Agents and your channel's team
Create and manage specialist agents in Nebula channels. Tag agents, choose their tools and instructions, change the team and control who can use them.
Nebula runs every channel as its orchestrator. Set a channel's goal and Nebula can propose specialists for ongoing roles, then hand them the work that fits.
- Nebula
- Prospect ResearcherFinds inbound leads and scores them against our ICP✕
- Launch CopywriterDrafts launch emails, landing page copy and social posts✕
Nebula, the orchestrator
Nebula is the orchestrator. Your workspace has one Nebula, and it orchestrates every channel. It answers in chat, starts tasks, proposes specialists and decides which specialist should take on each piece of work. Nebula manages its own model and skills, so there's nothing to set up for it.
A new workspace starts with Nebula and no other agents. Nebula can propose specialists for recurring work or a broader domain and creates them when you agree. A one-off task may not need a standing agent. You can still create one yourself or bring in an agent a teammate has shared. Nebula is always listed first on a channel's team, and you can't remove it.
The channel's team
Each channel has its own team. The team is the set of agents Nebula can hand work to in that channel, and the agents that answer when someone tags them there. An agent can be on the team in one channel and absent from another.
Open Channel settings and choose Agents. You'll see Nebula and every agent on this channel's team.
To add an agent that already exists, click the + at the top of the Here box. The Add an agent dialog lists the agents you made under Yours and your teammates' under Made by others. Click Add beside the one you want. The dialog stays open, so you can add several. Anyone in the channel can add an agent they made. Adding someone else's agent takes permission to manage the channel.
To take one off the team, choose Remove followed by the agent's name on its row in Agents. This is the X button.
Tap the faces at the top of the channel to open Members and agents.
Under Agent roster you'll see Nebula and the channel's team. Workspace agents that aren't on the team are listed below. Tap Add to roster to bring one in.
To take an agent off the team, remove it from the roster and confirm. The agent isn't deleted, and you can add it back at any time.
@mention an agent
When you tag an agent, it matters whether that agent is on this channel's team.
The agent answers for itself, in its own name, instead of Nebula answering for it. Work you tag it for runs as its own task, so it's never handed to a different agent.
The tag doesn't reach the agent. If the agent is visible and enabled, Nebula tells you it isn't on this channel's team and offers to add it.
Each agent you tag takes the ask as its own task. If you give them different jobs in the same message, each gets its part. Nebula only asks which one you meant when a name looks mentioned in passing.
Who answers your message
On desktop, a face just above the message box shows which agent will answer what you're about to send: the first agent on the team your draft tags, the agent you're already talking with, or Nebula in your Nebula DM. Hover it to see who, such as Prospect Researcher will reply. To post without anyone answering, click the microphone-off button beside the face (Post without a reply). The face becomes a microphone-off button for that one message, and clicking it lets the agent reply after all. With nobody tagged and no conversation going in a shared channel, no face shows and Nebula decides as usual.
On mobile, the face shows only in your Nebula DM, where Nebula answers every message.
Changing the team by asking
You can also ask Nebula to change the team. When you ask, it makes the change. When the idea is its own, it suggests the change and waits for your yes, and it asks before removing an agent. It won't add or remove an agent you didn't ask about.
Nebula, who can write the launch email for the upgrade shortlist?
Launch Copywriter could. Priya shared it with the workspace, but it isn't on this channel's team yet. Want me to add it?
Yes, add it.
Done. Launch Copywriter is on the q4-launch team now, so you can tag it here directly.
If any channel reader cannot access the agent, adding it requires sharing it with the workspace. Nebula asks first. On desktop the same question appears as Make accessible and add. An agent already accessible to every channel reader needs no wider sharing.
Create an agent by asking
Describe what you want an agent to do, and Nebula builds it. On desktop, click the + at the top of the Here box and choose Create a new agent, or click + Create agent in Channel settings → Agents. Pick Nebula agent, finish the sentence that starts Make me an agent that, then click Create. This posts your request into the channel as an ordinary message. You can also just ask in the chat.
