Your first week

A path through your first week with Claos — one small move each day, ending with a workspace that already feels like yours.

This is a path, not a plan. Skip a day, take two days on a step, do it in any order — the point is the rhythm of leaving work for your agents and finding it done, not following a script. Each day picks up roughly where the in-app guided tour leaves off.

Day 1 — Meet your team

If you skipped the in-app tour, walk through it now. Then open the Agents page and read each agent's name and Job Title. Open the Teams page and skim the rosters. Don't delete anything yet, even the pack's [Demo] content — leave it for a few days as a reference for what a "good" setup looks like. You'll know what to keep and what to throw away by the end of the week.

Day 2 — Schedule your first task

Find a task assigned to your Morning Briefer agent (every pack ships with one as part of the Daily Office team — check your pack's main project for a "morning brief" task, or create one in any project and assign Alex to it). Open the task, open the AI Schedule section, and set Frequency to Daily with a Time that matches when you actually open your laptop. Save.

Tomorrow morning, the brief is in your inbox before you start. This is the first "I opened my laptop and the work was already done" moment.

Day 3 — Read your inbox like email

Open the inbox. Your scheduled brief is at the top, plus anything else your agents finished overnight. Treat the inbox the way you'd treat email: open what matters, click through to read the full output in the knowledge base, archive the rest. There's no "approve" button — the outputs are saved as soon as the agent finishes; the inbox is the notification.

Build the habit of triaging the inbox first thing in the morning. Five minutes there beats forty minutes scrolling later.

Day 4 — Find your agents' outputs in the knowledge base

Open the knowledge base. The pages your agents wrote are in folders, organized by project or topic. Open the brief from yesterday — it's a page like any other, editable, linkable, shareable. The inbox was the notification; the knowledge base is the storage. Outputs stay here forever; the inbox clears.

While you're in here, rename a folder or reorganize a page — make one small move to mark it as yours.

Day 5 — Try a team chat

Open one of the pack-installed teams. Give the captain a real cross-functional ask — something a single specialist couldn't handle on their own. Examples: "Draft a positioning doc plus a landing page outline for product X." "Pull last quarter's sales figures and write the board update." "Build the customer-research questionnaire and propose three outreach channels."

The captain reads the ask, delegates work across the members, and the outputs land in the knowledge base under the team's folder. Open the run timeline in the conversation sidebar to see who did what.

Day 6 — Tune your notifications

Open Settings → Notifications. There are six in-app toggles: task assignments, comments, mentions, due date approaching, overdue tasks, and status changes. Turn off the ones you don't care about — these are the things that ping you while you're working, so tune the volume now or you'll start ignoring them all.

Below that, set Quiet hours so the workspace stops nudging you after work. Most users set them to mute notifications between roughly 7pm and 8am.

Day 7 — Edit one agent's prompt

The smallest custom act, saved for last. Open the agent from day 2 — Alex, your Morning Briefer. Change one line of the system prompt. Maybe you want shorter briefs, or a focus on inbox over calendar, or no "good morning" greeting. Save.

Run the task again. The next brief reflects your edit. This is the shift from "the pack gave me this team" to "this is my team." From here, customizing more agents — or building one from scratch — is a smaller leap.

Tips and gotchas

• This is a suggested path, not a homework assignment. If day 5 takes you three days, take three days.
• If your pack doesn't have an obvious "morning brief" task pre-built, create one in any project and assign Alex to it — the Morning Briefer agent ships with every pack.
• Email notifications are off for now. The inbox is the channel; tune the toggles to control what shows up there.

What to try next

Once the week's rhythm has settled, two optional extensions extend what your agents can do:

• Connect your first integration. Settings → Integrations → pick an app your agents already need (Gmail, Slack, Drive). Toggle it on for one agent in its Tools & Access list and rerun the morning brief — the agent now has reach into a real third-party app. See What are integrations?.
• Link a messaging channel. If you'd rather check in from your phone, Settings → Channels → run /claos connect in Slack, Telegram, Discord, or WhatsApp. Your agents now answer you wherever you already chat. See What are messaging channels?.

Both are bonus, not required. They make sense once the basic loop feels natural.

Related

• Chatting with an agent
• Scheduling agents
• Chatting with a team
• Building a custom agent
• The inbox
• What are integrations?
• What are messaging channels?