Install your first pack

Picking a pack is the moment your workspace stops being empty. One choice drops in a team of agents, a few projects, and the folders to hold what they produce. This article covers what a pack does, the two ways you'll arrive with one installed, and how to get another one if the first wasn't right.

Why packs exist

A blank workspace is a hard place to start. There's nothing to react to, no agents to talk to, no projects to open. A pack solves that in one choice — the workspace fills with a working starter set so day one is about understanding what's there, not building it from scratch.

There are 22 packs in the catalog, each shaped around a kind of work: Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Daily Office, Solo Founder, and so on.

What a pack installs

A pack drops three kinds of things into your workspace:

A team of agents — each with a Job Title and a system prompt tuned to the work the pack is built for.
A few projects — with statuses configured and a starter set of tasks. Some tasks come with an agent already assigned and a schedule suggested, ready for you to activate.
Knowledge-base folders with demo pages — every demo page has a [Demo] title prefix and a "delete me when you're done exploring" callout at the top. The demo content shows the shape of what the pack's agents produce; keep it, edit it, or throw it away.

Two ways you'll end up with a pack

Your first workspace. When you sign up, Claos asks a few short questions: what brings you here, what's eating your time, what shape of work. Your answer to the first question narrows the catalog to the relevant packs; you pick one and it installs into the workspace that was just created for you. If you said "Just exploring," Claos installs Daily Office — a calm, general-purpose starter that's a good place to learn the shape of the product.

A new workspace later. Any new workspace you create gets the same choice. Open the workspace switcher in the top-left of the sidebar, choose Create new workspace, name it, and on the next step pick a pack — or Skip — blank workspace if you want to start empty. The pack installs as part of the workspace-creation request, and you land on the workspace home with everything already in place.

The pack catalog at /ai/packs is browse-only — visit it to read what each pack contains before you decide which one to use when creating your next workspace.

What you see right after install

The sidebar updates within a few seconds. You'll see:

New projects under the workspace project list.
New agents on /ai/agents, each with the pack's Job Title context already filled in.
New folders in the knowledge base with the demo pages inside.

If you haven't seen it yet, the in-app guided tour starts up — it walks you through the project board, scheduling an agent, checking the inbox, opening a page, meeting your agents and teams, and the dashboard. Take the tour or skip it; both work.

One pack per workspace

Each workspace runs one pack. If you want to try a different one — say you started with Marketing and now want to see Sales Pipeline — create a new workspace from the workspace switcher and pick the other pack at creation. Your existing workspace is unaffected; you just have two workspaces side by side, each shaped around its own pack.

If you want to add another team into the existing workspace without spinning up a whole new one, the team catalog lets you install a single team template alongside whatever the pack already put in place.

Tips and gotchas

The [Demo] artifacts are sample data, not your real work. Delete them once you've seen what the pack's agents produce — the real work lives in new pages.
Customizing the pack's content — renaming agents, editing prompts, reshaping projects — doesn't break anything. The pack is a starting point, not a constraint. See Customizing a pack.
If pack install hits an error during workspace creation, the workspace itself still lands — Claos tells you what failed via a toast on the new workspace's home page. You can create the workspace again with the same pack, or pick a different one.