# Introduction

> What Coline is, how these docs are organized, and where to start.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/

Coline is a workspace for teams. Messages, mail, calendar, files, docs, sheets, notes, tasks and code live in one app, under one account and one set of permissions. Kairo, Coline's agent, works across all of it: it answers questions about your work, drafts and edits, runs routines on a schedule, and can join your team as named crew members who take on work of their own.

Coline runs in the browser at [coline.app](https://coline.app) and as a desktop app for macOS. Upstream, Coline's Git forge, is part of every workspace and is also available on its own at [upstream.codes](https://upstream.codes).

## Start here

<Cards>
  <Card title="Getting started" description="Create a workspace, invite your team, and find your way around." href="/getting-started" />

  <Card title="Kairo" description="Chat, crew, memory, routines and permission modes." href="/kairo/overview" />

  <Card title="Developers" description="REST API, MCP server, Tab, and the app SDK." href="/developers" />

  <Card title="Plans and credits" description="What each plan includes and how credits work." href="/plans" />
</Cards>

## What's in a workspace

| Area                                              | What it's for                                                         |
| ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Home](/home)                                     | Your day: what's next, what's in motion, and what's waiting on you    |
| [Inbox](/inbox)                                   | Notifications, messages and mail in one list                          |
| [Messages](/messages)                             | Channels, DMs and threads, with calls, clips and agents               |
| [Mail](/mail)                                     | Every connected inbox, with fast triage and shared inboxes            |
| [Calendar](/calendar)                             | Native calendars, Google Calendar sync, scheduling links and meetings |
| [Drive](/drive)                                   | Every file in the workspace, with sharing and previews                |
| [Docs](/docs), [Sheets](/sheets), [Notes](/notes) | Writing, structured data and knowledge                                |
| [Tasks](/tasks)                                   | Boards, lists and timelines                                           |
| [Code](/code)                                     | Cloud and local projects with coding agents                           |
| [Upstream](/upstream)                             | Repositories, Change Requests, issues and checks                      |
| [Apps](/apps)                                     | Reviewed apps from the Coline App Store, or your own                  |

## For agents and developers

Every page of these docs is available as Markdown: add `.md` to its URL, or request it with `Accept: text/markdown`. [`/llms.txt`](https://docs.coline.app/llms.txt) lists every page, and [`/llms-full.txt`](https://docs.coline.app/llms-full.txt) has the full text.

* **Connect an agent:** the hosted [MCP server](/api/mcp) at `https://mcp.coline.app/mcp` signs in with OAuth and works with your existing permissions.
* **Call the API:** the [REST API](/api) uses workspace API keys or OAuth tokens. The OpenAPI description is at `https://coline.app/api/v1/openapi/app-platform`.
* **Build an app:** the [app SDK](/sdk) adds tools, file types and screens to a workspace. Kairo can use an app's tools as soon as it's installed.

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# Getting started

> Create an account and a workspace, invite your team, and find your way around.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/getting-started

## Create an account

Sign up at [coline.app](https://coline.app) with your email and a password, or with Google or GitHub. You can turn on two-factor authentication in your account settings.

Every account comes with a **personal workspace** that only you can see. It's free and stays free. To work with other people, create a **team workspace** or join one you're invited to.

## Start a team workspace

Create a team workspace from the workspace switcher. Team workspaces start with a 14-day trial with no card needed, for up to 5 people. When the trial ends, the owner picks a plan and adds billing; until then the workspace is paused, and everything in it stays readable. See [plans](/plans).

## Invite people

In **Settings → Members**, invite people by email or share an invite link. People you invite join as:

| Role   | Can                                                                |
| ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Owner  | Everything, including billing and deleting the workspace           |
| Admin  | Full access to the workspace, including members, apps and settings |
| Member | Use everything in the workspace that's shared with members         |
| Guest  | Only what's shared with them, such as specific channels and files  |

To work with people at another company without adding them to your workspace, share a channel with [Coline Connect](/connect) instead.

## Bring your data

**Settings → Import** brings in data from Linear, Notion, Slack and Google Workspace. Imports map people between systems, run in the background, resume if interrupted, and keep a history. See [importing data](/workspace/import).

## Find your way around

* **Home** shows your day: what's next, what's in motion, and what's waiting on you. See [Home](/home).
* **Tabs** keep apps and files open across the top. `⌘1` to `⌘9` switch tabs, and opening an app reuses its tab.
* **New tab** (`⌘T`) lists apps by how often you use them. Type a plan, a task or a question and it offers to schedule it, create a task, ask Kairo, or search.
* **Search** (`⌘K`) finds anything in the workspace and runs commands, including app commands.
* **Kairo** is available from its own page, the sidebar, and `@kairo` in conversations. See [Kairo](/kairo/overview).
* **Inbox** collects notifications, messages and mail. See [Inbox](/inbox).

On Windows and Linux, use `Ctrl` where these docs say `⌘`.

## Desktop app

[Coline for Mac](https://coline.app/download) (Apple Silicon) adds:

* **Quick Access:** `⌃⌥C` opens Coline search from any app. Turn it on in the app menu or your account settings.
* **Split view:** two tabs side by side.
* **Local Code projects:** open folders on your Mac in [Code](/code) and run agents against them.
* Dock badges, a built-in PDF viewer, and your workspace, window size and tabs remembered between launches.

The Windows app isn't available yet.

## Get help

Send feedback from anywhere in the app, or email [support@coline.app](mailto:support@coline.app). Service status is at [status.coline.app](https://status.coline.app).

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# Plans and credits

> What each plan includes, how team trials work, and what credits pay for.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/plans

Prices are on the [pricing page](https://coline.app/pricing). This page explains what the plans include.

## Personal plans

For your own account and personal workspace.

|                         | Free  | Pro       | Pro + AI  | Max       |
| ----------------------- | ----- | --------- | --------- | --------- |
| Kairo credits per month | 100   | 750       | 1,500     | 10,000    |
| Code credits per month  | None  | 2,000     | 4,000     | 10,000    |
| Storage                 | 20 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Publish to the web      | No    | Yes       | Yes       | Yes       |

Free never asks for a card. Pro starts with a 14-day trial. You can change or cancel a plan any time; changes are prorated.

## Team plans

For team workspaces, billed per member.

|                                               | Workspace | Workspace Pro + AI | Enterprise |
| --------------------------------------------- | --------- | ------------------ | ---------- |
| Kairo credits per member per month            | 750       | 1,500              | Custom     |
| Code credits per member per month             | 2,000     | 4,000              | 10,000     |
| Storage                                       | Unlimited | Unlimited          | Unlimited  |
| Upstream repository hosting                   | Yes       | Yes                | Yes        |
| Single sign-on, directory sync, custom limits |           |                    | Yes        |

Kairo credits in a team workspace go into one shared bank for the whole team. Admins can cap how much each [crew member](/kairo/crew) uses.

Team workspaces with an active Coline subscription include Upstream Team.

### Team trial

A new team workspace gets a 14-day trial without a card:

* up to 5 people, counting the owner and pending invites
* 1,500 Kairo credits shared across the trial
* everything else in the Workspace plan

When the trial ends without billing, the workspace pauses. Everything stays readable, but nothing new can be created, and invites are off, until the owner adds a payment method.

## Credits

**Kairo credits** pay for AI work across Coline: chat, drafting, summaries, research, routines and crew. A standard request costs one credit; some models and higher reasoning levels cost more, and lighter ones cost less. Credits reset at the start of each billing period. When you run out, Kairo tells you and offers an upgrade.

**Code credits** pay for cloud computers: [Code](/code) sessions, and [Kairo's computer](/kairo/computer) when it works in a browser, terminal or desktop.

**API credits** are a separate prepaid balance for metered API calls such as [Tab](/api/tab). Add them in the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console).

## Programs

Students, open-source maintainers and early-stage startups can apply for free or discounted access. Sign in and go to [coline.app/programs](https://coline.app/programs).

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# Home

> Your day in one place.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/home

Home is built around your day. It shows:

* **Your brief:** a short summary of what changed and what matters today, written by Kairo. It doesn't repeat the cards below it.
* **Up next:** your next meetings and deadlines.
* **The day ribbon:** your meetings and free time across the day.
* **In motion:** work that's moving across your tasks, docs, code and conversations.
* **Waiting on you:** reviews, questions, approvals and replies that need you, including anything your [crew](/kairo/crew) is waiting on.
* **Your crew:** what each crew member is working on.

## Capture

Create a task or an event straight from Home without opening another app.

## Ask Kairo

One-tap actions such as **Plan my day** and &#x2A;*What's on my plate this week?** open Kairo with the question ready.

## Customize

Choose which sections appear on Home from its menu.

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# Inbox

> Notifications, messages and mail in one list.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/inbox

Inbox brings notifications, messages and mail into one list so you can clear them in one pass.

## Sections

| Section       | Shows                                       |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| New           | Everything you haven't dealt with           |
| Mentions      | Messages and comments that mention you      |
| Conversations | Channels, DMs and threads with new activity |
| Later         | Items you saved for later                   |
| Following     | Threads and items you follow                |
| Archive       | Items you've cleared                        |

Filter by source, or search everything with `⌘K`.

## Triage

Save for later, snooze, archive, and mark read or unread from the keyboard, with undo. The peek pane shows an item without leaving the list.

The Inbox tab in the sidebar is a compact view of the same list. Marking everything read clears the badge, including mail.

## Smart interruptions

Coline only pings you for messages that matter. Small talk and reactions wait quietly in your Inbox, while anything urgent or meant for you still comes through. It's on by default; turn it off in Message settings. See [Messages](/messages#notifications).

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# Messages

> Channels, DMs and threads, with calls, clips, scheduling and agents.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/messages

Messages is where your team talks. Conversations are **channels** (public or private, for a team or topic) and **DMs** (with one person or a group).

## Channels

* **Public channels** are open to every member of the workspace. **Private channels** are invite-only.
* Each channel has **tabs**: the conversation, plus files, docs and notes you pin as tabs so they're always one click away.
* **Shared channels** include people outside your workspace through [Coline Connect](/connect). The new channel dialog has a **Shared** option, and every channel header has a **Share** button.
* The sidebar groups conversations into collapsible sections with filters. DMs are ordered by recency and show presence.

## Writing messages

* Format with Markdown, mention people with `@`, attach files, and paste links that unfurl into previews. Links to Coline tasks, docs, issues and Change Requests show as cards.
* **Threads** keep replies to one message together and slide in beside the conversation.
* **Reactions**, **pins**, **edits** and **forwarding** work on any message.
* **Clips:** record your screen or audio and attach it. Clips get a transcript.
* **Schedule** a message to send later. Drafts sync between your devices.
* As you type, the composer notices plans like "lunch w sam tmrw 1pm" and offers to add them to your calendar or make a task before you send.
* [Tab](/api/tab) suggests the rest of your sentence as ghost text.

## Kairo in conversations

* Mention `@kairo` in any conversation to ask about it. Kairo answers using what's in that conversation and what you can access.
* **Suggestions:** when a message asks you to do something, proposes a meeting, or needs a reply, Kairo offers to create a task, add the event to your calendar at the agreed time, or draft a reply.
* Replies can include live, interactive blocks such as charts and tables.

## Agents in conversations

Team [crew members](/kairo/crew) can join channels and DMs. They read along like a teammate and answer when they're addressed, by name, with a mention, or as a reply to their own question. You don't need to `@` them again.

Start a DM with an agent from **New conversation**, or mention one in a channel to add it. In a channel's settings you can choose a lead agent, let partners in shared channels ask agents for help, or pause agents in that channel.

## Search

Search lives in the conversation side panel next to **Pinned**, with filter chips, suggestions and highlighted matches. Workspace-wide search (`⌘K`) also covers messages.

## Notifications

* Set notifications for each conversation, or pause them until a set time.
* **Message settings** add working hours and quiet hours.
* **Smart interruptions** (on by default) only ping you for messages that matter. Small talk and reactions wait in your [Inbox](/inbox), while anything urgent or meant for you still comes through.

## Calls

Start a call from any channel or DM. See [calls and meetings](/calls).

## Custom emoji

Admins can add custom emoji in **Settings → General**.

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# Coline Connect

> Work with people outside your workspace in shared channels.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/connect

Coline Connect lets you share a channel with people at other companies without making them members of your workspace. They only ever see what's been shared with them.

## Share a channel

* Use **Share** in any channel's header, or create a channel with the **Shared** option in the new channel dialog.
* Invite people by email. They join free as guests, with their name filled in, an optional photo, and Google sign-in.
* Team workspaces always show a **Connect** group in the sidebar, and the Connect hub has **New shared channel**.

## What guests get

Guests use Coline at [coline.app/connect](https://coline.app/connect), in real time:

* the channels shared with them, and DMs with people they share a conversation with
* threads, reactions, files, link previews, calls and search
* optional desktop notifications

When a guest is away, new messages reach them as batched email, and they can reply by email, attachments included. Those replies are marked "via email".

## Connect two workspaces

If the person you invite already uses Coline, their workspace can connect to the shared channel with their admin's approval. Each side keeps working in its own workspace. Disconnecting leaves both sides with read-only history.

## Kairo and agents

Kairo can answer in shared conversations, using only what's in that conversation. In a channel's settings you can let partners ask your agents for help, or keep agents to your own team.

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# Calls and meetings

> Voice and video calls in conversations and calendar events.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/calls

## Start a call

Start a call from any channel or DM, or join the meeting from a calendar event. Meetings can start automatically at their scheduled time.

## Before you join

The pre-join screen checks your camera and microphone, lets you pick devices, and turns on background blur.

## Guests and the lobby

Calendar events and conversations have join links. Guests can join from a link without an account, and hosts admit people from the lobby.

## During a call

* A call bar keeps the call with you as you move around Coline.
* Share your screen.
* Record the call. Recordings get a transcript.

## After a call

Each conversation keeps a call history with recordings and transcripts. For calendar meetings, create meeting notes from the event and have Kairo pull out the action items; see [Calendar](/calendar#meeting-notes).

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# Mail

> Every connected inbox in one list, built for fast triage.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/mail

Mail brings your connected email accounts into Coline. Read, triage, write and search mail next to the rest of your work.

## Accounts and inboxes

* Connect one or more accounts. **All inboxes** shows every account in one list.
* **Split Inbox** shows your inbox views as tabs with unread counts. `Tab` and `Shift+Tab` move between them, and you choose which views appear.
* Workspaces can have their own addresses. In **Settings → Mail**, admins add custom domains, create mailboxes and aliases, route mail to people or groups, and check delivery health.

## Triage

* Archive, trash, snooze, star and label instantly. Choose where you land after archiving: the next conversation, the previous one, or the list.
* **Snooze** with presets (Later today, Tomorrow, This weekend, Next week) or type a time.
* Mute subscriptions in one click, and auto-archive promotions.
* Every Mail action is in search (`⌘K`), including snooze, labels, switching accounts and managing Split Inbox.
* Clear your inbox to reach Inbox Zero.

## Keyboard

Mail is built for the keyboard. A first-run card teaches `J`, `E` and `Z` on your real mail, and small hints show the key for actions you take with the mouse. The shortcuts dialog lists every key, can be filtered, and marks the ones you've learned. Hints can be turned off.

## Writing

* Reply with quoting, choose which address to send from, and add signatures.
* **Scheduled send**, **snooze** and **out-of-office** replies.
* Drafts save to the cloud and follow you across devices.
* **Follow-ups:** set a reminder when you send, and get a follow-up draft if nobody replies.
* **Open tracking** for messages you choose to track.

## Kairo in Mail

* Summaries at the top of a thread.
* Prepared reply drafts, written in the style Kairo learns from your sent mail. You can add Drive files as knowledge sources.
* Kairo can read, search, label, archive and draft mail when you ask.

## Shared inboxes

Work on mail together: leave internal comments on a thread that only your team sees, see who else is replying, and share a conversation from its menu.

## Search

Full-message search with operators such as `from:`, `has:` and `label:` across every message body.

## Attachments and invites

Save attachments to Drive, and accept or decline calendar invites from the message; the event lands on your calendar.

## Privacy

Remote images and content are blocked until you allow them. Drafts stay private on shared computers.

## Mail sent by AI clients

Mail sent by connected AI clients, such as [MCP](/api/mcp) clients and the API, waits in your **Outbox** until you send, edit or discard it. Held messages expire after 7 days, and anything newer you send yourself replaces them. A setting lets trusted clients send after a short hold you can cancel. Kairo inside Coline follows your [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes) instead.

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# Calendar

> Native calendars, Google Calendar sync, invites, scheduling links and meetings.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/calendar

## Calendars

* Create, share and archive calendars, and give other people access.
* **Calendar sets** group calendars into views you switch between in one click.
* Day, week and month views. Swipe between days and weeks; a full month day opens in day view.
* Import and export `.ics` files.

## Google Calendar

Connect one or more Google accounts and choose which calendars to show. Changes sync both ways.

## Events

* Create events from Calendar, from [Home](/home), from the new tab palette, or from a message. The composer and Kairo notice plans in conversations and offer to add them.
* Recurring events, reminders, templates, and travel time blocks.
* Visibility: private, invitees only, or the whole workspace. Mark time as busy or free.
* Link files and channels to an event.
* Search across your calendars.

## Invites

Invite anyone by email. People outside Coline get standard calendar invites and updates that work in any calendar app, and their replies come back into Coline. Invitees can propose a new time.

### Invites from AI clients

When an [MCP](/api/mcp) client or another AI client creates or changes an event that would email people outside Coline, the email waits for your approval in the Outbox, the same way [mail](/mail#mail-sent-by-ai-clients) does.

## Scheduling

* **Scheduling links** let people book time with you based on your availability rules. Bookings are confirmed by email, and guests can manage their booking from a link.
* **Meeting proposals** let guests pick from times you offer.

## Meetings

Events can have a meeting. Join from the event; see [calls and meetings](/calls).

### Meeting notes

Create meeting notes from an event. The notes are linked to the event, and Kairo can pull out action items.

## Kairo and Calendar

Ask Kairo to find a time that works for everyone, prepare you for a meeting, or move things around. In the Default [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes) it asks before sending invites.

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# Drive

> Every file in the workspace, organized in drives and folders.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/drive

Drive holds every file in the workspace: docs, sheets, notes, taskboards, uploads, and files created by apps. Files appear wherever they're used, such as a channel's tabs, a message, or a Kairo reply, but they live in Drive.

## Drives and folders

* A workspace has **shared drives** for teams and a **personal drive** for each member. Apps get their own drive for files they create.
* The sidebar lists **Recent**, **Starred** and each drive, with a folder tree that opens to where you are.
* Switch between list and grid. Grid cards show image thumbnails and page covers.
* Filter and sort any folder. Select several files to act on them together.

## Working with files

* **Create** docs, sheets, notes and folders from the **New** menu, or upload files of any type. Interrupted uploads pick up where they left off.
* **Move** files by dragging them onto a drive, a folder, or a folder in the path. Moves and trash have undo.
* **Star** files to find them quickly.
* **Open** PDFs and images in place. Word files open in [Docs](/docs).
* **Trash** keeps deleted files until you empty it or restore them.

## Sharing

Share any file from its **Share** menu:

* **People with access:** add members, or invite people by email.
* **Link access:** **Restricted** (only people added), **Coline users with link**, or **Anyone with link**, even without a Coline account.
* **Publish to web:** a clean, readable public page, with an optional password. Unpublish any time.

Folders and drives pass their access down to the files inside them. See [sharing and permissions](/workspace/permissions).

## Search

Workspace search (`⌘K`) covers file names and contents. Kairo can find and read any file you can open.

## Storage

Free plans include 20 GB. Paid plans have unlimited storage. See [plans](/plans).

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# Docs

> Rich text documents with page layout and live collaboration.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/docs

Docs is for writing that needs structure and layout: reports, proposals, specs and letters. For quick, linked notes, use [Notes](/notes).

## The editor

The toolbar is split into tabs:

| Tab        | Has                                                                                                                                                |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Home**   | Undo and redo, paragraph styles, font, size and weight, bold, italic and other formatting, colors and highlights, alignment, lists and indentation |
| **Insert** | Images (from Drive, your computer or a URL), YouTube videos, tables, dividers and page breaks                                                      |
| **Format** | Line spacing, text direction, callout colors and clearing formatting                                                                               |
| **Table**  | Appears in a table: insert and delete rows and columns, merge cells, cell colors, and distribute rows and columns evenly                           |
| **Page**   | Margins (normal, narrow, wide), orientation, page color and page numbers                                                                           |
| **View**   | Paged or continuous layout, fit width, zoom, focus mode, ruler and the stats bar                                                                   |
| **Review** | Spell check and document stats                                                                                                                     |

Paragraph styles include title, three heading levels, quote, pull quote, callout, caption, footnote and code block. Headings build the document outline.

Press `⌘Enter` to insert a page break.

## Writing with Kairo

Ask Kairo to draft, rewrite or continue from inside the document. [Tab](/api/tab) suggests the rest of your sentence as ghost text.

## Collaboration

* Edit together in real time and see who's in the document.
* The save status shows when your work is saved. If your connection drops, Docs keeps a draft and recovers it, so you never lose what you wrote.

## Word files

Open `.docx` files from Drive in Docs, or upload them from the Docs home. Search your Word documents from the Docs home too.

## Sharing and printing

Share a doc like any file; see [Drive](/drive#sharing). The print button is in the document header.

## The Docs home

The Docs home lists your documents with filters and search. Opening one animates into the editor.

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# Sheets

> Structured data with typed columns, formulas, multiple views, and simultaneous editing.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sheets

## Sheets

A sheet holds structured data. Columns have types, formulas recalculate, and the
same rows can be read as a grid, board, calendar, timeline or chart. Several
people can work in one sheet at the same time without overwriting each other,
because every change describes the specific cells it touches.

## Collaboration

* **Simultaneous editing**: every change is an operation naming the exact cells
  it touches. Concurrent edits to different cells both apply; concurrent edits to
  the same cell resolve by server order.
* **Presence**: see who is in the sheet, where their cursor is, and which cell
  they are typing into.
* **Comments**: comment on a row or a cell, reply in a thread, resolve when
  done. `@`-mentions arrive as normal Coline notifications.
* **Offline safety**: edits queue while you are disconnected and flush on
  reconnect. Nothing is dropped silently.

## Columns

Text, number, currency, percent, rating, progress, duration, email, phone,
checkbox, date, URL, select, multi-select, person, attachment, auto-number,
created time, updated time, formula, relation, lookup, and rollup.

* **Person** columns resolve to workspace members.
* **Attachment** columns link Drive files.
* **Relation** columns link records in another table; **lookup** and **rollup**
  read through those links.

## Views

Grid, board, calendar, gallery, timeline, chart, pivot, and form. Each view has
its own filters, sorts, grouping, hidden columns, row height and conditional
formatting. The underlying data is shared.

Charts support bar, line, area, scatter and pie with real axes and legends.

## Formulas

Write `=` in a cell or define a formula column. The formula bar offers function
and column suggestions as you type. Recalculation is incremental: editing a cell
only recomputes the formulas that actually depend on it.

## Automations

Create rules that run server-side when data changes:

* **Triggers**: a row is created, a cell changes, or a field becomes a specific
  value.
* **Conditions**: the same filter operators used by views.
* **Actions**: set a field, clear a field, stamp the current time, copy one
  field to another, or create a row.

Automations write through the ordinary edit path, so their changes are
versioned, broadcast live and undoable. Each rule shows its recent runs,
including skips and failures.

## Version history

Every change is recorded with who made it and when. Save a named version before
a large edit, compare it against the current state cell by cell, and restore it.
Restoring saves the current state first, so it is itself reversible.

## Permissions

Drive controls who can reach a sheet. Within a sheet you can additionally set
per-person roles (owner, editor, commenter, viewer) and protect specific
columns or rows so only owners can change them. Protections are enforced on the
server.