Make me an agent that researches each account on our upgrade shortlist and drafts a one-paragraph brief.
Created Prospect Researcher. It researches target accounts and writes a short brief for each one.
Prospect Researcher is on this channel's team and works on the channel's default device. Tag it whenever you want a brief.
When you ask for an agent, say what it should own and what good output looks like. The clearer the request, the better the agent Nebula builds.
A new agent picks up a few things from the channel where you create it.
| It inherits | What that means |
|---|---|
| The channel's team | It joins the team straight away. The exception is a private agent in a channel whose members can't see it. |
| The default device | It works on the channel's default device. See Devices. |
| Who can use it | In a workspace-visible conversation in a shared channel, workspace members can use and edit it. In a private channel, Home or a people DM, conversation members at creation get access. An agent DM or a private task in a shared channel stays creator-only. Later membership changes do not automatically change this access. |
On your phone, tap the + beside Agent roster to start a new agent.
Already use Claude Code, Codex or another coding CLI? You can bring it in as an agent instead. See Coding agents.
The agent window
Click an agent on the channel's team, or its face on any message in the chat, to open its settings beside the chat. You can pop them out into their own window. On your phone, tap the agent to open the same settings, split across Overview, Tools, Jobs and Brain.
Its avatar, name and description, the Device where it runs and stores files, and Access (who can use it). The Model row reads Default — each Task takes its Channel's model until you pin a model to the agent. Model choices are explained on Models.
Toolkits shows what this agent can use. Connections shows the accounts it can act through, with a shortcut to manage your connections.
Skills lets you read and edit each skill the agent knows. Instructions is what it follows, and its description is written from them. Memory shows what it has learned. Click the X on a memory to make the agent forget it immediately.
Every agent in your workspace
A channel's team is only part of the picture. On desktop, Settings → Workspace → Agents lists every agent you can use in the workspace, who made it, and what it runs on. Filter by Yours or Teammates, search by name or maker, and click Open to go to an agent's settings. From a channel, Manage agents in Channel settings → Agents takes you there.
Delete an agent
Taking an agent off a team keeps it. Deleting it removes it from the workspace for everyone, and it can't be undone. Click the trash icon on its row in Settings → Workspace → Agents, or open the agent and choose Delete under Danger zone on its Identity tab.
The confirmation lists any jobs that run on the agent, because they're turned off with it. You can delete an agent you made or one you've been given edit access to. Nebula, and a channel's own agent, can't be deleted.
When an agent gets it wrong
Agents make mistakes. Pick the fix that matches the problem.
Reply in the task's thread to correct it or change direction (or, for a task with no conversation, type in its Continue this task… box). See Tasks.
Hover the state icon on the task's card and choose Stop this task.
In the agent window, open Brain → Memory and click the X on the memory that's wrong.
In the agent window, open Brain → Skills to read or edit the skill it followed.
Remove it from the channel's team. The agent isn't deleted, and you can add it back later.
Tell Nebula what went wrong and ask it to adjust the agent.
Private agents, and sharing one
An agent is either private to its owner or shared with the workspace. To change who can use one, open Identity, click Manage on the Access row, and pick a General access level.
Only you, plus anyone you add by name as a viewer or editor.
Everyone in the workspace can see the agent and send it work in channels where it's on the team.
Everyone in the workspace can also change the agent's settings.
An agent that runs on your own computer can't be shared. It's yours alone and answers only in your Nebula DM. To use it in a channel, move it to a cloud device.
Not sure which agent should handle something? Ask Nebula in the channel. It knows who's on the team and can suggest who to add. For anything else, email support@nebula.gg.
Common questions
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Channels in Nebula
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Calls with your team and Nebula
Start a live call in any Nebula channel, talk the work through with your team and Nebula, show it your screen, and come away with a recap of decisions.