The OPS button gives the following tabs:
Inventory
- Main article: Inventory
The Inventory tab contains all the Items owned by the Agent. The Agent can use this screen to maintain their collection by dropping, recycling, and encapsulating items.
The Inventory screen also tracks the Agent's item count. An Agent's inventory is capped at 2 000 items, with C.O.R.E. Agents having their inventory limit extended by 500 as part of their C.O.R.E.-membership.
Filtering the Inventory
Inventory view
The inventory is broken down into multiple categories, with the number of items in each category shown below. Should an Agent not possess any items in a category, it is hidden from the inventory view.
If the Agent exits the OPS Menu and reopens it afterwards, the Scanner will remember the last category and item he or she selected.
Sorting the Inventory
Portal Keys 
can be sorted by distance or name. If sorted by distance, the Portal Keys will only be re-sorted when the Agent closes and reopens the OPS Menu, even if he or she is on the move.
Maintaining the Inventory
An Agent can remove unwanted items from the Inventory by dropping them on the world map or recycling them into Exotic Matter (XM). To do so, select the target item to open its Item Card, then tap the 'Drop'- or 'Recycle'-button as desired. Items can be recycled in bulk, but must be dropped individually.
Dropped items will appear on other Agents' Scanners for ~12 hours, and then vanish. Recycling the items denies other Agents the ability to salvage them, and provides a small amount of XM.
To load an item into a Capsule 
, open the Capsule's Item Card, tap the Load button, select the desired item, set the quantity, and hit Load.
Using Items from Inventory
An Agent can activate Power Cubes 
, XMP Bursters 
, Ultra Strikes 
, Flip Cards (ADA Refactors 
/JARVIS Viruses 
), Media 
, and Portal Keys from Inventory. Media can only be used from Inventory.
Resonators 
and Portal Mods, as well as certain Boosts can not be activated from Inventory. They can only be dropped or recycled.
Inventory Cap
Agents can hold 2 000 items, with a 500 inventory capacity extension for active C.O.R.E. members. Items contained in Capsules still count towards inventory cap. Exceptions to this are Portal Keys stored in a Key Locker.
If an Agent is carrying too many items, they can not hack Portals nor pick up dropped items. The action will fail with a warning that the Agent is out of inventory space. In addition, all Quantum Capsules they own will not produce items and the Agent can not redeem Passcodes.
To pick up a Capsule , the Agent must have enough room for all items within the Capsule , plus one for the Capsule itself. A full Capsule thus needs 101 slots.
Hacking a Portal while close to cap can overload the inventory and cause the Agent to possess more items than cap. For example, if a non-C.O.R.E. Agent is holding 1 999 items and perfectly Glyph Hacks a Level 7 Portal, they could, for example, be awarded with 4 Resonators , 5 XMP Bursters , a Portal Shield 
, and a Portal Key for a total of 2 010 items.
In addition, reaching a new Access Level or having the C.O.R.E. Subscription renewed always awards the Agent an Item Pack, even if that puts the Agent significantly over cap.
Key Lockers
- Main article: Key Locker
Key Lockers are special capsules that only hold Portal Keys , outside of your regular Inventory. They are not hackable and can only be obtained by purchasing them from the in-Scanner Store. While a Key Locker itself takes an inventory slot, its contents do not. An Agent may carry up to six Key Lockers, and each Key Locker may carry up to 100 Portal Keys , effectively giving the Agent an extra 594 inventory slots over the 2 000 maximum (but only for Portal Keys ). The Key Lockers are colour-coded for your convenience. The drawback is that while in a Key Locker, like Capsule , Portal Keys are invisible to normal operations and cannot be used.
During the Ingress Year Five double AP celebration in November 2017, Agents could get an special Red-Black coloured Key Locker for 
0 CMU. This Key Locker colour can currently not be obtained, and it is unclear if it will ever be made available again.
Strategy
Managing cap and optimizing inventory is a key skill in high-level operations. An Agent's collection of Capsules , high-end Portal Mods, Flip Cards, and important Portal Keys will tie up a substantial amount of Inventory space, making item allocation an important strategic decision.
An Agent with a substantial number of Resonators in different levels and a large stash of Portal Keys has maximum versatility in linking and fielding, but lacks the hundreds of Weapons required to attack a fortified area. Likewise, an Agent who devotes more space to Weapons and Power Cubes can attack nearly any target, but could be cut off from the Resonators required to Link, Control Field Δ, and upgrade friendly Portals after a relatively short time. Some Agents prefer to leave slots open to store an increased number of Common Portal Mods, reduce the amount of prep work before farming, and readily acquire dropped Capsules . Some Agents stockpile only L7 and L8 Resonators , and rely on hacking to fill out Portals.
Store
- Main article: Store
The Ingress in-game Store has items for sale that cannot be obtained through hacking. To make purchases, agents must first exchange money for CMU (the in-game Store currency). Items for sale in the Store include:
- Portal Frackers (doubles the hack output when applied to a portal)
- Key Lockers (each locker holds 100 keys outside of Inventory)
- Beacons (all beacons display above a portal for four hours when applied to a portal) there are four distinct styles, during Anomalies Niantic will often release a specific limited-time-only Beacon.
- Enl
- Res
- Target
- Meetup
Agent
Player's personal stats and jacket.
