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A Pod is a shared workspace inside Dust where a team (humans and agents together) collaborates around a common goal. Each Pod brings together three things in one place:
  • Conversations: discussions with agents and teammates, visible to all Pod members and automatically indexed so agents can reference them as context
  • Tasks: lightweight work items that anyone (human or agent) can create, assign, start an agent on, and mark done
  • Files: the shared knowledge library of the Pod: uploaded files, folders, data linked from Company Data, and agent-generated artifacts such as Frames
A core principle of Pods: everything a human can do, an agent can do. Agents can start conversations, create and complete tasks, and save files in a Pod, with or without a human in the loop.

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The Pods skill

Agents interact with Pods through the Pods skill, which is available to all agents by default, including the global Dust agent, agents invoked inside a Pod, and triggered agents. It lets agents:
  • List and look up Pods by name
  • Create and post to conversations in a Pod
  • Create, pick up, progress, and complete tasks
  • Upload and read files in the Pod’s Files tab
This makes Pods a natural target for automations: a triggered agent can post a daily brief into a Pod, open a conversation when a ticket arrives, or keep Pod tasks in sync with an external tool. See Conversations and Tasks for concrete patterns.

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Visibility: Open and Restricted Pods

Workspace admins can restrict Pod creation to Restricted Pods only. See Admin controls.

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Members and roles

Every Pod member is either a Member or an Editor. Members participate in conversations, tasks, and files; Editors additionally manage membership, settings, visibility, and can pin Frames as the Pod banner. See Members and roles.

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