Type Overview

Type is a workspace for creating AI teammates that can work with your team, your tools, and their own cloud computers. Each teammate can have its own model harness, connections, skills, tasks, email address, and instructions.

The fastest way to understand Type is to think in six connected concepts:

AI teammates Role-specific agents with cloud computers, identities, permissions, and instructions.

Connectors and skills The apps a teammate can use and the reusable workflows it knows how to follow.

Tasks Scheduled, webhook, app-event, Slack, email, and RSS triggers that start teammate work.

Threads and collaboration The shared work surface for humans, AI teammates, files, apps, skills, and previews.

Documents and apps Living documents and apps teammates can create, update, reference, connect, and share.

Inbox and notifications Your personal queue for notifications, read state, and archived items.

First setup path

1. Create an AI teammate from a template or a custom prompt.
2. Add the connectors and data sources that teammate needs.
3. Review or add skills so the teammate knows how to do repeatable work.
4. Add tasks for scheduled work or event-driven work.
5. Start a thread and invite humans, apps, skills, or other teammates into the conversation.
6. Use documents and apps when the work needs something durable your team can reference, update, or share.
7. Use Feed and Triage to review teammate threads, Inbox to process notifications, and Command-K to jump across the workspace.

What to read next

• New to Type: Create your first AI teammate.
• Configuring a teammate: Connectors overview, Skills overview, and Tasks.
• Daily work: Threads, Documents, Apps, and Inbox overview.
• Personal teammate setup: Sidekick.
• Agent or support writer context: Agent-readable map.