Intel
- Main article: Intel
The Intel tab of the OPS Menu displays regional and global Mind Unit (MU) scores, as well as the regional leaderboard.
It also counts down the time remaining in the current Checkpoint and Cycle.
Global View
The Global View is the initial page of the Intel tab, prominently featuring a rotating globe, score bars and time plot of global Faction MU, access to the global scoring history, and access to Regional Scores.
Patches of the globe are coloured according to the MU totals of the areas underneath, heavily stylized across regions and geographies. The globe is identical to the one seen in the boot-up animation.
The global score bars and time plots show the total number of MU under current control of each faction. The score bars' length is relative to 700 000 000 MUs, and the time plot is relative to the highest score during a Checkpoint in the current Cycle.
Tapping 'History' allows an Agent to see historical scores and globe during past Checkpoints. Agents can access comprehensive scoring history of the latest 40 Checkpoints.
Regional Scores
The Regional Scores view shows the current MU control and total scoring of Agents active in the viewer's current Region.
While the regional and global scores are tabulated once at Checkpoint, Top-Agent scores are cumulative during the time leading up to the previous checkpoint. That is, only Control Fields Δ standing at the Checkpoint time count towards regional and global scores, but the total MU of all Control Fields Δ created by a given Agent counts towards his or her standing on the leaderboard, regardless if the Control Fields Δ are standing at the Checkpoint.
Top-Agent scores are reset at the beginning of each Checkpoint.
Tapping the Cell Activity button allows the Agent to observe the scoring in the eight regions that border the current region.
Training
Training Missions are various short tutorials introducing new Agents to the gameplay and various parts of the game. Missions include hacking a portal, placing resonators, walking a short distance, etc. Agents earn AP for each mission, and a badge for completing all of them.
Recruit
A tab to invite by email a number of other players to play Ingress. Agents can gain Access Points when those invited create an Ingress Account.
Community
Listed under this tab are links to the various social media outputs of Ingress and the factions thereof.
Ingress can be followed on their Google+ page, their Facebook, and their Twitter.
The link to the Ingress Youtube account can also be found here. Among other videos, this account namely holds the Ingress Report episodes that are found as Media item drops.
Other items on this page include a link to details about Ingress Live Events, which are opportunities for Agents to meet up and work together. These events can be Anomalies, Mission Days, Ingress First Saturdays, or NL-1331 events.
Passcode
- Main article: Passcode
Under this tab, passcodes can be entered to redeem items. This tab is only found on Android version of Ingress. For iOS users, this ability can be found on the Ingress Intel map. Passcodes can be found hidden in various Ingress and Niantic Releases. The original source of them was P. A. Chapeau's The Sphere of Weirdness, a blog found at nianticproject.com. Passcodes were hidden as ciphers, hidden as pixels in an image, or sometimes in plaintext. Passcodes can also be found in Google+ releases from several sources; some of the developer's private blogs, Ingress' official G+, and some other pages like Verum Inveniri, which has been releasing a series of puzzles in the form of mysterious postcards.
Passcodes are a public release, and lists of them are documented on many sites. But in order to keep the codes by being over-used, Ingress puts both an expiration date and a use counter on most passcodes. Depending on where a passcode is gotten from, and what it contains, they can have longer or shorter availability.
The age of a passcode can often be inferred by its encryption scheme. The newest passcodes (as of Feb 2015) are in the format:
[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][2-9]keyword[2-9]
A short series of passcodes released in January followed the format:
keyword[2-9][a-z][a-z][2-9][2-9][a-z][a-z][2-9]
However, most passcodes you will find on the internet (as of Aug 2015) will have the following format:
[2-9][a-z][a-z][2-9]keyword[a-z][2-9][2-9][2-9][a-z]
Older ones may be along the lines of X74F6O6YE9, creative91h, 5we7kurezet2s3u, and others. Many of these are expired.
Passcodes, when correctly entered into the Passcode tab on Android versions of Ingress, or on the Passcode tab on the Ingress Intel map, leave drops of varying levels. Most passcodes only provide low-level items and Common-Uncommon mods, but some passcodes give out rare items like the JARVIS virus and Capsules. The scanner can send back several responses when entering a passcode- here is a table documenting them.
| "Invalid Passcode" (on both Scanner and Intel Map) | The passcode you’ve attempted to enter is not typed correctly or is not a passcode. You may also get this error on the Intel Map if the passcode you’re attempting to use has expired or if its limit has been reached. |
| "Passcode circuitry too hot. Wait for cool down to enter another passcode." | The NIA has detected excessive activity and has attempted to stop further passcode redemption. The Agent should wait a day or two before redeeming any more codes, or risk having their account frozen or deactivated. |
| "Passcode fully redeemed" (on Scanner) or "Passcode invalid" (on Intel Map) | The passcode you’re attempting to use has expired or its limit has been reached. |
Device
- Main article: Device
The Device tab shows setting for the game. This tab varies by version and operating system.
From this tab, agents can:
- Sign out
- Link their G+ Profile to the game
- Resync Data (between phone and cloud)
- View game sources and build information
- Change Settings of
- Sound
- Compass
- Notifications
- Agent Profile
- Language
- App usage (Launch G+ app rather than browser when prompted)
- Block Agents
- Re-do Tutorials