# Micromeet Cowork documentation

> How to use Micromeet Cowork 0.1.41, build skills, and solve problems. Cowork is an AI collaboration base where people and AI agents work together.

## Get started

- [What Is Cowork](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/what-is-cowork.md): Micromeet Cowork is your AI coworker for everyday work: one app where people, AI and the systems you use every day work together. It is not tied to one industry.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/quickstart.md): Install Cowork, sign in, and hand the AI its first real piece of work. It takes about ten minutes.
- [How Cowork Works](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/how-cowork-works.md): You tell the AI the result you want. It plans the work, uses tools to carry it out step by step, and shows every step in the chat so you can follow, steer or take over.
- [Workspaces, Rules and Approvals](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/workspaces-and-approvals.md): The workspace sets where the AI works and what rules it follows there. Approvals set which of its steps wait for you. Together they are the boundary around everything the AI does.
- [Install and Update](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/install-and-update.md): Install Cowork from the download page; after that it updates itself.
- [Sign In and Regions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/sign-in-and-regions.md): You sign in inside the chat panel on the left of the window.
- [Interface Tour](https://docs.micromeet.ai/getting-started/interface-tour.md)

## Use Cowork

- [Common Workflows](https://docs.micromeet.ai/guides/common-workflows.md): Complete examples, from the request you type to the result you get. Each one uses only what Cowork does today. Change the details to fit your own work.
- [Give Clear Instructions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/guides/clear-instructions.md): The AI can only use what it can see. Most disappointing results come from a request that left out the result, the material, or the limits. A few habits fix almost all of them.
- [Conversations and History](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/conversations.md): Each conversation is a separate chat with its own history, model and workspace.
- [Models and Reasoning Effort](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/models.md): Choose which AI model answers in a chat, and how long it thinks before it answers.
- [Attachments, Images, Folders and Long Text](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/attachments.md): Give the AI the files, images, folders or long text it needs, right in the chat.
- [Voice Input](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/voice-input.md): Speak instead of typing. Your words are turned into text in the input box; you check them and send.
- [Steering, Stopping and Taking Back](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/steering.md): While the AI works you can add instructions, stop it, or take back your last message.
- [Tool Steps, Approvals and Decisions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/tool-steps-and-approvals.md): Every action the AI takes shows as a step in the chat, and when it needs you, it asks on a card and waits.
- [Questionnaires](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/questionnaires.md): When the AI needs you to go through many items — for example to check a batch of records — it sends a questionnaire instead of asking one by one.
- [Slash Commands](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/slash-commands.md): Type **/** in the input box to see the list of commands. Keep typing to filter, then press **Enter**.
- [Long Chats and Automatic Compaction](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/compaction.md): A model can only keep a limited amount of conversation in mind. So that a chat can go on as long as you need, Cowork **compacts** it automatically: when the chat gets close to the model's limit, the older part is replaced by a summary, and the latest part is kept in full.
- [Offline Queue and Retries](https://docs.micromeet.ai/chat/offline-and-retry.md): Cowork keeps your messages safe when the network drops, and tells you what to do when something fails.
- [Choose a Workspace](https://docs.micromeet.ai/files/workspace.md): The workspace is the folder on your computer that the AI works in: it reads, searches, creates and edits files there, and saves what it produces there.
- [Omni Preview](https://docs.micromeet.ai/files/omni-preview.md): Omni Preview is the third fixed tab. It shows the files of your workspace and previews them — documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, web pages, Markdown and code.
- [File Preview](https://docs.micromeet.ai/files/file-preview.md): A file **outside** your workspace opens in its own **File Preview** tab instead of Omni Preview. Each file gets its own tab.
- [Files and Documents the Agent Reads](https://docs.micromeet.ai/files/reading-files.md): The AI can read files you attach and files in your workspace:
- [Image Generation](https://docs.micromeet.ai/files/image-generation.md): Ask in a chat: "Make a poster for our team event" or "Change the background of this photo" (with the photo attached). The image appears in the chat.
- [Let the Agent Use Web Pages](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/agent-browsing.md): The AI can read and work on websites in Cowork's tabs, signed in as you: open pages, click, fill in forms and collect what it finds.
- [Tabs](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/tabs.md): Cowork's tabs work like a browser's, plus a few fixed tabs that are always there.
- [Address Bar, Search and History](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/address-bar-and-history.md): Open websites, search the web and find pages you visited before, as in any browser.
- [Downloads](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/downloads.md): Files you download from web pages are saved to your download folder.
- [Import Chrome Sign-ins](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/chrome-import.md): Cowork has its own browser, separate from Chrome. To avoid signing in to every website again, copy your Chrome cookies once.
- [Phone-Width View](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/phone-width.md): See a web page at phone width, for example to check a mobile site.
- [Copy Element for Agent](https://docs.micromeet.ai/browser/copy-element.md): Point the AI at an exact part of a web page.
- [Your AI Coworkers](https://docs.micromeet.ai/ai-employees/employee-list.md): An AI coworker is a setup for one kind of work: its instructions and the skills it uses. Each AI coworker has its own chats. In 0.1.41 the app lists AI coworkers under **AI Employees**.
- [Create an AI Coworker](https://docs.micromeet.ai/ai-employees/create-employee.md): Set up an AI coworker for one kind of work: a name, a job and the instructions it follows.
- [Edit and Delete](https://docs.micromeet.ai/ai-employees/edit-and-delete.md): Change an AI coworker's icon, job or instructions, or remove an AI coworker you no longer need.
- [Local and Workspace AI Coworkers](https://docs.micromeet.ai/ai-employees/local-and-workspace.md): An AI coworker is saved in one of two places, marked on its row:
- [Default AI Coworkers](https://docs.micromeet.ai/ai-employees/default-employees.md): Cowork 0.1.41 comes with four AI coworkers, added to this computer the first time it starts:

## Build

- [Extension Overview](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extend/overview.md): Cowork can take on new abilities without a new version of the app. There are four kinds of addition: **Skill**, **Extension**, **Injection** and **Mini App**. All four can be packed together into one **Cowork package**, so one job's skills, code, page scripts and screen travel as one unit.
- [Skill](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extend/skills.md): A Skill is a written method for the AI: a folder with a `SKILL.md` file, plus optional scripts and reference files. When a request matches a skill's description, the AI reads the skill before it starts.
- [Extension](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extend/extensions.md): An Extension is a code package that runs in its own background process. In 0.1.41 it registers **Connectors**: the parts that send and receive messages between an outside channel and Cowork's Gateway. With the browser permission it can also read and act on the pages of the websites it names.
- [Injection](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extend/injections.md): An Injection is code that runs inside a web page, like the content script of a Chrome extension. It runs apart from the page's own scripts. Anything Cowork puts into a page is an Injection, not an Extension.
- [Mini App](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extend/mini-apps.md): A Mini App is an app with its own screen that opens in a Cowork tab. In 0.1.41 only the Mini Apps that come with Cowork exist. You cannot build or install your own yet.
- [What Skills Are](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/what-are-skills.md): A skill is a written method for one kind of job — for example "prepare the weekly sales report" or "send this month's invoices". When your request matches a skill, the AI reads it and follows it, so the job is done the same way every time.
- [Build Your First Skill](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/first-skill.md): The fastest way to a good skill is to do the job once with the AI, get the result right, then ask it to write down how. This page walks through that with a real example: a weekly summary of meeting notes.
- [How a Skill Is Written](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/skill-anatomy.md): A skill is a folder. The only required file is `SKILL.md`: a short header that tells the AI what the skill is for, followed by the method in plain words. Scripts and reference files are optional.
- [What Makes a Good Skill](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/good-skills.md): A good skill gives the same right result every time, for anyone who uses it. These are the habits that get you there.
- [Skill Examples](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/skill-examples.md): Three complete skills you can copy and adapt: one written only in words, one that works on a website, and one that runs a script. To use one, ask the AI to "create this skill" and paste it, or save the folder into your workspace's `.agents/skills/`.
- [Install, Create and Manage Skills](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/manage-skills.md): See, create, install, change and delete your skills.
- [Built-in Skills](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/builtin-skills.md): These come with Cowork. You do not need to install them; just ask.
- [Website Buttons (Injections)](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/injections.md): You can put a floating **micromeet** button on a website you use often. The button lists the jobs you set for that site; click one, and the AI starts it in the chat.
- [Workflows and Background Agents](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/workflows.md): For big jobs, the AI can split the work among several helper AIs ("Agents") that work in the background at the same time.
- [Background Commands and the Task Bar](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/background-commands.md): The AI can run commands on your computer — for example converting files or running a script. A command that takes long keeps running in the background, so the chat is not blocked.
- [Scheduled Tasks](https://docs.micromeet.ai/skills/scheduled-tasks.md): Let the AI do a job at set times: every weekday morning, every hour, or once next Friday.
- [Record Web Activity](https://docs.micromeet.ai/capture/recording.md): A recording keeps what a website does while you or the AI use it in a tab: the pages and the requests behind them.
- [Capture Whitelist](https://docs.micromeet.ai/capture/whitelist.md): A website makes many requests that have nothing to do with your work — statistics, ads, images. A whitelist tells Cowork which ones to keep for a website.
- [API Doc](https://docs.micromeet.ai/capture/api-doc.md): The API Doc lists a website's own functions that the AI can call directly, without clicking through pages.
- [Drill](https://docs.micromeet.ai/capture/drill.md): A drill lets the AI explore a website on its own and write the API Doc for it, instead of you recording by hand.
- [Crawl Scripts](https://docs.micromeet.ai/capture/crawl-scripts.md): To fetch a lot of data from a website — all orders, all records of a year — the AI writes a crawl script from the website's API Doc.
- [MCP Servers](https://docs.micromeet.ai/connections/mcp-servers.md): An MCP server gives the AI new tools from another product, for example a project tracker or a database.
- [Extensions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/connections/extensions.md): An extension is a small program that adds a capability to Cowork, for example a connection to an outside chat channel.
- [Gateway: Outside Messages](https://docs.micromeet.ai/connections/gateway.md): The Gateway lets an extension bring messages from an outside channel — for example a website chat — into Cowork, and send the AI's reply back to that channel.
- [WhatsApp Seat (Connector)](https://docs.micromeet.ai/connections/whatsapp-seat.md): If your institution has a WhatsApp service number in Care Workspace, you can receive its customer messages in Cowork.
- [Encrypted Environment Variables](https://docs.micromeet.ai/connections/env.md): **Safe Env** keeps API keys, tokens and other secrets encrypted on your computer, so the AI can use them later without you pasting them again.

