In order to run courier bot you need to select "Courier" algorithm from drop down box. Courier bot does not need drones or bookmarks. Please unload drones before making first run. There are a few basic settings you need to define in order to setup and run courier bot:

• Home station is a center of your empire, it will be used to find agents in the beginning and also defines faction you going to make courier missions for. Home station is also a place where you need to have ore to make storyline trade missions automatically. First level will require veldspar, second level - scordite, third level - omber and 4th level will require kernite. You need to define this station only once.
• Use checkboxes 1-4 to define agent levels you want to use to make courier missions. Make sure you have enough standing to faction in order to select agents with levels 2 and above (2 requires faction standing 1.0 and above, 3 - 3.0 and above, 4 - 5.0 and above).
• Minimal number of missions defines the number of agents used in home station and neighbour stations when no more missions in progress. If you set minimal number of agents to zero, bot will not try to find agents near home station.
• Bot is making multiple courier missions at once to decrease the number of jumps required per one courier mission. The more missions the better jumps/missions ratio. Dont set this number higher then 20 or bot may spend longer time to compute optimal route. If you dont want to take more missions and want to finish remaining, set both min and max values to zero.
• Current station. If this setting is empty, bot thinks that current station is home station. If you changed location of the bot manually, you may change current station and tell bot where it is. This is not obligatory setting and affect nothing but time spent at the very beginning. If you edited this value click 'Save' button to save change. You dont need to return agent to current station if you dropped character in space last time you played manually. Just make sure you have all taken missions cargo in your cargohold.
• 'Path' button will start optimization and show current best route for you. Used for test purposes only.
• Mission Editor and Statistics button will open a form where you can add new missions manually (usually not required) or browse history:

To add new mission to the queue open agent conversation window and copy mission objectives text. Paste this text into the area marked with "A". Enter agent name in the field marked as "B". Define status of the mission in radio and click Add New Mission button to add mission. The mission may not be added if route generated by autopilot has low security systems or if text not recognized by mission construct. If you was not able to add mission, please report with mission details to developer.

View/Delete missions tab may be used to rewiew mision details and delete missions. Select corresponding row and click 'Delete Mission' button.

Statistics tab in mission viewer shows all missions taken or cancelled by courier bot. Filters may be used to show only missions of interest. These records may be exported to comma separated value (CSV) format if you want to plot graphs of your progress. Courier bot may use statistics to compare missions and reject most unprofitable. How to enable this read in fine tuning settings.