The Operations Copilot: Scope and Reasoning Loop

An advisory agent that generates runbooks and procedures, supports shift handoff, and assembles campaign context from the twin and the data fabric.

What the Operations Copilot does

The Operations Copilot is the procedure-facing agent of L5. It converts approved scenarios and maintenance plans into executable runbooks, generates step-by-step operating and recovery procedures, supports shift handoff, and assembles campaign context. It is the connective tissue between the Plasma and Engineering copilots' proposals and the humans who carry them out.

Three capabilities

• Runbook generation: turn an approved scenario into ordered, checkable steps
• Procedure generation: startup, shutdown, recovery, and maintenance procedures
• Shift handoff: summarize state, open items, and risks between crews

Every generated artifact is grounded in retrieval over approved procedure templates, standing orders, and the current twin state, and every step that has a plant side-effect is marked as requiring L4 authorization and human confirmation. The Operations Copilot writes procedures; it does not run them.

Grounded, not invented

A generated runbook is assembled from a retrieved template plus current context, never freely composed. Each step cites its source template and any twin-state precondition, so a reviewer can confirm the procedure matches approved practice. Steps that would exceed the safe operating envelope are refused at generation time.

generate_runbook(approved_scenario):
  tmpl  = rag.retrieve('runbook template', approved_scenario.type)
  state = twin.current_state()
  steps = fill(tmpl, approved_scenario, state)
  for s in steps:
     s.precondition = check(state, envelope)
     s.authorization = 'L4 + human' if s.side_effect else 'none'
  return runbook(steps, cite=[tmpl, state])

The following pages detail runbook generation, procedure generation, shift handoff, and commissioning support. Because both machines are pre-FOAK design-and-simulation studies, the Operations Copilot's near-term product is the commissioning and first-campaign procedure set validated against the twin.