Asking well

Tell Manwe what you want to accomplish, the context it needs, and what a useful result looks like. You can ask a question, research a topic, work through a decision, create a document, or carry out a task with the tools available in your conversation.

Name the outcome

Describe the result you need. For a research task, name the question and the depth. For a document, name the audience and format. For a decision, explain the options, constraints and time horizon.

The stronger version names the choice, the numbers, and the horizon. That's usually enough. You don't need to write an essay, and you don't need special phrasing.

What helps most

• The task itself. Say whether you want an explanation, comparison, draft, plan or finished file.
• Facts you already know. Prices, dates, what's been said, what's already been tried.
• Constraints. Money, time, health, the people involved, what you won't do.
• What would make it useful. Include the audience, format, level of detail and any checks the result should pass.

Context and actions

Choose the model and world for the task with the chips beside the composer; the model picker also sets how much Effort it puts in. The composer's + adds files and a working folder, opens skills and workflows, and keeps the other ways to ask and the conversation's context in two short submenus, Ask differently and Context. In an empty composer, type / to reach every action by name:

Opening a selector doesn't send your message. ⌘K searches everything at once: worlds, workflows, conversations, saved work and actions.

When the composer is empty, Manwe may offer a next question in grey, drawn from the last answer and your worlds' goals and deadlines. Press Tab to use it or Esc to dismiss it. Under an answer, up to three suggested next steps work the same way: clicking one puts it in the composer without sending.

Keep talking to refine the result, supply a missing detail, or revise a saved output. Manwe asks when an essential detail is missing.

Your apps, and changes

When a question needs your own data, Manwe can look in apps you've connected: Notion, Linear and Slack, apps on your Mac, and Apple apps like Calendar, Reminders and Notes. See Connecting apps and Apple apps.

Reading is direct. Anything that changes something, like adding a calendar event or updating a Notion page, follows your Action approvals setting in the composer:

For files, previews, downloads and destructive-action confirmation, see Tasks and approvals. A model can use conversion tools without being able to interpret an image visually.

What Manwe did

Every answer has an activity line showing what happened along the way: the sources it read, the memories it used, the apps it looked in, the skills it followed, and the model that wrote it. Based on N sources opens the sources themselves. The header's Activity button lists work still running, and any questions or approvals waiting for you, across all worlds.

Four ways to ask

A plain message gets an ordinary answer. Under the composer on the home screen, or beside it in a conversation, three more are a click away. Pick one and it appears in the composer; its × takes you back to a normal answer.

Keep useful work

Documents, spreadsheets, presentations and interactive outputs stay in Settings › Vault › Saved work. An answer's … menu offers more:

Under each answer

Your past conversations are in All conversations, under More in the sidebar. Each is labelled by kind, like Deep review or Workflow; filter by kind or by world, and search their titles and messages.

Manwe follows up

When a decision has a moment where you'll know how it went, Manwe schedules a check-in for then. The answer shows the date, with Cancel if you'd rather it didn't. When you tell it how things turned out, that goes on the advisor's record, so the next answer is a little better calibrated to you. See Check-ins and outcomes.