Templates and Models
Prompt templates give the normal teammate creator an editable starting request for a common role. The request can propose skills, tasks, and likely connections, but selecting it does not create or connect those resources.
How prompt templates work
Section titled “How prompt templates work”- Select a template to prefill the creation prompt.
- Edit the prompt to match your workflow, then create the teammate with your selected harness.
- Type generates the teammate’s name and description from the submitted prompt.
- In the setup conversation, review the proposed starting plan and confirm which skills, tasks, and connections should be created or added.
Template and custom-prompt teammates are public by default. HR Partner is private by default. You can change the generated identity and other settings after creation.
Template guide
Section titled “Template guide”| If you need… | Start with… | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Product, code, bug, or PR help | Product Engineer | It proposes coding and review workflows; repository work needs a connected source code host. |
| Metrics, dashboards, or recurring reports | Data Analyst | It proposes reporting workflows; live reporting needs a connected data source. |
| Marketing copy, SEO, ads, and social monitoring | Marketing Manager | It proposes campaign, ad, SEO, and social media workflows. |
| Support response drafts and trend reports | Support Specialist | It proposes workflows for support inboxes, knowledge bases, billing tools, and customer channels. |
| Sales follow-up and pipeline hygiene | Sales Operations | It proposes workflows for CRM data, call notes, meeting summaries, and deal reviews. |
| Recruiting and people operations | HR Partner | It proposes workflows for ATS data, calendars, docs, meeting notes, and private people work. |
Harnesses
Section titled “Harnesses”The harness is the agent runtime that powers the teammate. Available harnesses can include Type-hosted Claude Code and Codex, plus user-hosted OpenClaw. Pick the harness based on the work:
- Use a coding-oriented harness for repository work, debugging, and implementation.
- Use a general reasoning harness for research, synthesis, writing, operations, and analysis.
- Use OpenClaw when you already run your own OpenClaw and want Type to connect to that user-hosted runtime.
Changing a teammate later
Section titled “Changing a teammate later”Templates are only the starting point. After creation, you can rename the teammate, edit its description and instructions, add connections, skills, and tasks, and tune notification behavior.