## Import and export

* **Import**: CSV, TSV, Excel (`.xlsx`) and JSON. Column types are inferred from
  the data, so numbers, dates, currency and select lists arrive ready to sort and
  summarise. Import into a new table or append onto an existing one.
* **Export**: CSV, Excel and JSON. Exports honour the active view: filters,
  sorts, column order and hidden columns all carry through.

## Kairo integration

* "Read this sheet and tell me what's incomplete"
* "Make me a project tracker with 20 rows"
* "Fill the category column based on the company names"
* "Remove duplicate rows and normalise the dates"
* "Add a formula column for total = price × quantity"

Kairo edits sheets through the same operation path people do, so its changes
appear live for collaborators and can be undone.

## Clean data

The **Clean data** panel fixes common problems in a table: remove duplicate rows, trim whitespace and collapse repeated spaces, change case, fill blanks from the row above, and find and replace. It also shows a column's blank cells and duplicate values.

## API

Sheets are available through the REST API under `/api/v1/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets`: list, create, read the workbook structure, read and write rows (`/rows?tableId=…`), apply operations (`/ops`), import, and export (`/export?format=csv|xlsx|json`). See the [endpoint reference](/api/endpoints#sheets).

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# Notes

> Linked pages for knowledge, meeting notes and working docs.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/notes

Notes is a block editor for knowledge that grows over time: team wikis, meeting notes, project briefs and journals. Pages nest inside each other and link to each other. For formal, page-laid-out documents, use [Docs](/docs).

## Writing

* Type `/` to insert any block: headings, lists, to-dos, toggles, quotes, callouts, code, tables, images, files, embeds and more.
* Select text to format it or **turn it into** another block type.
* Mention people, dates, pages and tasks inline. Task mentions are real Coline tasks.
* Add a cover image and an icon to any page.
* [Tab](/api/tab) suggests the rest of your sentence as ghost text.

## Pages and structure

* Pages can have **subpages**. The sidebar shows a page tree with inline rename, sorting, collapse all, and drag to move or un-nest.
* **Page properties** add structured fields to a page.
* **Page links and backlinks** connect related pages. Each page shows what links to it.
* **Synced sections** stay the same everywhere they appear. Edit one, and every copy updates.
* `⌘N` creates a page and `⌘F` searches.

## Starters

Start a page from a starter such as meeting notes, a journal or a project brief. Turn on daily notes to get a page for each day.

## Kairo in Notes

* The page assistant answers questions about the page and edits it on request.
* Page tools summarize, extract action items and tidy up.

## Collaboration

* Edit together in real time.
* **Comments** on pages and on selections, with replies and resolve.
* **Version history** for every page. Restore any earlier version.
* Your typing is never overwritten by autosave or sync.

## Sharing and publishing

Share a page with people, set link access, or publish it to the web as a clean, readable page with an optional password. See [Drive](/drive#sharing).

## Import

Import Markdown files or a Notion export. You see a preview before anything is imported. Notion databases become typed [Sheets](/sheets).

---

# Tasks

> Taskboards with board, list and timeline views.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/tasks

Tasks live on **taskboards**. A board has its own statuses, and every task gets an identifier like `COL-42` that you can mention anywhere.

## Tasks home

Tasks home shows your open tasks across every board, and a card for each board with a live preview of its columns and a progress ring. Search when a workspace has many boards. Boards open instantly and zoom back out to Tasks home, including with the browser's back and forward buttons.

## Views

| View         | For                                                                                 |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Board**    | Columns by status. Drag cards between columns; they keep the position you give them |
| **List**     | Full-width rows                                                                     |
| **Timeline** | Work laid out over time                                                             |

## Tasks

A task has a title, a description, a status, a priority (none, low, medium, high or urgent), assignees, labels, a due date and an estimate. Tasks can also have:

* **Comments** and activity.
* **Relations:** related, blocking, and duplicate links to other tasks.
* **Code:** a linked [Code](/code) session and the Change Request or pull request it produced.
* **Change Requests** from [Upstream](/upstream) that reference the task.

Every [Upstream](/upstream) issue is a task too, so issues show up on boards and timelines without extra setup.

## Creating tasks

* Press `+` in any column, or use **New task**.
* Create a task from a message, or accept Kairo's suggestion when a message asks you to do something. Kairo picks the board, status and priority, and marks what it chose until you change it.
* Capture a task from [Home](/home) or the new tab palette.
* Ask Kairo to create, update or triage tasks.

## Board settings

In a board's settings you can rename it and edit its statuses. Under **Integrations**, connect repositories so tasks move automatically when their Change Request or pull request merges.

## API and MCP

Tasks are available through the [REST API](/api/endpoints#tasks) and the [MCP server](/api/mcp).

---

# Code

> A cloud IDE and coding agents, for cloud and local projects.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/code

Code is Coline's IDE and agent workspace. Open a repository, edit it yourself, or put coding agents to work on it, in the cloud or on your Mac.

## Projects

* **Cloud projects** run on a Code computer in the cloud. Create one from an [Upstream](/upstream) or GitHub repository, or create a new repository with the project. Existing GitHub repositories can be moved to Upstream.
* **Local projects** open folders on your Mac in [Coline Desktop](/getting-started#desktop-app) and run agents against them locally. Recent folders are under **File → Open Recent**.
* **Coline App** projects scaffold an [app](/sdk/publishing#build-in-coline-code) that an agent builds with you.

Local and cloud projects appear together on the Code dashboard. Agent tabs and sessions are restored when you come back.

## The editor

* A file explorer, tabs, search, syntax highlighting and notebook support.
* A terminal and source control with live progress for every Git operation.
* Inline Kairo: select code and ask for an edit in place.
* [Tab](/api/tab) code completions as you type.
* Bring your own AI provider in the editor settings if you prefer.

## Agents

Start an agent from the project's agent composer and describe the work. Agents run on the project's Code computer, so they keep going when you close the tab.

* Check **worktree** to give an agent its own copy of the repository, so several agents can work in parallel.
* Watch an agent's edits appear live in the review panel, with an inline diff.
* Review any commit file by file.
* When the work is ready, open a Change Request on Upstream or a pull request on GitHub. It links back to the task, the session and any evidence such as previews and screenshots.
* Per-project agent settings set defaults for every agent in the project.
* The team view shows recent coding activity across the workspace.

Kairo and [crew members](/kairo/crew) hand repository work to Code: they start a Code session with the task written as instructions, and report back with what it found.

## Code computers and credits

Code computers start almost instantly. They're paid for with Code credits, which come with paid plans; see [plans](/plans). Workspace admins can see usage in **Settings → Code credits**.

## Sync

Projects sync across devices, and sync handles diverged branches.

---

# Upstream

> Coline's Git forge for repositories, Change Requests, issues and checks.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/upstream

Upstream hosts your code next to the rest of your work. Repositories, Change Requests, issues, checks and releases share Coline's account and permissions, link to your tasks and messages, and work with Kairo. Upstream is in every workspace under **Upstream**, and on its own at [upstream.codes](https://upstream.codes) with the same accounts.

Upstream has its own full documentation at [upstream.codes/docs](https://upstream.codes/docs). This page is an overview.

## Repositories

* Public, private, internal and unlisted repositories, in a personal or team workspace or an organization.
* Browse code with a file tree, branches, blame, history, comparisons, tags, contributors and releases.
* Code search within a repository or across all of yours, including semantic search.
* Share links let people read a private repository without an account, with an expiry and a view count.
* Clone and push over HTTPS or SSH at `git.coline.app`, with Git LFS for large files.

## Push without an account

Anyone can put code on Upstream before signing up, including a coding agent. Run `upstream push` in any folder while signed out, or make one HTTP call:

```bash
curl -sX POST https://api.upstream.codes/v1/unclaimed-repos -d '{"name":"my-app"}'
git -c credential.helper= push "<pushUrl from the response>" HEAD:main
```

This creates an unclaimed repository and returns a push URL and a claim link. Open the claim link, sign in or create an account, and choose your namespace or an organization. The repository moves there with its history. Unclaimed repositories are unlisted, stop accepting pushes after 100 MiB and are deleted 7 days after creation unless claimed. Details: [upstream.codes/docs/unclaimed-repositories](https://upstream.codes/docs/unclaimed-repositories).

## Change Requests

Change Requests are Upstream's pull requests, with versions:

* Every push is a new version. Reviews stay pinned to the version they reviewed, and stale approvals are marked.
* Inline review threads, review requests, and review rules: minimum approvals, code owners, resolved threads, and blocking on requested changes.
* Merge, squash or rebase. Required checks block merging, and a merge queue lands changes in order.
* Stacked Change Requests: merge one layer and the stack updates itself.
* Labels, assignees, reactions and locking.
* Writing `fixes #123` closes the issue on merge.

## Kairo on Upstream

* **Kairo Review** reads the whole change and finds bugs, security issues and broken repository rules. It follows your `AGENTS.md` and `CONTRIBUTING.md`, and on paid plans your house rules in `.upstream/review.md`. Ask for a review with the Kairo button, by commenting `@Kairo review`, or with `upstream cr kairo-review`, or have it review every Change Request. Make its check required to block merges.
* Mention `@Kairo` in a Change Request to ask about the change.
* **Ask** (`⌘I` on upstream.codes) answers questions about the code with links to the exact lines.
* **Spam triage**, free on every plan, moves low-effort outside contributions to a Triage page and sends one daily digest.
* Your code is never used to train models.

## Issues

Issues have list, board and table views, labels, types, milestones, templates and saved views. Every issue is also a Coline [task](/tasks), and issues and Change Requests share one number sequence per repository. Discussions hold questions that aren't issues.

## Checks and Actions

External CI reports checks through the API. Actions runs workflows on Upstream, GitHub Actions or Depot, with logs, reruns and repository secrets.

## GitHub

Import a repository from GitHub, sync one to bring its pull requests, reviews, comments, checks and issues into Upstream, or move a repository to Upstream and keep GitHub as a read-only mirror.

## CLI

```bash
curl -fsSL https://downloads.coline.dev/upstream/install.sh | sh
upstream auth login
upstream repo clone {namespace}/{repository}
```

`upstream push` pushes the current folder and creates the repository on first use: a private one in your namespace when signed in, an unclaimed one when signed out. The CLI signs in through your browser and sets up Git credentials. It covers repositories, Change Requests (`upstream cr create`, `list`, `view`, `edit`, `stack`), rulesets and workspaces. `upstream doctor` checks your setup. It runs on macOS and glibc-based Linux.

## API

Upstream has a public REST API at `https://api.upstream.codes`:

* **Native:** `https://api.upstream.codes/v1`, with a `{ "data": ... }` envelope and cursor pagination. OpenAPI at `/v1/openapi.json`.
* **GitHub-compatible:** `https://api.upstream.codes/api/v3`. Point Octokit's `baseUrl` here. OpenAPI at `/api/v3/openapi.json`.
* Authenticate with a personal access token (`upt_...`) from upstream.codes settings. The same token works as a Git password.
* 15,000 requests an hour with a token and 1,000 without. `X-RateLimit-*` headers are on every response, and `304` responses and `GET /v1/rate_limit` are free.
* Webhooks, a replayable event feed, and apps with OAuth sign-in and installable bots.

Docs: [upstream.codes/docs/api](https://upstream.codes/docs/api).

## Agents

* Agents without an account create an unclaimed repository with `POST https://api.upstream.codes/v1/unclaimed-repos` or `upstream push --json`, and hand the claim link to their person.
* `upstream mcp` runs a local MCP server for coding agents, and `upstream agent tools` lists the same tools for other agents.
* Agent index: [upstream.codes/llms.txt](https://upstream.codes/llms.txt).
* Setup skill: [upstream.codes/.well-known/skills/upstream/SKILL.md](https://upstream.codes/.well-known/skills/upstream/SKILL.md).

## Plans

Upstream has Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise plans on upstream.codes. Team workspaces with an active Coline subscription include Upstream Team.

---

# Apps

> Install reviewed apps from the Coline App Store, or your team's own apps.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/apps

Apps add capabilities to a workspace: tools for Kairo, commands in search, file types with their own previews and editors, and their own home screens. An app's files live in its own drive in [Drive](/drive).

## The App Store

Open **Apps** to browse curated collections and categories, and search listings with screenshots, descriptions, version history and developer details. Public store pages are at [coline.app/store](https://coline.app/store).

## Installing

Before you install, you see exactly what the app can do: the permissions it asks for, the outside services it can reach, and the tools it adds. Depending on your workspace's app policy, you may need an admin to install it.

Once installed, an app's tools are available to Kairo, to [crew members](/kairo/crew), and to external agents through the [MCP server](/api/mcp). Kairo asks before running tools that delete things or reach outside Coline, depending on your [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes).

## Updates

* Updates that ask for no new access install automatically if your workspace allows it.
* An update that asks for more access waits for an admin to approve it.
* Admins can roll back to any approved version.

## Private apps

Teams can build apps that only their workspace can see and install, or share an app through an unlisted install link. To build one, see the [app SDK](/sdk).

## App policies

In **Settings → Apps**, admins decide who can install apps, allow only specific apps, and block permissions. Installs that break a policy are paused, with an explanation.

## Uninstalling

Uninstalling keeps an app's data for 30 days in case you reinstall. You can also delete it immediately.

## Paid apps

Paid apps aren't available yet.

---

# Kairo

> Coline's agent, and how to work with it.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/overview

Kairo is the agent built into Coline. It can read everything you can open in your workspace, and act in it on your behalf: drafting, editing, searching, scheduling, filing tasks, running code and working on the web. It never sees anything you can't.

## Where to find it

|                               |                                                          |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Kairo page**                | Full conversations, with history, search and attachments |
| **Kairo sidebar** (`⌘.`)      | A side panel next to whatever you're working on          |
| **Search** (`⌘K`)             | Ask a quick question from the command bar                |
| **Quick dialog** (`⇧⌘K`)      | A floating Kairo from anywhere                           |
| **`@kairo` in conversations** | Ask about a channel, DM or thread                        |
| **In editors**                | Draft and rewrite in Docs, Notes, Mail and Code          |

## It knows what you're looking at

The sidebar, `⌘K` and the quick dialog send what you have open and selected with each message: the email, doc, note, sheet, task, event, file or code you're on, and your selection. A **Looking at** chip shows what's included; dismiss it to leave it out. On the Kairo page, use **Attach what's open** in the `+` menu. Turn this off in Preferences.

## What it can do

* **Your workspace:** search and read files, messages, mail, tasks, calendar and code. Create and edit docs, sheets, notes and tasks; draft and send mail and messages; schedule events; work with repositories and Change Requests. Installed [apps](/apps) add their own tools.
* **The web:** search the web and read any page you point it to. Sources show as chips, and answers cite them inline.
* **Visuals:** Kairo draws charts, tables and interactive views in its replies when they help, and updates them as it writes. Copy them as images, export PNG, HTML or CSV, or share a public link. Mermaid diagrams and math render too.
* **Code:** run sandboxed JavaScript to compute, parse or check something, or hand repository work to [Code](/code).
* **A computer:** start a cloud computer with a browser, terminal and desktop for work that needs one. See [Kairo's computer](/kairo/computer).
* **Memory:** remember decisions, preferences and how your team works. See [memory](/kairo/memory).

## Permission modes

Choose how much Kairo may do without asking, from the composer:

| Mode            | Kairo                                                                                                      |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Default**     | Reads and edits your workspace freely. Asks before sending, deleting, sharing, buying, or running commands |
| **Auto**        | A quick check reviews risky actions and asks only when something looks off or wasn't requested             |
| **Full access** | Does everything without asking                                                                             |

Signing in to a website always comes back to you, since you have the password.

## Models and reasoning

Pick a model from the model picker, a searchable list. The reasoning control next to it sets how hard Kairo thinks; higher levels take longer and use more credits. Supported models also have **Pro** mode for the hardest work. See [plans and credits](/plans#credits).

## Conversations

* The Kairo sidebar lists conversations, with replies still in progress in their own section. Rename, link or delete any conversation.
* Hand a conversation to a [crew member](/kairo/crew) when the work should keep going without you. Kairo starts it as their goal and links it in the chat.
* Type `/` in the composer for commands and [skills](/kairo/customize#skills).

## Kairo in a team

In a team workspace, Kairo is a member you can DM and mention. It answers in shared conversations using only what's in that conversation and what everyone there can see. For agents with their own job, see [Kairo Crew](/kairo/crew).

---

# Kairo Crew

> Named agents with their own job, goals, memory and computer.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/crew

Crew members are agents you name and give a job. Each one has a profile, a DM with you, its own goals and memory, and a cloud computer. They read along in conversations like a teammate and keep working when you're away.

## Personal and team crew

|                            | Just for me                                         | For the team                                          |
| -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Works for                  | You, on your goals, your computer and your accounts | The workspace, with a job anyone can ask about        |
| Who can see and message it | Only you                                            | Anyone in the workspace, in channels, threads and DMs |
| Computer                   | Your computer                                       | Its own computer, with team logins an admin added     |
| Who can add one            | Anyone                                              | Workspace admins, or roles they allow                 |

## Add a crew member

From **Crew** in the Kairo sidebar, choose **Add to your crew**. Start from a built-in crew member or from scratch:

* **Name** and **avatar**. The name can't be Kairo or match another crew member.
* **Instructions:** what it does and where its limits are, such as "Triage new posts in #support. Tag the right team, draft a first reply, and ask before emailing anyone." It reads these on every run.
* **Voice** (optional): how it talks, such as "Dry and brief. Says when it's unsure."
* **Tools:** which tool groups it can use. Search, reading and memory are always on.
* **Model**, **owner** and **monthly budget**. The owner can edit the crew member and is accountable for its work.

Nothing is created until you press **Add to crew**. A new crew member says hello in your DM and asks one question about the job.

## Working with a crew member

* **DM it** like a person. Ask for something once and it does it; it doesn't ask you to confirm.
* **Mention it** in a channel or thread to add it there. It reads along and answers when it's addressed, including replies to its own questions.
* **Hand off from Kairo:** ask Kairo for ongoing work ("keep an eye on #general and tell me if anyone mentions pricing") and it starts a goal for the right crew member, right in the chat.
* Things a crew member creates or mentions (emails, docs, tasks, events, repositories, Change Requests) show as cards under its message.

Its profile has tabs for **Goals**, **Activity**, **Computer**, **Memory** and **About**.

## Goals

A goal is work a crew member owns until it's done.

* **Goals** have a "done when" condition, a plan the crew member writes and keeps current, helpers it starts (such as a Code session), and outputs.
* **Tracking** goals watch for something and tell you when it happens ("only when the price drops below $400").
* Set an end date, or none. Mark a goal done or cancel it any time; completed actions aren't undone.
* **Team goals** post in a channel and run on the crew member's own computer. Approvals still come to you.

Personal goals are private to the person who set them up.

## Needs you

When a crew member can't continue without you (a question, a decision, a service that isn't connected, or a step only you can do), it raises a **Needs you** item instead of guessing. These show in its DM and under **Waiting on you** on [Home](/home).

## Always on

Turn on **Always on** and a crew member checks in on its own: every 30 minutes, or every 2 hours while you're quiet. It only messages you when it finds something worth your time, and says where it noticed it. It pauses after 14 days without you opening Coline.

**Daily digest** writes one short entry a day in a private doc: what changed and what's next.

## Routines

Routines are standing work on a schedule or when something happens, such as "post a summary in #team every Friday at 4 PM". See [routines](/kairo/routines).

## What it may do without asking

In **Kairo → Customize → Crew**, set what your crew may do without asking, for each kind of action:

| Action                              |   |
| ----------------------------------- | - |
| Read and look things up             |   |
| Change things in Coline             |   |
| Send email and messages             |   |
| Delete things                       |   |
| Share or post outside the workspace |   |
| Buy something                       |   |
| Sign in to websites, submit forms   |   |
| Run commands on the computer        |   |

For each, choose **Do it without asking**, **Ask me first** (it shows the exact action and waits), or **Hand it to me** (it never does it, and asks you to do that step). Approvals you give can be once, for one goal, until a date, or always.

**Stop everything** stops running work, pauses every goal and schedule, turns off Always on, and puts your computer to sleep.

## Computers

Crew members do browser, terminal and desktop work on a cloud computer. Watch it live in the **Computer** tab and take over at any time. Website sessions stay signed in until the site expires them; connected-account tokens are never on the computer. You can reset or recover a computer from its saved disk. Computer time uses [Code credits](/plans#credits).

## Integrations

Crew members can use services you connect, such as a mailbox or calendar, in **Settings → Integrations** or from their profile. Team connections are opt-in for each crew member. Integrations are in beta.

## Budgets

Crew work draws Kairo credits from the workspace's shared bank. Each crew member has a monthly budget, 30% of the workspace's credits by default, which the owner or an admin can change. The **About** tab shows what it's used this month.

---

# Memory

> What Kairo remembers, where, who it's used for, and how to correct it.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/memory

Kairo remembers what people say that isn't written down anywhere else: decisions, owners, dates, conventions, preferences and corrections. Docs, tasks, mail, calendar and code aren't copied into memory; Kairo reads them live, with your permissions, when it needs them.

## Where memory lives

Every note belongs to a place, and is only used in answers that the people who can see that place will read.

| Memory                      | Holds                                                                                           | Used in                             |
| --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **About you**               | Facts and preferences about you. These follow your account between workspaces                   | Answers only you see                |
| **You in this workspace**   | What Kairo learns about your work in this workspace                                             | Answers only you see                |
| **Team notes**              | Workspace-wide decisions and conventions, from public channels and "remember this for the team" | Answers for anyone in the workspace |
| **Channel and group notes** | What a channel or group DM decided and how it works                                             | That conversation                   |
| **Shared channel notes**    | What a [Connect](/connect) channel decided. People from the other company can read these        | That shared channel only            |
| **Crew notebooks**          | A crew member's notes: what's ongoing, decisions, preferences and how things work               | That crew member's work             |
| **Goal notes**              | What helpers learned while working on a goal                                                    | Later helpers on the same goal      |

## How Kairo remembers

* **When you ask:** "remember this about me", "remember this for the team", or "remember that…" in any conversation. Kairo saves it right away.
* **On its own:** where learning is on, Kairo saves decisions, owners and dates once a conversation goes quiet, and facts it finds while reading files and repositories.
* **Tidying:** in quiet periods, Kairo merges duplicates and updates facts that changed. Every change shows in **Recent changes**, and undo puts the lines back.

Content from guests, people at other companies, email, the web and other agents doesn't become memory on its own.

## Turning learning on and off

* **Your memory:** Kairo → Customize → **Memory** has **Learn from my chats with Kairo** and **Learn from my personal workspace**. Shared workspaces never add to your About you notes.
* **A conversation:** its settings have **Learn from this conversation**. When it's off, Kairo only saves what people ask it to remember.
* **The workspace:** admins choose whether Kairo learns from conversations in **Settings → Memory**.

## Viewing and correcting

Open any memory to read it, search it, or add a note yourself. For each line you can:

* **Correct** it. The old line stays in history.
* **Forget** it. Kairo won't save it again.
* **Move to team memory**, for a personal note the whole team should know.

---

# Routines

> Standing work that an agent does on a schedule or when something happens.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/routines

A routine is a job you set up once with an agent, like "post a summary of the week's shipped work in #team every Friday at 4 PM" or "when a new post lands in #support, tag the right team". Kairo or a [crew member](/kairo/crew) runs it each time.

## Set one up

Ask in any conversation: describe what you want, when, and where results should go. The agent sets up the routine and confirms it in one line. Results post in the thread where you set it up unless you say otherwise.