## Help

- [Solve Problems with AI](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/ask-ai.md): When something does not work or you are not sure how to do it, an AI can usually get you to the answer faster than reading page by page. There are three ways, from quickest to most thorough.
- [Find a Fix by Symptom](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/by-symptom.md): Find what you see, then follow the fix. If your problem is not here, [solve it with AI](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/ask-ai.md).
- [Sign-in Problems](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/sign-in-problems.md)
- [Network and Proxy](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/network-and-proxy.md): Cowork follows your computer's proxy settings. If a proxy is on in the system, Cowork uses it; if it is off, Cowork connects directly. There is nothing to set in Cowork.
- [Logs and Diagnostics](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/logs-and-diagnostics.md): When you report a problem, support usually needs three things:
- [Windows Notes](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/windows.md): - Cowork runs on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11. - If Windows shows **Windows protected your PC** when you run the installer, click **More info** › **Run anyway**. - Keyboard shortcuts use **Ctrl** where macOS uses **⌘**, for example Ctrl+N for a new chat. - Closing the window keeps Cowork running in the system tray. Click the tray icon to show it again; right-click it to quit. - Updates download by themselves; click **Update** in the address bar to install. There is no **Check Update** menu on Windows. - **Import Chrome Sign-ins** is not available on Windows.
- [Release Notes](https://docs.micromeet.ai/troubleshooting/release-notes.md)

