# Vato > Vato is a desktop workspace for AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor and more), with a mobile companion app, a browser extension, Bots, Teams, Vato Design and Vato Connect. This index lists the official user documentation. Each page is also available as plain Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL. The full documentation in one file: https://vatoide.com/llms-full.txt ## Get started - [What is Vato?](https://vatoide.com/docs/getting-started/introduction.md): A quick tour of the Vato desktop app, the mobile companion, the browser extension and how they fit together. - [Install Vato and sign in](https://vatoide.com/docs/getting-started/install.md): Download Vato Desktop for macOS or Windows, open it for the first time and connect your Vato account. - [System requirements](https://vatoide.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements.md): The operating systems, hardware and optional tools you need to run Vato Desktop. - [Updates](https://vatoide.com/docs/getting-started/updates.md): How Vato Desktop finds, downloads and installs new versions on its own. ## Desktop workspace - [Projects](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/projects.md): Open project folders, organize them in the sidebar and find the files your agents work on. - [Files and split view](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/files-and-split-view.md): Open, edit and save project files from a conversation, and show several conversations side by side. - [Terminal](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/terminal.md): Open interactive terminals under a conversation, arrange them, and follow the servers your agents start. - [Review changes](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/review-changes.md): Check what an agent changed, follow your branch, isolate work in worktrees and review pull requests without leaving Vato. - [Integrated browser](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/integrated-browser.md): Use the browser built into each conversation to preview your app, point the agent at page elements and share annotated screenshots. - [Settings](https://vatoide.com/docs/workspace/settings.md): A map of every Settings section in Vato Desktop and what each one controls. ## Agents - [Start your first conversation](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/first-conversation.md): Open a project, connect an AI provider, pick a model and a run mode, then work with an agent. - [Connect your AI accounts](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/connect-ai-accounts.md): Sign in to Claude, Codex and Gemini, add API keys for the other providers, and use several accounts side by side. - [Models](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/models.md): Pick a model for a conversation, let Vato route automatically, keep favorites, add custom models and set reasoning effort. - [Permissions and approvals](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/permissions-and-approvals.md): Choose a run mode, answer approval requests and questions, and set the defaults for new conversations. - [Slash commands and skills](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/slash-commands-and-skills.md): Run commands and reusable skills from the message field, and control which skills your agents can use. - [Checkpoints and rewind](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/checkpoints-and-rewind.md): Go back to an earlier message, undo what the agent did after it, and try again. - [Monitoring](https://vatoide.com/docs/agents/monitoring.md): Ask an agent to check something again later, and follow the timer in the conversation. ## Bots - [Create a Bot](https://vatoide.com/docs/bots/create-a-bot.md): Create a durable bot, tell it what to do, choose where it runs and bring several bots together in a group. - [Missions and triggers](https://vatoide.com/docs/bots/missions-and-triggers.md): Give a bot recurring routines, one-off actions and event triggers, and follow what it does from its reports and monitoring. - [Environments](https://vatoide.com/docs/bots/environments.md): Choose whether a bot runs on this computer or on Vato Cloud, move it between the two and manage it from any device. ## Vato Design - [Projects, pages and frames](https://vatoide.com/docs/design/projects-pages-and-frames.md): Understand how Vato Design organizes screens into projects, pages and frames, and how to create and edit them. - [Let agents use Design](https://vatoide.com/docs/design/let-agents-use-design.md): Turn on agent access to Vato Design, then ask an agent to design screens from the Design assistant or from any conversation. ## Teams - [Create a Team](https://vatoide.com/docs/team/create-a-team.md): Create a Vato team, find your way around the Team view and switch between your personal and team workspaces. - [Invite members](https://vatoide.com/docs/team/invite-members.md): Invite people to your team, choose their models and roles, and handle approval requests in the Team inbox. - [Team projects](https://vatoide.com/docs/team/team-projects.md): Share projects with your team, start team conversations and understand which machine runs the AI and which one runs the tools. - [Central host](https://vatoide.com/docs/team/central-host.md): Choose the Vato Connect machine that runs Claude and Codex for your team, connect the team's AI accounts and turn it on. ## Connect and CLI - [Install Vato Connect](https://vatoide.com/docs/connect/install-vato-connect.md): Install Vato Connect on a server or an always-on computer, sign it in and keep it running as a background service. - [The vato ide CLI](https://vatoide.com/docs/connect/vato-ide-cli.md): Use the vato ide command to list your machines and projects, and to start, follow, resume or stop agent conversations from a terminal. - [Remote machines](https://vatoide.com/docs/connect/remote-machines.md): Work with agents on another computer or a Vato Connect machine from Vato Desktop, and add projects on that machine. ## Mobile app - [Set up the mobile app](https://vatoide.com/docs/mobile/companion-app.md): Install the Vato companion app, sign in with your Vato account and follow your desktop conversations from your phone. - [Notifications](https://vatoide.com/docs/mobile/notifications.md): Get push notifications on your phone when an agent needs your answer, finishes its response or completes a scheduled check. - [Bots on mobile](https://vatoide.com/docs/mobile/bots-on-mobile.md): Chat with your Bots, create new ones and run Bot groups from your phone, while the work keeps running on your computer. ## Browser - [Connect your browser](https://vatoide.com/docs/browser/vato-browser-extension.md): Install the Vato Browser extension so agents can use tabs in your own Chrome, Edge or Brave, with your consent. - [Browser profiles and cookies](https://vatoide.com/docs/browser/browser-profiles-and-cookies.md): Give each conversation's integrated browser its own profiles, browse in incognito, and import your existing logins with your consent. ## Computer use and integrations - [Computer use](https://vatoide.com/docs/automation/computer-use.md): Let agents see and drive the desktop apps on your computer, with a confirmation before every sensitive action. - [Personal integrations](https://vatoide.com/docs/automation/personal-integrations.md): Connect your own app accounts once so your agents and Bots can read or act in them on every device. - [Agentic Voice](https://vatoide.com/docs/automation/agentic-voice.md): Talk to Vato to open, create and send conversations hands-free, and learn how pauses, wake words and your monthly voice limit work. ## Account and privacy - [Your account](https://vatoide.com/docs/account/your-account.md): Create your Vato account, understand approval, and manage your profile and sign-in on each device. - [Devices](https://vatoide.com/docs/account/devices.md): See which computers, phones, browsers and Connect hosts are signed in to your Vato account, and sign them out. - [Delete your account](https://vatoide.com/docs/account/delete-your-account.md): Permanently delete your Vato account from the website or the mobile app, and learn what is removed and what stays on your devices. ## Troubleshooting - [Installation issues](https://vatoide.com/docs/troubleshooting/installation-issues.md): Fix problems with the download page, the first launch on macOS or Windows, and signing in to Vato Desktop. - [Agent does not answer](https://vatoide.com/docs/troubleshooting/agent-does-not-answer.md): Get a stuck or silent agent working again, from provider sign-in problems to usage limits and restarts. - [Mobile shows the desktop offline](https://vatoide.com/docs/troubleshooting/mobile-desktop-offline.md): Understand the connection messages in the mobile app and bring your computer back online. - [FAQ](https://vatoide.com/docs/troubleshooting/faq.md): Short answers to the questions people ask most about Vato, accounts, AI providers and devices.