## Schedules

| Runs                       |                                                    |
| -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| **Every day**              | At a time you choose                               |
| **On certain days**        | Such as Mondays and Fridays                        |
| **Monthly**                | On a day of the month                              |
| **Custom**                 | Any schedule                                       |
| **When something happens** | After an event, such as a new message in a channel |

Times use your time zone. Each run posts a short line, with the work in a thread under it.

## Manage routines

Your routines are in Kairo → Customize → **Routines**, and a crew member's are on its profile. For each routine you can:

* edit its name, instructions, schedule and where it posts
* run it now as a test
* pause, resume or delete it
* see each run and whether it finished or failed

A routine pauses itself after 3 failures in a row, or when its agent is paused, and tells you why.

## Goals or routines?

Use a routine for the same work at a set time. For work toward an outcome, or watching for something until it happens, ask for a goal instead; see [goals](/kairo/crew#goals).

---

# Kairo's computer

> A cloud computer with a browser, terminal and desktop for work that needs one.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/computer

Some work needs a real computer: filling in a website, comparing pages, running a script, or working in a desktop app. Kairo can start a cloud computer for a conversation, with a persistent desktop, browser, terminal and files. It stays with that conversation, and [crew members](/kairo/crew#computers) have computers of their own.

## Watching and taking over

A live screen floats in the corner of the Kairo pane. Expand it to watch, go full screen, or take control. Kairo steps back the moment you take over and picks up where it left off when you hand control back. Taking control feels like your own computer, with normal keyboard shortcuts and copy and paste between machines.

Kairo sees the screen after each action, so it can carry out multi-step tasks in one reply. It can attach a repository, run [Code](/code) agents, and save what it makes to Drive or to the conversation.

## Asking first

Kairo asks before starting a computer, and before consequential actions such as submitting forms, buying something or running commands, depending on your [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes). Signing in to a website always comes back to you. You can allow routine computer actions so it stops asking.

## Sandboxed code

For quick calculations, parsing or checks, Kairo runs JavaScript in a sandbox instead of starting a computer. The sandbox has no access to your workspace or files, and no network unless Kairo asks for specific hosts.

## Credits

Computer time is paid for with [Code credits](/plans#credits).

---

# Customize Kairo

> Skills, writing styles, and where to find Kairo's other settings.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/customize

Open **Customize** from the Kairo sidebar. It has tabs for **Crew**, **Memory**, **Routines**, **Skills** and **Writing Styles**.

## Skills

A skill is reusable know-how that Kairo pulls in when a task calls for it, such as how your team writes release notes or files a bug.

* **Create a skill** with a name, a description of when to use it, and instructions in Markdown (`SKILL.md`). Add files the skill can refer to, such as templates or examples.
* **Personal skills** are yours. **Workspace skills** are shared with everyone in the workspace. **Built-in** skills come with Coline.
* Kairo picks a skill when its description matches the task. **Pin** a skill to keep it active in every conversation, or turn one off.
* Type `/` in the composer to use a skill directly.

## Writing styles

A writing style sets how Kairo sounds when it writes for you: mail, messages and documents.

* **From example:** paste a paragraph or two in the style you want.
* **From personality:** describe it, such as "short and warm, no exclamation marks".
* **Write prompt:** write the instructions yourself.

Set one style as your default. Kairo always writes plainly and without filler; a style changes tone and voice on top of that.

## Elsewhere

* **Crew:** what your crew may do without asking, approvals you've given, and the daily digest. See [Kairo Crew](/kairo/crew#what-it-may-do-without-asking).
* **Memory:** what Kairo remembers about you. See [memory](/kairo/memory).
* **Routines:** standing work. See [routines](/kairo/routines).
* **Preferences:** turn off sending what you have open with each message ([live context](/kairo/overview#it-knows-what-youre-looking-at)).

---

# Workspaces

> Personal and team workspaces, members, teams, settings and billing.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/workspace/overview

A workspace holds everything a group works on: conversations, files, tasks, calendars, code and apps, with one set of members and permissions.

## Personal and team workspaces

* Every account has a **personal workspace** that only its owner can see.
* **Team workspaces** are for working with other people. Create one from the workspace switcher; it starts with a [14-day trial](/plans#team-trial).

Switch workspaces from the switcher in the sidebar. Your account, profile and some memory follow you between workspaces; everything else stays in its workspace.

## Members and roles

Invite people in **Settings → Members**, by email or with an invite link. Invites wait until they're accepted, revoked or expire.

Each member has a role. Owner, Admin, Member and Guest are built in, and admins can create **custom roles** with their own permissions in **Settings → Roles and permissions**. See [permissions](/workspace/permissions).

Removing someone takes away their access right away. Their messages and files stay in the workspace.

## Teams

**Settings → Teams** groups people by what they work on. Each team gets its own drive and channels, and everyone in the team can open them. Removing someone from a team removes their access to its drive and channels, but they stay in the workspace.

## Settings

| Section                   | For                                                                 |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **General**               | Name, logo, description, URL and custom emoji                       |
| **Members**               | Members, invites and roles                                          |
| **Teams**                 | Teams and their drives and channels                                 |
| **Roles and permissions** | Built-in and custom roles, exceptions, and the audit log            |
| **External sharing**      | Who can share channels with other companies, and which domains      |
| **Mail**                  | Workspace domains, mailboxes, aliases and routing                   |
| **Crew**                  | Team crew members, budgets and routines, and pausing the team crew  |
| **Integrations**          | Services connected for the team and which crew members can use them |
| **Memory**                | Whether Kairo learns from conversations, and team notes             |
| **Apps**                  | Installed apps and app policies                                     |
| **API keys**              | Keys for the [REST API](/api)                                       |
| **Import**                | Bring data from other tools; see [import](/workspace/import)        |
| **Plan and billing**      | Plan, seats, invoices and payment methods                           |
| **Code credits**          | Usage of cloud computers                                            |

Who sees which sections depends on their role.

## Billing and seats

Team plans are billed per seat. Members and pending invites each take a seat; when every seat is taken, add seats before inviting more people. See [plans](/plans).

## Audit log

**Roles and permissions → Audit log** lists every change to members, roles, permissions, mail and the workspace itself, newest first, including writes made with API keys.

## Archive, transfer or delete

In **Settings → General**, under **Danger zone**, the owner can:

* **Transfer ownership** to another member. You become an admin.
* **Archive** the workspace. Everyone but the owner is removed and all content becomes read-only.
* **Delete** the workspace. Every file, channel, message and member is permanently deleted. This can't be undone.

---

# Permissions and sharing

> How roles, drives, channels and sharing decide who can see what.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/workspace/permissions

Access in Coline comes from three places, checked together: your **role** in the workspace, the **drives and channels** you've been added to, and what's been **shared** with you directly. The same rules apply to Kairo, crew members, apps and API clients acting for you: they can never reach more than you can.

## Roles

| Role   | Can                                                                                         |
| ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Owner  | Everything, including billing, transferring ownership and deleting the workspace            |
| Admin  | Full access to the workspace: members, roles, apps, crew and settings                       |
| Member | Everything shared with members: public channels, shared drives, and what's shared with them |
| Guest  | Only what's shared with them, such as specific channels and files                           |

Admins can create **custom roles** in **Settings → Roles and permissions** and grant them specific permissions, grouped into areas such as members and invites, roles, guests and external access, billing, integrations, crew, memory, and data and security policies. Roles have a priority order.

## Drives and files

* **Shared drives** are open to the workspace by default, or **restricted** to the people and roles added to them. Grants can allow read, write, or manage.
* **Personal drives** belong to one member.
* **Team drives** are open to everyone in the [team](/workspace/overview#teams).
* Files inherit their drive's or folder's access, or can be **restricted** to specific people.

## Channels

Public channels are open to every member. Private channels only let in the people added to them. **Roles and permissions → Exceptions** lists channels and drives that differ from the role defaults.

## Sharing a file

From a file's **Share** menu:

| Option                     | Who can open it                             |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **People with access**     | Members and people you invite by email      |
| **Restricted** link        | Only people already added                   |
| **Coline users with link** | Anyone signed in to Coline who has the link |
| **Anyone with link**       | Anyone with the link, without an account    |
| **Publish to web**         | A public page, optionally with a password   |

Publishing to the web needs a paid plan.

## Sharing channels with other companies

[Coline Connect](/connect) shares a channel with people outside the workspace. In **Settings → External sharing**, admins choose who can share channels (any member, channel managers, or only admins), limit which company domains channels can be shared with, and decide whether outside people can bring their colleagues.

## Guests

Admins can turn guest access on or off, and convert guests to full members.

---

# Import

> Bring your work in from Linear, Notion, Slack and Google Workspace.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/workspace/import

**Settings → Import** brings data from other tools into Coline. Imports map people between systems so authors and assignees carry over, and keep a history of every run.

## Sources

| Source               | What comes over                                                                                                                                                                             |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Linear**           | Teams, issues and their statuses, related and duplicate links, and estimates, as taskboards and tasks                                                                                       |
| **Notion**           | Pages as Notes. Databases become typed Sheets with relations, rollups, formulas, people and comments. Related databases share a workbook, and inline databases stay embedded in their pages |
| **Slack**            | Channels and messages, with files, reactions, pins, mentions and canvases. Each person can import the private channels and DMs they can see                                                 |
| **Google Workspace** | Drive files and Gmail threads with attachments, for each person, keeping sharing settings. Slides become Docs                                                                               |

Slack and Google Workspace imports are available in team workspaces. To import your own Google Drive or Gmail, switch to your personal workspace.

## How imports run

* Imports of any size run in the background. You can keep working while they run.
* If an import is interrupted, it resumes where it stopped.
* If it reaches the workspace's storage limit, it pauses instead of failing.

## Single files

To bring in individual files, upload them to [Drive](/drive). To bring Markdown or a Notion export into Notes, use import in [Notes](/notes#import).

---

# Developers

> The ways to build on Coline, and where to get credentials.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/developers

There are five ways to work with Coline from code. They share one permission model: a request can only reach what its credential's scopes allow, and, when it acts for a person, only what that person can already open.

| Surface                       | Use it to                                                                                             | Auth                                                                        |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [REST API](/api)              | Read and write calendars, sheets, tasks, files and apps from a server or script                       | [API key](/authentication/api-keys) or [OAuth token](/authentication/oauth) |
| [MCP server](/api/mcp)        | Give an assistant or coding tool that speaks MCP access to a workspace, and events when things change | OAuth, set up by the MCP client                                             |
| [Outside agents](/api/agents) | Bring an assistant you run elsewhere into conversations as a crew member                              | Agent token from **Connect an agent**                                       |
| [Tab](/api/tab)               | Add Coline's inline completions to an editor                                                          | API key with `ai.invoke`                                                    |
| [App SDK](/sdk)               | Build an app or site that adds tools, file types and screens to a workspace                           | `npx coline-app login`, or an API key with `apps.write` in CI               |

## The developer console

The console at [coline.app/developers/console](https://coline.app/developers/console) is where you manage credentials and usage for a workspace:

* **API keys:** create and revoke workspace keys and choose their scopes.
* **OAuth clients:** register apps that sign people in with Coline, with their redirect URLs.
* **Installed apps:** configure apps installed in the workspace.
* **Request logs:** recent requests with status codes and timings.
* **Credits:** the workspace's prepaid API credit balance, used by Tab and other metered calls.
* **Tab playground:** try Tab completions before wiring them into an editor.

Only workspace owners and admins can create API keys and OAuth clients.

## Your first request

1. Open the console, pick a workspace, and create an API key with the `files.read` scope.
2. List the sheets in that workspace. Use the workspace's slug (the part after `coline.app/` in its URL) or its ID:

```bash
curl "https://coline.app/api/v1/workspaces/acme/sheets?limit=5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_ws_..."
```

3. Read the result from the `data` field. Errors come back as `{ "error": { "code", "message" } }` with a matching HTTP status. See [errors](/api/errors).

An API key belongs to one workspace and acts as the workspace, not as a person. Routes that act for a person, such as calendar, messages and `GET /api/v1/me/workspaces`, need an [OAuth token](/authentication/oauth) instead.

The full list of routes is in the [endpoint reference](/api/endpoints). The machine-readable description is at `https://coline.app/api/v1/openapi/app-platform`, and `https://coline.app/.well-known/api-catalog` links it with the OAuth metadata and status endpoint.

## Discovery for agents

| URL                                                         | What it is                                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| `https://coline.app/llms.txt`                               | Agent index for Coline                            |
| `https://docs.coline.app/llms.txt`                          | Index of these docs, linking each page's Markdown |
| `https://coline.app/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json`       | MCP server card                                   |
| `https://coline.app/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json`    | Agent skills for the API and the MCP server       |
| `https://coline.app/.well-known/api-catalog`                | API catalog (RFC 9727)                            |
| `https://coline.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` | OAuth authorization server metadata               |
| `https://coline.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`   | Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728)            |

For Upstream, the public API, CLI and agent docs live on [upstream.codes](https://upstream.codes/llms.txt). See [Upstream](/upstream).

---

# API keys

> Workspace API keys for servers, scripts and the app CLI.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/authentication/api-keys

A workspace API key lets a server or script call the Coline API without a person signing in. Each key belongs to one workspace, carries a fixed set of [scopes](/authentication/scopes), and acts as the workspace rather than as a member.

## Create a key

1. Open the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console) and choose a workspace.
2. Go to **API keys** and create a key.
3. Name the key and pick its scopes.
4. Copy the key. It's shown once. Coline stores only a hash, so a lost key can't be recovered; revoke it and create a new one.

Only the workspace owner and admins can create or revoke keys. Keys start with `col_ws_`.

## Use a key

Send it as a bearer token:

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/workspaces/acme/sheets \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_ws_..."
```

The workspace in the URL must be the key's workspace, by slug or ID. A key for another workspace gets `403 API_KEY_WORKSPACE_MISMATCH`.

## What a key can and can't do

A key can call any route whose required scopes it holds. See the [endpoint reference](/api/endpoints) for the scope each route needs.

A key has no person behind it, so some routes refuse it with `403 USER_IDENTITY_REQUIRED`:

* calendar routes, which act on a person's calendars and invitations
* message, DM and thread routes, which only show conversations a person is in (keys can list public channels)
* `GET /api/v1/me/workspaces` and `GET /api/v1/oauth/userinfo`

Use an [OAuth token](/authentication/oauth) for those.

Writes made with a key are recorded in the workspace audit log against the key, not a member.

## Rate limits

Each key gets 300 read requests and 60 write requests per minute. See [rate limits](/api/rate-limits).

## Revocation

A key stops working as soon as an admin revokes it in the console. There is no grace period. Rotate a key by creating the new one, deploying it, then revoking the old one.

## Keys in the app CLI

The app CLI (`coline-app push`) reads a key with the `apps.write` scope from `COLINE_API_KEY`. Keep keys out of source control and app bundles; set them in your environment or secret store. See [develop locally](/sdk/publishing#develop-locally).

---

# OAuth

> Sign people in with Coline and call the API on their behalf.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/authentication/oauth

Use OAuth when your app acts for a person: it signs them in with their Coline account, they approve what your app can do, and your app gets a token that can reach what that person can reach, limited to the scopes they approved. Coline is an OAuth 2.1 and OpenID Connect provider: authorization code flow with PKCE, dynamic client registration, client ID metadata documents, ID tokens and UserInfo.

If you're connecting an assistant to the [MCP server](/api/mcp), you don't need any of this. MCP clients register and sign in on their own.

## Endpoints

|                          | URL                                                         |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Authorization            | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/authorize`                 |
| Token                    | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/token`                     |
| Registration             | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/register`                  |
| User info                | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/userinfo`                  |
| Device authorization     | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/device/code`               |
| Revocation               | `https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/revoke`                    |
| JSON Web Keys            | `https://coline.app/.well-known/jwks.json`                  |
| Metadata                 | `https://coline.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` |
| OpenID Connect discovery | `https://coline.app/.well-known/openid-configuration`       |

Both metadata documents are the same. A `401` from the API carries `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="https://coline.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"`, so a client that starts from an API call can find everything else.

## Get a client ID

There are three ways, and the person approves your app on the same consent screen with each.

### Register dynamically

Apps that connect to many workspaces, such as assistants, register themselves ([RFC 7591](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7591)):

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "client_name": "Example Assistant",
    "redirect_uris": ["https://example.com/oauth/callback"],
    "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none",
    "client_uri": "https://example.com",
    "logo_uri": "https://example.com/logo.png"
  }'
```

```json
{
  "client_id": "col_dyn_...",
  "client_id_issued_at": 1792364651,
  "client_name": "Example Assistant",
  "redirect_uris": ["https://example.com/oauth/callback"],
  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none",
  "grant_types": ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
  "response_types": ["code"]
}
```

* `token_endpoint_auth_method` is `none` (a public client using PKCE), `client_secret_basic` (the default) or `client_secret_post`. Confidential clients also get a `client_secret`, shown once.
* Redirect URIs must be HTTPS, a loopback address (`http://127.0.0.1`, `http://[::1]` or `http://localhost`, any port), or the app's own URL scheme.
* Registration grants nothing by itself. It's limited to 30 registrations per hour from one address.

Clients that register themselves, this way or with a metadata document, are treated as assistants: whatever `scope` they send, the person is asked to approve everything they can do in Coline, `openid profile email workspace.read mail.read mail.write messages.read messages.write taskboards.read taskboards.write calendar.read calendar.write files.read files.write tools.read tools.write`, and the token carries all of it. `ai.invoke` and `apps.*` are added only when asked for. Unknown scopes are ignored. The token response's `scope` lists what was granted.

### Use a client ID metadata document

Instead of registering, a client can use an HTTPS URL that serves its metadata as its `client_id`. Coline reads the document on first use and refreshes it hourly. It must include `client_id` (the same URL) and `redirect_uris`, may include `client_name`, `client_uri` and `logo_uri`, and must allow the `none` token endpoint auth method. Redirects aren't followed and documents are limited to 16 KB.

### Create one in the developer console

1. Open the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console), choose a workspace, and go to **OAuth clients**.
2. Name the client and add every redirect URL it will use. Redirects must match exactly.
3. Copy the client ID and client secret. The secret is shown once.

## 1\. Send the person to authorize

Create a random `code_verifier`, derive `code_challenge = BASE64URL(SHA256(code_verifier))`, and redirect to:

```text
https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/authorize
  ?response_type=code
  &client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID
  &redirect_uri=https://example.com/callback
  &scope=openid%20profile%20email%20workspace.read%20calendar.read
  &state=RANDOM_STATE
  &nonce=RANDOM_NONCE
  &code_challenge=CODE_CHALLENGE
  &code_challenge_method=S256
```

| Parameter               |                                                                                                                    |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `response_type`         | Always `code`                                                                                                      |
| `client_id`             | Your client ID                                                                                                     |
| `redirect_uri`          | One of the client's registered redirect URLs                                                                       |
| `scope`                 | Space-separated [scopes](/authentication/scopes#oauth-scopes). Defaults to `openid profile email`                  |
| `state`                 | Returned unchanged; check it to prevent CSRF                                                                       |
| `code_challenge`        | 43 to 128 characters                                                                                               |
| `code_challenge_method` | Must be `S256`                                                                                                     |
| `nonce`                 | Optional. Echoed in the ID token                                                                                   |
| `login_hint`            | Optional. An email address to pre-fill sign-in                                                                     |
| `prompt`                | Optional. `none` returns `login_required` or `consent_required`, because Coline always asks before an app connects |
| `resource`              | Optional ([RFC 8707](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8707)). Must be a Coline URL                                |

The person signs in if needed and sees a consent screen with your app's name, logo and site, the account they're signing in with, and what your app will be able to do. When they approve, Coline redirects to `redirect_uri` with `code`, `state` and `iss`. Codes expire after 10 minutes and work once.

Once the client and redirect check out, every outcome goes back to your redirect, errors included, with `error`, `error_description`, `state` and `iss` ([RFC 9207](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9207)): `access_denied` when the person cancels, `invalid_scope`, `invalid_request`, `invalid_target` or `unsupported_response_type`. Compare `iss` with `https://coline.app`. An unknown client or unregistered redirect never redirects; the consent screen explains the problem instead.

## 2\. Exchange the code

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/token \
  -u "YOUR_CLIENT_ID:YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET" \
  -d grant_type=authorization_code \
  -d code=col_code_... \
  -d redirect_uri=https://example.com/callback \
  -d code_verifier=YOUR_CODE_VERIFIER
```

The token endpoint accepts form or JSON bodies. Confidential clients send the secret with HTTP Basic auth or as `client_secret` in the body; public clients send `client_id` alone.

```json
{
  "access_token": "col_at_...",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 3600,
  "refresh_token": "col_rt_...",
  "scope": "openid profile email workspace.read calendar.read",
  "id_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIs..."
}
```

Access tokens last one hour. `id_token` is present when the scopes include `openid`.

## 3\. Call the API

```bash
curl "https://coline.app/api/v1/workspaces/acme/calendar/events?start=2026-10-12T00:00:00Z&end=2026-10-19T00:00:00Z" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_at_..."
```

A token isn't tied to one workspace. Pass the workspace slug or ID in the path; the person must be a member of it. `GET /api/v1/me/workspaces` (scope `workspace.read`) lists their workspaces.

The exception is `apps.read` and `apps.write`: the consent screen asks the person to pick a workspace they administer, and the token works only there. Routes without a workspace in the path, such as the Sites API, use that workspace; a path naming another one fails with `OAUTH_WORKSPACE_MISMATCH`. If the person stops administering the workspace, the token loses those scopes.

## Refresh

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/token \
  -u "YOUR_CLIENT_ID:YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET" \
  -d grant_type=refresh_token \
  -d refresh_token=col_rt_...
```

Each refresh returns a new access token, a new refresh token, and a new ID token for `openid` grants. The old refresh token stops working, so store the new one. A refresh token unused for 90 days expires; the person then connects your app again.

## ID tokens

ID tokens are JWTs signed with RS256. Verify them with the keys at `https://coline.app/.well-known/jwks.json` (match the `kid` header) and check:

| Claim                                                                |                                             |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `iss`                                                                | `https://coline.app`                        |
| `aud`                                                                | Your client ID                              |
| `sub`                                                                | The person's stable user id                 |
| `exp`, `iat`                                                         | Valid for one hour                          |
| `auth_time`                                                          | When the person last signed in, when known  |
| `nonce`                                                              | The `nonce` from your authorization request |
| `email`, `email_verified`                                            | With the `email` scope                      |
| `name`, `given_name`, `family_name`, `picture`, `preferred_username` | With the `profile` scope                    |

## User info

`GET` or `POST /api/v1/oauth/userinfo` with the access token returns the signed-in person, limited to the identity scopes the token carries:

```json
{
  "sub": "user id",
  "email": "dana@example.com",
  "email_verified": true,
  "name": "Dana Kim",
  "given_name": "Dana",
  "family_name": "Kim",
  "picture": "https://...",
  "preferred_username": "dana",
  "scope": "openid profile email workspace.read",
  "coline_workspace": { "id": "...", "slug": "acme", "name": "Acme" }
}
```

`email` and `email_verified` need the `email` scope; the name fields need `profile`. `coline_workspace` is present only for a token bound to one workspace (`apps.*` scopes). An invalid token gets `401` with `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer error="invalid_token"`.

