Teams, group chats and hand-offs

Every bot knows the team

Each bot sees its teammates' names, jobs and what they can be asked for, including bots on your other machines. When work belongs to someone else, it hands it off: to one bot or several at once. It keeps working while they do, and their results come back to the chat that asked, where the asking bot gets a turn to use them.

Hand-offs between your PC and a server, or between servers, are passed on by the app while it's open. Turn on Settings → Team → Servers reach each other directly so servers can hand work to each other with the app closed. A hand-off that can't be delivered is queued and retried; one that fails becomes an incident.

Group chats

Choose New group chat (Ctrl + Shift + G) and pick its members. In the group:

• @mention a member to talk to it directly.
• Messages that don't mention anyone go to the coordinator, who answers or hands parts to the right members.
• Members can read the group chat and message each other.

Goals

A group can have a goal, set in its editor: what to achieve, an optional "done when", and limits (at most this many rounds, or this many minutes). Each round the coordinator checks progress and hands out the next steps until the goal is done or a limit is reached. The goal bar above the message box shows its progress. If the coordinator asks you something, the goal pauses until you reply.

The Chief of Staff

Switch on Chief of Staff for one bot. It:

• sees the whole team in more detail and can propose new bots or changes, which you approve;
• hears first about incidents and can handle them.

Incidents

An incident is background work that failed, stalled or is stuck waiting for approval: a routine run, a hand-off or a group goal. Passing errors are retried once automatically. Open incidents appear in the sidebar, in the Incidents popup and on a card above the Chief's message box. Each one can be retried, given to another bot, opened in its chat, or dismissed. Windows notifies you when one appears.