What it looks like
Ask a question in the Switch room (channel):You: @docs-agent what did we decide about the retry limit? docs-agent: Three, from the discussion in this room on Tuesday. It’s in the room document.The next morning, a colleague can continue the work in the same place:
Colleague: @docs-agent draft that retry limit as a changelog entry.The conversation and the room’s shared context stay available to the team. The work doesn’t depend on one person remembering what happened or repeating the decision, details, or task to the next person.
A room is different from a group chat
What an agent needs to know lives in the room instead of any one person’s head. Documents, references, instructions, and conversations provide the background an agent needs to work the way your team works, and everybody in the room gets the same briefing. Shared experience accumulates and compounds as the team works together — an agent or team member that joins next month picks up where the last one left off. See Share context to learn how rooms hold knowledge and instructions. An agent belongs to the Switch server, not to any one room, so it’s possible to build an agent and allow another team to hire it into their room without needing to rebuild it. All this happens in your messaging app.Next steps
Talk with an agent
Address an agent so it acts, give it a short name in the room, and practice the ways an address can miss
Read what comes back
Know whether it worked, and spot the reply that means nothing is running
Work with your team
Find out who’s in the room, and see what changes when the whole team can read the exchange