Sharing your screen
Share your screen on a Nebula call and ask your agent what it sees — read an error, pull text off a stack trace, or talk through a dashboard together.
Share your screen on a call and your agent can look at it and tell you what's there. It's the difference between describing a problem and just showing it.
Start sharing
Tap the monitor icon in the controls bar to start sharing and tap it again to stop; it tints red while you're live. The caret next to it picks quality.
| Quality | Resolution | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 480p | 854 × 480 @ 30 fps | The lightest option — slow connections |
| 720p | 1280 × 720 @ 30 fps | Balanced, and the default |
| 1080p | 1920 × 1080 @ 30 fps | Sharpest — dense text and code |
Your share takes the stage and the people compact into a strip alongside it. Your own screen renders back to you as a live mirror, so you can see exactly what everyone else is seeing.
Frame rate is a ceiling, not a promise — a busy screen or a thin connection will run below it.
Letting your agent see the screen
Your agent doesn't watch continuously. It takes a look when you ask, which keeps it from narrating over you while you're mid-sentence.
I'm sharing the dashboard now — what's the error rate on the top chart?
The top chart shows error rate at 2.4%, up from 0.8% about forty minutes ago. The spike lines up with the deploy marker just left of it.
Ask it to describe what it sees, or to pull the text off the screen so you don't have to read a stack trace out loud.
Looking happens in the moment — the agent answers in the same turn rather than dispatching a thread you have to wait on. The look still shows up as activity in the chat, so you're never guessing whether it actually looked.
What it's good for
Share the failing screen and ask what's wrong. Because the agent re-reads whenever you ask, you can change something and ask again without restarting anything.
Stack traces, log output, error dialogs, config files — ask it to pull the text off rather than reading it aloud.
Scroll and talk. Ask about the part you're looking at, and the agent reads the current state of the screen rather than a snapshot from earlier.
Want to show your agent something without being on a call? On desktop, Quick Send attaches a single screenshot to a message. Sharing on a call is the live version — the agent can look again as things change.
Permissions
The first time you share on macOS, your system asks whether Nebula can record the screen. It's the standard prompt, and you can change it later in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.
Related
Inside a call
How a Nebula call is laid out — the stage, agent postures, the work board, the chat and recap rail, and the transcript waiting for you afterwards.
Live camera
Turn on your camera in a Nebula call and let your agent see what you show it — hold something up, read a label, or check what you are pointing at.