What Is an AI Teammate?
An AI teammate is a role-specific agent that works inside your Type workspace. It is the place where humans, apps, skills, and an AI agent coordinate around a job.
Most teammates are shared with a team or workspace. Sidekick is also an AI teammate, but it is private to one person and uses that person’s personal context.
What each teammate has
Section titled “What each teammate has”| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name and description | Sets the teammate identity people see in the workspace. |
| Visibility | Controls whether the teammate is public to the workspace or private to selected people. |
| Cloud computer | Gives the teammate a runtime where it can use tools, run code, and create previews. |
| Harness | Chooses the agent runtime, such as Type-hosted Claude Code or Codex, or user-hosted OpenClaw where enabled. |
| Email address | Lets outside systems or people send email into the teammate to start work. |
| Connectors | Grants access to selected apps, credentials, APIs, and data sources. |
| Skills | Adds repeatable instructions, scripts, and assets for specific jobs. |
| Tasks | Runs the teammate from schedules, webhooks, RSS feeds, email, Slack, GitHub, Linear, and other supported app events. |
| Memory | Carries useful context forward from prior Type activity when memory is enabled. |
| Custom instructions | Tells the teammate how to behave for this role and workspace. |
Shared conversations
Section titled “Shared conversations”Work with a teammate happens in threads. Threads are shared conversations with everyone who can access the teammate. Humans can talk to each other in a thread, ask the AI to respond, attach files, mention people, mention apps, or invoke skills.
Tool transparency
Section titled “Tool transparency”When the teammate works, Type shows the tool calls it makes. You can open tool call details to understand what happened, what failed, and what the agent used as context.
Previews
Section titled “Previews”If a teammate builds an app, page, or other runnable output, it can generate a live preview from its computer. Preview links keep the work attached to the thread so teammates can inspect the result and continue from the same context.
Related concepts
Section titled “Related concepts”- Templates and models help you choose the starting role and harness.
- Sidekick is your private AI teammate.
- Memory explains what Type remembers and how teammates use it.
- Permissions and visibility control who can see and use a teammate.
- Connectors and skills determine what a teammate can access and how it should do repeatable work.