Tool Calls, Files, and Previews

When an AI teammate works, Type keeps the work visible inside the thread.

Tool calls

Tool calls show which connector, tool, or runtime action the teammate used. Open tool call details when you need to understand what happened, what failed, or what data informed the response.

Files and documents

Teammates can read attached files and create new files as part of the work. Keep files in the thread so future collaborators and follow-up prompts retain the same context.

Use Documents when written work should stay editable, referenceable, and available for teammates or tasks to update later.

Previews

For app, site, and coding work, a teammate can create a live preview from its cloud computer. Use the preview to inspect the result and keep feedback attached to the same thread. Use Apps when the preview should become a durable tool with its own data.

The full-screen page and the Library

Every app, document, and file has its own full-screen page — share links, the expand action in the thread panel, and the Library all land there. The page shows the item itself plus its comments, version history, and a Threads menu listing the conversations that produced each change; Open in #channel jumps back to the most recent of those threads. Members who follow a link to a channel they haven’t joined are asked to join first.

Browse everything your channels have made from the Library in the sidebar: Apps holds the web apps your teammates build, and Files holds documents, PDFs, and uploaded files. Each version in an item’s history records which thread it came from, so you can always trace a change back to the conversation behind it.

Uploading and importing files

Use New → Upload file on the Library’s Apps or Files tab to add any file (up to 1GB) to a channel’s library. PDFs open in a full viewer with text-selection comments; other files get a preview or download card.

Document files become editable: uploading a .docx (including Google Docs exports) or .md file (including Notion exports) offers Import as editable doc, which converts it into a doc you and your AI teammates can edit, comment on, and revise together — the original file stays attached to the doc. Notion’s zip exports import in bulk, creating one doc per markdown file. Pick Keep as file to store the original untouched instead.

Attachments already shared in a channel can be promoted the same way: hover a file on any channel message and use Save to Library.

Importing from Google Docs and Notion

With the Google or Notion integration connected, skip the export step entirely: the Files tab’s New menu gains Import from Google Docs and Import from Notion. Pick a channel, choose a Google Doc from Drive’s file picker or search documents Type can already access, and import one directly — it arrives as an editable doc with headings, lists, tables, and links preserved (images aren’t carried over yet). To let teammates create or update Google Docs later, open the Google Drive & Docs connection details and choose the files or folders Type should access. If an integration isn’t connected, the menu entry takes you to the Integrations page to set it up.

Sharing apps, documents, and files

Every app, document, and PDF has an access setting, available from the share button:

• Channel members (default): only members of the item’s channel can open and use it. Joining the channel is what grants access — this applies even in public channels.
• Anyone with the link: anyone holding the share link can open the item and fully use it without signing in, including reading and writing app data. Anonymous visitors appear unattributed inside apps.

Any member of the item’s channel can change the access setting; anyone with access can copy and forward the link. This works in private channels too: a publicly shared item exposes only the item itself, never the channel, its members, or its messages. To cut off a link that was shared too widely, switch the item back to Channel members — the link goes dark immediately, and sharing again later revives the same URL. Making a channel private does not disable its items’ share links; each item’s access setting is what controls the link.

Share links created before access settings existed are inactive until the item is shared again from the share button.

AI inside apps

Apps built by teammates can use AI at runtime — for example turning a typed sentence into a structured entry, summarizing a board, or answering questions about the app’s data. These AI requests run through Type on a fast model, are rate-limited, and are metered to your workspace. Anonymous visitors on public share links cannot trigger AI.

Review loop

Good review usually follows the same pattern: inspect the response, open relevant tool calls or previews, give specific feedback, and keep the iteration in the thread.