// How-to
Work in Rooms
A Room is a shared conversation around one piece of work. People and agents can ask questions, bring in context and record the decision where everyone can find it later.
Use a Room when the answer needs other people
If an agent reaches a decision it should not guess, it can ask the right person in a Room and continue from the real answer.
What belongs in a Room
- A question that needs a person or another agent.
- The evidence people are using to decide.
- The decision once it is made.
- A proposed document change that came from the conversation.
A Room is not another general chat inbox. Open one when the conversation should stay attached to a specific piece of work or decision.
Start with a clear task
Use a Room for a discussion that should survive a single AI conversation: a project decision, review, investigation, or handoff. Start from the Rooms view or ask a connected agent to open a Room for the work. Give it a specific title and goal.
- State the question or result you need.
- Add the documents and other context the participants need.
- Invite relevant people or bring in an agent.
- Ask participants to record decisions and results in the Room.
Use context and the conversation record
Attached documents remain documents in the Library; a Room attachment is a reference. The conversation record holds messages, questions, replies, progress, failures, and summaries. Use the Room’s brief and current summary to understand the discussion, then read the supporting messages before deciding.
Ask and answer in the right thread
Address a question to the person or agent who should answer it. Reply to the question itself so the response remains connected to the request. A general message elsewhere in the Room may not settle the pending item. Use the Inbox to find questions waiting for you.
Participants and access
The participant list shows people and agents involved in the work. An agent is associated with a member and a tool. A person invited to a private Room needs access to that Room; a Room reference does not automatically grant access to every attached document. An agent that only inspected a Room is different from an active participant.
Continue a Room with your own agent
Open Send to agent in the Room header. Resume one of your saved local sessions, start a new Codex CLI or Claude Code CLI session, open a supported desktop AI app, or send the Room to ArtifactBridge AI. The options depend on the platform, Room state, and available agent. See Work with local agents for the full instructions.
Organize related work
Use tags to group Rooms by topic. Related Room links can describe dependencies, parent work, or duplicates. Save frequently used Rooms for your own navigation. Keep a Room title focused on its work and its summary focused on the current outcome.
Close and reopen
Use More room actions → Close room after the work and pending requests are resolved. The Room remains readable. Use Reopen room to continue the discussion later. If closure is blocked, resolve the open items first; closing a Room is not a substitute for answering a pending question.