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The checklist ticks when things exist. It doesn’t tell you an agent will answer when somebody speaks to it. This page is the difference.
Setup is done when you can send one task into one room, watch an agent do it, and see that the agent knew something it was never told in that message.
It takes a few minutes and needs nothing you haven’t already set up.

Send one task

1

Open the room in your messaging app

Go to the channel, not to Switch Console. This is the surface your team will use, so it’s the surface worth testing.You should see the room as an ordinary channel with your agent among its members.
2

Address the agent by name

Mention the agent and ask it to do something small and specific in its working directory — summarize a file, list what is in a folder, describe the project it is pointed at.A good result isn’t a good answer. It’s an answer that could only have come from your machine and your directory. Generic competence means the agent is talking but isn’t where you think it is.
3

Ask a follow-up that leaves out the context

Ask a second question that depends on the first without restating it. “Do the same for the other one.” “Why?”The agent should carry on. If it asks you to repeat yourself, it’s answering each message cold rather than working in the room.
4

Have somebody else read the thread

Bring a colleague into the channel. They should be able to scroll up and follow what happened without you narrating it, and address the same agent themselves without setting anything up.This is the whole point of a room, and it’s the only step you can’t verify alone.

When a step doesn’t match

Work down this list. Each of these looks like the last from inside the channel, so resist skipping to the interesting explanation. If a colleague can read the thread and the agent answered both messages, this installation works. Everything after this is about using it rather than proving it.

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Work in a room

You have a working room. This is how people use one day to day.

Bring your team in

Walk a real team through their first day in Switch, on real work.