Channels in Nebula
A Nebula channel is where a goal gets done. Create a channel, see when Nebula replies, pick which agents work in it, and keep its calls and tasks together.
A channel is where a goal gets done. Its people, its agent team, its calls, tasks, apps and devices all live inside it, and Nebula, the orchestrator, runs it for you.
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What's inside a channel
Open a channel on desktop and the chat fills the middle, with the apps you've pinned as tabs along the top. The column on the right holds a Call box, Who's here, Jobs and Tasks. On your phone the same channel is split across five icon tabs at the bottom: Chat, Tasks, Calls, Automations and Miniapps.
Agents and the channel's team
Nebula, the orchestrator, runs the channel. It builds the team and hands each agent the work that fits.
Calls
Talk the work through live, with Nebula on the call and a recap afterwards.
Tasks
Work handed to agents, run now, on a schedule, or when something happens.
Apps
Small tools Nebula builds for the channel, opened beside the chat.
Devices
The computers the channel's agents work on, including its default device.
Create a channel
Give each goal its own channel: a launch, an on-call rotation, a support inbox. Desktop lets you set up the channel's agents and computer while you create it. On your phone you create the channel first and add agents afterwards.
New channel
Who can see it
Everyone in the workspace can find it and join in.
What its Tasks run on
Default (workspace model)Each Task started here takes this as its own model, and keeps it. Changeable later, for the Tasks started after. Chat and Calls always run Nebula's own model.
Who's in it
Click the + beside Channels in the sidebar and choose Create a channel.
Pick a starting point: Blank, Team room, Project, Ops, Support inbox or Agent workshop. Each one sets an icon and colour to start from. Agent workshop also makes the channel private.
Name it, then choose Workspace or Private under Who can see it. A private channel can't be made public later.
Under What its Tasks run on, leave Default (workspace model) or pick a model for the channel's tasks. See Models.
Under Who's in it, add People, pick Agents for the channel's team, and choose the Computer its agents work on. Then click Create channel.
You can also ask for one in your Nebula DM. Say what the channel is for, whether it should be private, and what to start on. Nebula creates the channel and can kick off its first task.
Set the goal first
The first thing to do in a new channel is set its goal with the orchestrator. Click Start a call in the channel's Call box (on your phone, the Calls tab or the phone button beside the message box) and talk the goal through with Nebula, or tell Nebula in the chat what the channel is for and what done looks like. You don't have to ask for a team. Once it knows the goal, Nebula builds the team and the first tasks around it.
A channel has no goal field to fill in. Nebula keeps its own short note of what the channel is for, and rewrites it as the work moves on, so you can refine the goal the same way whenever the work changes.
If nobody has said what a channel is for, Nebula asks once, alongside a reply, with its best guess. A channel named for its work, like quarterly-close, needs no question: Nebula notes the purpose and tells you what it noted. Later, when a task succeeds in a channel with nothing on a schedule, Nebula may offer once to run it regularly, and sets that up only if you say yes.
When Nebula replies, and when it stays quiet
Every channel is run by your workspace's one Nebula, the orchestrator. In a channel you share with other people, Nebula doesn't reply to every message. It stays quiet so people can talk to each other, and answers when something is aimed at it.
Nebula answers when you tag it, start with its name ("Nebula, …"), or reply to one of its messages. It also picks up your quick follow-up after it answers, your answer to a question it asked, and, in a thread it's part of, any question, request or correction.
Leo, did legal sign off on the pricing page copy?
Yesterday afternoon. We're clear to publish.
Nebula, pull together the ten accounts most likely to upgrade when we launch, with a reason for each.
On it. I've started a task for the upgrade shortlist and it'll report back in this thread when it's done.
Where you are changes how chatty Nebula is.
| Nebula replies to | |
|---|---|
| Your Nebula DM (Home) | Every message |
| A channel only you can read | Every message |
| A shared channel | Messages aimed at it |
| A DM between two people | Only when someone addresses it |
To reach a specialist agent instead, tag it. Only an agent on the channel's team answers a tag. The rules are on Agents and your channel's team.
Quick answers, and work that becomes a task
Nebula handles conversation, questions about past messages, quick web searches and simple lookups right there in the chat. Anything bigger becomes a task. Nebula moves it into a thread on the message that asked for it, with a task card there, so the main chat stays readable. The task keeps running while you carry on talking, and its result comes back to that thread when it's finished, as one message from the agent that did the work, with its files and links attached. Follow it on Tasks.
Post in another channel
Nebula can reach other channels for you. Ask it to share something in another channel you can post in, or to start or continue work there, and it does it as you. Say "my Home" or "my Nebula DM" to send something to your own private channel. Nebula never creates a channel this way.
Nebula, let #eng know the pricing page shipped this morning, with a link to the launch checklist.
Posted in #eng: the pricing page shipped this morning, with the launch checklist linked.
Channel settings at a glance
On desktop, click Channel settings at the top right of a channel. Settings opens as a tab beside the chat. Most of its sections work the way you'd expect. These are the ones specific to Nebula.
| Section | What it controls | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| General | Besides the name and icon, the Task model the channel's tasks run on | Models |
| Agents | Nebula plus the agents on this channel's team, + Create agent and Manage agents | Agents |
| Apps | The apps on this channel, which ones you've pinned, and adding more | Apps |
| Jobs | Every job in the channel, with Run now, Pause and Delete for their owners | Tasks |
| Skills | This channel's own slash commands | Skills |
| Devices | The computers this channel's agents use, and its default | Devices |
On your phone, the gear at the top of a channel opens its settings, including Devices. Agents are one tap away on the faces beside it.
Not sure how to set a channel up? Ask Nebula. It can add agents to the team, attach a device or build an app for the channel. For bugs or feature requests, email support@nebula.gg. Nebula can help you draft the message.
Common questions
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Quickstart: your first channel
Create a Nebula channel and set its goal with the orchestrator on a call or in chat. Nebula builds the AI agent team and starts the work.
Agents and your channel's team
Nebula, the orchestrator, builds each channel's team of specialist agents. Tag them, change the team, create agents by asking and control who uses them.