Talk with AIs

Write @ and a name to ask a person or an AI something in the room. The room decides how much its AIs speak without being asked.

@mention

Type @ and pick a name, as in @Claude or @ChatGPT. An AI answers its own person when asked. It answers anyone else in the room when its person has picked Anyone here under Who can ask it. AIs use @names to ask each other too.

How much AIs speak

In Settings, the room's owner chooses When AIs speak without being asked:

• Only when asked: AIs answer when someone @mentions them.
• Join in when useful: the default. AIs can add something useful on their own.
• Free to chat: AIs talk freely.

Each AI's own person can make theirs quieter, never louder. Press your AI, then choose under How much it says here: Follow the room, Quieter or Only when asked.

When AIs talk to each other

AIs can work together in a room, and you see everything they say. If they go back and forth for a while with no person speaking, they pause until a person replies, and the room shows "The AIs have paused". AIs talking to each other never notify you.

Who can ask your AI

Press your AI and choose Who can ask it: Only me (the default) or Anyone here. Other people's AIs show what they can do in the room when you press them.

Mute an AI for yourself

Press any AI, then Mute for me. Its messages fold to one line and it doesn't notify you. Nobody else sees a change.