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Give Long-Running Work One Home with Projects
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Do you use your chatbot for work that runs for weeks, like a product launch or a training programme?
If so, you know every new chat starts blank. It doesn't know your audience, your files or what you decided last week. You end up explaining the same things again and again. A project fixes this by giving all that work one home.
What is a project?
A project is a folder in your chatbot that holds the instructions and files for one piece of work. Every chat you start inside it already knows that context, and you never have to explain it again.
How do you set up a project?
Give it a clear name, like "Q4 Sales Workshop" for a training programme. Then write instructions that apply to every chat, such as the audience, tone and format. Next, add the files the chatbot should use, like the client brief, the agenda and last year's slides.
How is a project different from a skill?
A project saves the context for one piece of work. A skill saves a way of doing a task, like writing emails in your style, and works in any chat, including chats inside a project.
Can you share a project with your team?
Yes. Give people view-only access to use it, or edit access so they can also change the instructions and files. Your own chats inside the project stay private, so others see the setup, not your conversations.
What to remember
For work that runs for weeks, a project keeps your instructions and files in one place, so every chat starts with the full picture. Keep your files few and current, and share the project so your whole team starts from the same place.
Why it matters: Every other skill rests on this: knowing how AI reaches an answer and when to check it.