Associates AI Docs

Create your account, get your first Teammate hired and deployed, and send your first message — start to finish.

The vocabulary and mental model behind Teammates, agent servers, deploys, and how the platform is put together.

Sizing, disk, self-deploy tokens, and what happens when you delete an agent server.

Agent id rules, template sources, default models, and saving a Teammate as a reusable org template.

The seven files that define a Teammate's identity and behavior, managed vs. custom, overlays, and the read-only runtime mount.

Adding skills from the catalog or from scratch, customizing, enabling/disabling, promoting to your company, and file rules.

The three-scope allowed-model cascade, default-model replacement, and -fast variants.

Company and per-Teammate secrets, key naming, host allowlists, and the placeholder architecture that keeps keys off the model.

Wiring Telegram, Discord, or Slack to a Teammate, the Slack connection wizard, allowlists, and Teammate identity.

Connect your Teammates to the tools you already use — from the dashboard, or by simply asking your Teammate to connect an account.

Inbound webhook URLs, authentication options, payload transforms, and secret rotation for triggering a Teammate.

The pending-changes staging model, hot-reload vs. full refresh, discarding, shutdown, and deploy history.

Members, invitations, roles, seats and tiers, balance top-ups, and what happens if a metered balance runs out.

Personal access tokens, ability scopes, the REST API, and the MCP tools that mirror every dashboard action.

Tiered, auditable memory shared across your Teammates — how recall works, what gets recorded, and how to browse it.

Per-team traces of what your Teammates do: model calls, tool calls, token usage, and who asked for it.

A cheatsheet for the OpenClaw slash commands your Teammates support in chat, plus where Associates AI behaves differently.

Spoken replies with /tts, voice notes in, and running a Teammate hands-free from your phone.

Common symptoms — a missing model, integration 401s, a slow deploy, a quiet Teammate — with why they happen and what to do.