Launcher Home¶
After completing the first-time setup wizard, you land on the Launcher Home (/home). It shows a greeting and a composer, with tabs at the top that choose what the composer starts, so new users have a clear starting point instead of an empty dashboard.
Overview¶
The tab bar at the top of Home holds Chat, Squad, and Automation, and Home opens on Chat. Cowork has no tab of its own: a conversation runs as Cowork when you attach a working folder to it from the composer (see Chat).
Setup Call-to-Action¶
When no model is installed, a setup call-to-action appears under the composer and links to the Models page. The composer stays disabled until at least one model is installed, and its placeholder says so.
Modes¶
Chat¶
Type a message and press Enter to open a new conversation with that message already sent. The app navigates to the conversation and delivers the message as soon as the model is ready.
Attach folder in the composer's + menu opens a folder picker. Picking a folder opens a new Cowork conversation with that folder attached, and the text you typed moves into its composer unsent. A conversation without a folder stays a chat.
When the text you type looks like work on files or a project, such as a path like ~/Documents, a file name like report.pdf, or a request to organize or refactor files, a one-line suggestion to attach a folder appears above the composer. The suggestion never changes the mode, and × hides it for that conversation. See Chat and Cowork modes for the full rule.
Links that opened Home's former Cowork tab land on the launcher at /chat, where a new conversation starts. There is no mode switch or shortcut that preselects Cowork: the working folder is the only Cowork entry.
Squad¶
An autonomous multi-agent squad. The tab lists your squads with their approvals and work in progress. Type a goal, pick the squad beside the composer, and press Enter to open that squad's chat with the goal in its input.
Automations¶
Scheduled and recurring work. At the top of the Automation tab, Up next lists when your enabled automations run next, soonest first; click one to see its run history. Below it, My automations shows the automation cards with Export all, Import, and New automation, as on the Automations page. With no automations yet, the tab shows New automation and Import under the greeting.
Type a task in the input and press Enter to open the new-automation form with that text as its prompt, then choose when it runs and the model, and create it. In a canary build (the Canary update channel), where Create by chat is available as a preview, the text opens the Automations page's conversation as its first message instead. It asks when the automation should run, where the results go, and which model runs it, one thing at a time, and creates it when you confirm (see Automations). There, New automation starts the way you picked last on the Automations page, the conversation unless you chose the form.
Start from a Template¶
On the Squad tab, while you have no squads yet, a row of template chips lets you open a squad that is already configured for a specific purpose rather than building one from scratch. The Chat tab does not show it. Beside the chips, Create an empty squad and Import from workspace start a squad without a template.
The row has two kinds of chips. Built-in template chips come with the app and work offline; clicking one opens the squad-creation wizard with that template already applied, so you only need to confirm a name and a model. Marketplace chips show templates from the remote registry that you have not installed yet; clicking one opens Agent Extensions > Squad Templates, where you can inspect and install it.
A "Browse more" button at the end of the row always appears when the template section is visible. It takes you to the same Marketplace tab.
The section is hidden when built-in templates fail to load (for example, on a corrupted app bundle), and it is also hidden on first paint before the built-in list arrives, so there is no flash of an empty row.
Continue Strip¶
If you have existing conversations or squads, a "Continue" row appears under the greeting on the Chat tab. It shows up to five chips sorted by most recently updated, mixing conversations and squads. Click any chip to jump straight back into that conversation or squad without opening the full list first.
Returning to the Launcher Home¶
The sidebar has a Home icon that brings you back to /home at any time.
To make the Launcher Home your permanent startup screen, open Settings → General → Startup landing page and select Launcher Home. The setting also accepts Last visited page, which means the next launch reopens whatever page you were on; a genuine first run with no history still lands on the Launcher Home automatically.