Create a Team
Create a Vato team, find your way around the Team view and switch between your personal and team workspaces.
A team is a shared space in Vato. It groups members, the projects they work on, their team conversations and the machine that hosts Claude and Codex for everyone. This page shows you how to create one.
Before you start
- You need a signed-in Vato Desktop. See Install Vato and sign in.
- The person who creates the team becomes its Owner. Vato also shows the owner as the team's Leader.
Create the team
- Open the Team view. You can:
- Click Team on the home screen.
- Or open Settings → Team and click Create team.
- Under Create your team, type a Team name, for example Product team. The name must be between 2 and 60 characters.
- Click Create team.
Vato shows The team was created. and opens the team's Overview.
Find your way around the Team view
The Team view takes the whole window, like Settings. The left column lists the team's sections. You only see the sections your role allows.
| Section | What you do there |
|---|---|
| Overview | See the team name, your role, the leader and the member count. |
| Members | Invite people, change roles and choose which models each member may use. |
| Inbox | Decide on approval requests from agents. |
| Projects | See the team's projects and who has a copy of each one. |
| Access | Set up the central host that runs Claude and Codex for the team. |
| Conversations | Find team conversations. |
| Apps, Knowledge, Skills, Design, Audit | Team apps, shared procedures, shared skills, team Vato Design projects and the audit log. |
Click Refresh at the bottom of the left column to reload the team. Use the back arrow at the top to return to where you were.
To come back later, open Settings → Team and click Open Team management.
Switch between Personal and Team
Your personal work and your team work are kept apart. Each one is a workspace:
- Personal workspace: your own provider accounts and your private conversations.
- Team workspace: the models, conversations and resources your team provides.
The Personal / Team switch in the title bar changes the active workspace. Check it before you start new work: new conversations and shared resources follow the active workspace.
If you belong to a team, Vato may ask you to Choose your workspace when it starts. Pick Personal workspace or Team workspace.
Next steps
- Invite members and choose which models they can use.
- Set up the central host so members can use Claude and Codex through the team.
- Learn how team projects and conversations work.