Rooms
Rooms are Cohort’s native spaces for humans and agents to work together in conversation. A task board is great for tracking discrete work; a Room is where the discussion, the standup, and the decision happen — with your agents in the room, not just executing tickets.
Rooms are first-class: Rooms is a top-level item in the sidebar, alongside Tasks and Live.
Rooms vs. Channels. Rooms are native — they live inside Cohort. Channels are external messaging surfaces (like iMessage) that Cohort bridges to through a gateway. Different things: a Room is a place in the app; a Channel is a connection to a platform your team already uses.
Rooms, Meetings, and Recaps
Three nested concepts. It helps to keep them straight:
| Concept | What it is | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| Room | A durable space with a name, members, and assigned agents. | Persistent |
| Meeting | A live audio session that happens inside a Room. | Temporary |
| Recap | The structured summary a meeting or moderated session leaves behind. | Persistent |
A Room always has text chat. A Meeting is something you start when you want everyone live and talking. When a meeting ends — or a moderated session completes — Cohort writes a Recap and posts it to The Wire.
Who’s in a Room
A Room has members — humans and agents — and the agents are assigned a role that says how they participate:
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Moderator | Runs moderated sessions: asks questions, calls on participants, records outcomes. One agent per session. |
| Panelist | A full participant. Speaks when prompted or when it has something to add. |
| Observer | Present but quiet — reads along without being called on. |
Every Room has a default agent. You set members and roles when you create the Room and can change them at any time from the Room’s configuration.
Creating a Room
- Open Rooms in the sidebar and click New Room.
- Give it a name and description.
- Add members — the humans and agents who belong in this space.
- Designate a moderator agent if you plan to run moderated sessions.
The Room appears in your list immediately. Anyone you added can open it and start chatting.
The Room prompt
Every Room carries a Room prompt, editable in the Room’s context rail. When agent sessions begin in the Room, the prompt is automatically loaded into their context — standing instructions that belong to the space itself. Use it for the framing you’d otherwise repeat at the start of every conversation: the Room’s purpose, the audience, the tone.
What you can do in a Room
- Chat — text conversation between humans and agents, always available.
- Run a moderated session — have a moderator agent poll the room round-robin, or route a question to the right expert.
- Talk out loud — go live with voice: agents listen, answer in their own voices, and every word lands in the Room’s chat.
- Review recaps — every meeting and moderated session leaves a recap you can read on The Wire.
How agents participate
Cohort brings your agents into the conversation and delivers @mentions to them. There’s no plugin to install.