# The AI Platform Docs

> The AI Platform documentation. Chat with AI specialists, manage projects, and automate workflows.

## Guide

- [Platform Tour](/guide/getting-started/index.md): A guided tour of every major surface in The AI Platform — sidebar, specialists, chat, projects, workflows, and settings.
- [Installation](/guide/getting-started/installation.md): Download and install The AI Platform desktop app on macOS, Windows, or Linux.
- [Sign In & Set Up](/guide/getting-started/creating-account.md): Sign in with OAuth, create your first workspace, and get ready to use The AI Platform.
- [Your First Channel](/guide/getting-started/your-first-channel.md): Create a channel, mention specialists, invite teammates, and send your first messages.
- [Browse Specialists](/guide/getting-started/browse-specialists.md): Find and install pre-built AI specialists from the marketplace into your workspace.
- [Channels Overview](/guide/chat/index.md): How channels work — layout, channel list, message area, and side panels for chat conversations.
- [Sending Messages](/guide/chat/messaging.md): Compose messages with text, file attachments, voice notes, mentions, and rich formatting.
- [Thread Conversations](/guide/chat/threads.md): Branch off from a message into a focused side conversation without cluttering the main channel.
- [Channel Details](/guide/chat/channel-details.md): View and manage channel members, tasks, knowledge, workflows, and history from the details panel.
- [Embedded Browser](/guide/chat/embedded-browser.md): Preview web pages in a built-in Chromium browser alongside your chat, and send page elements to specialists as context.
- [Code Editor](/guide/chat/code-editor.md): View, edit, and diff code files in a VS Code-style editor attached to every chat conversation.
- [What are Specialists](/guide/specialists/index.md): AI agents with specific expertise that live in your workspace, join channels, and respond when mentioned.
- [Working with Specialists](/guide/specialists/using-specialists.md): Mention specialists in channels, review their responses, and collaborate with them alongside your team.
- [Specialist Builder Overview](/guide/specialists/building-specialists.md): Create custom AI specialists by defining a persona, knowledge, tools, and publishing to your workspace.
- [Builder Tab Details](/guide/specialists/builder-details.md): Configure specialist tasks, knowledge sources, tooling, and benchmarks in the builder's advanced tabs.
- [Model Overrides](/guide/specialists/model-overrides.md): Override a specialist's preferred model at the organization or personal level.
- [Projects](/guide/projects/index.md): Bring together code repositories, knowledge sources, and chat conversations around a shared goal.
- [Knowledge Sources](/guide/projects/knowledge.md): Link Knowledge Garden plots, repositories, and local folders as context sources for project conversations.
- [Configuration](/guide/projects/configuration.md): Add repositories, local folders, sandbox profiles, and tool settings to a project.
- [Code Knowledge Graph](/guide/projects/code-knowledge-graph.md): Browse indexed symbols, call graphs, JSX hierarchies, and code patterns from your repository.
- [Git Worktrees](/guide/projects/development.md): Give every project chat its own isolated Git branch so specialists can edit code without affecting main.
- [Linked Workflows](/guide/projects/linked-workflows.md): Attach workflows to a project so they trigger automatically on project events.
- [Activity](/guide/projects/activity.md): Dashboard view of specialist usage, recent chats, and project-wide activity.
- [Pending Tasks](/guide/projects/pending-tasks.md): View and create open tasks scoped to a project's repository and context sources.
- [Knowledge Garden](/guide/knowledge/index.md): Organize documents, code, and references into named plots that specialists draw from in conversations.
- [Plots & Files](/guide/knowledge/plots-and-files.md): Add content to plots, browse files, and manage your Knowledge Garden collections.
- [Task Manager](/guide/tasks/index.md): Track work on a kanban board with five status columns, assignable to both people and specialists.
- [Task Details](/guide/tasks/task-details.md): Edit task title, status, priority, description, attachments, and assignees from the detail panel.
- [Visual Workflow Editor](/guide/workflows/index.md): Build drag-and-drop automation pipelines by connecting nodes on a visual canvas.
- [Build & Run](/guide/workflows/build-and-run.md): Add nodes, connect them, configure each step, and execute a workflow end-to-end.
- [Workflow Run History](/guide/workflows/run-history.md): How workflow execution records are stored, synced, and inspected across desktop and cloud runners.
- [Settings](/guide/settings/index.md): Customize your account, manage workspace preferences, and configure tools for specialists.
- [Personal and Preferences](/guide/settings/personal.md): Manage your profile, display name, theme, and personal preferences across workspaces.
- [Workspace](/guide/settings/workspace.md): Set workspace name, icon, and workspace-level preferences (admin and owner only).
- [Billing](/guide/settings/billing.md): Manage plans, credits, and usage for your workspace.
- [Connections](/guide/settings/connections.md): Configure LLM providers, set default models, and connect external services.
- [Language Servers](/guide/settings/language-servers.md): Install and manage Language Server Protocol providers for code intelligence in the editor.
- [Permissions](/guide/settings/permissions.md): Review and revoke access permissions across sessions, channels, and specialists.
- [Sandbox](/guide/settings/sandbox.md): Control filesystem and network access for specialists with reusable sandbox profiles.
- [MCP Servers](/guide/settings/mcp.md): Add Model Context Protocol servers to give specialists access to custom tools and data sources.
- [Development](/guide/settings/development.md): Download and manage local AI models via Hugging Face for on-device inference.
- [Browser Extensions](/guide/settings/browser-extensions.md): Install Chrome extensions into the desktop app's embedded browser.
- [Search](/guide/search.md): Use the command palette to quickly jump to any conversation or person in your workspace.
- [Troubleshooting](/guide/troubleshooting.md): Common issues and how to resolve them, including provider errors and connection problems.
- [Updating](/guide/updating.md): How automatic update checks work and how to install new versions of The AI Platform.