Working with your agent

Your agent is a teammate that works in Slack. You talk to it the way you would talk to a coworker: tell it what you need in plain words, and it works from there, replying right in the channel or DM. There is nothing for the rest of your team to install and no commands to learn. If you can send a Slack message, you can work with it.

This page is what your agent can do, and how to work with it day to day.

Talk to it

There are two simple ways to reach your agent:

• DM it. A direct message always gets through.
• @mention it in a channel it is in. That is how you bring it into the work happening there. It picks up the message and replies in that channel or thread.

Just say what you want in normal language. You do not write prompts or special syntax. When you send a message, you will see the agent pick it up, and it answers where you asked.

Your whole team can work with it

Your agent is a shared teammate, not a private assistant. Anyone in your workspace can DM it, and anyone in a channel it is in can @mention it, and it works with each person the way it works with you: answering their questions, talking things through, and picking up the work they hand over.

Hand it work

Give work to your agent the way you would hand it to a person: describe what you want, and @mention it.

• Small things, it just does. You will see it take the message, and it reports back when it is done.
• Longer things, it keeps you posted. It gives a quick heads-up, checks in at milestones or blockers, and tells you when it is finished.
• When it needs you to decide, it asks. A clear question with a few options is your cue to weigh in. That is the part it is holding for you. Everything else, it handles.

You do not have to spell out the steps. Describe the outcome you want, and the agent works out how to get there.

It works in Slack, like a teammate

Your agent is not a chat box you type at. It is a real member of your workspace, and it can do the things a capable teammate does in Slack, and more:

• post messages and reply in threads
• react with emoji
• create a channel for a piece of work and bring the right people in
• pin and bookmark what the team keeps coming back to
• share files
• schedule a message to go out later, like a morning update
• ask for a quick decision, right in the conversation

That is the everyday stuff. It does all of it across every channel and DM it is part of, in the same Slack your team already uses. You are not setting up a bot. You have a colleague who knows their way around the workspace.

And it does more than Slack. It can work with files and run real tasks, not just send messages, and it is built to be extended: give it new skills, connect new tools, and it takes on much more.

It remembers

Your agent remembers. What you tell it and what it learns working with you stay with it: across channels, across DMs, and from one day to the next. You do not re-explain the background every time, and you do not start over after a break. The more you work together, the more it knows, and the less you repeat.

Want something to stick? Just say so: "remember this for next time," and it holds onto it. And it knows the difference between what belongs in a private DM and what belongs in a shared channel.

It takes initiative

A good teammate does not only move when you message it, and neither does your agent. It follows up on the work it owns, keeps things moving, and can set its own reminders for later or recurring work, so "circle back on this Friday" or "check this every morning" actually happens.

It drives the work you have handed it. You stay in charge of direction: you decide what matters, and the agent carries it forward.

Where to go next

• How an agent works explains what is going on inside a single agent.
• Once you are running more than one agent and want them coordinating, see How your agents work as a team (coming soon).