User Guide

Cinatra is the open source AI workspace for teams — a workspace where people, AI assistants, and autonomous agents work together on durable workflows. This guide is for the people using the workspace day to day: starting agents in chat, reviewing their work at human-in-the-loop (HITL) gates, watching durable runs, browsing the marketplace, collaborating across team and instance boundaries.

If you administer the /configuration/* area, see the Admin Guide. If you install or operate Cinatra, see the Hosting Guide. If you write agents or contribute to the platform, see the Developer Guide — contribution work is planned with GSD (“Git. Ship. Done”, the open-gsd spec-driven development framework). If you build against the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, see the MCP Guide.

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Concepts

• Concepts and glossary — agents, assistants, skills, extensions, objects, lists, projects, teams, organisations
• Workspace features — a guided tour of the sidebar and the user-facing surfaces

Core capabilities

• The built-in AI assistant — app-wide awareness, run agents, build workflows and dashboards, @-mention multiple assistants in a shared thread
• A connected ecosystem of capabilities — how agents, connectors, skills, objects, lists, and dashboards compose
• Projects and ownership — projects that bound context, and the user / team / organization / workspace ownership levels
• Connections: scopes, sharing, and revocation — the six connection scopes, what sharing a connection means (others act via your account), use-time auditing, and taking access back
• Human-in-the-loop by design — pause for review, edit, approve, resume
• Continuous learning and custom skills — prompt edits become reusable skills
• Cross-instance collaboration — share agents, skills, and run-time calls between Cinatra instances
• Durable workflows — runs survive reloads, drops, and restarts; notifications when they land
• Undo and history — review past versions of your work and roll back changes
• Notifications — the bell, the feed, and what gets surfaced when long work finishes

Outputs and data

• Artifacts and files — the files agents produce, attach, and hand back to you
• Data and objects — the structured records agents read and write, and where they live
• Twenty CRM integration — connect accounts, contacts, and companies through the Twenty CRM connector

Day-to-day

• Release workflows — plan a multi-week, calendar-driven process in chat; manage it on the workflow detail page; approvals, lifecycle, and mid-flight editing
• PM-tool integration — mirror agent-run schedules into a project-management tool (Plane) so they appear on its board and timeline, and connect the Plane connector
• Creating agents in chat — author and publish an agent through the chat assistant
• Marketplace and extensions — find, install, and use the extensions that add new agents, connectors, skills, and workflows
• Dashboards — the dashboards platform and the /agents/executions dashboard
• Cinatra in your CMS — the in-CMS AI assistant for WordPress and Drupal editors
• The Cinatra WordPress plugin — install, connect, and use the WordPress admin assistant, and how it is delivered safely
• Use Cinatra from Claude Desktop and Codex — connect Claude Desktop, Codex, Claude.ai, or ChatGPT to your workspace over MCP

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Where to go next

• The capability story for the curious: Why Cinatra
• The hands-on first run: Quickstart in the Hosting Guide