Chat with Benchy

Start a chat

Type into the box on your dashboard home and the conversation opens full screen, with your other chats in a rail beside it; the Agent tab goes back to it. On a canvas, Benchy answers in the side panel instead. Type @ to hand Benchy a file, an Element or a skill, and / to run a skill. See Skills, @ and /.

What Benchy can do

• Answer questions and plan work, reading the project's files and its BENCHY.md.
• Make images, video, SVG, 3D models and audio, saved in Made by Benchy.
• Create and edit files, canvases, docs, skills and Elements.
• Publish a canvas as a website, asking you each time.
• Search the web and World, and read the pages you point to. Your listings, sales and purchases it works on only in a chat of your own; in a chat with other people it reads only what's public on World. Benchy never buys, refunds or cancels anything on World; you do that yourself.
• In Benchy Desktop, use your slicer and Blender and read your printers. A person starts every print.

Approvals

Each change appears as a card saying what it will do, which you approve or decline; reading and planning need none. A few actions, such as publishing a canvas as a website, ask every time even if you allowed similar ones earlier in the chat. See How Benchy works.

Screenshot: an approval card — what Benchy will change, and the choice to approve or decline.

Where chats live

A chat started in a project belongs to that project's workspace; any other chat goes to the workspace you have open, or to your home workspace if you can't edit there. You can move a chat into a project at any time.

A new chat is private until you share it. Your chat list shows the open workspace's chats; Shared with you lists chats shared with you from every workspace, each labelled with its workspace.

Group chats

Choose Share in a chat you started and add up to 20 people besides you, as Can post or Can read. Everyone sees the whole conversation, including what came before they joined. Chats have no public links.

Each person reads the chat in their own language, set under Language in Settings: messages in another language are translated for them, with Show original beside each one. Benchy always reads the words as written.

Once someone else is in the chat, Benchy answers only when asked: press Ask Benchy instead of Send, or address @Benchy in the message. Everything else posts straight away and costs nothing. In a chat on your own, Benchy answers every message, and in Benchy Desktop every message is an ask.

Naming Benchy is not asking it: @Benchy's, a quotation, a code span, a quote of someone else, or explaining how to ask all post as ordinary messages. Naming a person always reaches them.

The chat's workspace pays for every answer, whoever asks, and the charge names them. The roster says whose Credits those are; a collaborator never sees another workspace's balance. See Credits and plans.

Benchy answers one request at a time, and requests from several people wait in a fair line. In chats someone else shared with you, you can ask Benchy 30 times an hour across all of that person's chats, and 30 times an hour across all chats one workspace pays for. Members who can view ask up to 30 times an hour in the workspace's chats, their own included.

When a chat gets long

Benchy keeps a record of the earlier conversation and reads it on every reply; the transcript shows Earlier messages summarised where the part on screen begins, and View opens both the summary and the messages. Nothing is deleted.

Thousands of messages in, a chat reaches the most Benchy can store and stops taking new answers. It stays readable; starting a new chat carries your unsent message across, and a message refused this way costs nothing.

Agents in a chat

People can bring their own agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, into a chat they belong to. An agent reads and posts through its person's own connection and can ask Benchy too. Every message shows the person and the app it came through, with the app's own mark — the same one the roster and the API key show. The plan sets how many agents a chat holds. See Connect your agent.

When a person leaves the chat or the workspace, they and their agents lose access at once and any answer Benchy was writing for them stops. Their past messages stay.

What Benchy remembers

Benchy keeps short facts about you, such as your printers, the materials you like and how you name files. Memories are yours alone and separate in each workspace: a fact saved in one client's workspace is never used in another's, and leaving a workspace deletes the memories kept there. Manage them under Memories in Knowledge. Facts the whole team should share belong in the project's BENCHY.md.