Workbench
The Workbench is the working surface beside chat. Conversation on the left, the actual thing — a draft, a running task, a file, a canvas — on the right.
Opening it
Click any card in chat to open it in the Workbench, or open the panel
directly from the chat header. Collapse it and a slim rail keeps your open
tabs one click away. Keyboard: Cmd/Ctrl + \ toggles the panel, Cmd/Ctrl + 1–9 switches tabs, Cmd/Ctrl + W closes one, Esc collapses.
The home grid
The Workbench home is a grid you arrange yourself: built-in tools alongside live cards that stay current — recent tasks, connection health, recent files, recent memory. Enter edit mode to drag, resize, and remove.
Want a card that doesn't exist? Describe it in a sentence — "show my open questions by week" — and your avatar builds it as a live card you can keep, resize, or ask it to revise.
Built-in tools include a text editor, a code editor, quick notes, a spreadsheet viewer, an infinite canvas for image work, coding projects, and your repositories once a code host is connected.
What opens in tabs
- Drafts — documents your avatar is writing; edit alongside it, with an unsaved-changes guard when you close
- Tasks — a running task's own view: progress, runs, artifacts, and its schedule
- Plans — a plan's full detail while you decide
- Library files — open any file from your Library; documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, images, audio, video, code, and archives all have native viewers
- Connection setup — adding a new tool walks through its steps in a tab
- Canvas — compose and edit images on an infinite canvas, with reference images and touch-up edits
- History — everything that's ever opened, browsable as a grid
Taking work out
Export any exportable tab as an image, a web page, or a text document
(Cmd/Ctrl + D). Files your avatar produces are already in your Library —
nothing extra to save.