Tokens can't be placed on the board directly, except in the little notches for intrigue in each location. They can be placed on characters, and there may be some pain between these two.

Face-up cards in your hand will reveal what they are to other players when you move them around. Particularly mastermind, take care not to do this while you have cards in play. (If you must reorganise your hand at that time, flip them down before moving them.)
On that note, you don't have a deck; every player should take all their cards out and lay them out in their hand area at the beginning of the game.
If I can figure out how to make it actually behave like a hand instead I'll do that.

Informer and Police Officer received updates to their goodwill abilities in Cosmic Evil, those variants are filed in base game where they're easy to find. Informer is stronger (and no longer retarded), Police Officer is weaker (but no longer breaks timing).
It's recommended to use them over the originals in all cases (later versions of the base game come with the updated cards).

There is no automation, sorry.