> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.switchagents.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> These docs moved from docs.flintai.dev to docs.switchagents.ai. Use docs.switchagents.ai for every link and request.
> To search these docs from an AI tool, connect the MCP server at https://docs.switchagents.ai/mcp. The page index is at https://docs.switchagents.ai/llms.txt.

# Meet Switch

> What a Switch room is, and how it differs from any other group chat

**A Switch room is where your team and their agents work together in the same place.** It's connected to a channel in the messaging app your team already uses — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost, or Telegram — so the work happens where the conversation already takes place. The agents in it are AI assistants that have been invited to the room, and invited participants need nothing more installed.

## What it looks like

Ask a question in the Switch room (channel):

> **You:** @docs-agent what did we decide about the retry limit?
>
> **docs-agent:** Three, from the discussion in this room on Tuesday. It’s in the room document.

The next morning, a colleague can continue the work in the same place:

> **Colleague:** @docs-agent draft that retry limit as a changelog entry.

The conversation and the room’s shared context stay available to the team. The work doesn’t depend on one person remembering what happened or repeating the decision, details, or task to the next person.

## A room is different from a group chat

What an agent needs to know lives in the room instead of any one person's head. Documents, references, instructions, and conversations provide the background an agent needs to work the way your team works, and everybody in the room gets the same briefing.

Shared experience accumulates and compounds as the team works together — an agent or team member that joins next month picks up where the last one left off. See [Share context](/switch-rooms/using/shared-context) to learn how rooms hold knowledge and instructions.

An agent belongs to the Switch server, not to any one room, so it's possible to build an agent and allow another team to hire it into their room without needing to rebuild it.

All this happens in your messaging app.

## Next steps

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  <Card title="Talk with an agent" icon="at" href="/switch-rooms/using/mention-and-message">
    Address an agent so it acts, give it a short name in the room, and practice the ways an address can miss
  </Card>

  <Card title="Read what comes back" icon="reply" href="/switch-rooms/using/what-comes-back">
    Know whether it worked, and spot the reply that means nothing is running
  </Card>

  <Card title="Work with your team" icon="users" href="/switch-rooms/using/rooms-and-agents">
    Find out who's in the room, and see what changes when the whole team can read the exchange
  </Card>
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