Home and getting around Nebula
Home is your launcher — ask for anything from one box. The sidebar holds every destination, and each thing you open stays put as a tab.
Home is where you start work: type what you need, or talk it through out loud. Everything else in Nebula hangs off the sidebar on the left, and whatever you open from there stays with you as a tab.
Start anything from Home
Home is deliberately empty. There's the Nebula mark, one box, and one button — nothing to read, nothing to triage. Type a request and send it: Nebula creates a thread, works out which agent should handle it, and takes you there.
The box reads Ask Nebula anything — or your orchestrator's name, if you've renamed it. Send a request and Nebula routes it to the right agent; you don't pick one.
Talk to Nebula live on voice starts a live session from the same screen, for when explaining is faster than typing.
Send a task and carry on. The thread keeps running, shows up in the sidebar, and tells you when it needs you. Attach files by dragging them onto the page.
The toggles under the box
Two controls sit beneath the box, and they apply to the thread you're about to start.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Max | Sends the request to Nebula Max for heavier work. It appears when you're on a Nebula model. |
| Workspace / Private | Sets who can see the new thread. Workspace shows it to everyone; Private keeps it to you and anyone you invite. |
| Safety gate | A shield to the left of the paperclip, reading Safety gate: on or off. On, agents pause for your approval before risky actions — see Approvals. |
Find your way around
The sidebar is the map. Every destination in Nebula is one row, and the row you're on is highlighted.
| Row | What's there |
|---|---|
| Home | This screen — the launcher. |
| Notifications | Your inbox, with a count of what's unread. |
| Agents | Every agent in the workspace. A dot appears when one has something new. |
| Jobs | Scheduled and triggered work — see Jobs. |
| Miniapps | The miniapps you've built. |
| Live | Sessions, past and present. A green dot pulses while a call is running. |
| Devices | The machines your agents can use. |
Underneath sits Channels, collapsed until you open it. While it's closed the label carries a count — Channels (7) — and a badge for how many have something unread; open it and the count goes away, because the rows are the count. Sort them by Name, Recent, or Unread from the control on the right of that row.
Below that, two lanes track your actual work: Pinned for the things you keep coming back to, and Threads for what's been active lately. Drag a thread up into Pinned to keep it there. Hovering a row reveals a single × that unpins, archives, or quietly clears it until there's new activity.
Press ⌘B to collapse the sidebar to a narrow icon rail, and again to bring it back. You can also drag its right edge to resize it. Hovering the collapsed rail peeks it open without pushing the page around. The rail keeps the seven nav rows and drops the channel and thread lists, so it stays a way to navigate rather than a cramped version of everything.
At the very bottom are the two things you always want in reach: Search (or ⌘K — see Search), and your account, where Profile, Workspace settings, and Sign out live. Settings is never in the nav list itself; it's always in that account menu.
Tabs keep your work open
Above the page, a strip holds everything you've opened. There is no "new tab" step — visiting an agent, a channel, a job, a miniapp or a call leaves a tab behind, so going somewhere else doesn't lose your place.
Your tabs persist — close the browser and they're waiting when you come back. They're kept per workspace, so switching workspaces gives you that workspace's tabs, not a merged pile.
Tabs and the Threads lane aren't the same list
They look alike on purpose — a thread carries the same icon in the sidebar that it carries in its tab — but they answer different questions, and it's worth knowing which one you're looking at.
| Tabs, across the top | Threads, down the sidebar | |
|---|---|---|
| What it shows | What you have open | What's been active lately |
| Where it comes from | This browser | Your workspace, wherever you sign in |
| How many | Up to 10 | Up to 40 |
| Closing a row | Closes the tab | Archives or clears the thread |
| Threads you never opened here | — | yes — anything you're part of |
So closing a tab doesn't remove anything from the sidebar, and a thread can sit in the lane having never been open in this browser at all.
Closing the tab of a call you're on asks first: Leave this call? — "Closing the tab disconnects you. The call carries on for everyone else on it." Choose Leave call or Stay on the call.
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