Making things with Claos, and watching them arrive

The row of circles under the composer on Home starts something with Claos: a Document, Research, Task, Project plan, Automation, Database, Design, Presentation, Image, a Browser session or an Agent. Pick one and the chat opens with Claos asking what it needs, while the thing itself opens blank beside the chat. Image is the exception: the picture arrives in Claos's reply, so it needs no panel.

Nothing is saved until someone writes

The thing beside the chat is the real page, task, table or canvas, ready to edit, but it is not saved yet. If you look and leave, close it, or switch conversations, nothing is added to your workspace.

It is saved the moment someone starts on it:

• You start on it. A title, a first line, a database name, a click in the table or on the canvas, a frequency for an automation. It is saved then, and you carry on in the same place.
• Claos makes it. Answer Claos's question in the chat and it creates the thing into the panel.

Pages and databases started this way are filed in the Artifacts folder of your Knowledge Base, the same place everything else Claos writes goes.

On a phone the blank thing waits behind a button above the composer ("Open the blank page"), so the chat stays readable. Closing it puts it back behind the button; it is still there for Claos to fill.

Watching it written

While Claos writes, the panel fills in as it goes:

• A page appears paragraph by paragraph, with Claos's cursor where it is writing, the same cursor you see when Claos uses the browser. Scroll up to read and it stops following you; scroll back to the bottom and it follows again.
• A task fills in its title, priority, project and description as each arrives.
• A project plan shows the project, then each task as Claos adds it, and stays in the panel with a link to open the project.
• An automation shows its instructions and, once Claos has set it, how often it runs.
• A database shows its columns as Claos adds them, then its own table, with the rows Claos adds appearing as they are written.
• A design or presentation draws section by section, or slide by slide, then opens on its canvas.

The status line under Claos in the chat says what is happening: "Writing "Launch plan", section 3 so far", "Adding columns: 3", "Saving the design".

Claos's edits, highlighted

Ask Claos to change a page that is open beside the chat ("make the second paragraph shorter", "add an entry under Decisions") and you see the change where it goes before it is saved: the old text struck through, the new text arriving in a soft green block. Once it is saved, the lines that changed stay tinted for a few seconds so you can see exactly what moved.

Changing course while Claos works

You don't have to wait for Claos to finish, or stop it, to change what it's doing. While it works, the box under the chat stays open and reads "Tell Claos more while it works". Type a correction or an extra detail ("focus on the 1800s", "call it Launch plan") and send it.

• Your message waits in a card above the box, with "Claos will read this at its next step". The x on the card takes it back if you change your mind.
• When Claos reads it, the card goes and your message appears in the chat, marked "Claos read this": inside Claos's reply at the point it was read, or above Claos's reply if Claos read it before writing anything. Claos carries on with your message in mind, without starting over.
• If Claos is already writing its final answer, the card reads "Sending when Claos finishes", and your message goes as your next message as soon as it does.
• Stop still stops. A message Claos hadn't read yet goes back into the box, so you can send it or delete it.

If you prefer less motion

With your device's reduced motion setting on, drafts update in steps every second or so instead of continuously, nothing slides or fades, and the highlight on Claos's edits stays until you click.