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Agents FAQ

Answers to common questions about agents: what they are, who can build and use them, where they work, and how to manage them.

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Building your own agents

Build your own agent with its own prompt, personality, skills, knowledge base, and memory. Build one for the work you repeat, or as an ongoing presence that carries what it learns from one conversation to the next. Test it in a private preview, then share it with your workspace. Publish the knowledge it carries so other agents can install it, and the knowledge stays linked to the artifacts it came from.

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My Day

My Day is your daily starting point in Obvious — see your calendar, pending decisions, and agent threads waiting on you, all in one place.

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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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Skills

Skills are focused knowledge modules that Obvious agents load on demand for specific tasks — from webhooks to data visualization.

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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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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, a configuration that shapes how your requests are handled: Agent, Autobuild, and, when enabled, Prototyper.

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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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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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Reasoning & Thinking

See how your Obvious agent thinks before it answers. Reasoning appears in real time, and you decide how much thinking the model does before it responds.

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Assistant Mode

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

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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

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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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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