Bots and chats

Each bot is a teammate with one continuous chat, its own instructions and memory, and a computer to work on.

Create a bot

Your first bot is created for you when you sign up. To add another, choose Create (the + at the top of the sidebar), then New bot. If you have more than one space, pick the space it goes in. Give it a name and choose Create.

Then tell it its job in the chat, in plain words. It asks for anything else it needs, such as a sign-in or an app to connect.

Tip

One bot per job works best: an inbox bot, a research bot, a bot for one client. Each keeps its own history and memory, so it gets better at that job over time.

Talk to it

Type in the composer and press Enter. While a bot works, a short line such as Working… shows it's busy. You can keep chatting meanwhile, and Stop ends the current run.

Attach file adds files and images. If the bot's model can't read images, you can still send the picture as a file for the bot to work with.
Type @ to mention another bot, a group, a routine or a connected app.
Type / at the start of a message to use a skill.
Hover a message to React, Reply or Copy. Select text in a reply to quote just that part.
Hold the microphone to talk instead of typing. See Voice and calls.

Bots reply with formatted text, tables, charts and files. Files they send open in a preview and can be downloaded. Every file a bot has sent is also listed in Library.

When you ask a bot to find something to buy, it can show the products as cards with photos, price and rating. Open one for details, and View on the shop's site to go there.

To see which tools a bot used in a reply, turn on Show tool activity in Settings → General under Advanced, on web and the desktop app.

When a bot needs something from you, it posts a card in the chat: a question, an approval, or a request to take over its screen. Cards never block the chat; you can answer later.

Bot settings

Click the bot's name at the top of the chat, or choose Edit Profile from its menu in the sidebar, to open its settings. Change the Name and avatar at the top: pick a shape and color, or upload an image. The settings have four tabs:

Activity: a live preview of the bot's computer, Create a routine while it has none, and Voice: Read replies aloud and the bot's voice.
Library: the files and pages the bot has made.
Routines: its routines.
Advanced:
- Notifications: When it finishes or needs input.
- Open work: the to-do list the bot keeps for itself. You can add, complete or remove items.
- Memory: what the bot has written down. See Memory.
- Model and Thinking: override the model for this bot.
- Computer: Team or Private. See The bot's computer.
- Permissions: Allow cross-space bot communication, Manage the bots it creates, and Suggest work on your primary bot.
- Instructions: the bot's standing instructions. Instruction history lets you restore an earlier version. See Write good instructions.
- How other bots see it: a short description other bots read when deciding whom to ask.
- Tools: Disable a tool the bot should never use.
- Export downloads the bot's setup, memory, routines, files and its whole chat history as a file. Clear conversation empties the chat but keeps its memory.

Switches and instructions save as you change them. Other changes, such as the name, model, computer or voice, show Save at the bottom of Advanced.

You can also ask the bot in chat to change its name, instructions, model, thinking, voice and read-aloud. A new set of instructions follows your approvals: when they ask, an Update instructions? card shows the change. Model, thinking and voice changes apply at once with Undo. Computer, tools, permissions and memory scope stay in Settings, since they change what the bot can reach.

On someone else's bot in a team space, you see only Notifications and Open work under Advanced.

Organize the sidebar

Right-click a bot in the sidebar to Pin it, Make primary, Move to a section, Mark as Unread, Edit Profile, Duplicate, Clear conversation, Archive or Delete it. Archived bots can be restored later.

Duplicate makes a new bot with the same instructions, description, look, model, computer setting, disabled tools and MCP servers. Its memory, routines and chat aren't copied.

Bots in a team space are shared. Only the person who made one and the team's owners and admins can change, archive or delete it.

One bot can be your primary bot, which suggests work once a day.

Find things

Search in the sidebar searches bots and conversations. Press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) to jump to any bot.
Activity in the sidebar lists every run, with filters for status and date. Use it to find a run that failed or is waiting on you.
Library lists every file and page bots have made, with tabs for Files, Pages and Shared with me, search, and filters by bot and date. On web and the desktop app, open it from the account menu under Workspace tools; on mobile, it's in the account screen. A bot's own files are in the Library tab of its settings, with View all files.