The Claos mental model
The agents do the work. You steer. Most of the rest of the workspace exists to give that work a place to happen and a place to land.
If you've used a doc tool or a project tracker, you're used to doing the work yourself while the app keeps it tidy. In Claos you hand work to agents the way you'd hand it to a colleague, then check what comes back.
How the pieces connect
- Agents are individual workers. Each has a name, a Job Title, instructions, the apps it may use, skills and a memory. Open Agents in the sidebar to talk to one: the list of agents is on the left, the conversation in the middle, and past conversations on the right.
- Rooms are shared conversations with several agents, and your teammates if you invite them. Post a message and the room's lead answers, or @mention the agent you want.
- Projects and tasks are where work is organised. Give a task to an agent and it does the work, now, once at a set time, or on a repeating schedule.
- Scheduling lives on the task. Set a task's Frequency to Daily at 9:00 and the agent runs it every morning.
- Inbox is where you hear back. When an agent finishes a task, a note lands there with a link to the result.
- Knowledge Base is where pages live. Pages your agents write are saved there, in the Artifacts folder unless they're told otherwise, and you can write your own.
- Packs are starter sets of agents, a room, a project and folders. Every new workspace can start from one.
- Integrations let agents act in the apps you already use, such as Gmail, Slack or Google Drive. Without them, agents still work inside Claos.
- The browser lets an agent open real websites, with you watching and stepping in to sign in or approve.
The daily rhythm
Most people settle into a loop. In the morning, the inbox shows what your agents finished overnight. During the day, you ask an agent or a room for something new, or give a task to an agent. Home shows what's running and what needs you.
What goes where
| If you want to… | Use… |
|---|---|
| Ask one agent for something | Agents, then pick the agent |
| Ask a group of agents, or work with teammates and agents together | A room |
| Have work done on a schedule | A task with the agent as assignee and a Frequency set |
| Keep finished work | The Knowledge Base |
| Let an agent act in another app | Connect it on the agent's Plugins tab, or from the Suggested plugins card when you ask the agent for it in chat |
| Have an agent use a website | Ask it in chat, or open the browser yourself |
You can also use it as a doc tool or a tracker
Pages work like any document editor, and projects work like any task tracker. Both modes are fine on their own. Handing work to agents and getting it back finished is what Claos adds.
Common questions
When should I use a room instead of one agent? When the ask has several parts that suit different specialists, or when teammates should see and steer the same thread.
Why does the inbox feel like email? It's the report from your workforce: read what matters, archive the rest.
Where do agent outputs live? In the Knowledge Base. The inbox is the notification; the page is the storage.
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