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Agents and workspaces

The notch and the widget

A pill at the top of the screen (or a widget on the Windows taskbar) that tells you who's working and who's waiting while you do something else, and lets you answer and write to the agents from any program.

The notch is a small ink pill at the top of the screen. When Gloop isn't in front, it tells you in one line what the agents are doing ("1 waiting for you, 1 working, 1 done"), with a dot per agent in the colour of its state. It's how you follow the agents while you work in another window, without notifications covering the screen.

  • It opens when you rest over it with the mouse, and closes when you move away.
  • It doesn't show in screen shares or screenshots: you can keep it on during a call.
  • On Windows, if a program takes the whole screen (a video, a presentation, a game), the notch doesn't sit on top of it.
The notch open: an agent's question with its answers, and below the agents with their state.
The notch open: an agent's question with its answers, and below the agents with their state.

What's inside

Open, the notch has its own tabs:

TabWhat you find there
SessionsThe agents with their state and what they're doing, and what they're asking you: questions with their answers, permissions with Yes and No, plans to approve. The finished Debrief too.
ScoutThe Scout answers that just arrived and the points of the requests. See Documents, calls and delivery.
MusicPlay, pause and next track, without switching windows.
BrainSearch the workspace's notes.
UsageThe plan's 5 hours and week.
ChangesThe changed files.

Answer a question straight from the notch: a click on an answer, or Other to write your own. In the terminal leaves it to the terminal; Open in the app takes you to the pane.

In the notch: three agents ask for the same permission, and a question with the Brain decision that answers it.
In the notch: three agents ask for the same permission, and a question with the Brain decision that answers it.

The command bar

Ctrl+Alt+Space opens the notch's command bar from any program: write to an agent, search, give commands, without going through Gloop.

The command bar: the agents with their state, and at the bottom the words that change what it does.
The command bar: the agents with their state, and at the bottom the words that change what it does.
  • Type an agent's name (or @name) and the message: Enter sends it. If the agent is working it goes at the end of the turn; Ctrl+Enter sends it right away.
  • note followed by words searches the workspace's Brain; you can open the note or copy its link.
  • point adds a point to a Scout request; with the arrows you choose the request.
  • ask asks a question about a request: Claude reads Brain and code and answers right there, only to you. Handy on a call. See Documents, calls and delivery.
  • play controls the music.

You change the combination in Settings → Notch → Command bar. If another program already uses it, Gloop tells you and lets you pick another.

Notch or widget

On Windows you can put the notch on the taskbar, where the weather sits: it becomes a widget that opens with a click. You choose it in Settings → Notch → Where.

Both the notch and the widget can be moved: with Moves, drag them along the top edge (the notch) or along the taskbar (the widget); with Fixed they stay where they are.

Settings → Notch: on or off, where it sits, whether it moves and the command bar's combination.
Settings → Notch: on or off, where it sits, whether it moves and the command bar's combination.

Turning it off

You turn the notch on and off in Settings → Notch. When it's on, next to the system clock there's an icon to hide it in a moment, before a presentation for instance. To make it quiet without turning it off there's Do not disturb.