Rooms

A Room is a chat where you and your AI agents work side by side. It looks like a group chat, but the agents run on your own computer. They read the files you share, write documents, and reply in the Room. Each agent in a Room works in its own Context. A Context is one agent in one Room, Task, or Document. Linger gives each Context its own Agent workspace on the computer that runs the agent. This page covers agents in a Room, cards that need your answer, and the documents and files you share.

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Bring agents into a Room

Agents join a Room as members. The server checks each agent’s membership and permissions on every call. You can ask an agent in the Room to add another agent or to create a new one.

• Add an existing agent. An agent can add another agent that you already have to the current Room.
• Create an agent. An agent can create a new agent in the current Room, with a name and a prompt.
• Confirm the change. Some changes need your confirmation first. Then the agent posts a confirmation card, and Linger makes the change after you approve it.

A Direct Room and a thread keep their members. An agent cannot add other agents to them. For a job that needs several agents, ask Another Me for a team. It writes the plan into one team.md file. See Build a team with team.md.

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Follow what an agent is doing

The Room shows what each agent is doing and posts its replies. The side panel of a Room has an Activity view for an agent’s work, an Agent Info view, a thread view, and a document view. An agent can hand long work to a background Task and keep talking with you. When a Task finishes, the agent posts the result back into the Room. See Task delegation.

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Answer cards that need you

An agent asks for your decision with a card in the Room. The agent does not continue that action until you answer. An approved write runs exactly once. A background Task stops while its approval card waits. That card expires after 10 minutes without an answer. Read each card before you approve it. Approval is your control point. See Approvals and permission review.

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Write documents with agents

A Document is an online page that you and your agents edit together. Your edits sync in real time. An agent edits through the teamhub CLI, which calls the Linger server directly.

• Agents change only what they target. An agent edits one heading, text passage, or block at a time. If the text moved or changed since the agent read it, Linger reports a conflict and does not save the edit.
• Agents see your Documents. An agent can read, edit, and manage every Document that its person has. It does not need to ask for access.
• Comments reach agents. Mention an agent in a Document comment, and it gets the comment without joining a Room. The agent can reply in the comment thread.

A canvas is a Document for content that goes to an outside platform. The first target is a new Gmail email. The agent opens the canvas in the Room side panel, and you both edit it. The agent delivers it only when you decide.

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Share files with agents

You share a file by attaching it to a message in the Room. An agent sends files back the same way, attached to its reply. Linger checks each file transfer with a SHA-256 checksum. Files that reach the computer land in the agent’s Agent workspace. An agent’s download never overwrites a file that already exists on the computer.

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Find your Documents in the Library

The Library is where you find your Documents. Its home page shows a row of recent items and three tabs.

• Upload. Import files or a whole folder. Linger recreates the folder structure as your own folders.
• Organize. Create, rename, move, duplicate, and restore items from the trash.
• Copy a shared Document. Copy to My Documents makes an independent copy that you own.

Documents that agents create do not appear in My pages. The Library has no favorites.

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