Agents
Learn how to work with the AI agent — chatting, modes, memory, and more.
Working with Sub-Agents
This guide covers what happens when Obvious spawns sub-agent threads to handle your work — what you see, how to monitor and steer them, and what to do when something needs your attention.
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Image Generation
This guide walks you through generating and editing images with your Obvious agent — from logos and illustrations to diagrams, mockups, and photo-realistic content.
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Agent Modes (Fast, Auto, Deep)
Every conversation in Obvious runs through an agent mode — a combination of AI model, reasoning depth, and speed that shapes how your agent works. You choose the mode before (or during) a conversation
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Voice Input
This guide walks you through using voice input to talk to your agent instead of typing your message.
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Agents Overview
The Obvious agent is an AI that works directly inside your project — it can see your artifacts, and take action on both. You can also drag files into the chat (CSV, Excel, PDF, images) to give the age
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Chatting with Your Agent
This guide covers how to work with your Obvious agent through chat — creating artifacts, editing content, analyzing data, and transforming information using natural conversation.
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How Obvious works on complex tasks
When you give Obvious a complex request — research three competitors, analyze a dataset from multiple angles, build a report that requires independent investigations — the agent doesn't try to do ever
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Web Research
Obvious agents can search the web, read specific URLs, and pull findings directly into your work — all from a chat message. You don't open a browser or copy-paste links. You describe what you need, an
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Skills
When you ask an agent to set up a webhook, analyze a dataset, or build a dashboard, it doesn't wing it. It loads a skill — a focused knowledge module that tells it exactly how to approach that specifi
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Reusable shortcuts for common requests
If you find yourself typing the same prompt every week — "Summarize this document in three bullet points," "Draft a follow-up email," "Check this sheet for duplicates" — shortcuts save you the repetit
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Project Instructions
Every project has its own personality — the data it holds, the tone it needs, the rules that apply. Project instructions let you tell the agent how to behave in a specific project, and those instructi
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Thread Objectives & Orchestration
When you ask Obvious to do something complex — say, research five competitors and write a comparison report — the agent doesn't try to cram everything into a single conversation. It breaks the work in
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Custom Modes
Custom modes let you create specialized versions of the Obvious agent with their own instructions, model, and tool access. Think of them like saved presets on a mixing board — same equipment, tuned fo
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Undo changes with checkpoints
Checkpoints are snapshots of your project at a moment in time. Like version history, but for everything in your project — documents, sheets, workbooks, and files. If something goes wrong, you roll bac
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Plans & Approval Workflows
This guide walks you through reviewing and approving plans — structured proposals your agent creates before tackling complex work.
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How Obvious remembers your preferences
Every time you tell the agent something important — your preferred date format, the name of your key account list, the way you like reports structured — you probably don't want to say it again next Tu
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