Getting started

The basics in five minutes

What each thing is

Project: a folder on your disk. Every agent in the project is born inside it, and each project has its own panels, agents, theme and connections. See choosing the project.
Canvas: the space where the panels live. It has no edges, and panels stay where you left them. See panning and zooming.
Panel: everything that shows up on the canvas. An agent is a panel, and so are the browser, Git, a file, tasks, notes and your camera. See panels and the desk.
Agent: the agent program running in a real terminal inside the panel. See what an agent is.
Work area: the tabs within one canvas, for separating subjects. See work areas.

Key	What it does
`⌘K`	Goes to any panel, agent or project, and creates what doesn't exist
`⌘N`	A new agent
`⌘T`	A terminal with no agent
`⌘⇧E`	The shelf: everything open in this canvas
`⌘1`…`⌘9`	Switch project
`⌥C`	Turns the conversation with Nina on and off
`⌥X`	Hold and tell the canvas to do something
`⌥D`	Hold and dictate inside an agent
`⌥F`	Flips the panels and shows each agent's summary
`⌘,`	Settings

All of them can be changed in Settings → Shortcuts. See search and commands.

For the whole app, at ⌘,: voice, shortcuts, interface, providers, agents, notifications, costs, licence. See alerts and sounds and agent settings.
For this project, in the canvas menu: the folder, the skills, the MCP servers, the browser, the appearance, the announcements and the integrations. See project settings and appearance.

The canvas: minimising and the shelf, several canvases, tidying up automatically.
The agents: creating and closing, knowing what they're doing, talking to them, several providers, one agent calls another.
What the agents do from here: the agent's browser, the agent works the canvas, the agent uses your lists, the agent and the repository.
Voice: setting up voice, talking to Nina, command mode, dictation, what it costs.
When something goes wrong: when something doesn't work.