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title: Platform
description: Platform is the canonical product reference — every user-visible feature, identical for Cloud and self-hosted. Chat, projects, agents, automations, conversations, knowledge, approvals, admin.
kind: index
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Platform is the canonical product reference: every user-visible feature in Tale, identical for Cloud and self-hosted. The pages here describe the UI someone clicks, the concept behind the UI, and the trade-offs between features that look similar.

The section is organised by area, then by feature within an area. Most readers do not read it front to back — they land here from a search result or a link from a tutorial, and the page they landed on should answer the question they brought. The role-indexed entries (Member, Editor, Developer, Admin) at the bottom of this section are for someone setting up their first day with the product.

## Pages in this section

**[Chat](/platform/chat/overview)** — threads, agents in chat, attachments, arena mode, voice mode, the canvas pane, sharing.

**[Projects](/platform/projects/overview)** — shared workspaces that bundle files, instructions, threads, and project-scoped agents.

**[Agents](/platform/agents/concepts)** — instructions, knowledge, tools, model, skills, delegation, versioning, webhook triggers.

**[Automations](/platform/automations/concepts)** — workflows, triggers, executions, metrics, approval gates.

**[Conversations](/platform/conversations/overview)** — the customer-channel inbox; status filtering, search.

**[Knowledge](/platform/knowledge/overview)** — documents, customers, products, vendors, websites, structured-data model.

**[Approvals](/platform/approvals/concepts)** — inline cards, workflow gates, the approver pool.

**[Workspace](/platform/workspace/prompt-library)** — prompt library and document comparison.

**[Integrations](/platform/integrations/overview)** — third-party SaaS pairings and MCP servers.

**[Member](/platform/member/overview)**, **[Editor](/platform/editor/overview)**, **[Developer](/platform/developer/overview)** — role-indexed quick tours for someone setting up their first day.

**[Admin](/platform/admin/overview)** — organization settings, providers, branding, integrations, plus the governance sub-tree.

## Where this fits

Platform is the gravity well — Cloud and self-hosted both link into it for feature documentation, and every tutorial cites pages here for the underlying concepts. The page worth bookmarking on your first day is [Agents → concepts](/platform/agents/concepts) — almost every other product page assumes the four-knob mental model that page builds.
