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

## Use Codewhale

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

## Share and accounts

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

## The whale and Customize

- [Customize your whale and its workers](customize.md): See your whale, the profiles its workers use and the fleets that assign them, and reach plugins, connectors and skills. Works on: Desktop.
- [Your whale](your-whale.md): See who your whale is and what it's doing, and read and correct what it remembers about you. Works on: Desktop.
- [The whale on your screen](whale-on-screen.md): 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. Works on: Desktop.
- [Plugins](plugins.md): 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. Works on: Desktop.
- [Connectors and skills](connectors-and-skills.md): Connect the apps and tools your whale can reach, choose what each tool may do, and manage the skills your whale picks up. Works on: Desktop.

## Reference

- [Settings](settings.md): Change how Codewhale works for you, find any setting by searching, and see which rows your organization manages. Works on: Desktop.
- [Appearance](appearance.md): Choose the language and theme, see how much of the water shows through panels, and set the ocean life behind them. Works on: Desktop.
- [Accessibility](accessibility.md): Use Codewhale with only a keyboard, with a screen reader, with less motion and more contrast, and in your own language. Works on: Desktop · Phone.
- [Commands and the palette](commands.md): 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. Works on: Desktop.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](shortcuts.md): Every keyboard shortcut and menu letter in the Codewhale desktop app. Works on: Desktop.

## Help

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