What a project is

A project in Claos is an area of responsibility — "Q3 marketing campaigns," "Customer support inbox," "Product launch." It's where the tasks your agents and teammates work on live, and where you go to see how that area is progressing.

It's not a generic task tracker with AI bolted on. The project is shaped around the work your agents run; the tasks inside it are the work-orders you delegate to them. Some tasks land with humans, most often with agents. Either way, the project is where the work lives.

A project is the area of work

Each project represents one slice of what your workspace is responsible for. The slice can be a product launch, a function ("Marketing"), an ongoing ritual ("Weekly newsletter"), or a one-off initiative. You'll usually have several at a time.

A project gives you the same five lenses on its tasks no matter what shape the work takes — see The five views.

Where projects live

The sidebar shows your project list under the Projects section. Click any project to open it. Click + Add in the section header to create a new one — give it a name, pick an icon, and save. Drag projects in the sidebar to reorder.

What a project page shows

The header has the project's icon and name, a favourite star, and small avatars showing who's looking at the page right now. Below the header sit five tabs: Board / Table / Timeline / Calendar / Dashboard. Click a tab to switch how the project is rendered — the data underneath is the same, just shown a different way.

The Board view is the default for most users; you can change the default in project settings.

Settings live in three tabs

Open settings from the project's gear menu. Three tabs:

• General. Project name, description, icon, and the default view that opens when someone clicks into the project.
• Statuses. The columns that define a task's lifecycle for this project — typically something like "Backlog → In Progress → Done." Each status has a name, a colour, and one of three categories: Not Started, In Progress, or Complete. Reorder, rename, or add new ones; the Board view's columns follow this list.
• Members. Project-level access. Add workspace members to the project as member (full edit) or viewer (read-only). Workspace owners and admins always have access regardless of project-level membership.

Creating your first task

Open the Board view and click + Add Task in any status column. A side panel opens for you to set the title, assignee, dates, and so on. Picking an agent or team as the assignee turns it into an AI task — see Tasks are work-orders for what each field does and how the AI Schedule appears when the assignee is an agent.

Pack-installed projects

If you started with a pack, most of your projects came pre-built — with tasks already assigned to the agents the pack installed. That's how most users meet their first project. Everything that came in is fully editable: rename the project, restructure its statuses, delete the demo tasks, swap assignees. The pack gives you a running start, not a fixed mould.

Tips and gotchas

• Status categories — Not Started, In Progress, Complete — are what the rest of Claos uses to decide whether a task counts as "done." Renaming a status doesn't change its category; pick the category that matches the meaning.
• Workspace owners and admins see every project. Project-level membership only matters for workspace members and viewers.
• Deleting a project deletes its tasks. Archive a stale project (rename it [Archived] ... if you want to keep the data) rather than deleting when the work might come back.

Related

• Tasks are work-orders
• The five views
• Install your first pack
• Putting an agent on a task