an account), and approve the connection. Then just ask your AI tool things like "find 20 leads for my company" or "draft personalized outbound to 20 leads." Drafts are created for review; sending always requires the assistant to confirm with you first.

Credits

Agents use the same credit balance as the rest of Starlight. A scheduled agent that can't afford its next run skips it and retries on the next schedule.