Context overview
Context is a platform for running AI agents that produce research, documents, spreadsheets, decks and small apps. You describe a task in plain language, and an agent completes it on its own computer. Its output is saved to Drive as files you can open, edit and share.
Recommended reading order
- Sign in and navigate
- Organizations and workspaces
- Send a task
- Monitor and steer a task
- Drive
- Connectors
- Agents
Features
- Automations: run an agent on a schedule or when another app sends an event.
- Create an agent: one team agent for one kind of job.
- Evals: score an agent on real examples before and after you change it.
- Applets: small web apps that an agent writes, stores data for and keeps versioned.
Reference
Find a page by goal
Each row links to the page section that covers that goal.
Tasks and files
| Goal | Page |
|---|---|
| Have an agent write a document, deck or spreadsheet | Send a task |
| Change what an agent is doing while it runs | Monitor and steer a task |
| Find a file an agent made | Drive |
| Let an agent use Gmail, Slack, a CRM or another app | Connectors |
| Run the same job every week | Automations |
Team setup
| Goal | Page |
|---|---|
| Write down how we do a job, so agents follow it | Create a skill |
| Give the team one agent for one kind of job | Create an agent |
| Require approval before an agent makes changes | Agent permissions |
| Share a task, file or agent with the right people | Sharing and access |
| Build a small app on top of our files | Applets |
| Decide between a task, skill, automation or agent | Tasks, skills, agents and applets |
Quality
| Goal | Page |
|---|---|
| Test whether a change makes an agent better | Evals |
| Monitor quality in production | Benchmarks and monitors |
| Load test cases from a spreadsheet or file | Dataset files |
| Write criteria that score the same way every time | Write criteria |
| Understand a run’s score | Read results |
Troubleshooting
| Problem | Page |
|---|---|
| A task has stopped moving | Troubleshooting tasks |
| The result isn’t what I asked for | Troubleshooting tasks |
| The agent can’t find a file | Troubleshooting tasks |
| A connected app isn’t working | Connectors |
Training and support
Courses and the platform walkthrough are on learn.context.ai. To report a problem, see Troubleshooting tasks.
Next steps
- Sign in and navigate: sign in, learn the left rail and open the command palette.
- Send a task: write a task in the composer and send it to an agent.
- Tasks, skills, agents and applets: compare the ways to run work in Context.