Codewhale Help

How to use Codewhale on the desktop, on your phone and on the web. Each page says at the top which of these it works on today, and says "Not available yet" plainly where something isn't there.

Get started

• Get started Desktop
  Open a folder, connect a model and send your first message in the Codewhale desktop app.
• Sign in Phone
  When Codewhale asks you to sign in, and how signing in works on the phone, the desktop app and the web.
• Connect a model Desktop
  Connect a model provider with a key or a browser sign-in, or a model running on your computer, from the Connect a model dialog.
• Choose a model Desktop
  Switch the model for a conversation with the model picker, search every connected model, and set the model new conversations use.
• Codewhale on your phone Phone
  Follow your conversations, start one on a cloud computer, answer approvals and see who's here, from your phone.
• Codewhale on the web Not available yet
  What you can do with Codewhale in a browser today, and which Codewhale links open what.

Use Codewhale

• Talk with the whale Desktop · Phone
  Send a message, add to or queue behind a running reply, stop the whale, and read what it did.
• Conversations and folders Desktop · Phone
  Find a conversation, rename, fork, rewind, make room, archive or delete it, and read the line under the composer.
• Approvals and permissions Desktop · Phone
  Answer approval cards from the mouse or keyboard, and choose what asks first and which mode the whale works in.
• The work pane Desktop
  See what the whale is doing and what changed, beside the conversation: Overview, Terminal, Review, Browser, Files and the detail panes.
• Review what changed Desktop
  Find out which conversation wrote a line and every conversation that changed a file, from Review.
• Routines Desktop
  A morning brief, check-ins at the time you pick, and the work your whale finished while you were away.

Share and accounts

• Your account and cloud computers Phone
  What works without an account, your cloud computers and cloud time, and the account sheet on your phone.
• Choose where the work runs Desktop · Phone
  See this computer and your cloud computers in Environments, and pick a cloud computer for a new conversation on your phone.
• Work together in a group Phone
  Invite people into a conversation, see who's here and typing, choose what each person can do, and leave.
• Run your organization Not available yet
  Members and roles, invitations, verified domains, policies, settings your organization sets, the audit log, usage and limits.
• Maintainer mode Not available yet
  Let your whale keep a repository healthy on GitHub, with a spending limit only you change.

The whale and Customize

• Customize your whale and its workers Desktop
  See your whale, the profiles its workers use and the fleets that assign them, and reach plugins, connectors and skills.
• Your whale Desktop
  See who your whale is and what it's doing, and read and correct what it remembers about you.
• The whale on your screen Desktop
  Keep your whale in view over your other apps, see what it's doing, and ask it something from anywhere with ⌥Space or Ctrl+Alt+Space.
• Plugins Desktop
  Add plugins that give your whale new commands, connectors, skills and agents, see what each can do before it runs, and turn them off or remove them.
• Connectors and skills Desktop
  Connect the apps and tools your whale can reach, choose what each tool may do, and manage the skills your whale picks up.

Reference

• Settings Desktop
  Change how Codewhale works for you, find any setting by searching, and see which rows your organization manages.
• Appearance Desktop
  Choose the language and theme, see how much of the water shows through panels, and set the ocean life behind them.
• Accessibility Desktop · Phone
  Use Codewhale with only a keyboard, with a screen reader, with less motion and more contrast, and in your own language.
• Commands and the palette Desktop
  Search and run anything with the palette, type / commands in the composer, act on anything with its menu, and see what every / command does on the desktop.
• Keyboard shortcuts Desktop
  Every keyboard shortcut and menu letter in the Codewhale desktop app.

Help

• Troubleshooting Desktop · Phone
  What to do when Codewhale shows a problem, starting from the words on screen, on the desktop and on your phone.
• Updates Desktop
  Get the newest Codewhale when it suits you; nothing downloads or installs until you say so.
• Diagnostics Desktop
  Copy a short report for support, without your keys, tokens or conversations, and see what Codewhale keeps on your computer when something goes wrong.