Build a team in a group chat

Make your first bot: a researcher

Press Ctrl+N (⌘N on Mac), or click + at the top of the sidebar and choose New Project. Pick Researcher. This makes a bot called Scout, already set up to find, compare, and summarize information. Setting up a new bot can take a minute or two.

Make a writer and an editor

Make two more bots, this time from Blank bot. For each one:

1. Open its settings: click its avatar or name in the chat header, or right-click the bot in the sidebar and choose Edit Profile.
2. Under Identity, set its Name, like Writer or Editor, and a Title like Writer.
3. Under Soul, write its standing instructions.

Not sure what to write? Send the bot /setup and it interviews you and writes its own Soul.

Give each bot a clear Soul

The Soul is the most important setting. The bot reads it at the start of every conversation. Give each bot a different job so they don't overlap. For example, for Writer:

You are Writer, a friendly writer for a small outdoor-gear shop.
Turn research into clear, short articles for customers.
Use plain words and short paragraphs.
Never invent facts. Only use what the researcher found, and keep their links.

And for Editor:

You are Editor. You check other bots' drafts before they go to me.
Fix spelling, grammar, and anything unclear.
List each change you made in a short bullet list.
You have the final say on wording.

Changes save automatically.

Create the group chat

1. Click + at the top of the sidebar and choose New group chat.
2. Give it a name, like Blog posts.
3. Optionally type a Team to file it under, like Marketing.
4. Tick the bots to include: Scout, Writer, and Editor.
5. Click Create group chat.

Write the group instructions and pick who answers

The first time you open the group chat, you can set two things.

Group instructions are for everyone in the chat: the goal, who owns what, tone, and limits. For example:

We write one blog post a week for our outdoor-gear shop. Scout researches, Writer drafts, Editor has the final say on wording. Keep posts under 800 words.

Who answers by default:

For a team with clear roles, Only when mentioned keeps things tidy: you decide who speaks.

Click Save & continue, or Skip for now to do it later. You can change who answers from the dropdown in the group chat's header.

Talk to the team

Type @ and a name to address a bot directly. Mentions always win, even over the default responder. If you mention several bots, they answer in the order you wrote them, and each one sees the earlier replies.

For example, send:

@Scout find the three best-reviewed lightweight tents for beginners, with prices and links. @Writer then turn Scout's findings into a short buying guide. @Editor then check Writer's draft.

Here's what happens:

1. Scout goes first and does the research.
2. Writer catches up on what Scout said, then writes the guide.
3. Editor catches up on both, then checks the draft and lists its changes.

Bots answer one at a time, never at once. Before each bot's turn, it re-reads the group instructions. To ask everyone at once, use @everyone.

Bots can also pass work along themselves. If Scout ends its reply with "@Writer, over to you", Writer takes the next turn without you asking. Each message you send allows up to 6 of these hand-offs, so bots can't keep passing work back and forth forever.

Press Stop to interrupt the bot that's speaking and cancel the ones waiting after it, including any hand-offs.