## Revoke

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/oauth/revoke \
  -u "YOUR_CLIENT_ID:YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET" \
  -d token=col_rt_...
```

Revoking either token of a pair ends both ([RFC 7009](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7009)). The endpoint answers `200` for unknown tokens too. Public clients send `client_id` in the body.

People can also disconnect your app themselves under **Settings → Account → Connections → Apps with access**. That ends every token your app holds for them.

## Devices without a browser

`coline-app login` uses the device authorization grant ([RFC 8628](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8628)) when no browser can open: it posts to the device authorization endpoint, shows the person a code, and polls the token endpoint with `grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code` while they approve it at `https://coline.app/device`. Polls before approval answer `authorization_pending`, too-frequent polls `slow_down`, and a denial `access_denied`. Codes expire after 15 minutes. Device sign-in is open to Coline's own clients only for now.

## Errors

The token, revocation and registration endpoints answer with standard OAuth errors, `{ "error": "...", "error_description": "..." }`, and `Cache-Control: no-store`:

| Error                                             | Meaning                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `invalid_request`                                 | A parameter is missing or invalid                                                              |
| `invalid_client`                                  | Unknown client, or the secret doesn't match (`401`)                                            |
| `invalid_grant`                                   | The code, verifier or refresh token is wrong, expired, used, or for another client or redirect |
| `invalid_scope`                                   | A scope isn't supported or allowed for this client                                             |
| `unsupported_grant_type`                          | Use `authorization_code`, `refresh_token` or the device code grant                             |
| `invalid_redirect_uri`, `invalid_client_metadata` | Registration was refused                                                                       |

API routes use Coline's [error shape](/api/errors):

| Code                       | Meaning                                                       |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `INVALID_TOKEN`            | The access token is unknown or expired; refresh it            |
| `OAUTH_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN`    | The token lacks a scope the route needs                       |
| `OAUTH_WORKSPACE_MISMATCH` | The token is bound to another workspace (`apps.*` scopes)     |
| `WORKSPACE_REQUIRED`       | `apps.*` scopes need a workspace picked on the consent screen |

---

# Scopes

> The permissions an API key or OAuth token can carry.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/authentication/scopes

Scopes limit what a credential can do. They never widen access: an OAuth token still can't reach anything its person can't open, and an API key can't reach another workspace. Ask for the fewest scopes you need.

A request that lacks a scope fails with `403` and `API_KEY_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN` (API keys) or `OAUTH_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN` (OAuth tokens).

## API key scopes

Chosen when the key is created.

| Scope                   | Allows                                                                             |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `workspace.read`        | View workspace metadata and settings                                               |
| `taskboards.read`       | Read taskboards and tasks                                                          |
| `taskboards.write`      | Create, update and delete tasks                                                    |
| `calendar.read`         | Read calendars and events (OAuth tokens only in practice; see below)               |
| `calendar.write`        | Create and update events                                                           |
| `files.read`            | Read files and sheets, and download uploads                                        |
| `files.write`           | Create, upload, modify and delete files and sheets                                 |
| `apps.read`             | List installed apps and their manifests                                            |
| `apps.write`            | Install, configure and uninstall apps; push app versions with the CLI              |
| `apps.publish`          | Publish versions of the one app a Code project builds                              |
| `notifications.write`   | Send in-app and push notifications from an app                                     |
| `index.write`           | Add or update an app's documents in workspace search                               |
| `ambient.events.write`  | Publish an app's events to the workspace                                           |
| `ai.invoke`             | Call [Tab](/api/tab) and other AI endpoints, billed to the workspace's API credits |
| `upstream.checks.write` | Report check results on Upstream Change Requests                                   |
| `upstream.search.read`  | Search code in Upstream repositories                                               |
| `admin.read`            | View administrative data and audit logs                                            |
| `admin.write`           | Manage workspace settings and members                                              |

Calendar and message routes act for a person, so they refuse API keys with `USER_IDENTITY_REQUIRED` even when the key has the scope. Use OAuth for calendar and messages.

## OAuth scopes

Requested in the `scope` parameter of the [authorization request](/authentication/oauth) and shown on the consent screen. Clients created in the developer console get the scopes they ask for. Clients that register themselves (assistants) get every scope below except `ai.invoke` and `apps.*`, whatever they ask for.

| Scope                                 | Allows                                                                                                                                                         |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `openid`, `profile`, `email`          | Sign-in and the [user info](/authentication/oauth#user-info) endpoint. The default when no scope is given                                                      |
| `workspace.read`                      | List the person's workspaces and read workspace metadata                                                                                                       |
| `taskboards.read`, `taskboards.write` | Read or change tasks the person can access                                                                                                                     |
| `calendar.read`, `calendar.write`     | Read or change the person's calendars and events                                                                                                               |
| `files.read`, `files.write`           | Read or change files the person can access                                                                                                                     |
| `mail.read`, `mail.write`             | Read the person's mail; organize threads and send mail that waits for their approval. Used by the [MCP server](/api/mcp)                                       |
| `messages.read`                       | Read conversations the person is in, through the [MCP server](/api/mcp). The REST API reads messages with `workspace.read`                                     |
| `messages.write`                      | Send, edit, pin and react to messages as the person, in conversations they're in                                                                               |
| `tools.read`                          | Discover and run read-only tools across Coline and installed apps                                                                                              |
| `tools.write`                         | Run tools that change things, subject to the person's permissions and app approvals                                                                            |
| `ai.invoke`                           | Call AI endpoints                                                                                                                                              |
| `apps.read`, `apps.write`             | See, or deploy and manage, apps and sites in one workspace. The person picks a workspace they administer on the consent screen, and the token works only there |

## MCP scopes

The [MCP server](/api/mcp) at `/mcp` uses `workspace.read`, `mail.read`, `mail.write`, `messages.read`, `messages.write`, `taskboards.read`, `taskboards.write`, `calendar.read`, `calendar.write`, `files.read` and `files.write`, plus `openid`, `profile` and `email`. Every connection gets all of them, whatever the client asks for, and the consent screen lists what it will be able to do. The full catalog at `/agent` uses `tools.read` and `tools.write`.

## App permissions

Apps built with the [SDK](/sdk) don't use these scopes. They declare permissions in their manifest, such as `files.read` or `network.external`, which a workspace admin approves at install. See the [SDK reference](/sdk/reference#permissions).

---

# Security

> How to keep credentials safe and what Coline does to limit access.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/authentication/security

## Keeping credentials safe

* **Store keys as secrets.** Put API keys and OAuth client secrets in your environment or secret manager. Never commit them, ship them in a browser or mobile bundle, or put them in an app built with the SDK.
* **One key per service.** Separate keys can be revoked separately and have separate rate limits.
* **Ask for the fewest scopes.** A sync job that only reads tasks needs `taskboards.read`, nothing else.
* **Rotate after exposure.** If a key may have leaked, create a replacement, deploy it, and revoke the old one in the console. Revocation takes effect immediately.
* **Use PKCE and check `state`.** Every OAuth authorization needs an S256 code challenge. Check that `state` matches what you sent before exchanging a code.
* **Store refresh tokens like passwords.** Each refresh issues a new refresh token and retires the old one.

## What Coline enforces

* **Scopes are a ceiling, not a grant.** An OAuth token can only reach what its person can already open in Coline, narrowed further by its scopes. An API key can only reach its own workspace.
* **Secrets are stored hashed.** API keys and OAuth client secrets are shown once and stored as hashes.
* **Writes are audited.** Writes made with an API key are recorded in the workspace audit log against the key.
* **Workspace state is respected.** Archived workspaces are read-only, and suspended workspaces refuse API requests.
* **AI clients don't send email on their own.** Mail and external calendar invites created through MCP or the API wait for the person to approve them, unless they've turned that off for trusted clients.
* **Apps run with a ceiling.** Apps built with the SDK can only use the permissions a workspace admin approved, can't exceed the effect each tool declares, and never see stored secrets or connected-account tokens; Coline injects them into requests to the hosts the app declared.
* **Browser writes need the same origin.** Requests that change data without a bearer token must come from a same-origin Coline session (`MUTATION_ORIGIN_REQUIRED` otherwise).

## Reporting a vulnerability

Email [support@coline.app](mailto:support@coline.app) with "Security" in the subject. Please don't test against other people's workspaces.

---

# REST API

> Base URL, authentication, request and response format for the Coline API.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api

The Coline API is a JSON API over HTTPS. It covers calendars, sheets, docs, notes, files and uploads, tasks, messages, workspace apps and Tab completions. The OpenAPI 3.1 description is at:

```text
https://coline.app/api/v1/openapi/app-platform
```

The API is in beta (`1.0.0-beta`). Routes in the OpenAPI description are stable. Routes marked † in the [endpoint reference](/api/endpoints) work today but may change before they're added to it.

## Base URL

```text
https://coline.app/api/v1
```

Workspace routes start with `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}`. You can pass the workspace's slug (the part after `coline.app/` in its URL) or its ID.

## Authentication

Send a bearer token in the `Authorization` header:

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/workspaces/acme/taskboards \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_ws_..."
```

| Credential                                  | Prefix    | Acts as       | Best for                          |
| ------------------------------------------- | --------- | ------------- | --------------------------------- |
| [API key](/authentication/api-keys)         | `col_ws_` | The workspace | Servers, scripts, CI, the app CLI |
| [OAuth access token](/authentication/oauth) | `col_at_` | A person      | Apps that sign people in          |

Both are limited by [scopes](/authentication/scopes).

## Responses

Successful responses wrap the result in `data`:

```json
{ "data": { "sheets": [ ... ] } }
```

Errors use one shape, with a matching HTTP status:

```json
{ "error": { "code": "TASK_NOT_FOUND", "message": "Task not found." } }
```

The code is also sent in the `x-coline-error-code` header. See [errors](/api/errors).

## Requests

* Send JSON bodies with `Content-Type: application/json`.
* Times are ISO 8601. Calendar writes also take an IANA `timeZone`, such as `America/Vancouver`.
* List routes take a `limit` and either an `offset` or a `cursor`. Each route's parameters are in the OpenAPI description.
* Creates are not idempotent. If a create times out, read back before retrying.

## Rate limits

Every response carries `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`. See [rate limits](/api/rate-limits).

## Usage and credits

Most requests are free. Metered calls, such as [Tab](/api/tab) completions and AI calls from apps, draw from the workspace's prepaid API credits, which you can add in the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console). Recent requests, with status codes and timings, are under **Request logs**.

## Related

* [Endpoint reference](/api/endpoints)
* [MCP server](/api/mcp) for agents
* [Upstream API](/upstream#api) for repositories, Change Requests and issues

---

# Endpoint reference

> Every Coline API route, with the scope it needs.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/endpoints

Paths are relative to `https://coline.app/api/v1`. Request and response schemas are in the [OpenAPI description](https://coline.app/api/v1/openapi/app-platform), and the developer portal has an [interactive reference](https://coline.app/developers/api-reference).

**OAuth** means the route acts for a person and needs an [OAuth token](/authentication/oauth); workspace API keys get `403 USER_IDENTITY_REQUIRED`. Every other route accepts both. Routes marked † work today but aren't in the OpenAPI description yet.

## Identity

| Method | Path                                    | Does                         | Scope                    |
| ------ | --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| `GET`  | `/me/workspaces`                        | List the person's workspaces | `workspace.read` (OAuth) |
| `GET`  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/members` † | List workspace members       | `workspace.read`         |
| `GET`  | `/oauth/userinfo`                       | The signed-in person         | OAuth token              |

## Calendar

| Method                 | Path                                                                      | Does                                                   | Scope                                      |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars`                          | List calendars                                         | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars`                          | Create a calendar                                      | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `PATCH`                | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}`             | Update a calendar and your preferences for it          | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `DELETE`               | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}`             | Archive a calendar                                     | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}/restore`     | Restore an archived calendar                           | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}/changes`     | List changes after a revision number (`afterRevision`) | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET` `PUT` `DELETE`   | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}/grants`      | Read, set or remove who can access a calendar          | `calendar.read` / `calendar.write` (OAuth) |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}/import`      | Import an `.ics` file                                  | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/calendars/{calendarId}/export`      | Export as `.ics`                                       | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/my-schedule`                        | The person's combined schedule                         | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/search`                             | Search events                                          | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events`                             | List events between `start` and `end`                  | `calendar.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events`                             | Create an event                                        | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `GET` `PATCH` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events/{eventId}`                   | Read, update or delete an event                        | `calendar.read` / `calendar.write` (OAuth) |
| `GET` `PUT`            | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events/{eventId}/reminders`         | Read or replace the person's reminders                 | `calendar.read` / `calendar.write` (OAuth) |
| `PATCH`                | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events/{eventId}/response`          | Accept, decline or tentatively accept                  | `calendar.write` (OAuth)                   |
| `GET` `POST` `PATCH`   | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/calendar/events/{eventId}/counter-proposals` | List, propose or answer new times                      | `calendar.read` / `calendar.write` (OAuth) |

Calendar writes that email people outside Coline wait for the person's approval when sent by an API client. See [Calendar](/calendar#invites-from-ai-clients).

## Tasks

| Method                | Path                                                                              | Does                                                     | Scope                                  |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `GET`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards` †                                        | List taskboards with their statuses                      | `taskboards.read`                      |
| `GET`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks` †                    | List tasks, with search, status and assignee filters     | `taskboards.read`                      |
| `POST`                | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks` †                    | Create a task                                            | `taskboards.write`                     |
| `GET`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks/{taskId}`             | Get a task                                               | `taskboards.read`                      |
| `PATCH`               | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks/{taskId}`             | Update a task                                            | `taskboards.write`                     |
| `DELETE`              | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks/{taskId}`             | Delete a task                                            | `taskboards.write`                     |
| `GET` `POST` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks/{taskId}/relations` † | Related, blocking and duplicate links between tasks      | `taskboards.read` / `taskboards.write` |
| `POST`                | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/tasks/resolve` †                                     | Resolve a reference like `COL-42` or title text to tasks | `taskboards.read`                      |

## Files and drives

| Method                 | Path                                                   | Does                                  | Scope                        |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/drives` †                 | List drives                           | `files.read`                 |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/drives/{driveId}/files` † | List files in a drive or folder       | `files.read`                 |
| `GET` `PATCH` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/files/{fileId}` †         | Read, rename or move, or trash a file | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/uploads/initiate`         | Start a multipart upload              | `files.write`                |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/uploads/part`             | Get a signed URL for one part         | `files.write`                |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/uploads/part`             | Upload one part through Coline        | `files.write`                |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/uploads/complete`         | Finish the upload and create the file | `files.write`                |

## Docs and notes

| Method                 | Path                                           | Does                           | Scope                        |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------- |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/docs` †           | List or create docs            | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `GET` `PATCH` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/docs/{docId}` †   | Read, update or delete a doc   | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/notes` †          | List or create notes           | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `GET` `PUT` `DELETE`   | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/notes/{noteId}` † | Read, replace or delete a note | `files.read` / `files.write` |

## Sheets

| Method       | Path                                                    | Does                                       | Scope                        |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------- |
| `GET`        | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets`                    | List sheets                                | `files.read`                 |
| `POST`       | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets`                    | Create a sheet, optionally from a template | `files.write`                |
| `GET`        | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}`          | Get a sheet                                | `files.read`                 |
| `PUT`        | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}`          | Update a sheet                             | `files.write`                |
| `DELETE`     | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}`          | Delete a sheet                             | `files.write`                |
| `GET` `POST` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}/rows` †   | Read or write rows                         | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `POST`       | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}/ops` †    | Apply cell and structure operations        | `files.write`                |
| `POST`       | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}/import`   | Import CSV                                 | `files.write`                |
| `GET`        | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/sheets/{sheetId}/export` † | Export                                     | `files.read`                 |

## Messages

Messages act for a person: you can read and post only in conversations that person is in, exactly as in the app. With an API key, only the public channel list is available.

| Method           | Path                                                                   | Does                                                         | Scope                                       |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- |
| `GET`            | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/channels` †                               | List public channels, plus private channels the person is in | `workspace.read`                            |
| `GET` `POST`     | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/channels/{channelId}/messages` †          | Read or post channel messages                                | `workspace.read` / `messages.write` (OAuth) |
| `GET`            | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/dms` †                                    | List the person's DMs                                        | `workspace.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET` `POST`     | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/dms/{dmId}/messages` †                    | Read or post DM messages                                     | `workspace.read` / `messages.write` (OAuth) |
| `GET`            | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/messages/{messageId}` †                   | Get a message                                                | `workspace.read` (OAuth)                    |
| `PATCH` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/messages/{messageId}` †                   | Edit or delete your own message                              | `messages.write` (OAuth)                    |
| `GET` `POST`     | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/messages/{messageId}/thread` †            | Read a thread, or reply in it                                | `workspace.read` / `messages.write` (OAuth) |
| `PUT` `DELETE`   | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/messages/{messageId}/pin` †               | Pin or unpin a message                                       | `messages.write` (OAuth)                    |
| `PUT` `DELETE`   | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/messages/{messageId}/reactions/{emoji}` † | Add or remove your reaction                                  | `messages.write` (OAuth)                    |

Messages you post appear under the person's name. Posting into a conversation the person isn't in fails with `403`.

## Search

| Method | Path                                   | Does                                                                        | Scope                    |
| ------ | -------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| `POST` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/search` † | Search files, tasks, messages, app documents and mail the person can access | `workspace.read` (OAuth) |

## Apps in a workspace

| Method                 | Path                                                                         | Does                                                 | Scope                        |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps`                                           | Installed apps and the catalog the workspace can see | `apps.read`                  |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps`                                           | Install an app                                       | `apps.write`                 |
| `GET`                  | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}`                                  | Get an installed app                                 | `apps.read`                  |
| `DELETE`               | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}`                                  | Uninstall an app                                     | `apps.write`                 |
| `GET` `PUT`            | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/permissions`                      | Read or change granted permissions                   | `apps.read` / `apps.write`   |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/secrets`                          | List, create or rotate app secrets                   | `apps.write`                 |
| `DELETE`               | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/secrets/{secretId}`               | Delete a secret                                      | `apps.write`                 |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/oauth-connections`                | List or set the app's OAuth connections              | `apps.write`                 |
| `DELETE`               | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/oauth-connections/{connectionId}` | Remove a connection                                  | `apps.write`                 |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/deliveries`                       | List deliveries, or send a signed test delivery      | `apps.write`                 |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/deliveries/{deliveryId}/replay`   | Replay a delivery                                    | `apps.write`                 |
| `GET` `POST`           | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/files`                            | List or create the app's files                       | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `GET` `PATCH` `DELETE` | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/files/{fileId}`                   | Read, update or trash an app file                    | `files.read` / `files.write` |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/notifications`                    | Send a notification from the app                     | `notifications.write`        |
| `POST` `DELETE`        | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/index-documents`                  | Add or remove the app's search documents             | `index.write`                |
| `POST`                 | `/workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/apps/{appKey}/ambient/events`                   | Emit the app's events                                | `ambient.events.write`       |

## App Store and publishing

| Method | Path                                         | Does                                             | Scope                          |
| ------ | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------ |
| `GET`  | `/apps`                                      | List public store apps                           | None                           |
| `GET`  | `/apps/{appKey}`                             | Get a store app                                  | None                           |
| `GET`  | `/apps/{appKey}/versions`                    | List approved versions                           | None                           |
| `POST` | `/apps`                                      | Register a new app and its first release         | Developer session              |
| `POST` | `/apps/{appKey}/versions`                    | Upload a new version (used by `coline-app push`) | `apps.write` or `apps.publish` |
| `POST` | `/apps/{appKey}/versions/{versionId}/submit` | Submit a version for store review                | Developer session              |

## Tab

| Method | Path                    | Does                                | Scope       |
| ------ | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------- |
| `GET`  | `/tab/models`           | List Tab models and prices          | None        |
| `POST` | `/tab/chat/completions` | OpenAI-compatible inline completion | `ai.invoke` |

See [Tab](/api/tab).

## Upstream checks

| Method | Path                 | Does                                                       | Scope                   |
| ------ | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| `POST` | `/upstream/checks` † | Report a check result from external CI on a Change Request | `upstream.checks.write` |

The rest of Upstream has its own API at `https://api.upstream.codes`. See [Upstream](/upstream#api).

## OAuth

| Method | Path               | Does                                |
| ------ | ------------------ | ----------------------------------- |
| `GET`  | `/oauth/authorize` | Start the authorization code flow   |
| `POST` | `/oauth/token`     | Exchange a code, or refresh a token |

See [OAuth](/authentication/oauth).

---

# Errors

> The error format and the codes you're most likely to see.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/errors

Every error has the same shape and a matching HTTP status:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "API_KEY_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN",
    "message": "API key is missing required scope: files.write"
  }
}
```

The code is also in the `x-coline-error-code` response header. Branch on `code`, not on `message`; messages are written for people and can change.

## Status codes

| Status | Meaning                                                                                      | Retry?                                                |
| ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| `400`  | The request is malformed or fails validation                                                 | No, fix the request                                   |
| `401`  | Missing, unknown or expired credentials                                                      | Refresh the OAuth token, then retry once              |
| `402`  | Not enough API credits for a metered call                                                    | After adding credits                                  |
| `403`  | Authenticated, but not allowed: missing scope, wrong workspace, or no access to the resource | No                                                    |
| `404`  | The resource doesn't exist, or you can't see it                                              | No                                                    |
| `409`  | Conflicts with the current state, such as a stale version                                    | Read the latest state first                           |
| `429`  | Rate limited                                                                                 | Yes, after `X-RateLimit-Reset`                        |
| `500`  | Something failed on Coline's side                                                            | Yes, with backoff. Read back before retrying a create |

## Common codes

### Authentication and access

| Code                         | Status | Meaning                                                                           |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `UNAUTHORIZED`               | 401    | No credentials, or you need to sign in                                            |
| `INVALID_TOKEN`              | 401    | The OAuth access token is unknown or expired                                      |
| `API_KEY_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN`    | 403    | The API key lacks a scope the route needs                                         |
| `OAUTH_SCOPE_FORBIDDEN`      | 403    | The OAuth token lacks a scope the route needs                                     |
| `API_KEY_WORKSPACE_MISMATCH` | 403    | The key belongs to a different workspace than the one in the path                 |
| `USER_IDENTITY_REQUIRED`     | 403    | The route acts for a person; use an OAuth token, not an API key                   |
| `WORKSPACE_REQUIRED`         | 400    | The route needs a workspace in the path                                           |
| `WORKSPACE_NOT_FOUND`        | 404    | No workspace with that slug or ID that you can access                             |
| `WORKSPACE_INACTIVE`         | 403    | The workspace is suspended or deleted                                             |
| `WORKSPACE_ARCHIVED`         | 403    | The workspace is archived and read-only                                           |
| `MUTATION_ORIGIN_REQUIRED`   | 403    | A write was sent without a bearer token and without a same-origin browser session |

### Requests

| Code                   | Status | Meaning                                                           |
| ---------------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `VALIDATION_ERROR`     | 400    | The body or query failed validation; the message says which field |
| `BAD_REQUEST`          | 400    | The request can't be processed as sent                            |
| `CONFLICT`             | 409    | The change conflicts with the current state                       |
| `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`  | 429    | Too many requests in the current minute                           |
| `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` | 402    | The workspace's API credit balance can't cover the call           |
| `MODEL_NOT_FOUND`      | 400    | Unknown Tab model                                                 |
| `INTERNAL_ERROR`       | 500    | Unexpected failure                                                |

### Resources

| Code                                     | Status | Meaning                                                     |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| `NOT_FOUND`                              | 404    | Generic not found                                           |
| `FILE_NOT_FOUND`, `DRIVE_NOT_FOUND`      | 404    | The file or drive doesn't exist or isn't visible to you     |
| `TASK_NOT_FOUND`, `TASKBOARD_NOT_FOUND`  | 404    | The task or board doesn't exist or isn't visible to you     |
| `PARENT_NOT_FOUND`, `INVALID_PARENT`     | 400    | The target folder doesn't exist or can't hold the file      |
| `UPLOAD_NOT_FOUND`                       | 404    | The upload ID is unknown or expired                         |
| `APP_NOT_FOUND`, `APP_INSTALL_NOT_FOUND` | 404    | The app doesn't exist, or isn't installed in this workspace |
| `APP_MANIFEST_INVALID`                   | 400    | A pushed app version failed manifest validation             |

### OAuth

| Code                   | Status | Meaning                                                                   |
| ---------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `INVALID_CLIENT`       | 401    | Unknown client, or the secret doesn't match                               |
| `INVALID_REDIRECT_URI` | 400    | The redirect URL isn't registered for the client                          |
| `INVALID_GRANT`        | 400    | The code or refresh token is expired, already used, or for another client |

Routes return other, more specific codes too. Treat any code you don't recognize by its HTTP status.

---

# Rate limits

> Per-minute request limits and how to stay under them.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/rate-limits

Limits count requests per credential in fixed one-minute windows. Reads (`GET`) and writes (`POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, `DELETE`) have separate budgets.

| Credential                     | Reads per minute | Writes per minute | Counted per          |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------- | ----------------- | -------------------- |
| API key                        | 300              | 60                | Key                  |
| OAuth token or browser session | 200              | 40                | Person and workspace |

## Headers

Rate-limited responses carry:

| Header                  | Meaning                                       |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| `X-RateLimit-Limit`     | The budget for this kind of request           |
| `X-RateLimit-Remaining` | Requests left in the current window           |
| `X-RateLimit-Reset`     | Unix time, in seconds, when the window resets |

When you go over, the API returns `429` with `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`. Wait until `X-RateLimit-Reset`, then retry.

## Staying under the limit

* Read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and slow down before it reaches zero.
* Use list routes with a sensible `limit` instead of fetching items one at a time.
* Spread background syncs across the minute instead of bursting at the start.
* Use separate keys for separate services, since each key has its own budget.

## Other limits

* **Tab** completions are also limited by the workspace's API credit balance. See [Tab](/api/tab).
* **MCP** requests have a 30-second deadline each. See [MCP](/api/mcp).
* **Apps** built with the SDK have per-install limits on capability calls, network requests and daily executions. See the [SDK reference](/sdk/reference#runtime-limits).
* **Upstream** has its own limits on `api.upstream.codes`: 15,000 requests an hour with a token, 1,000 without. See [Upstream](/upstream#api).

---

# MCP server

> Connect assistants and coding tools to Coline over the hosted remote MCP server.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/mcp

Coline runs a hosted remote MCP server, so any assistant or coding tool that speaks MCP can work in your workspace. It signs in with your Coline account and acts with your existing permissions. Nobody needs an API key or a hand-made OAuth client.