## SDK

- [Overview](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/overview.md): A Mini App is a web page that Cowork opens in its own tab. Inside it, Cowork adds one global object, `window.MAESTROSDK`, through which the page talks to Cowork. This chapter lists the modules of that object that Cowork supports and every function in them, in the same layout as a method reference.
- [Build a Sign-in Mini App](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/sign-in-guide.md): The path from nothing to a Mini App that signs a person in with their Micromeet account and then calls Micromeet for them from its own backend. Every function is described in [Sign-in](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/auth.md), packaging in [Build and Sign](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/build.md), and every package rule in [Package Spec](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/package-spec.md).
- [Lifecycle](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/lifecycle.md)
- [Interaction](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/interaction.md)
- [Models](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/llm.md): Lets a Mini App use the AI models already set up in Cowork. API keys stay inside Cowork and never reach the page. Each call is one request and one reply: no tools, no chat history.
- [Package](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/package.md): A package installs a Mini App together with its extensions and skills. This module lets the Mini App read its own package, so it knows which extensions came with it.
- [Sign-in](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/auth.md): A Mini App can sign in the person using Cowork, with their Micromeet account, and then call Micromeet on their behalf from its own backend. The page never sees a password, a token or the Mini App's secret: Cowork gives the page a one-time code, and the Mini App's backend exchanges that code for tokens.
- [Build and Sign](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/build.md): A Mini App that signs people in (see [Sign-in](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/auth.md)) is delivered as a **signed package**: its files packed into one `app.asar`, a `manifest.json`, and Micromeet's signature over both. Cowork checks the signature when it opens the Mini App and checks every file against it when the page reads it; a changed file closes the Mini App. Cowork does not open a package whose signature is missing or does not verify; it tells the person the Mini App is not certified.
- [Package Spec](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/package-spec.md): The rules a Mini App package must meet for Micromeet to sign it and Cowork to open it: what each rule is, who checks it, and what happens when it is not met. How to make the package is in [Build and Sign](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/build.md); `micromeet-miniapp verify` runs these checks on your computer first. This page is about the signed Mini App package, not the Cowork packages of the [Package](https://docs.micromeet.ai/miniapp-sdk/package.md) module.
- [Overview](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/overview.md): An Extension is code that runs in its own background process. Cowork loads its entry file and calls `activate(api)` once. Everything the Extension can do goes through that `api` object, and through the `ctx` objects Cowork hands to what it registers. This chapter lists every module and function.
- [Entry and Registration](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/entry.md)
- [Connector](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/connector.md): A Connector carries messages between one outside channel (a chat platform, a live room) and Cowork's Gateway. Register it with `api.registerConnector(definition)`.
- [Background Tasks](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/service.md): <Badge type="warning" text="Not yet released" />
- [Site Requests](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/site.md): <Badge type="warning" text="Not yet released" />
- [Service Conversations](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/agent.md): <Badge type="warning" text="Not yet released" />
- [Browser](https://docs.micromeet.ai/extension-sdk/browser.md): With `browser` in `dozin.capabilities`, a Connector or task gets `ctx.browser` to read and act on web pages in Cowork tabs. Only tabs the person hands over can be used, and when `dozin.origins` is given, only pages on those sites.

## Reference

- [Terms and Interface Names](https://docs.micromeet.ai/reference/glossary.md): The words these docs use, and the name you see in the app when it differs. Steps and buttons in these docs always use the app's own names.
- [General](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/general.md): Open Settings from **Settings and more** (right of the address bar) › **Settings**. **General** is the first tab. Its sections:
- [Account](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/account.md): **Settings › Account** shows the email you are signed in with.
- [Browser](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/browser.md): **Settings › Browser** has three sections:
- [Capture](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/capture.md): **Settings › Capture** has four sections:
- [Skills](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/skills.md): **Settings › Skills** lists all your skills by source. You can read each one, import a skill package and export one.
- [Injections](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/injections.md): **Settings › Injections** lists the website buttons you have added, by website, and lets you remove them.
- [Extensions](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/extensions.md): **Settings › Extensions**: install an extension from a folder, approve it, switch it on or off, read its logs and uninstall it. Only you can approve.
- [Gateway](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/gateway.md): **Settings › Gateway**: the switches, **Kill**, persona, model, file access, trial mode and audit for outside message channels. Only you can switch it on.
- [About and Updates](https://docs.micromeet.ai/settings/about.md): **Settings › About** shows the **Version** and **Build** of Cowork. Give both when you contact support.
- [Install and Update](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/install-and-update.md)
- [Sign In and Credentials](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/sign-in-and-credentials.md)
- [MCU Upload and Import Progress](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/mcu-upload.md)
- [Patient Import](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/imports.md): Import patients exported from a clinic platform (Jane first), after converting them to Micromeet's patient format.
- [Report and Analysis Commands](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/reports-and-analysis.md)
- [Command Reference](https://docs.micromeet.ai/cli/command-reference.md)