First steps

After signing in you land on the new-chat screen. On the left is the sidebar with projects and chats, in the middle the message box, and the Files button on the right opens the file tree.

#The screen in brief

• New Chat — start a new conversation.
• Projects — the list of projects. The selected project decides which folder and which instructions the agent works with. With no project selected, the orchestrator answers.
• Chats — the conversations of the current project. A dot next to a chat means the agent is still working on it.
• Board — the task board: work handed to the agent as cards.
• Settings — models, context, memory, skills, MCP, schedules, messengers and API.
• Files (button in the header) — the current project's files: upload, open, download.
• Message box — your message, attachments, voice and the model picker. Under it is the chat mode line.

#Step 1. Start with a card

If you chose a first task at signup, the agent is already working on it. Otherwise, the new-chat screen shows quick-start cards, and the first three produce something right away: Make a document, Morning brief in Telegram and Build a table from other sites. All cards are described in the Skill catalog.

If you run a business, try the Business AI system card: the agent sorts everything about your business into files, and every chat after that works with the full picture.

#Step 2. Give it a real task

Write the way you would write to a colleague — plain words, with details:

• "Find five competitors of our coffee shop in Austin, compare their cappuccino prices and make an Excel table with links."
• "Here is the contract (attached). List every deadline and penalty."
• "Write three versions of a post about opening our new branch, short and without exclamation marks."

The agent decides what it needs: search the web, read a file, run code, build a document. Files it produces appear in the Files panel, and paths to them in the answer become links.

#Step 3. Make a project for recurring work

If the work will repeat, give it a project: ask in chat "create a project called Channel content", or use a quick-start card — many cards create a project for themselves. Keep everything about that work there from then on: files, instructions, memory, schedules. See Projects and the orchestrator.

#Step 4. Connect Telegram

If you signed up through @eggentai_bot, Telegram is already connected. If you signed up on the website, ask the agent to connect Telegram: it gives you a link to the shared bot. Or connect your own bot with the Your own Telegram bot card or in Settings → Messengers. Then you can write to the agent from your phone with text, voice and files, and it can send results there on a schedule. See Telegram.

#Habits that make it easier

• One topic, one chat. A long chat about everything is more expensive and more confusing. New task, new chat.
• Standing things go into context, one-off things into the message. If you keep repeating yourself, ask the agent to write it into the project's context.
• Ask it to remember. "Remember that I expect reports on Mondays" — and the agent saves it to memory.
• Don't wait at the screen. You can close the tab or switch chats: the work continues and the result waits in the chat.
• Stop and steer as it goes. The stop button interrupts the work, and a message sent while the agent is working is taken into the current task.
• Use the light mode for simple questions. If you only need a conversation with no files or tools, pick "plain chat" in a new chat — it costs many times less. See Chats.