```text
https://mcp.coline.app/mcp
```

## Connect

Add a remote MCP server with that URL. The client registers itself, opens Coline's consent screen, and starts working once you approve. Most clients take a config like this:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "coline": {
      "url": "https://mcp.coline.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

In Cursor you can also use the one-click link:

<a href="cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=coline&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL21jcC5jb2xpbmUuYXBwL21jcCJ9">
  Add Coline to Cursor
</a>

You can see and disconnect every connected app under **Settings → Account → Connections → Apps with access**. Disconnecting stops its tokens and its event subscriptions at once.

## Authentication

* OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (S256).
* Clients register with [dynamic client registration](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7591) at `https://mcp.coline.app/register`, or use a [client ID metadata document](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-client-id-metadata-document/) as their `client_id`.
* An unauthenticated request gets `401` with a `WWW-Authenticate` header pointing to `https://mcp.coline.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp`. Follow it to the authorization server metadata at `https://mcp.coline.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`, also served as `/.well-known/openid-configuration`.
* Every authorization response, errors included, carries `iss` ([RFC 9207](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9207)).
* `openid`, `profile` and `email` are supported. `https://mcp.coline.app/userinfo` returns the person's `email` and `email_verified`.
* `login_hint` pre-fills Coline's sign-in.
* Every connection gets every scope below, whatever the client asks for, so tools are never missing because a client guessed too narrow a scope list. The consent screen lists what the client will be able to do. Ask for `tools.read` and `tools.write` to use the full catalog at `/agent` too.

| Scope                                 | Gives                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `workspace.read`                      | Workspaces, people, search and fetch                                   |
| `mail.read`, `mail.write`             | Read mail; organize threads and send mail that waits for your approval |
| `messages.read`, `messages.write`     | Read conversations; post messages as you                               |
| `taskboards.read`, `taskboards.write` | Read or change tasks                                                   |
| `calendar.read`, `calendar.write`     | Read or change your calendar                                           |
| `files.read`, `files.write`           | Create and edit docs and notes                                         |

## Tools

Each operation is its own tool. Call `list_workspaces` first and pass its slug as `workspace` to every other tool. Use ids from list and search results; never invent them.

| Tool                                               | Scope              | Does                                                                       |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `get_profile`                                      |                    | Who is signed in                                                           |
| `list_workspaces`                                  | `workspace.read`   | Workspaces you belong to                                                   |
| `find_people`                                      | `workspace.read`   | Teammates' names and emails, for assignees and invites                     |
| `search`                                           | `workspace.read`   | Docs, notes, files, tasks, messages and mail by keyword                    |
| `fetch`                                            | `workspace.read`   | The full content of a search result                                        |
| `list_mailboxes`                                   | `mail.read`        | Mail accounts and the addresses you can send from, shared inboxes included |
| `list_mail_threads`                                | `mail.read`        | Inbox, needs reply, unread, starred, important or sent mail                |
| `search_mail`                                      | `mail.read`        | Mail by sender, subject or words                                           |
| `read_mail_thread`                                 | `mail.read`        | Every message in a thread                                                  |
| `get_mail_send_status`                             | `mail.read`        | Whether a message was approved and sent                                    |
| `organize_mail_thread`                             | `mail.write`       | Archive, mark read or unread, star, or label a thread                      |
| `send_mail`, `reply_to_mail`                       | `mail.write`       | Send mail; it waits for your approval                                      |
| `list_boards`                                      | `taskboards.read`  | Taskboards and their statuses                                              |
| `list_tasks`                                       | `taskboards.read`  | Tasks on a board, filtered by status, assignee or words                    |
| `get_task`                                         | `taskboards.read`  | A task in full                                                             |
| `find_task`                                        | `taskboards.read`  | Turn `COL-42` or title text into matching tasks                            |
| `create_task`, `update_task`, `delete_task`        | `taskboards.write` | Change tasks. Assignees are email addresses                                |
| `list_events`, `get_event`                         | `calendar.read`    | Your schedule, or one event with attendees                                 |
| `create_event`, `update_event`, `respond_to_event` | `calendar.write`   | Schedule, reschedule, cancel or RSVP. Attendees are email addresses        |
| `create_doc`, `create_note`, `update_note`         | `files.write`      | Write docs and notes                                                       |
| `list_conversations`                               | `messages.read`    | Channels and DMs you're in, with unread counts                             |
| `read_conversation`                                | `messages.read`    | Recent messages, or one thread                                             |
| `send_message`                                     | `messages.write`   | Post as you in a channel, DM or thread                                     |

Notes:

* Results carry only what a person or the next call needs, plus a link that opens the item in Coline.
* Mail from `send_mail` and `reply_to_mail`, and calendar emails to people outside Coline, wait in Coline until you approve them. A result with `status: "waiting_for_approval"` was not sent. Never resend a waiting message; check it with `get_mail_send_status`. Waiting messages expire after seven days.
* Teammates you add to an event join it directly. Anyone else gets an email invite after you approve it; `invites` in the result says which.
* `list_events` covers up to 93 days per call. Use ISO 8601 times and an IANA time zone when writing events.
* Creating tasks, events, docs and notes isn't idempotent. After a timeout, read back before retrying. Pass `client_request_id` to `send_mail` and `reply_to_mail` so a retry doesn't send twice.
* `update_note` replaces the whole note. Fetch it first and keep what should stay.

### Tool hints

Every tool sets `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint`, `idempotentHint` and `openWorldHint` by hand:

* Reads are read-only, idempotent and closed-world.
* `send_mail` and `reply_to_mail` are destructive (mail can't be unsent once approved) and open-world.
* `update_task`, `update_event`, `update_note` and `delete_task` are destructive: they overwrite or remove.
* `create_event`, `update_event` and `respond_to_event` are open-world: people outside Coline can be emailed.
* Everything else that writes is non-destructive and closed-world.

## Events

The server supports [MCP Events](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/experimental-ext-triggers-events), so an assistant can subscribe and act when something happens. `server/discover` advertises the `events` capability, and `events/list` returns these:

| Event                    | Scope             | Filter            | Fires when                                                        |
| ------------------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `message.created`        | `messages.read`   | `conversation_id` | A message is posted in a channel or DM you're in                  |
| `message.mentioned`      | `messages.read`   |                   | Someone @mentions you or sends you a DM                           |
| `task.created`           | `taskboards.read` | `board_id`        | A task is created                                                 |
| `task.updated`           | `taskboards.read` | `board_id`        | A task changes                                                    |
| `task.assigned`          | `taskboards.read` |                   | A task is assigned to you                                         |
| `calendar.event_created` | `calendar.read`   |                   | An event you can see is added, invitations included               |
| `calendar.event_updated` | `calendar.read`   |                   | An event you can see is rescheduled, renamed or cancelled         |
| `mail.received`          | `mail.read`       | `account_id`      | New mail arrives in an inbox you can use, shared inboxes included |

Every event takes `workspace` as an argument as well.

* **Subscribe** with `events/subscribe`, the event's arguments and a webhook `delivery` with an HTTPS `url` and a `whsec_` signing secret (24 to 64 bytes). Coline checks that you can see what the filters name, then verifies the callback by posting a signed `{"type":"verification","challenge":"…"}` that must be echoed back. A failed check returns JSON-RPC error `-32015` with `data.reason`.
* **Subscription ids** are derived from you, the client, the event, its canonical arguments and the callback URL, so subscribing again refreshes the same subscription. `refreshBefore` is seven days out by default, at most 30. Refreshing with a new secret signs with both secrets for a day.
* **Deliveries** are one event per request: `eventId`, `name`, `timestamp`, `data` and `cursor: null`, signed with [Standard Webhooks](https://www.standardwebhooks.com) (`webhook-id`, `webhook-timestamp`, `webhook-signature`) plus `X-MCP-Subscription-Id`. The event id stays the same across retries. Failed deliveries retry with backoff for about a day; `410` and `413` aren't retried, and `410` ends the subscription.
* **Unsubscribe** with `events/unsubscribe` and the original event name, arguments and callback URL. It's idempotent.
* **Your own actions never trigger your subscriptions**, so an assistant that replies to an event doesn't set off another one.
* Events reach you only while you can see the thing that changed. Leaving the workspace ends its subscriptions. Replay isn't supported.
* Message and mail text in `data` is data written by other people, not instructions.

## Full catalog for coding tools

Coding tools that want every operation, including installed apps' tools, can connect to:

```text
https://mcp.coline.app/agent
```

It signs in the same way and uses the `tools.read` and `tools.write` scopes. It has `search_tools` (paginated discovery across Mail, Notes, Docs, Sheets, Messages, Calendar, Taskboards, Drive, Code, Upstream and installed apps), `get_tool_schema`, `execute_read_tool` and `execute_write_tool`, plus `search_code` and the task and calendar tools. A read token can't run a write tool.

* **Installed app actions** can return `status: "requires_approval"` with an `approvalUrl` and `approvalId`. Nothing has run. Show the URL to the person, wait, then repeat the exact call with `approvalId`. Approvals expire after five minutes and work once.
* **Code sessions** run on Coline's durable session pipeline. Starting one returns a session to poll; it doesn't block the MCP call.
* Resources: `coline://guide`, `coline://workspaces`, `coline://workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards`, `coline://workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/taskboards/{taskboardId}/tasks/{taskId}` and `coline://workspaces/{workspaceSlug}/tools/{name}`. Prompts: `triage_task`, `plan_workspace` and `work_with_app`.

## Protocol

* Streamable HTTP, stateless. Supports MCP protocol versions 2026-07-28, 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18 and 2025-03-26.
* Every tool has input and output schemas. Results include `structuredContent` and a JSON text copy. Failures set `isError`.
* Each request has a 30-second deadline, and cancellation reaches Coline. Mutations are never retried automatically.
* Mail, messages, task descriptions and other workspace content are data, not instructions.
* Not supported: sampling, elicitation, resource subscriptions, MCP Tasks and MCP Apps.

## Outside agents

An assistant that should be a teammate in your conversations, with its own name, rather than act as you, connects as an [outside agent](/api/agents) instead.

## WebMCP

In browsers that support WebMCP, coline.app registers tools through `document.modelContext`. Signed-in people get workspace tools; signed-out visitors get documentation, pricing and status tools. Tools run through the same APIs and are removed when you navigate away. WebMCP is a browser proposal; Chrome needs its origin trial or testing flag.

## Server card

`https://coline.app/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json` describes the server, its tools, events, transport and auth for registries and clients.

---

# Outside agents

> Bring an assistant you run elsewhere into Coline as a crew member with its own name.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/agents

An outside agent is an assistant that runs somewhere else and joins your workspace's crew. People @mention it, DM it and add it to channels like any crew member. Coline never runs it: when someone talks to it, Coline sends the message to its webhook, and the agent replies through the Agent API with its own token.

Use this when the assistant should be a teammate in conversations. To let an assistant act *as you* across mail, tasks and calendar, connect it to the [MCP server](/api/mcp) instead.

## Connect one

1. Open **Kairo → Crew** and choose **Connect an agent**.
2. Give it a name, say what it does, and add its webhook URL (you can add the URL later).
3. Copy the **agent token** and the **webhook signing secret**. Coline shows them once.

Anyone whose role can create crew members can connect one. Its owner and people whose role can manage agents can change it. The agent's page shows its connection, recent deliveries and a **Send test event** button. From there you can set a new token or signing secret, which stops the old one at once, or remove the agent.

## When it gets a message

Coline sends a `message.created` event when a person:

* @mentions the agent in a channel or thread. Mentioning it in a public channel it isn't in adds it, like inviting a teammate.
* Messages it in a DM.
* Replies in a thread the agent has posted in.

Messages from other agents, and messages someone hides with `/aside`, aren't sent. Nothing is sent while the agent is paused.

```json
{
  "id": "evt_9c1e…",
  "type": "message.created",
  "created_at": "2026-10-18T21:04:11.000Z",
  "workspace": { "slug": "acme", "name": "Acme" },
  "agent": { "id": "…", "name": "Scout" },
  "conversation": { "type": "channel", "id": "…", "name": "#launch" },
  "message": {
    "id": "…",
    "text": "@Scout can you summarize the feedback from this week?",
    "thread_id": null,
    "author": { "id": "…", "name": "Dana Kim" },
    "mentioned": true,
    "direct": false,
    "url": "https://coline.app/acme/channels/launch"
  },
  "reply": {
    "url": "https://coline.app/api/v1/agent-api/conversations/channel/…/messages",
    "thread_id": "…"
  }
}
```

To answer in the right place, POST to `reply.url` with `reply.thread_id`. In a channel that starts a thread under the person's message; in a DM it's `null`, so the reply goes in the conversation.

**Send test event** delivers a `ping` with `workspace` and `agent`.

## Verify deliveries

Deliveries are signed with [Standard Webhooks](https://www.standardwebhooks.com). Each request has `webhook-id`, `webhook-timestamp` and `webhook-signature` headers. The signature is `v1,` followed by the base64 HMAC-SHA256 of `{webhook-id}.{webhook-timestamp}.{body}`, keyed with the base64 part of your `whsec_` secret. Any Standard Webhooks library verifies it:

```ts
import { Webhook } from "standardwebhooks";

const event = new Webhook(process.env.COLINE_SIGNING_SECRET!).verify(rawBody, headers);
```

Reject old timestamps, and use `webhook-id` to ignore a repeat. Answer `2xx` quickly and do the work afterwards. Coline retries other answers with backoff for about a day, keeping the same `webhook-id`. `410` and `413` aren't retried.

## Agent API

```text
https://coline.app/api/v1/agent-api
```

Send the agent token as a bearer token. The agent sees only conversations it's in, and everything it posts appears under its own name.

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/agent-api/me \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_agent_..."
```

| Method | Path                                  | Does                                                                                                                                         |
| ------ | ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `GET`  | `/me`                                 | The agent and its workspace                                                                                                                  |
| `GET`  | `/conversations`                      | Channels and DMs the agent is in                                                                                                             |
| `GET`  | `/conversations/{type}/{id}/messages` | Recent messages. `type` is `channel` or `dm`. Query: `thread_id` for one thread, `limit` (1 to 100, default 30), `before` for older messages |
| `POST` | `/conversations/{type}/{id}/messages` | Post `{"text": "…", "thread_id": "…"}` as the agent. `thread_id` is optional                                                                 |

Responses use the [REST API's](/api) `{ "data": … }` and `{ "error": { "code", "message" } }` shapes.

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/agent-api/conversations/channel/CHANNEL_ID/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_agent_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "text": "Here is the summary…", "thread_id": "MESSAGE_ID" }'
```

A message the agent posts in a DM notifies the people in it.

### Limits and errors

The Agent API allows 240 reads and 60 posts per agent per minute.

| Code                  | Meaning                                                                         |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `INVALID_TOKEN`       | The token is unknown, was replaced, or the agent was removed                    |
| `AGENT_PAUSED`        | Someone paused the agent in Coline                                              |
| `NOT_IN_CONVERSATION` | The agent isn't in that conversation; someone has to add it or message it first |
| `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` | Too many requests; wait a minute                                                |
| `VALIDATION_ERROR`    | The path, query or body is invalid                                              |

---

# Tab

> Inline completions for any editor, through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/api/tab

Tab suggests what you'll write next and shows it as ghost text at the cursor. Press **Tab** to accept it, **Escape** to dismiss it, or keep typing to ignore it. It's built into Coline's editors, and the same completions are available to your own editors through the API.

## In Coline

Tab works in Notes, Docs, the Messages composer, task descriptions and fields, calendar event descriptions, and the Code editor. Suggestions use the text around the cursor, the document's title, and your local date. Turn it off in your account settings if you don't want it.

## API

```text
POST https://coline.app/api/v1/tab/chat/completions
```

The endpoint follows the OpenAI chat completions format, so OpenAI-compatible clients work with it. Coline-specific context goes in `tab_context`. It needs an [API key](/authentication/api-keys) or OAuth token with the `ai.invoke` scope, and is billed to the workspace's API credits.

### Models

`GET /api/v1/tab/models` lists models and prices. It needs no auth.

| Model              | Surfaces                                                | Input, per million tokens | Output, per million tokens |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | -------------------------- |
| `tab-v1` (default) | `any`, `notes`, `docs`, `messages`, `tasks`, `calendar` | $0.20                     | $0.50                      |
| `tab-1-code`       | `code`                                                  | $0.08                     | $0.28                      |

### Request

```bash
curl https://coline.app/api/v1/tab/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer col_ws_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "tab-v1",
    "stream": true,
    "max_completion_tokens": 100,
    "tab_context": {
      "surface": "docs",
      "entity_id": "doc_123",
      "document_type": "markdown",
      "document_title": "Q3 planning",
      "active_text_before_cursor": "Our goals for the quarter are ",
      "active_text_after_cursor": ""
    }
  }'
```

| Field                   |             |                                                                                              |
| ----------------------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `model`                 | Optional    | `tab-v1` by default. Use `tab-1-code` with the `code` surface                                |
| `stream`                | Optional    | `true` streams Server-Sent Events. Recommended                                               |
| `max_completion_tokens` | Optional    | 1 to 500. Defaults to 500. `max_tokens` also works                                           |
| `temperature`, `top_p`  | Optional    | Temperature defaults to 0.2                                                                  |
| `messages`              | Optional    | If you don't send `tab_context`, the last user message is used as the text before the cursor |
| `tab_context`           | Recommended | See below                                                                                    |

`tab_context`:

| Field                          |          |                                                                                                               |
| ------------------------------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `surface`                      | Required | `notes`, `docs`, `messages`, `tasks`, `calendar`, `code`, or any short name for your editor (`any` works too) |
| `active_text_before_cursor`    | Required | Up to 16,000 characters                                                                                       |
| `active_text_after_cursor`     | Optional | Up to 16,000 characters                                                                                       |
| `surrounding_context`          | Optional | Other useful context, up to 32,000 characters                                                                 |
| `document_type`                | Optional | `markdown` (default) or `plaintext`                                                                           |
| `entity_id`                    | Optional | An ID for the document or file, for caching and analytics                                                     |
| `workspace_slug`               | Optional | Defaults to the API key's workspace                                                                           |
| `document_title`, `note_title` | Optional | Title of the document being edited                                                                            |
| `block_kind`                   | Optional | The kind of block at the cursor, such as `paragraph` or `bulleted-list`                                       |
| `code_language`, `file_path`   | Code     | For the `code` surface                                                                                        |
| `completion_mode`              | Code     | `line` for one line, `block` for several                                                                      |
| `client_local_date`            | Optional | The person's local date, such as `2026-10-12 Mon`, so relative dates come out right                           |
| `taskboard_file_id`            | Tasks    | Required when `surface` is `tasks`                                                                            |

### Response

Streaming responses are standard chat completion chunks, ending with `[DONE]`:

```text
data: {"object":"chat.completion.chunk","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{"content":" shipping"},"finish_reason":null}]}

data: {"object":"chat.completion.chunk","choices":[{"index":0,"delta":{"content":" the new"},"finish_reason":null}]}

data: [DONE]
```

Without streaming you get one `chat.completion` object with the text in `choices[0].message.content` and token counts in `usage`.

Insert the text at the cursor as ghost text. Tab doesn't repeat what's already after the cursor.

## Credits

Each call reserves the most it could cost from the workspace's API credit balance, then refunds the difference when it finishes. If the balance is too low, the call fails with `402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS`. Add credits in the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console) under **Credits**; the minimum purchase is $5. The console's **Tab playground** lets you try completions first.

---

# Build an app

> Scaffold, define, test and push your first Coline app.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk

A Coline app installs into a workspace as a set of capabilities: tools that Kairo and people can run, file types with their own previews and editors, home screens, schedules and more. Coline supplies sign-in, members, permissions, files, search, notifications, realtime, AI and billing, so an app doesn't build any of that. Apps run on Coline by default, with no servers to deploy.

The packages are open source under MIT: [`@colineapp/sdk`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@colineapp/sdk), [`@colineapp/ui`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@colineapp/ui) and [`create-coline-app`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-coline-app).

The current release is SDK 2.1: `@colineapp/sdk` 2.1.3, `@colineapp/ui` 2.1.4, `@colineapp/app-runtime` 2.1.0 and `create-coline-app` 2.9.5. SDK 2 brought the app model on this page: one `defineApp` for permissions, surfaces, tools, file types, schedules, jobs, endpoints and connected accounts, with every call checked against what the workspace granted. SDK 2.1 adds [Coline Sites](/sites): any app can also be a public website, with visitor sign-in (Google or Coline), typed collections, uploads, endpoints on the site's own paths, React hooks and Coline's components in light and dark.

## Before you start

You need Node.js and npm. To push, sign in with `npx coline-app login` as an admin of the workspace. In CI, use a workspace [API key](/authentication/api-keys) with the `apps.write` scope instead.

## 1\. Scaffold

```bash
npx create-coline-app my-app
cd my-app && npm install && npm run check
```

Pick a template with `--template`:

| Template                | You get                                                                                                                          |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `backendless` (default) | A hosted React app with a file type, a Kairo tool and UI examples                                                                |
| `editor`                | A file type with a React block editor: autosave, conflict handling, previews and search                                          |
| `integration`           | A GitHub OAuth connection, a webhook endpoint, a resumable sync job, an hourly schedule and a dashboard                          |
| `external-backend`      | Tools and screens served by your own Node server, signed by Coline                                                               |
| `site`                  | A public website with visitor rules, a site tool and a home screen for the team. Deploys without an account; see [Sites](/sites) |

Every project includes an `AGENTS.md` and an agent skill with the full app contract, so coding agents can build with it.

## 2\. Define the app

`app.config.ts` is the whole contract: permissions, surfaces, tools, file types and handlers.

