Team chat

Every task has a Team discussion for the people working on it. Messages there go to your teammates, not to the agent, so you can talk about the work while it runs and decide together what to tell it.

Open Team

Team is a tab in the task’s inspector on web, Mac, and iPad. On iPhone, open Team from the task’s actions menu. Every conversation in the task shows the same discussion, and the tab shows a count of unread messages.

Write and mention

Type @ to mention someone. You can only mention people who can see the task. A mentioned person gets an Inbox entry and, on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, a push notification.

Hover over a message to Reply, or to Edit or Delete your own.

Bring team messages to the agent

The agent only sees team messages that you add to a prompt:

• With your next prompt. When the team has said something since a conversation’s last prompt, the composer shows a chip such as + 3 team messages. Those messages go to the agent with your prompt. Choose the chip to leave them out. The prompt then shows With context from 3 team messages in the transcript.
• Send to agent. Choose Send to agent on a message to add its words to the composer, where you can edit them before sending. Names at the start of the message, which address people rather than the agent, are dropped. Later mentions keep the name without the @.

Between prompts, the transcript shows a short marker, such as 3 team messages, with who spoke last. Choose it to jump to those messages in Team.

Linear issues

A task linked to a Linear issue shares its Team discussion with the issue: the issue is the first post, and comments flow both ways. See Linear.

Access

Team chat needs only access to the task’s repository, because talking to teammates runs nothing on the worker. Sending a prompt to the agent, including one that carries team messages, also needs access to the task’s worker. See Steering and multiplayer.