Monad Docs
Get an overview of Monad’s features, integrations, and how to use them.
Popular
Welcome to Monad
A quick tour of what Monad is and how the pieces fit together.
Your Control Tower
Use Do for work that needs an outcome and Know for a grounded digest of what changed.
Spaces overview
Spaces are the rooms your team works in. Here is how they work.
Sending messages
The basics of composing, formatting, and threading messages in Monad.
Getting started
Welcome to Monad
A quick tour of what Monad is and how the pieces fit together.
Install the Mac desktop app
Download, install, and update the Monad desktop app for macOS.
Install the iOS app
Download, install, and use Monad on your iPhone or iPad.
Setting up your workspace
Monad's AI setup wizard builds your workspace with you when you sign up — channels, docs, a database, an agent, and groups.
Your Control Tower
Use Do for work that needs an outcome and Know for a grounded digest of what changed.
Self-hosting Community Edition
Start Monad Community Edition on an apex domain and its chat subdomain, then claim the single chat workspace through email verification.
Signing in to Monad
How to sign in to Monad with a password, a passkey, or Google, and how to move between your workspaces.
Spaces
Groups
Messaging
Sending messages
The basics of composing, formatting, and threading messages in Monad.
Mentions
Reference for the @ and # mention menus in the message composer.
Reactions
How to react to messages with emoji, see who reacted, and remove a reaction.
Using custom emoji
Add your workspace's custom emoji to messages and reactions by name.
The composer companion
Meet the little alpaca that reacts while you write and send messages.
Attachments
How files, images, and recordings appear in messages — and the gallery viewer for stepping through them.
Editing messages
Fix a message after you send it — within 24 hours, with an Edited label others see live.
Removing messages
Take a message back, or remove a shared thread from one of its spaces.
Messaging while offline
Read cached spaces and queue text messages, replies, reactions, and edits without a connection.
Thread read state
See what is new in a thread and leave yourself an unread reminder without losing your reading history.
Canvas documents
Canvas documents overview
Workspace Canvas pages for collaborative notes, specs, and decisions.
Editing a document
Block types, marks, menus, AI features, comments, and uploads in the canvas document editor.
Authorship colours & inline autocomplete
See who wrote what in a canvas document, and let an AI finish your sentences.
Version history
Save versions of a canvas document, view earlier ones, compare them, and roll back.
Mentions
Reference for the @ and # mention menus inside a canvas document.
Editing offline
How canvas documents survive a flaky or offline connection — local snapshots, queued edits, and the revert-conflict prompt.
Sharing a document
Copy a direct Canvas document link and understand who can open it.
Canvas databases
Canvas databases overview
Workspace Canvas databases with typed records and reusable views.
Creating a database
Create a workspace Canvas database with typed records and views.
Database views
Five ways to look at the same database — table, board, list, gallery, and feed.
Sharing a database
Copy a direct Canvas database link and understand who can open it.
Library
Library overview
Find the projects, decisions, clients, people, topics, and files that matter now.
Grounded Library documents
Trace Library summaries back to exact messages, threads, attachments, and external sources.
Following and pinning Library clusters
Follow important clusters and add eligible messages, attachments, or connected objects.
Managing Library settings
Configure cluster types, review taxonomy changes, and understand Scribe document structure.
Agents
Agent concepts
How AI agents work as full members of your workspace.
Rating agent responses
Use the thumbs up and down buttons to tell agents what worked and what didn't.
How agents improve over time
Your feedback trains your agents — every couple of days they learn from what worked and what didn't.
Skills
Teach every agent in your workspace a repeatable procedure once, and they'll use it on demand.
How agents tidy their memory overnight
Each night your assistant quietly consolidates what it has learned so its memory stays accurate and useful.
Scheduled tasks
Have Monad run a standing instruction for you automatically, on a schedule.
Changing an agent's handle
How to rename an agent's @handle, and what happens to its old one.
Deactivating an agent
How to turn an agent off so it stops working, and how to bring it back later.
Creating a custom agent
Ask Monad to build a new AI agent for your workspace in a single prompt.
Direct messages
Notifications
Settings
Profile and account settings
Update your avatar, language preference, and security options.
Inviting people to your workspace
Invite teammates by email and choose which spaces they should join.
Bring your own OpenRouter API key
Use a workspace-owned OpenRouter key for AI inference.
Workspace name, logo, and timezone
Change your workspace's display name, logo, and default timezone.
Custom emoji
Upload your team's own named emoji and use them in messages and reactions.
Choosing a model for your agents
Pick a model tier for your agents and understand how usage-based billing works.
Guests
How guests work — limited access to just the channels you add them to, at no extra cost.
Plans & how you're billed
The difference between the Plus, Pro, and Enterprise plans and how each one is billed.
Credits & how billing works
How prepaid AI credit works — your $50 welcome credit, what draws it down, and topping up.
Auto-recharge
Automatically top up your AI credit from a saved card so your agents never pause.
Guest invite links
Share a single link that lets anyone join as a guest, confined to the channels you choose.
Changing your handle
How to change your @handle, and what happens to your old one.
Sign-in methods and two-factor
Manage your password, passkeys, Google, and two-factor authentication for your Monad account.
Active sessions and signing out
See where you're signed in to Monad and sign out of one device or all of them.
Developer debug page
Find build, storage, and session details to include in a bug report.
Integrations
Integrations overview
Connect Monad to the tools your team already uses.
Build a connector
Add an operator-owned OAuth connector to Monad Community Edition.
Use Monad with Claude
Connect Claude desktop or iOS to Monad so the assistant can read and write on your behalf.
Use Monad with ChatGPT
Connect the ChatGPT app to Monad so it can take actions in your workspace.
Personal API keys
Mint and revoke personal API keys for scripts and CLI tools that act on your behalf.
Sessions, grants, and activity
View and manage every device, OAuth grant, and personal API key tied to your account.
Web search and reading
Let your agents search the public web and read pages, and how web usage is billed.
Connecting Gmail
Connect Gmail so your agents can read, draft, send, archive, and label email on your behalf.
Your own MCP servers
Add private MCP servers that only your agents can use, with headers or OAuth.
Connecting your X account
Connect X (Twitter) so your agents can read and post as you.
Connecting Google Calendar
Connect Google Calendar so your agents can read events, check availability, and schedule on your behalf.
Connecting Google Drive
Connect Google Drive so your agents can search, read, copy, and create files on your behalf.
Connecting Notion
Connect Notion so your agents can search and update your workspace on your behalf.
Connecting Linear
Connect Linear so your agents can find and update issues on your behalf.