```ts
import { z } from "zod/v4";
import { defineApp, defineFileType, defineTool, ui } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";

const todoFileType = defineFileType({
  metadata: {
    typeKey: "todos.todo",
    name: "Todo",
    indexable: true,
    surfaces: { preview: { tier: "tree" }, inline: { tier: "tree" } },
  },
  runtime: {
    renderPreview: (ctx) =>
      ui.stack([ui.heading(ctx.file.name), ui.badge(String(ctx.document.status ?? "open"))]),
    renderInline: (ctx) => ui.text(ctx.file.name),
    index: {
      title: (doc) => String(doc.title ?? "Todo"),
      body: (doc) => String(doc.notes ?? ""),
    },
  },
});

const createTodo = defineTool({
  name: "todos.create_todo",
  description: "Create a todo with a title.",
  input: z.object({ title: z.string().min(1) }),
  effect: "write", // enforced as a ceiling at runtime
  execute: async (input, ctx) => {
    const file = await ctx.coline.files.create({
      typeKey: "todos.todo",
      name: input.title,
      document: { title: input.title, status: "open" },
    });
    return {
      output: { fileId: file.fileId },
      card: ui.reference({ kind: "file", id: file.fileId }),
    };
  },
});

export default defineApp({
  key: "todos",
  name: "Todos",
  permissions: ["files.read", "files.write", "ai.tools", "search.index"],
  hosting: { default: "coline" },
  surfaces: { home: { tier: "tree" } },
  files: [todoFileType],
  tools: [createTodo],
  handlers: {
    renderHome: async (ctx) => {
      const { files } = await ctx.coline.files.list({ typeKey: "todos.todo" });
      return ui.stack([
        ui.heading("Todos"),
        ...files.map((file) => ui.fileCard({ title: file.name, fileId: file.fileId })),
      ]);
    },
  },
});
```

One definition produces two artifacts. The **manifest** says what the app may do; it's what reviewers and workspace admins approve. The **runtime bundle** is what the app does. Every call it makes is checked against the manifest, the workspace's grants, the acting person's access and the tool's declared effect.

## 3\. Test

`@colineapp/sdk/testing` runs the app against an in-memory workspace with the same API and permission checks as production.

```ts
import { expect, it } from "vitest";
import { createTestWorkspace } from "@colineapp/sdk/testing";
import app from "./app.config";

it("creates a todo through the Kairo tool", async () => {
  const ws = createTestWorkspace(app);
  const result = await ws.invokeTool("todos.create_todo", { title: "Ship it" });
  expect(result.card).not.toBeNull();
  expect(ws.files.byType("todos.todo")).toHaveLength(1);
});
```

`npm run check` validates types, the manifest, the logic bundle and the React bundle without uploading anything.

## 4\. Push

```bash
npx coline-app login      # once: opens a browser, pick the workspace
npx coline-app push
```

The CLI builds the logic bundle, ships client source for React surfaces, and uploads a version. It lands as a draft that you can install privately in your workspace right away, or submit for review to list in the App Store. See [develop and publish](/sdk/publishing).

## Next

<Cards>
  <Card title="How apps run" description="UI tiers and where your logic runs." href="/sdk/runtime" />

  <Card title="Capability API" description="Files, storage, members, notifications and the network." href="/sdk/capabilities" />

  <Card title="UI" description="Tree surfaces and React surfaces." href="/sdk/ui" />

  <Card title="Full stack" description="Schedules, events, webhooks, jobs and connected accounts." href="/sdk/full-stack" />

  <Card title="Sites" description="Put the app on the web at its own address, with visitors." href="/sites" />
</Cards>

---

# How apps run

> The three UI tiers, and where an app's logic runs.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/runtime

## UI tiers

| Tier    | You write                         | Coline provides                                              | Runs on                                    |
| ------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |
| `tree`  | Handlers that return `ui.*` trees | Native rendering, theming and actions                        | Web, desktop, mobile and inside Kairo chat |
| `react` | React components (`main.tsx`)     | A sandboxed runtime, `@colineapp/ui`, and the build pipeline | Web and desktop                            |
| `web`   | Pages on your own origin          | Signed embeds                                                | Web and desktop                            |

Start with tree surfaces. They render everywhere, match Coline's themes without extra work, and are the only tier that shows up in Kairo chat and on mobile. Use React where you need richer interaction, and `web` only to embed an existing web app.

React surfaces run in a sandboxed frame with no network access and no credentials. Every action crosses a permission-checked bridge to the host. Themes, including dark mode and custom themes, follow Coline live, and Tailwind v4 and your own CSS compile automatically.

## Surfaces

An app can declare:

* **Home:** the app's own screen in the workspace.
* **File types:** with `preview`, `inline` and editor surfaces. App files appear wherever files do, including Drive, Messages and Kairo.
* **Tool result cards:** what Kairo shows in chat after running a tool. These use a subset of tree nodes; see [chat cards](/sdk/reference#chat-cards).
* **Commands:** entries in Coline's search and command palette.

## Where logic runs

With `hosting: { default: "coline" }`, Coline runs your tools, handlers, schedules and jobs in isolated workers. There's nothing to deploy.

You can route individual capabilities to your own backend when they need your infrastructure, and mix the two in one app. Moving a capability between them is a manifest change, not a code change. See [external hosting](/sdk/hosting).

## References

Any app can point at any workspace object, such as a file, person, task, event or another app's record, with `ui.reference(...)`. Coline renders each reference with its own component wherever it appears, so a task looks like a task in every app.

---

# Capability API

> The coline.* API, how calls are scoped, and tool effects.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/capabilities

The same `coline.*` API works in tools, render handlers, schedules, React surfaces, external backends and tests.

## How calls are scoped

Every call is checked against three things before it touches the workspace:

1. **What the workspace granted.** Permissions declared in the manifest are shown on the install consent screen. Undeclared means unavailable.
2. **What the acting person can access.** A tool run on someone's behalf never sees files they couldn't open themselves.
3. **What the tool's effect allows.** A `read` tool can't write, even if the app has write permission.

Access is the intersection of all three, checked in the sandbox and again on the server.

## The API at a glance

```ts
// Files, scoped to what the person and the app can both reach
const file = await ctx.coline.files.create({
  typeKey: "todos.todo",
  name: "Buy groceries",
  document: { status: "open" },
});
await ctx.coline.files.updateDocument(
  file.fileId,
  { status: "done" },
  { expectedVersion: file.version }, // rejects stale writes instead of overwriting
);

// App storage: key-value state and record collections
await ctx.coline.storage.kv.set("last-sync", new Date().toISOString());
const contacts = ctx.coline.storage.collection("contacts");
await contacts.insert({ name: "Sarah", tier: "vip" });
const { records } = await contacts.query({
  where: { tier: "vip" },
  orderBy: { field: "name" },
  limit: 50,
});

// The workspace
const { members } = await ctx.coline.members.list();
await ctx.coline.notifications.create({
  title: "Todo completed",
  body: "Buy groceries is done.",
  recipients: [{ userId: members[0].userId }],
});

// External services, through Coline, with secrets injected server-side
const response = await ctx.coline.net.fetch({
  url: "https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges",
  headers: { authorization: "Bearer {{secret:STRIPE_KEY}}" },
});
```

## What's available

| Namespace                       | For                                                                                                                                                       |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `files`                         | Files and documents in Drive, uploads, previews, moves and trash. Every install also gets its own app drive                                               |
| `storage`                       | Per-install key-value state, and record collections with queries, aggregates, batches and per-record access                                               |
| `tasks`, `calendar`, `messages` | Tasks and boards, calendar events, and conversations, under the acting person's permissions                                                               |
| `members`, `workspace`          | Who's in the workspace, and workspace details                                                                                                             |
| `search`                        | Add the app's content to workspace search, or search on a person's behalf                                                                                 |
| `notifications`                 | Notify members                                                                                                                                            |
| `realtime`                      | Publish and subscribe to live updates for the app's own surfaces                                                                                          |
| `events`                        | Emit events other apps can react to                                                                                                                       |
| `ai`                            | Generate text and structured output, run tool loops over the app's own tools, embeddings, images and more, on Coline's models and billed to the workspace |
| `net`                           | Call the external hosts declared in the manifest                                                                                                          |
| `connections`                   | Act on people's connected accounts, such as GitHub                                                                                                        |
| `jobs`                          | Durable background work with progress and retries                                                                                                         |
| `endpoints`                     | Private webhook URLs for each install                                                                                                                     |
| `pickers`, `navigation`         | Host-rendered file and member pickers, and opening files and screens                                                                                      |
| `tools`                         | Invoke the app's declared tools from its own UI                                                                                                           |

The full list of operations, with the permission and mutation class of each, is in the [reference](/sdk/reference#capability-operations).

## Effects are ceilings

Every tool declares one effect:

| Effect        | Means                                                      | Approval in Kairo                                                           |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `read`        | Reads workspace data                                       | Never asks                                                                  |
| `write`       | Creates or updates data                                    | Depends on the person's [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes) |
| `destructive` | Deletes or irreversibly changes data                       | Asks unless the person chose Full access                                    |
| `external`    | Has effects outside Coline, such as email or external APIs | Asks unless the person chose Full access                                    |

The runtime rejects any call that exceeds the tool's effect with `effect_ceiling_exceeded`. Render handlers are always read-only; move writes into an action or a tool.

## AI without keys

`coline.ai` runs on Coline's models and the workspace's credits: text and structured output with streaming reasoning, tool loops over the app's own tools, embeddings, reranking, image generation and editing, speech, transcription and video. Jobs are durable and resumable, and generated media lands in Drive as ordinary files. It needs the `ai.generate` permission.

---

# UI

> Build interfaces from ui.* trees, or bring React.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/ui

## Tree surfaces

Handlers return `ui.*` trees. Coline renders and themes them, so the app looks native in every theme and works on web, desktop, mobile and in Kairo chat from one definition.

```ts
import { ui, actions } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";

// Text
ui.heading("My app");
ui.text("Hello");
ui.text("Something went wrong", { tone: "danger" });
ui.badge("active", { tone: "positive" });
ui.link("View docs", "https://docs.example.com", { external: true });

// Layout
ui.stack([/* ... */], { gap: "md" });
ui.row([/* ... */], { gap: "sm" });
ui.divider();

// Actions
ui.button("Save", { action: actions.custom("my-app.save") });
ui.button("Open", { action: actions.openFile("file_123") });
ui.button("Create", { action: actions.createFile({ name: "New", typeKey: "todos.todo" }) });

// Media and code
ui.image({ src: "https://...", alt: "Screenshot", width: 800, height: 400 });
ui.codeBlock("const x = 42;", { language: "typescript" });

// Form inputs, submitted through action handlers
ui.input({ name: "title", label: "Title", placeholder: "Enter a title" });
ui.select({
  name: "priority",
  label: "Priority",
  options: [
    { value: "low", label: "Low" },
    { value: "high", label: "High" },
  ],
});

// Data
ui.table({
  columns: [
    { key: "name", label: "Name" },
    { key: "status", label: "Status" },
  ],
  rows: [{ name: "Sprint planning", status: "Done" }],
});

// Workspace references, rendered as live previews
ui.reference({ kind: "file", id: "file_123" });
ui.fileCard({ title: "Q4 report", subtitle: "Updated yesterday", fileId: "file_123" });
ui.userChip({ label: "Alice", userId: "user_123" });
ui.emptyState({ title: "No items yet", description: "Create your first item." });
```

Tool result cards and inline file surfaces appear inside conversations, so they accept a smaller set of nodes. See [chat cards](/sdk/reference#chat-cards).

## React surfaces

Set a surface to `{ tier: "react", entry: "main.tsx" }` when you need richer interaction. The CLI ships your client source, Coline builds it, and it runs in a sandbox with [`@colineapp/ui`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@colineapp/ui), Coline's own component library: tabs, menus, dialogs, tables, filters, forms and more.

* Import `@colineapp/ui/styles.css`, then your own CSS. Tailwind v4 utilities compile automatically; use complete class names.
* Run the same tool Kairo runs with `coline.tools.invoke` or `actions.invokeTool`, so every action has one implementation.
* Save with `expectedVersion` to detect concurrent edits.
* `useLiveCollection` gives you multiplayer lists and boards: local edits appear instantly, writes are ordered, conflicts roll back, and views stay in sync.

React surfaces run on web and desktop. Provide a tree fallback for mobile and Kairo chat.

Home screens and editors can write within the app's grants. Previews and server render handlers are read-only.

The same components build [Coline Sites](/sites/design), wrapped in `ColineSiteProvider` instead of `ColineAppProvider`.

---

# Full stack

> Schedules, events, webhook endpoints, background jobs and connected accounts.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/full-stack

Each building block is declared in the manifest, shown on the install consent screen, and enforced at runtime.

## Schedules

Declare cron schedules and Coline runs your handler on time. Schedules run as the app itself, so they can't borrow a person's access.

```ts
export default defineApp({
  // ...
  permissions: ["storage.app", "network.external"],
  network: { allowedHosts: ["api.example.com"] },
  triggers: {
    schedules: [{ id: "daily-sync", cron: "0 9 * * 1-5" }],
  },
  handlers: {
    onSchedule: async (ctx) => {
      await ctx.coline.net.fetch({ url: "https://api.example.com/sync" });
      await ctx.coline.storage.kv.set("last-sync", ctx.firedAt);
    },
  },
});
```

## Events

Subscribe to task, message, note, calendar and app events, or emit your own. Delivery is durable and retried. Payloads carry identifiers only, so read what you need with the capability API.

```ts
export default defineApp({
  // ...
  permissions: ["tasks.read", "webhooks.subscribe", "events.emit"],
  triggers: { webhooks: [{ event: "task.created" }, { event: "crm.*" }] },
  handlers: {
    onEvent: async ({ coline, event }) => {
      const task = await coline.tasks.get(String(event.data.taskId));
      await coline.events.emit("triage.task_seen", { taskId: event.data.taskId });
    },
  },
});
```

## Webhook endpoints

Each install gets a private URL for incoming webhooks. Coline verifies Stripe, GitHub, Slack, Shopify and Linear signatures for you, as well as generic HMAC and shared tokens. The signing secret stays with Coline.

```ts
import { defineEndpoint } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";

// The install's URL: coline.endpoints.url("stripe")
export const stripe = defineEndpoint({
  id: "stripe",
  methods: ["POST"],
  verify: { kind: "stripe", secret: "STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET" },
  mode: "async", // respond 202 now, run a durable, retried handler
  handle: async ({ coline, json }) => {
    const event = json<{ type: string; data: { object: { id: string } } }>();
    await coline.storage.collection("payments").insert({ stripeId: event.data.object.id });
    return { status: 200 };
  },
});
```

## Background jobs

Durable work with retries, progress, checkpoints and continuation, so a large import runs in bounded steps instead of one long timeout.

```ts
import { defineJob } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";
import { useJob } from "@colineapp/ui";

export const importAll = defineJob({
  name: "import",
  timeoutSeconds: 300, // per attempt, up to 15 minutes
  payload: z.object({ page: z.number().default(1) }),
  run: async ({ page }, { coline, job }) => {
    const { items, more } = await fetchPage(coline, page);
    await job.progress(more ? 0.5 : 1, `Page ${page}`);
    return more ? { continueWith: { page: page + 1 } } : { result: { done: true } };
  },
});

// In the UI
const run = await coline.jobs.enqueue("import", { page: 1 });
const { progress, isRunning } = useJob(run.id);
```

## Connected accounts

Coline handles OAuth with other services: the sign-in window, encrypted tokens, refresh, and adding the token only to requests for the hosts you declare. Your code never sees the token.

```ts
export default defineApp({
  // ...
  permissions: ["connections.use", "network.external"],
  network: { allowedHosts: ["api.github.com"] },
  connections: [{
    key: "github",
    name: "GitHub",
    scope: "user", // each member connects their own account
    hosts: ["api.github.com"],
    oauth2: {
      authorizeUrl: "https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize",
      tokenUrl: "https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token",
      clientId: "Iv1.…",
      clientSecret: "GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET", // a developer secret
      scopes: ["repo"],
    },
  }],
});

await coline.net.fetch({
  url: "https://api.github.com/user/issues",
  headers: { authorization: "Bearer {{connection:github}}" },
});
// React: <ConnectButton connectionKey="github" />
```

Register `https://coline.app/api/apps/connections/callback` as the redirect URL with each provider. Your app's overview in the developer portal shows the exact URL.

---

# External hosting

> Route specific capabilities to your own backend.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/hosting

Most apps never need this. With `hosting: { default: "coline" }` everything runs on Coline. Use external hosting, per capability, when:

* a tool needs a private database or a service only your network can reach
* work runs longer than a job attempt allows, or needs your own compute
* you already run the logic and want Kairo to call it

## The handler

`createColineAppHandler` checks signatures, timestamps and replays, then dispatches tools, renders, schedules, events, webhooks and jobs to the same code you'd run on Coline. One endpoint serves all of them.

```ts
import { createColineAppHandler } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";
import app from "./app.config";

// Set COLINE_DELIVERY_SECRET once as a developer secret in the developer
// console, and use the same value here.
const handler = createColineAppHandler({
  app,
  secret: process.env.COLINE_DELIVERY_SECRET!,
});

// Next.js: app/coline/app/route.ts
export const POST = handler;
```

Then point the capabilities you want at it:

```ts
hosting: {
  default: "coline",
  overrides: { "todos.sync_crm": "external" },
  external: { baseUrl: "https://your-app.example.com" },
},
```

Everything not listed in `overrides` keeps running on Coline.

## Testing deliveries

The workspace API can send a signed test delivery to your backend and replay stored ones. See [apps in a workspace](/api/endpoints#apps-in-a-workspace).

---

# Develop and publish

> Check and preview locally, push versions, and publish privately or to the App Store.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/publishing

## Develop locally

From your project:

```bash
npm run check   # types, manifest, logic and React bundle; no upload
npm run dev     # local preview with simulated data
npx coline-app preview --screenshots .coline/screenshots   # capture each state
```

Local preview uses simulated data, so it doesn't prove production permissions or external services. `preview.seed.ts` can provide fake `net.fetch` responses and connections that are already made, and preview runs queued background jobs automatically.

### Credentials

Run `npx coline-app login` once. It opens Coline in your browser (or prints a code to approve at `coline.app/device` when there is no browser), and you pick a workspace you administer. The sign-in is saved for your user and renews itself; `npx coline-app whoami` shows which workspace commands act in, and `npx coline-app logout` ends it.

In CI, create a workspace API key with `apps.write` in the [developer console](https://coline.app/developers/console) and set it as `COLINE_API_KEY`; it takes the place of the sign-in. Set `COLINE_BASE_URL` only if you target a different Coline instance. Keep keys out of app source and version control.

## Push a version

```bash
npx coline-app push --version 0.1.0
```

To keep one development version current while you work, install it in your workspace once and run:

