Agents

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Questions Tool

Obvious Agents use the Questions Tool to ask structured questions when they need more input before continuing a task.

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Agent Modes

Every conversation in Obvious runs through an agent mode — a combination of AI model, reasoning depth, and speed that shapes how your agent works.

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Creating Chat Threads

Every conversation you have with the Obvious agent happens inside a thread. This guide covers how to create one, how to find it again, and how to stay organized.

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Working with Sub-Agents

Beta: Sub-agent threads are available to a limited number of workspaces. Email help@obvious.ai(mailto:help@obvious.ai) to request access. This guide covers

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Knowledge Base

What the Knowledge Base is Every conversation you have with an agent starts fresh — but the things worth remembering shouldn't have to be re-explained...

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Skills

What is a skill? When you ask an agent to set up a webhook, analyze a dataset, or build a dashboard, it doesn't wing it.

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Reasoning & Thinking

Before Obvious responds to a complex request, it thinks.

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Timers & Reminders

Beta: Timers & Reminders are currently in beta and available to a limited set of workspaces.

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Agents Overview

Agents Overview The Obvious agent is an AI that works directly inside your project — it can see your artifacts, and take action on both.

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Voice Input

Voice Input This guide walks you through using voice input to talk to your agent instead of typing your message.

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How Obvious works on complex tasks

This feature is currently in beta. Contact help@obvious.ai to request access.

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Reusable shortcuts for common requests

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Chatting with Your Agent

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. Creating Artifacts The fastest way to create anything in Obvious is to ask for it.

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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. When you ask for something with multiple steps — research, analysis, building several artifacts — the agent proposes a plan first.

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Thread Objectives & Orchestration

This feature is currently in beta. Contact help@obvious.ai to request access.

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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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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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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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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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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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