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Chats
How to ask the brain questions and read its answers, sources, choices and files.
# Chats A chat is a conversation with the brain. You ask in plain words. The brain looks through the documents, emails and apps your company has shared, and answers with the sources it used. The brain keeps working on an answer even if you close the page, so a long answer is still saved when you come back. You can start a new chat and let Auto send it to the right teammate, or chat with the Company Brain, with an agent for one department, or with a single skill loaded. Your team of agents sits beside the chat. In this section: - [Asking and answers](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/asking-and-answers/): citations, sources and the tools the brain used. - [Choices and details](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/choices-and-details/): when the brain offers options or asks you for more information. - [Files from a chat](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/files-from-a-chat/): downloading what a skill produced. - [Documents beside the chat](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/documents-beside-the-chat/): reading Word and Excel files in the panel, and typing into a document. - [Schedules](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/schedules/): prompts that run on a timetable, and the one-switch Daily Brief. - [Triggers](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/triggers/): an agent that starts when a meeting ends, an email arrives or a file is added. - [Approving writes](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/approving-writes/): the card that asks before the brain saves a Notion page, a Gmail draft or a Google Doc. - [New chat and Auto](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/new-chat-and-auto/): starting a chat without choosing an agent, and letting Auto pick the teammate. - [Main thread and side chats](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/main-thread-and-side-chats/): each agent's long-running thread with you, and the one-off chats beside it. - [Sharing a chat with your team](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/sharing-chats/): bringing a teammate into a thread with Share or an @ mention. - [Looks](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/looks/): the agent's face and the team rail. - [Feedback](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/feedback/): rating an answer. - [Voice](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/voice/): talking to an agent with the mic, and hearing answers read aloud. - [Saving answers to the brain](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/saving-answers-to-the-brain/): turning a good answer into a document in Files. - [Agents](https://docs.skilltreeos.ai/chats/agents/): the Company Brain and the department agents.A chat is a conversation with the brain. You ask in plain words. The brain looks through the documents, emails and apps your company has shared, and answers with the sources it used.
The brain keeps working on an answer even if you close the page, so a long answer is still saved when you come back.
You can start a new chat and let Auto send it to the right teammate, or chat with the Company Brain, with an agent for one department, or with a single skill loaded. Your team of agents sits beside the chat.
In this section:
- Asking and answers: citations, sources and the tools the brain used.
- Choices and details: when the brain offers options or asks you for more information.
- Files from a chat: downloading what a skill produced.
- Documents beside the chat: reading Word and Excel files in the panel, and typing into a document.
- Schedules: prompts that run on a timetable, and the one-switch Daily Brief.
- Triggers: an agent that starts when a meeting ends, an email arrives or a file is added.
- Approving writes: the card that asks before the brain saves a Notion page, a Gmail draft or a Google Doc.
- New chat and Auto: starting a chat without choosing an agent, and letting Auto pick the teammate.
- Main thread and side chats: each agent’s long-running thread with you, and the one-off chats beside it.
- Sharing a chat with your team: bringing a teammate into a thread with Share or an @ mention.
- Looks: the agent’s face and the team rail.
- Feedback: rating an answer.
- Voice: talking to an agent with the mic, and hearing answers read aloud.
- Saving answers to the brain: turning a good answer into a document in Files.
- Agents: the Company Brain and the department agents.