```bash
npm run push:watch -- --internal
```

Reload Coline after each change. The CLI bundles from your installed dependencies and keeps imported CSS and inline assets. Coline validates, rebuilds and hashes the uploaded artifact before serving it.

## Build in Coline Code

You can also describe the app and let an agent build it:

1. In [Code](/code), choose **Create project**, then **Coline App**, pick a template and describe the app. Code creates the repository, scaffolds the template and starts an agent.
2. The agent builds and checks the app against simulated data. Iterate until the preview looks right.
3. Press **Publish** in the project's Code settings to install a new version in your workspace.

Agents never receive publishing credentials. Workspace admins get a project-scoped key with `apps.publish`, used only when a person presses Publish. You can also ask Kairo to build an app; it drafts the brief and opens this flow for you to confirm.

## Diagnose

Open your app under [Apps](https://coline.app/developers/apps) in the developer portal, install it in a workspace, and check **Overview** and **Executions**. Failed runs explain the likely cause and link to the release or installation setting that fixes it. Errors in the execution log are redacted.

## Distribute

| Option                    | Who can install             |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| **Private**               | Only your workspace         |
| **Unlisted install link** | Anyone you send the link to |
| **App Store**             | Any workspace, after review |

To list in the App Store, submit a version for review from the developer portal. Reviewers see the full manifest: permissions, network hosts, tools and their effects. The developer portal also manages the store listing (screenshots, description, version notes), review feedback, install links, per-install health and analytics.

### Updates

When a new version asks for no new permissions, workspaces that allow automatic updates get it automatically. If it asks for more, a workspace admin has to approve it before it installs. Admins can roll back to any approved version.

### Paid apps

Paid apps aren't available yet. Apps must not take payments for Coline users through their own billing flows.

## Runtime limits

Each install has limits on capability calls, network requests, AI calls and daily executions, so one misbehaving app can't affect a workspace. See [runtime limits](/sdk/reference#runtime-limits).

---

# SDK reference

> Permissions, tool effects, capability operations, chat cards and runtime limits.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sdk/reference

This reference is generated from `@colineapp/sdk` 2.1.0's own contract tables.

{/* Tables generated by packages/sdk/scripts/docs-reference.ts */}

## Permissions

Declared in the manifest, approved by a workspace admin at install, and shown to people with exactly this wording. Every capability call needs its permission declared and granted.

| Permission            | Shown to people as                                                                             |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `references.read`     | Resolve names and links for workspace objects you can access.                                  |
| `tasks.read`          | Read tasks and task board statuses you can access.                                             |
| `tasks.write`         | Create, edit, and delete tasks on your behalf.                                                 |
| `calendar.read`       | Read calendar events you can access.                                                           |
| `calendar.write`      | Create, edit, and cancel calendar events on your behalf.                                       |
| `messages.read`       | Read conversations and task or event comments you can access.                                  |
| `messages.write`      | Send messages and comments on your behalf.                                                     |
| `members.read`        | See who is in the workspace (names, emails, handles, avatars).                                 |
| `files.read`          | Read files the installing user can access.                                                     |
| `files.write`         | Create and update files on behalf of users.                                                    |
| `drives.app`          | Use its own app drive for files it creates.                                                    |
| `storage.app`         | Store app data (key-value state and records) in the workspace.                                 |
| `search.index`        | Add its content to workspace search.                                                           |
| `search.query`        | Search the workspace on behalf of users.                                                       |
| `notifications.write` | Send notifications to workspace members.                                                       |
| `ai.generate`         | Use Coline AI models (billed to the workspace).                                                |
| `ai.tools`            | Offer tools that Kairo and agents can run.                                                     |
| `events.emit`         | Emit ambient events into the workspace.                                                        |
| `webhooks.subscribe`  | Receive workspace events at its backend.                                                       |
| `commands.register`   | Add commands to the command palette.                                                           |
| `realtime.subscribe`  | Receive live updates for its own surfaces.                                                     |
| `network.external`    | Call the external services it lists (through Coline, with the app's own credentials).          |
| `jobs.run`            | Run background work after you leave, on your behalf or its own.                                |
| `endpoints.receive`   | Receive requests from the external services it lists at private URLs.                          |
| `connections.use`     | Ask you to connect accounts on the services it lists, and use them for you.                    |
| `site.serve`          | Serve a public website. Visitors can use only the tools and collections the app opens to them. |

## Tool effects

An effect isn't a label. The runtime enforces it as a ceiling on what a tool's code can do, on both sides of the trust boundary.

| Effect        | Means                                                                                                                         |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `read`        | Reads workspace data. Kairo runs these without asking                                                                         |
| `write`       | Creates or updates data. Whether Kairo asks first depends on the person's [permission mode](/kairo/overview#permission-modes) |
| `destructive` | Deletes or irreversibly changes data. Kairo asks first unless the person chose Full access                                    |
| `external`    | Causes effects outside Coline, such as email or calls to external APIs. Kairo asks first unless the person chose Full access  |

## Capability operations

Every `coline.*` call maps to one operation with one required permission and one mutation class. A tool's effect must allow the operation's class, or the call fails with `effect_ceiling_exceeded`.

| Operation                    | Mutation    | Permission            |
| ---------------------------- | ----------- | --------------------- |
| `ai.generate`                | read        | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.images.generate`         | write       | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.jobs.cancel`             | write       | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.jobs.events`             | read        | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.jobs.get`                | read        | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.jobs.list`               | read        | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.models`                  | read        | `ai.generate`         |
| `ai.run`                     | write       | `ai.generate`         |
| `calendar.create`            | write       | `calendar.write`      |
| `calendar.delete`            | destructive | `calendar.write`      |
| `calendar.get`               | read        | `calendar.read`       |
| `calendar.list`              | read        | `calendar.read`       |
| `calendar.update`            | write       | `calendar.write`      |
| `connections.connect`        | read        | `connections.use`     |
| `connections.disconnect`     | write       | `connections.use`     |
| `connections.get`            | read        | `connections.use`     |
| `connections.list`           | read        | `connections.use`     |
| `drives.getAppDrive`         | read        | `drives.app`          |
| `endpoints.list`             | read        | `endpoints.receive`   |
| `endpoints.url`              | read        | `endpoints.receive`   |
| `events.emit`                | write       | `events.emit`         |
| `files.completeUpload`       | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.create`               | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.createUpload`         | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.get`                  | read        | `files.read`          |
| `files.getDocument`          | read        | `files.read`          |
| `files.list`                 | read        | `files.read`          |
| `files.move`                 | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.preview`              | read        | `files.read`          |
| `files.readUrl`              | read        | `files.read`          |
| `files.saveAs`               | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.trash`                | destructive | `files.write`         |
| `files.update`               | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.updateDocument`       | write       | `files.write`         |
| `files.upload`               | write       | `files.write`         |
| `jobs.cancel`                | write       | `jobs.run`            |
| `jobs.checkpoint`            | read        | `jobs.run`            |
| `jobs.enqueue`               | write       | `jobs.run`            |
| `jobs.get`                   | read        | `jobs.run`            |
| `jobs.list`                  | read        | `jobs.run`            |
| `jobs.progress`              | read        | `jobs.run`            |
| `members.get`                | read        | `members.read`        |
| `members.list`               | read        | `members.read`        |
| `messages.list`              | read        | `messages.read`       |
| `messages.send`              | write       | `messages.write`      |
| `navigation.navigate`        | read        | None                  |
| `navigation.openAppHome`     | read        | None                  |
| `navigation.openFile`        | read        | None                  |
| `navigation.openReference`   | read        | None                  |
| `net.fetch`                  | read        | `network.external`    |
| `notifications.create`       | write       | `notifications.write` |
| `pickers.confirm`            | read        | None                  |
| `pickers.destination`        | read        | None                  |
| `pickers.file`               | read        | None                  |
| `pickers.member`             | read        | None                  |
| `realtime.publish`           | write       | `realtime.subscribe`  |
| `realtime.subscribe`         | read        | `realtime.subscribe`  |
| `references.resolve`         | read        | `references.read`     |
| `search.index.delete`        | write       | `search.index`        |
| `search.index.upsert`        | write       | `search.index`        |
| `search.query`               | read        | `search.query`        |
| `storage.batch`              | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.kv.delete`          | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.kv.get`             | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.kv.list`            | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.kv.set`             | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.aggregate`  | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.batch`      | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.count`      | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.delete`     | destructive | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.deleteMany` | destructive | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.get`        | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.insert`     | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.insertMany` | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.query`      | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.setAccess`  | destructive | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.sync`       | read        | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.update`     | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `storage.records.updateMany` | write       | `storage.app`         |
| `tasks.board`                | read        | `tasks.read`          |
| `tasks.create`               | write       | `tasks.write`         |
| `tasks.delete`               | destructive | `tasks.write`         |
| `tasks.get`                  | read        | `tasks.read`          |
| `tasks.list`                 | read        | `tasks.read`          |
| `tasks.update`               | write       | `tasks.write`         |
| `tools.invoke`               | write       | `ai.tools`            |
| `workspace.get`              | read        | None                  |

## Site visitors

A [site](/sites) page can call only these operations, and only on collections whose rules let the visitor: `storage.records.count`, `storage.records.delete`, `storage.records.get`, `storage.records.insert`, `storage.records.query`, `storage.records.sync` and `storage.records.update`. Everything else fails with `unavailable_to_visitors`; do it in a site tool.

## Chat cards

Tool result cards and inline file surfaces render inside conversations, so they accept this subset of tree nodes. Home, preview and editor surfaces can use every node.

`Alert`, `Avatar`, `Badge`, `Button`, `Card`, `Chart`, `CodeBlock`, `Divider`, `FileCard`, `Heading`, `Image`, `KeyValue`, `Link`, `List`, `Progress`, `Reference`, `Stack`, `Stat`, `Table`, `Text`, `UserChip`

## Runtime limits

Generous by default, and every limit fails closed with a named error that the execution log shows.

| Limit                  | Value                                                                       |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Capability calls       | 120 burst, refilling 20 per second, per install                             |
| `net.fetch`            | 20 burst, refilling 2 per second, per install                               |
| `ai.generate`          | 200 calls per install per day                                               |
| Executions             | 10,000 per install per day (tools, renders and schedules)                   |
| Logic bundle           | 5 MB                                                                        |
| Client bundle          | 8 MB                                                                        |
| Storage                | 5,000 key-value keys, 200,000 records per collection, 200 kB per value      |
| Realtime events        | 32 kB per event payload                                                     |
| Background job attempt | Up to 15 minutes                                                            |
| Site traffic           | Counted per site, not against executions; see [Sites limits](/sites/limits) |

---

# Coline Sites

> Put a Coline app on the web at its own address, with visitors, data rules and live updates, in one command.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites

A site is a Coline app with a public website. It gets its own address, `name.coline.space` or your own domain, and anyone can open it without an account. Its data lives in a Coline workspace: the team sees every record, gets notified about new ones, and can ask Kairo about them.

Sites are part of SDK 2.1 (`@colineapp/sdk` 2.1.3, `@colineapp/ui` 2.1.4 and `create-coline-app` 2.9.5).

## Quickstart

No account is needed to build or deploy a site.

```bash
npx create-coline-app my-site --template site
cd my-site && npm install
npm run dev          # http://127.0.0.1:3000, data in memory
npx coline-app deploy
```

`deploy` prints the live address and a claim link. A site deployed without an account stays up for 72 hours after its last deploy. Open the claim link, sign in, and pick a workspace to keep it. See [deploy and claim](/sites/deploy).

## What's in a site

The `site` template is a guestbook:

```
my-site/
  app.config.ts      the app: permissions, the site, collections and tools
  app.test.ts        the same rules Coline enforces, in memory
  site/main.tsx      the website (React)
  site/app.css       Tailwind is built in
  site/public/       files served at the site root (favicon, images)
  AGENTS.md          the contract, for coding agents
```

The site surface declares the page, its routes and what visitors can do:

```ts
import { z } from "zod/v4";
import { defineApp, defineTool } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";

const entry = z.object({ name: z.string().max(60), message: z.string().max(500), signedAt: z.iso.datetime() });
type Entry = z.infer<typeof entry>;

const sign = defineTool({
  name: "guestbook.sign",
  description: "Sign the guestbook.",
  input: z.object({ name: z.string().min(1).max(60), message: z.string().min(1).max(500) }),
  effect: "write",
  execute: async (input, { coline }) => {
    const entry = await coline.storage
      .collection<Entry>("entries")
      .insert({ ...input, signedAt: new Date().toISOString() });
    return { output: { id: entry.id } };
  },
});

export default defineApp({
  key: "guestbook",
  name: "Guestbook",
  permissions: ["site.serve", "storage.app", "ai.tools"],
  hosting: { default: "coline" },
  surfaces: {
    site: {
      entry: "site/main.tsx",
      assets: "site/public",
      title: "Guestbook",
      description: "Leave a note.",
      routes: [{ path: "/" }, { path: "/entries/:id", head: { title: "An entry" } }],
      visitors: { signIn: true, providers: ["google", "coline"] },
      tools: ["guestbook.sign"],
    },
  },
  collections: {
    entries: { access: { read: "public", update: "owner", delete: "owner" }, schema: entry },
  },
  tools: [sign],
});
```

The page is built from Coline's own components and talks only to its own site. The React hooks are typed from the app itself, so collection names, record shapes and tool inputs are checked at compile time:

```tsx
import { createSiteHooks } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";
import { Button, Card, CardContent, ColineSiteProvider, Input } from "@colineapp/ui";
import type app from "../app.config";

const { useCollection, useTool } = createSiteHooks<typeof app>();

function Guestbook() {
  const entries = useCollection("entries", { orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc" }); // live
  const sign = useTool("guestbook.sign");
  // <Button onClick={() => sign.run({ name: "Ada", message: "Hello" })}>Sign</Button>
}
```

## How it works

* **Every site is a Coline app.** The same app can also have a home screen inside Coline, file types and Kairo tools. Its records are workspace records.
* **Visitors are their own kind of user.** They are guests by default. A site can offer [sign-in with Google or Coline](/sites/visitors), require it, or admit only visitors the team approves. Visitors never act as a workspace member or as the app.
* **Collections say who can do what.** Each collection declares which visitors may read, create, update and delete, and a `schema` that every visitor write must match. A collection without rules is invisible to visitors. See [data and rules](/sites/data).
* **Tools are the site's server code.** Visitors can run the tools a site lists. They run on Coline as the app, with the app's permissions, and never at more than the `write` effect.
* **Endpoints answer HTTP on the site's own paths**, for webhooks, JSON APIs and feeds. See [endpoints](/sites/endpoints).
* **Visitors can upload files** when the site accepts them. See [files](/sites/files).
* **Pages update live.** Collections refresh when records change, for every visitor.
* **Coline serves the page.** Each route gets server-rendered `<title>`, description and link preview tags, a sitemap and `robots.txt`. The page itself is client-rendered React.
* **It looks like Coline.** Pages use `@colineapp/ui`, Coline's components, in light and dark. A site picks one accent color; everything else stays Coline's. See [design](/sites/design).
* **Browser agents can use the site.** With `agentTools: true`, the site's tools are offered to AI agents in the visitor's browser.

## Next

<Cards>
  <Card title="Data and rules" description="Collections, schemas, visitor rules, the browser client, React hooks and site tools." href="/sites/data" />

  <Card title="Design" description="Coline's components and tokens on a site, in light and dark." href="/sites/design" />

  <Card title="Visitors and sign-in" description="Guests, Google and Coline sign-in, access modes and approvals." href="/sites/visitors" />

  <Card title="Files" description="Visitor uploads, public and private files, and storage limits." href="/sites/files" />

  <Card title="Endpoints and agents" description="HTTP endpoints on the site's paths, and tools for browser agents." href="/sites/endpoints" />

  <Card title="Deploy and claim" description="Deploying with and without an account, claiming, and the CLI." href="/sites/deploy" />

  <Card title="Limits and plans" description="Requests, data, storage, domains and what an unclaimed site can use." href="/sites/limits" />
</Cards>

---

# Data and rules

> Collections, visitor rules, the site browser client, live data and site tools.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/data

A site's data is the app's records. Visitors reach it two ways: directly, through collections whose rules let them, and through the tools the site lists.

## Collection rules

Declare a collection under `collections` to open it to visitors. Each action has a rule:

```ts
collections: {
  // Anyone reads; any visitor posts; only the author edits or deletes.
  notes: { access: { read: "public", create: "visitor", update: "owner", delete: "owner" } },
  // Only people who signed in.
  members: { access: { read: "signedIn", create: "signedIn" } },
  // Each visitor sees only their own entries.
  diary: { access: { read: "owner", create: "visitor", update: "owner", delete: "owner" } },
  // Not declared, or declared without access: visitors see nothing.
  signups: {},
},
```

| Rule       | Who                                                                              |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `public`   | Anyone who opens the site                                                        |
| `visitor`  | Any guest or signed-in visitor                                                   |
| `signedIn` | Visitors who signed in                                                           |
| `owner`    | The visitor who created the record                                               |
| `team`     | Nobody on the site. Workspace members and the app's own logic only (the default) |

`create` can't be `owner`. Opening a collection to visitors needs the `storage.app` permission and a site. Widening a rule later, such as `owner` to `public`, asks workspace admins to approve the new version, like any new permission.

Members and the app's logic don't use these rules. They keep the per-record access model described in [capabilities](/sdk/capabilities).

## Record schemas

Give a collection a zod `schema` and Coline checks every visitor write against it. A record that doesn't match fails with `record_invalid` and changes nothing.

```ts
const note = z.object({ text: z.string().min(1).max(200), done: z.boolean().default(false) });

collections: {
  notes: { access: { read: "owner", create: "visitor", update: "owner", delete: "owner" }, schema: note },
},
```

The schema becomes JSON Schema in the manifest, up to 20 kB per collection. Updates are checked on the merged record. Writes from site tools and the app's own logic aren't checked: validate those with the tool's input schema. The testing harness enforces schemas the same way.

The schema also types the collection in the page. See [typed client](#typed-client).

## React hooks

`@colineapp/sdk/site/react` has hooks for the common cases. Each runs as the current visitor.

```tsx
import { useCollection, usePaginatedCollection, useTool, useUpload, useSession, SignInButton } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";

const notes = useCollection<Note>("notes", { orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc", limit: 50 });
// notes.records, notes.status, notes.insert(), notes.update(), notes.delete(), notes.refresh()

const feed = usePaginatedCollection<Post>("posts", { orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc" }, 20);
// feed.records, feed.hasMore, feed.loadMore()

const add = useTool<{ text: string }, { id: string }>("notes.add");
// await add.run({ text }), add.running, add.error, add.output
```

`useCollection` is live: it refreshes when the site's records change, and its writes show at once. `SiteErrorBoundary` catches render errors with a `fallback(error, retry)`.

For pages with more than one screen, `Router`, `Routes`, `Route`, `Link`, `useParams`, `useLocation` and `navigate` route on the client without reloading. `useLocation()` returns `{ pathname, search, hash }` and updates on every navigation, for active nav links. Every client path must also be listed in `surfaces.site.routes` so Coline serves it with its head.

```tsx
<Router>
  <Routes>
    <Route path="/"><Home /></Route>
    <Route path="/notes/:id"><NoteView /></Route>
    <Route path="*"><NotFound /></Route>
  </Routes>
</Router>
```

## Typed client

`createSiteHooks<typeof app>()` returns the same hooks typed from the app: collection names, record shapes from each `schema`, tool names, inputs and outputs from `defineTool`. Without React, `createSiteClient<typeof app>()` from `@colineapp/sdk/site` does the same for `collection(name)` and `tools.invoke(name, input)`.

```tsx
import { createSiteHooks } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";
import type app from "../app.config";

const { useCollection, useTool } = createSiteHooks<typeof app>();
const notes = useCollection("notes");          // records typed from the schema
const add = useTool("notes.add");              // add.run({ text }) is type-checked
```

Always use `import type` for the app config. It keeps the app's server code out of the page bundle.

## The browser client

`@colineapp/sdk/site` is what the hooks are built on. Every call goes to the site's own `/_coline` API and runs as the current visitor.

```ts
import { site, liveCollection, getSession, SiteError } from "@colineapp/sdk/site";

const notes = site.collection<Note>("notes");
await notes.insert({ text: "Hello" });
await notes.query({ where: { text: { contains: "hello" } }, orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc", limit: 20 });
await notes.get(id);
await notes.count({ done: false });
await notes.update(id, { text: "Edited" });
await notes.delete(id);
```

`where` takes a value for equality, or `eq`, `ne`, `gt`, `gte`, `lt`, `lte`, `contains`, `startsWith`, `in`, `notIn` and `exists`, combined with `and` and `or`. `query` returns `{ records, nextCursor }`; pass `cursor` for the next page. Records carry `id`, `data`, `createdBy`, `createdAt`, `updatedAt` and `version`.

Visitors can't use key-value storage, bulk writes (`insertMany`, `updateMany`, `deleteMany`, `batch`), set record access, or call any other capability. Those calls fail with `unavailable_to_visitors`; do that work in a site tool.

### Live data

`liveCollection` keeps a view current, and is what `useCollection` uses. It refreshes when the site's records change and every 5 seconds as a fallback, and applies your own writes immediately.

```ts
import { liveCollection } from "@colineapp/sdk/site";

const view = liveCollection<Note>("notes", { orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc", limit: 50 });
await view.start();
const unsubscribe = view.subscribe(() => render(view.getSnapshot()));
```

The snapshot has `records`, `status` (`loading`, `ready` or `error`), `pending` and `error`. `view.insert`, `view.update` and `view.delete` show the change at once and confirm it with the server. Call `stop()` when the view is no longer shown.

### Errors

Failed calls throw `SiteError` with a stable `code`, an HTTP `status` and a `message` that's safe to show:

| Code                      | Means                                                                                    |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `record_forbidden`        | The collection's rule doesn't allow this visitor                                         |
| `record_invalid`          | The record doesn't match the collection's `schema`                                       |
| `record_not_found`        | No such record, or the visitor can't see it                                              |
| `unavailable_to_visitors` | Visitors can't call this operation                                                       |
| `site_tool_not_allowed`   | The tool isn't listed in `surfaces.site.tools`                                           |
| `sign_in_required`        | The site's [access mode](/sites/visitors#who-can-use-the-site) needs a signed-in visitor |
| `approval_required`       | The site admits approved visitors only, and this one isn't yet                           |
| `site_data_full`          | The site's records reached the plan's data limit                                         |
| `SITE_OVER_LIMIT`         | The site hit its daily limit                                                             |
| `network_error`           | The request didn't reach the site                                                        |

## Site tools

A tool listed in `surfaces.site.tools` is the site's server code. Visitors call it with `site.tools.invoke(name, input)` and get back `{ output, card }`.

* It runs on Coline as the app, with the app's granted permissions, so it can write to `team` collections, notify members or call other capabilities.
* A visitor can never cause more than a `write`: a tool declared `destructive` runs at `write`, and destructive calls inside it fail.
* `ctx.actor` is the visitor: `{ kind: "visitor", visitorId, signedIn, name, email }`. Records the tool creates belong to that visitor, so `owner` rules work for them.
* Visitors see a generic message when a tool fails. The real error is in `npx coline-app logs`.

Validate input with the tool's schema and check ownership in the tool. Hiding a button is not an access check.

## Test the rules

`@colineapp/sdk/testing` enforces the same rules in memory:

```ts
import { createTestWorkspace } from "@colineapp/sdk/testing";
import app from "./app.config";

const workspace = createTestWorkspace(app);
await workspace.invokeSiteTool("guestbook.sign", { name: "Ada", message: "Hi" }, { visitorId: "vis_ada" });

const bob = workspace.asVisitor({ visitorId: "vis_bob" }).collection("entries");
await expect(bob.delete(id)).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "record_forbidden" });
```

Pass `{ signedIn: true }` in the visitor to test `signedIn` rules, and `grantedPermissions` to `createTestWorkspace` to test what a site can do before it's claimed. Visitor writes are checked against each collection's `schema`, and `workspace.request(endpointId, { visitor })` calls an endpoint as a visitor.

---

# Design

> Build a site from Coline's components, in light and dark, with the same tokens as Coline.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/design

A site's page is built from `@colineapp/ui`, the components Coline itself uses. They're accessible and keyboard-friendly, and they switch between light and dark with the visitor's device. The `site` template starts with them.

## Setup

```bash
npm install @colineapp/ui
```

```tsx
// site/main.tsx
import { createRoot } from "react-dom/client";
import { Button, Card, CardContent, CardHeader, CardTitle, ColineSiteProvider } from "@colineapp/ui";
import "@colineapp/ui/styles.css";
import "./app.css";

createRoot(document.getElementById("root")!).render(
  <ColineSiteProvider>
    <App />
  </ColineSiteProvider>,
);
```

```css
/* site/app.css */
@import "tailwindcss";
@import "@colineapp/ui/theme.css";
```

`ColineSiteProvider` follows the visitor's light or dark preference and changes with it. Pass `theme="light"` or `theme="dark"` to fix one. `useSiteColorScheme()` returns the one showing.

`theme.css` gives the site's own Tailwind classes Coline's token names, so layout you write matches the components in both themes:

| Use                                                          | Instead of                     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------ |
| `bg-background`, `bg-card`, `bg-muted`                       | `bg-white`, `bg-gray-50`       |
| `text-foreground`, `text-muted-foreground`                   | `text-black`, `text-gray-500`  |
| `border-border`, `border-input`                              | `border-gray-200`              |
| `text-destructive`, `bg-positive`, `bg-attention`, `bg-risk` | `text-red-600`, `bg-green-100` |
| `rounded-lg`, `rounded-xl`                                   | fixed pixel radii              |
| `bg-action`, `text-action`, `border-action`                  | a brand color of your own      |

In plain CSS, use the variables behind them: `var(--background)`, `var(--card)`, `var(--foreground)`, `var(--muted-foreground)`, `var(--border)`, `var(--primary)`, `var(--destructive)`, `var(--action)`, and for status `var(--status-positive)`, `var(--status-attention)` and `var(--status-risk)` with their `-fg` text colors. The Tailwind names map to these in `@colineapp/ui/theme.css`.

## The rules

A site looks like Coline. Its one design choice is an accent color.

* Use the components as they ship. Pick a `variant` and `size`; use `className` on a component only for layout (margin, width, flex, grid).
* Don't change the components' colors, borders, radius, padding or fonts, in classes or in CSS.
* No custom fonts. Geist ships with `@colineapp/ui`.
* No palette of your own and no fixed colors. Use the token classes above.
* Use `Tabs` or `SegmentedControl` for views and navigation, not tabs you build yourself.

`coline-app check` warns when a site breaks one of these, with the file and line.

## Accent color

```tsx
<ColineSiteProvider accent="#0f766e">
  <App />
</ColineSiteProvider>
```

The accent replaces Coline's blue: text selection, the chosen option in a `RadioGroup`, the selected date in `Calendar`, `Steps`, `info` badges and banners, selected `DataGrid` rows, and a chart's first series. Checkboxes, switches and buttons stay Coline's neutral. Pick a mid or deep tone; white text sits on it in light mode. For dark mode the provider lifts the same hue the way Coline lifts its blue. To choose both yourself, pass `accent={{ light: "#0f766e", dark: "#5eead4" }}`.

In your own layout, use the accent with `bg-action`, `text-action` and `border-action` (for example `bg-action/10` for a tinted panel). Buttons stay Coline's: `default` is near-black in light mode and near-white in dark.

## Components

| Need     | Components                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Actions  | `Button` (`default`, `outline`, `secondary`, `ghost`, `destructive`, `link`; sizes `xs` to `lg`, `icon`), `ConfirmButton`, `Toggle`                                                                                 |
| Forms    | `Field`, `FieldLabel`, `FieldDescription`, `FieldError`, `Input`, `Textarea`, `Select`, `Combobox`, `Checkbox`, `RadioGroup`, `Switch`, `Slider`, `DatePicker`, `Calendar`, `SearchInput`                           |
| Layout   | `Card` and its parts, `Separator`, `Tabs`, `SegmentedControl`, `Accordion`, `SplitView`, `Steps`, `Timeline`                                                                                                        |
| Overlays | `Dialog`, `Sheet`, `Popover`, `DropdownMenu`, `Tooltip`                                                                                                                                                             |
| Data     | `Table`, `DataGrid`, `RecordTable`, `PropertyList`, `Stat`, `StatGrid`, `Badge`, `StatusBadge`, `Avatar`, `AvatarGroup`, `Progress`, `AreaChart`, `BarChart`, `LineChart`, `DonutChart`, `Sparkline`, `KanbanBoard` |
| States   | `EmptyState`, `Skeleton`, `Spinner`, `Banner`                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Motion   | `motion`, `AnimatePresence`, `transitions`, `fadeUp`                                                                                                                                                                |

Props are in the package's type declarations. The [UI reference](/sdk/ui) covers them for apps; they're the same on a site.

