How Benchy works
The few rules behind everything else: who owns the work, who can see it, who pays, and what agents can do.
These rules hold in Studio, Benchy Desktop and World, and for your own agents.
The workspace owns the work and pays for it
Everything made in a workspace belongs to the workspace and stays when its maker leaves. The workspace's one plan pays for every AI feature used there, whoever asks: Benchy's replies and the images, videos and 3D models it makes. See Credits and plans.
Access is set once, at the top
Projects are private or open to the workspace; chats start private; Elements are Private or Workspace; skills and memories belong to their maker. Everything inside a project has the project's access. A private item is private from the workspace owner too, and inviting someone only ever adds access. See Sharing.
An agent works for one person, in one workspace
Your own agents connect with an API key or as a connected app, each in exactly one workspace chosen when you connect it. On every action an agent can do only what both its connection and your current access allow. See Connect your agent.
Benchy acts as whoever asked
Benchy works with your access, never more: only you approve the changes it proposes, the chat's workspace pays, and the charge names you. In a chat with other people, a member who can edit gets answers that can make changes, behind approval cards only they answer; viewers and guests get read-only answers. There Benchy reads only what's public on World. See Chats.
What you point at, Benchy opens as you
When you @ a file or an Element, Benchy opens it with your access. See Point Benchy at something with @.
What keeps a file version
Every file keeps its versions until you delete them; chats remember which versions they mentioned without keeping them alive. A version published in a World release outlives deletion, so what people downloaded keeps working. See Files and versions.
A person approves every print
Benchy and other agents plan prints and make print files. You start the print, on the printer or in its own app. See Printers and Benchy Host.
Everything says who did it
Every change, charge and message records the person and the agent or app it came through — “Ada, through Claude Code”. A file says where it came from, such as Made in chat “Bracket plan” with Claude, and a canvas edit says whether you, Benchy or an app made it.