Personal research project — not for production. Provided as is, without warranty; not affiliated with the author's employer, Liquidware or Microsoft. avd-buddy reads and proposes plans only; every change is approved in GitHub on the exact plan ID and hash.

Ask about your AVD, Windows 365 or Intune estate

Answer first, plain words for the why, and a link to verify it yourself.

Agents are halted (`halt-agents`)

The chat composer is disabled while the kill switch is at halt-agents. Nothing is calling a model or MCP tool.

Inspect or reset in Azure Cloud Shell (person only)

Status & kill switch

Kill switch position

run

Today's metered token spend

$1.42 of $15.00 daily cap

Waiting on the operator

Trip the kill switch (governance section 2.3)

You can trip the kill switch from avd-buddy to stop actions or agents immediately. Resetting is never offered in the app; resetting requires a person running the Cloud Shell block below.

Reset block (Azure Cloud Shell only, never in-app)

Settings

Personal research project — not for production. Provided as is, without warranty; not affiliated with the author's employer, Liquidware or Microsoft.

Humor & asides

humor: off hides every aside for good; teaching and calm stay (docs/buddy-voice.md section 1).

Answer depth

Default to the short version with an offer, or include the longer walkthrough right away.

Theme

Follows your device by default, or forces light or dark.

Push notifications

Off by default (Phase C). Carries only the fixed text "avd-buddy needs you" and never estate data.

Off by default

Session & device privacy

Settings live in localStorage; no token, conversation, plan or estate name is kept on the device.

avd-buddy can't reach its service.

The API may be stopped by the kill switch (halt-all) or unreachable over your current connection. Nothing was sent.

Check or reset in Azure Cloud Shell (person only)