```tsx
import { Button, EmptyState, Field, FieldLabel, Input, Skeleton } from "@colineapp/ui";
import { createSiteHooks } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";
import type app from "../app.config";

const { useCollection, useTool } = createSiteHooks<typeof app>();

function Notes() {
  const notes = useCollection("notes", { orderBy: "createdAt", order: "desc" });
  if (notes.status === "loading") return <Skeleton className="h-24 rounded-xl" />;
  if (notes.records.length === 0) return <EmptyState title="No notes yet" description="Write the first one." />;
  return notes.records.map((note) => (
    <article key={note.id} className="rounded-xl border border-border bg-card px-5 py-4">
      {note.data.text}
    </article>
  ));
}
```

## Workspace-only parts

A few exports need a Coline workspace around them and don't work on a site: `ColineAppProvider`, `useColine`, `useColineContext`, `useColineQuery`, `useColorScheme`, `useToast`, `FilePreview`, `FileDropzone`, `SaveAsButton`, `useFilePicker` and `ConnectButton`. On a site, read data with the [site hooks](/sites/data#react-hooks) and accept files with [`useUpload`](/sites/files).

---

# Visitors and sign-in

> Guests, Google and Coline sign-in, access modes, approvals and managing visitors.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/visitors

Nobody has to sign in to use a site unless the site says so. The first request from a browser creates a guest, and everything that guest writes belongs to them.

## Sessions

A visitor is identified by a cookie that belongs to one site and one host. It's `HttpOnly`, `Secure` and set by Coline, so the page can't read it and other sites can't send it. A guest session lasts 180 days.

```ts
import { getSession } from "@colineapp/sdk/site";

const { visitor, site } = await getSession();
// visitor: { visitorId, signedIn, provider, name, email, avatarUrl, admitted }
// site:    { name, url, signInEnabled, signInProviders, access, uploads, agentTools }
```

In React, `useSession()` returns `{ session, loading, error, signIn, signOut }`.

The browser client waits for one session before its first call, so a page that fires several requests at load still gets one visitor.

## Sign-in

Turn sign-in on in the site surface and pick the providers, in the order the page should show them:

```ts
site: {
  entry: "site/main.tsx",
  visitors: { signIn: true, providers: ["google", "coline"] },
}
```

| Provider | Visitor needs                                              |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `google` | A Google account. No Coline account is created.            |
| `coline` | A Coline account. People without one create it on the way. |

`providers` defaults to both. Show a button for each of `session.site.signInProviders`, which lists what the site offers right now:

```tsx
import { SignInButton, useSession } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";

const { session, signOut } = useSession();
session?.site.signInProviders.map((provider) => <SignInButton key={provider} provider={provider} />);
// "Sign in with Google", "Sign in with Coline"; pass children to change the label
```

Without React:

```ts
import { signIn, signOut } from "@colineapp/sdk/site";

signIn({ provider: "google" });       // returns to the current page
signIn({ provider: "coline", returnTo: "/account" });
await signOut();                      // a fresh guest; the page reloads
```

Sign-in happens on coline.app. The site receives a one-time handoff that works for 60 seconds, for that site only, and never sees a Google token or a Coline session. With Coline, the visitor confirms which site gets their name and email.

When a guest signs in:

* Everything the guest created, records and files, moves to the signed-in visitor, so `owner` rules keep working.
* The visitor gets a new id and cookie. The guest cookie stops carrying their identity.
* If the person already signed in on another device with the same account, the guest's records join that visitor.
* If the site names an `onSignIn` tool, it runs as the signed-in visitor with `{ visitorId, previousVisitorId }`, for welcome records or merging carts.

```ts
visitors: { signIn: true, onSignIn: "shop.merge_cart" },
```

`signOut()` reloads the page so no view keeps records only the signed-in person could see. Pass `{ reload: false }` only if you clear every view yourself.

In `coline-app dev`, sign-in is simulated: the visitor becomes signed in at once. Add `?as=alice` to any URL to become a signed-in visitor named alice, and `?as=guest` to start over as a new guest.

## Who can use the site

`visitors.access` decides who may use the site's data, tools, files and endpoints:

| Access     | Who                                     |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `open`     | Everyone, guests included (the default) |
| `signedIn` | Visitors who signed in                  |
| `approved` | Signed-in visitors the team approved    |

```ts
visitors: { signIn: true, access: "approved" },
```

Pages, assets and the session load for everyone, so the page can show a sign-in screen or "waiting for approval". `session.visitor.admitted` says whether the visitor may use the rest. Calls before that fail with `sign_in_required` or `approval_required`.

`signedIn` and `approved` need `signIn: true`.

## What tools see

Inside a site tool, `ctx.actor` is the visitor:

```ts
execute: async (input, { coline, actor }) => {
  if (actor.kind !== "visitor" || !actor.signedIn) {
    throw new Error("Sign in to do that.");
  }
  // actor.visitorId, actor.name, actor.email
},
```

## Managing visitors

The team manages a site's visitors in the developer console, under the app's **Site** settings:

* See every visitor, how they signed in, and when they first and last came.
* **Approve** a visitor on a site that admits approved visitors only, or **Revoke** the approval.
* **Block** a visitor. They can still load public pages, but every data call and tool fails.
* **Delete** a visitor and everything they created, including their files.

A site that offers sign-in also shows signed-in visitors' names and emails to the team.

---

# Files

> Visitor uploads, public and private files, the team's view, and storage limits.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/files

A site can accept files from visitors: avatars, photos, attachments. Files are stored with the site and served from the site's own address.

## Accept uploads

```ts
permissions: ["site.serve", "storage.app", /* ... */],
surfaces: {
  site: {
    entry: "site/main.tsx",
    uploads: { who: "signedIn", types: ["image/*", "application/pdf"], maxFileBytes: 5_000_000 },
  },
},
```

| Field          | Means                                                              |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `who`          | `signedIn` (the default) or `visitor`, which includes guests       |
| `types`        | Content types the site accepts. `image/*` matches every image type |
| `maxFileBytes` | Largest file, up to the plan's limit                               |

Uploads need the `storage.app` permission and a claimed site. Sites deployed without an account refuse them with `SITE_UPLOADS_REQUIRE_CLAIM`.

## In the page

```tsx
import { useUpload } from "@colineapp/sdk/site/react";

const { upload, uploading, error } = useUpload();

<input
  type="file"
  accept="image/*"
  onChange={async (event) => {
    const file = event.target.files?.[0];
    if (file) {
      const stored = await upload(file, { public: true });
      // stored: { id, name, size, contentType, public, url, createdAt }
    }
  }}
/>
```

Without React, `site.files` has the same calls:

```ts
import { site } from "@colineapp/sdk/site";

const stored = await site.files.upload(file, { name: "avatar.png", public: true });
const mine = await site.files.list();   // this visitor's files, newest first
await site.files.delete(stored.id);
site.files.url(stored.id);              // "/_coline/files/<id>"
```

Keep the `id` or `url` in a record to show the file later, for example `<img src={profile.data.avatarUrl} />`.

## Public and private

* A **public** file can be read by anyone with its URL. Use it for images other visitors see.
* A **private** file (the default) can be read only by the visitor who uploaded it, and by the team.

Files are always served from the site's address with a sandboxed content policy and `nosniff`, so a file can't run script there. HTML, JavaScript, executables and anything whose bytes look like them are refused, whatever type the upload claims.

When a guest signs in, their files move with them. Deleting a visitor deletes their files.

## The team

* The developer console's **Site** settings list recent files, download them, and delete them.
* `npx coline-app storage list|put|get|delete` does the same from a terminal. `put` stores a file as the team; `--public` makes it shareable.

```bash
npx coline-app storage put ./hero.jpg --public
npx coline-app storage get sf_... --out ./download.pdf
```

## Limits and billing

Uploads are included in the plan; there's no separate storage charge.

|              | Unclaimed | Free                              | [Workspace Pro](/plans) |
| ------------ | --------- | --------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| Uploads      | No        | 1 GB across the workspace's sites | 100 GB per site         |
| Largest file |           | 10 MB                             | 25 MB                   |

A full site refuses new uploads with `SITE_STORAGE_FULL` until files are deleted or the workspace upgrades.

| Code                          | Means                                        |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `SITE_UPLOADS_DISABLED`       | The site doesn't declare `uploads`           |
| `SITE_UPLOADS_REQUIRE_CLAIM`  | The site isn't claimed yet                   |
| `sign_in_required`            | `who: "signedIn"` and the visitor is a guest |
| `SITE_FILE_TOO_LARGE`         | Over `maxFileBytes` or the plan's limit      |
| `SITE_FILE_TYPE_NOT_ACCEPTED` | Not one of the site's `types`                |
| `SITE_FILE_TYPE_BLOCKED`      | HTML, script or an executable                |
| `SITE_STORAGE_FULL`           | The plan's storage is used up                |

---

# Endpoints and agents

> HTTP endpoints on a site's own paths, and the site's tools for AI agents in the browser.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/endpoints

## Endpoints

An app [endpoint](/sdk/capabilities) can answer at a path on the site, such as `https://my-site.coline.space/api/stats`. Use it for webhooks from other services, a JSON API, an RSS feed or anything else that isn't a page.

```ts
import { defineApp, defineEndpoint } from "@colineapp/sdk/v2";

const stats = defineEndpoint({
  id: "stats",
  methods: ["GET"],
  mode: "sync",
  verify: { kind: "none" },
  handle: async ({ coline, actor, request }) => {
    const { count } = await coline.storage.collection("entries").count({});
    return { status: 200, headers: { "cache-control": "max-age=60" }, body: { entries: count } };
  },
});

export default defineApp({
  // ...
  permissions: ["site.serve", "storage.app", "endpoints.receive"],
  surfaces: {
    site: {
      entry: "site/main.tsx",
      endpoints: [{ path: "/api/stats", endpoint: "stats" }],
    },
  },
  endpoints: [stats],
});
```

* Paths use the same patterns as routes: `/api/items/:id`, `/hooks/*`. Endpoint paths are matched before page routes.
* `verify` checks webhooks before your code runs: `token`, `hmac`, or presets for `stripe`, `github`, `slack`, `shopify` and `linear`, with the secret set in the workspace. `none` is for public reads.
* `mode: "sync"` waits for the handler (up to 25 seconds) and sends its response. `async` answers `202` at once and runs the handler as a retried job, which suits webhooks.
* Strings are sent as they are; other bodies are sent as JSON.

### Who is calling

When the site's own page calls the endpoint, `actor` is the visitor, the same as in a tool. Anyone else, another server or another website, is the app: the gateway drops the visitor cookie on cross-site requests, so a third-party page can't act as your visitor.

The site's [access mode](/sites/visitors#who-can-use-the-site) applies: on a `signedIn` or `approved` site, an endpoint answers only admitted visitors.

Endpoints answer once the site is claimed. Before that they fail with `endpoint_not_enabled`. Calls count toward the site's daily limits, not the app's workspace budget.

Test an endpoint in memory with `workspace.request("stats", { method: "GET", visitor })` from `@colineapp/sdk/testing`, or locally at its path under `npm run dev`.

## Tools for browser agents

AI agents that run in the visitor's browser can use a site's tools through WebMCP (`navigator.modelContext`). Turn it on in the site surface:

```ts
site: {
  entry: "site/main.tsx",
  tools: ["shop.search", "shop.add_to_cart"],
  agentTools: true,
},
```

The browser client registers each listed tool with its description and input schema when the page loads. An agent's call runs exactly like the page's own `site.tools.invoke`: as the current visitor, under the same rules and limits. Tools declared with the `read` effect are marked read-only.

Nothing changes in browsers without WebMCP. `session.site.agentTools` lists what the site offers.

---

# Deploy and claim

> Deploy with or without an account, claim a site, redeploy, and every site CLI command.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/deploy

## Deploy without an account

```bash
npx coline-app deploy
```

The CLI builds the site and the app's logic, uploads them, and prints the address and a claim link. Nothing else is needed: no account, key or login.

* The address is the app key plus a random suffix, such as `guestbook-k96h-c24658.coline.space`.
* The site stays up for 72 hours after its last deploy, then it's deleted.
* `.coline/site.json` keeps the site's deploy token, so later deploys from the same folder update the same site. The folder is ignored by git.
* The page shows a small "Deployed on Coline" badge, and search engines are asked not to index it.
* It can use only what's scoped to the site itself. See [limits](/sites/limits#unclaimed-sites).

## Claim a site

Open the claim link (also in `.coline/site.json`, or run `npx coline-app claim`), sign in, and pick a workspace. The claim page lists what the site will be able to do in that workspace. Signed in with `npx coline-app login`, `npx coline-app claim` claims the site into your workspace from the terminal, and so does your next `deploy`.

Claiming moves the app, its records, visitors and logs into that workspace, and:

* the site gets the rest of the permissions it declares, such as seeing members, sending notifications, endpoints or Coline AI;
* the site stops expiring and the badge goes away;
* search engines may index it;
* the deploy token stops working: run `npx coline-app login` and pick that workspace to keep deploying.

An admin can turn any of those permissions off later under **Apps → Your apps → Manage**.

## Deploy into a workspace

Sign in once, then deploys go straight into your workspace and never expire:

```bash
npx coline-app login                     # opens a browser; pick the workspace
npx coline-app deploy --name my-site     # my-site.coline.space
```

`login` opens Coline in your browser, where you pick a workspace you administer and allow access. On a machine without a browser, such as over SSH, it prints a code instead: open `coline.app/device` on any device, enter the code and approve. Pass `--device` to choose that yourself, and `--workspace <slug>` to preselect the workspace. The sign-in is saved in your user config directory (`~/.config/coline/credentials.json`, readable only by you) and renews itself. `npx coline-app whoami` shows who and which workspace commands act as; `npx coline-app logout` signs out and revokes it.

`--name` picks the address on the first deploy. Reserved and taken names fail with `SITE_SLUG_TAKEN` or `SITE_SLUG_INVALID`.

In CI, use a workspace [API key](/authentication/api-keys) with `apps.write` instead: set `COLINE_API_KEY` and every command uses it in place of a sign-in.

Coline Code projects deploy the same way: create a project from the **Site** template and press **Deploy**. Kairo can build and deploy a site for you from chat.

## Redeploy

Run `deploy` again from the same folder. The version comes from `package.json`; with `0.0.0` or none, each deploy gets its own. Redeploying the same version with different files fails with `SITE_VERSION_EXISTS`; bump the version. A redeploy is live within seconds, and pages that were already open keep working.

## In Coline

A claimed site is an installed app in its workspace:

* **Apps → Your apps** lists it with the site's favicon. **Open** shows the app's home, or the site's address if it has none.
* **Manage** rolls back to any earlier version, turns automatic updates on or off, and turns permissions on or off. Turning off **Public website** takes the site offline until it's turned back on.
* **Uninstall** takes the site offline and keeps its data for 30 days. Reinstalling brings it back. **Uninstall and delete data** deletes the site, its visitors, files and custom domains.
* The developer console's **Site** settings rename the address, list, approve and manage visitors, manage [files](/sites/files), and connect [custom domains](/sites/domains).

## Local development

`npm run dev` runs the site at `http://127.0.0.1:3000` with in-memory data and the same rules as Coline: collection rules, schemas, access modes, uploads and endpoints. Sign-in is simulated. Add `?as=alice` to any URL to be a signed-in visitor named alice, `?as=guest` for a new guest; two browser profiles are two visitors. Editing the page keeps local data; editing `app.config.ts` or the server code it imports resets it. Files that aren't source, such as screenshots, don't trigger a rebuild.

## CLI

| Command                             | Does                                                                          |
| ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `coline-app dev`                    | Runs the site locally with in-memory data, no account                         |
| `coline-app check`                  | Type-checks and builds without uploading                                      |
| `coline-app deploy`                 | Builds and deploys                                                            |
| `coline-app login`                  | Signs in to Coline and picks a workspace (`--device`, `--workspace <slug>`)   |
| `coline-app whoami`                 | Who and which workspace commands act as                                       |
| `coline-app logout`                 | Signs out and revokes the sign-in                                             |
| `coline-app claim`                  | Claims into your workspace when signed in; otherwise opens the claim link     |
| `coline-app inspect`                | Address, state, version, limits, usage, access, uploads, endpoints and routes |
| `coline-app logs`                   | Recent tool runs and errors, with the app's own error text                    |
| `coline-app db dump [collection]`   | Records in the site's collections                                             |
| `coline-app db export [collection]` | Writes them to a JSON file (`--out <file>`)                                   |
| `coline-app storage list`           | Files on the site                                                             |
| `coline-app storage put <file>`     | Stores a file as the team (`--public` to share it)                            |
| `coline-app storage get <id>`       | Downloads a file (`--out <file>`)                                             |
| `coline-app storage delete <id>`    | Deletes a file                                                                |
| `coline-app domains add <host>`     | Connects a custom domain                                                      |
| `coline-app domains status`         | DNS records to add and each domain's state                                    |
| `coline-app domains remove <host>`  | Disconnects a domain                                                          |
| `coline-app sites list`             | Sites in your workspace                                                       |
| `coline-app sites delete`           | Takes this folder's site down (`--yes` to skip the question)                  |

`logs`, `db dump` and `db export` read a running `dev` server with `--port`. `sites delete` with a deploy token deletes an unclaimed site and its app; signed in or with a workspace key it deletes the site, its visitors and files, and keeps the app and its records. Every command takes `--json` and prints `{ ok: true, data }` or `{ ok: false, error: { code, message, fix } }`.

Exit codes: `0` ok, `1` error, `2` needs sign-in or a claim, `3` over a limit.

| Error                       | Fix                                                                                                                                                                       |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `SITE_DEPLOY_TOKEN_INVALID` | The site expired or was claimed. Delete `.coline/site.json`, or run `npx coline-app login`                                                                                |
| `SITE_CLAIMED`              | Run `npx coline-app login` and pick the workspace that claimed it                                                                                                         |
| `OAUTH_WORKSPACE_MISMATCH`  | The site is in another workspace; run `npx coline-app login` and pick it                                                                                                  |
| `APP_KEY_TAKEN`             | If your own unclaimed site holds the key, sign in and run `npx coline-app claim` from its folder. Otherwise change `key` in `app.config.ts` and rename the tools to match |
| `SITE_VERSION_EXISTS`       | Bump the version in `package.json`                                                                                                                                        |
| `SITE_CONTENT_BLOCKED`      | A site without an account can't ask for passwords; use sign-in                                                                                                            |
| `SITE_DEPLOY_TOO_LARGE`     | Over 30 MB per deploy; host large media elsewhere                                                                                                                         |
| `SITE_DEPLOY_RATE_LIMITED`  | Too many deploys without an account from your network; wait an hour or run `npx coline-app login`                                                                         |

---

# Custom domains

> Serve a site on your own domain, with HTTPS issued and renewed for you.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/domains

Sites in a Workspace Pro workspace can use their own domains, up to five per site. The site keeps its `coline.space` address too.

```bash
npx coline-app domains add www.example.com
```

The command prints the DNS records to add at your DNS provider:

| Type    | Name               | Value                                                |
| ------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `CNAME` | `www.example.com`  | `customers.coline.space`                             |
| `TXT`   | the name it prints | the value it prints, which proves you own the domain |

Then check on it:

```bash
npx coline-app domains status
```

A domain goes from `pending` to `active` once its DNS checks out and its certificate is issued, usually within minutes. Coline issues and renews the certificate. The console's **Site** settings show the same records and states and refresh pending domains on their own.

On an active domain:

* pages, links, the canonical URL and the sitemap use the custom domain;
* Sign in with Coline returns visitors to the custom domain;
* visitors who signed in on the `coline.space` address sign in again, since sessions belong to one host.

Remove a domain with `npx coline-app domains remove www.example.com` or in the console. Deleting a site removes its domains.

| Error                        | Means                                                          |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `SITE_DOMAINS_REQUIRE_PRO`   | The workspace isn't on Workspace Pro                           |
| `SITE_DOMAINS_REQUIRE_CLAIM` | Claim the site first                                           |
| `SITE_DOMAIN_TAKEN`          | Another site already uses the domain                           |
| `SITE_DOMAIN_LIMIT`          | The site already has five domains                              |
| `SITE_DOMAIN_INVALID`        | Not a domain you can connect, such as a `coline.space` address |

---

# Limits and plans

> Requests, data, domains, what an unclaimed site can use, and the rules every page follows.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/sites/limits

## Limits

|                               | Unclaimed                      | Free                             | [Workspace Pro](/plans)       |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Sites per workspace           |                                | 3                                | 25                            |
| Requests per day              | 10,000                         | 10,000                           | 1,000,000                     |
| Tool calls per day            | 1,000                          | 1,000                            | 100,000                       |
| Record data                   | 25 MB                          | 25 MB                            | 1 GB                          |
| Assets                        | 50 MB                          | 100 MB                           | 2 GB                          |
| [Uploads](/sites/files)       | No                             | 1 GB per workspace, 10 MB a file | 100 GB per site, 25 MB a file |
| [Endpoints](/sites/endpoints) | No                             | Yes                              | Yes                           |
| Secrets and outside websites  | No                             | Yes                              | Yes                           |
| Coline AI in tools            | No                             | Yes                              | Yes                           |
| Custom domains                | No                             | No                               | Yes                           |
| "Deployed on Coline" badge    | Yes                            | No                               | No                            |
| Expires                       | 72 hours after the last deploy | Never                            | Never                         |

Requests are counted per site per UTC day, and reset at midnight UTC. A site over its limit answers `429`: visitors see a short "resting" page, and its data calls fail with `SITE_OVER_LIMIT`, until the next day or until the workspace moves to a plan with a higher limit. Both carry `Retry-After` with the seconds until the reset. Static assets keep loading. Site traffic never counts against the app's own daily execution budget inside the workspace.

Every deploy can carry up to 30 MB, which allows about 20 MB of assets, a site bundle of up to 8 MB, and up to 1,000 asset files. The assets row above is what a site stores across deploys.

A site whose records reach its data limit refuses new writes with `site_data_full` until records are deleted or the workspace upgrades. `npx coline-app inspect` shows what a site uses.

Storage, data and requests are included in the plan. Sites have no separate usage charges.

## Unclaimed sites

Every unclaimed site shares one system workspace, so it gets only permissions scoped to itself: `site.serve`, `storage.app`, `ai.tools`, `realtime.subscribe` and `jobs.run`. Anything workspace-wide, such as seeing members, sending notifications, endpoints, uploads, secrets, outside websites or Coline AI, stays off until the site is claimed. Claiming turns on what the site declares.

Unclaimed sites also can't contain password fields. Use [sign-in](/sites/visitors) instead.

## What every page follows

Coline serves each page with a strict content policy, so a site can't be turned against its visitors:

* Scripts, `fetch` and WebSocket calls go only to the site itself. Reach other services from a [site tool](/sites/data#site-tools) instead, with the `network.external` permission.
* Images and media can come from any HTTPS address.
* Sites can't be embedded in other pages, and can't embed other pages.
* Forms post only to the site itself.

Pages that ask for a password next to another company's name are held for review. Report a site that's abusing visitors with the **Report** link on its badge, or at [abuse@coline.app](mailto:abuse@coline.app).