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title: Building with Mothership
description: Your AI command center. Build and manage your entire workspace in natural language.
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Describe what you want and Mothership handles it. Build a workflow, run research, generate a presentation, query a table, schedule a recurring job, send a Slack message — Mothership knows your entire workspace and takes action directly.

## What You Can Do

| Area | What Mothership can do |
|------|-----------------------|
| **[Workflows](/mothership/workflows)** | Build, edit, run, debug, deploy, and organize workflows |
| **[Research](/mothership/research)** | Search the web, read pages, crawl sites, produce research reports |
| **[Files & Documents](/mothership/files)** | Upload, create, edit, and generate documents, presentations, and images |
| **[Tables](/mothership/tables)** | Create, query, update, and export workspace tables |
| **[Automation & Configuration](/mothership/tasks)** | Schedule jobs, take immediate actions, connect integrations, manage tools |
| **[Knowledge Bases](/mothership/knowledge)** | Create knowledge bases, add documents, and query content in plain language |

## How It Works

Mothership receives a snapshot of your entire workspace with every message — all workflows, tables, knowledge bases, files, credentials, jobs, and integrations. This is why you can refer to things by name without specifying IDs or paths:

- "Run the invoice workflow"
- "Add a row to the leads table"
- "Deploy the summarizer as a chat"

No configuration, no context-setting. Just describe what you want:

- "Build a lead enrichment workflow that scores inbound signups and writes the results to the leads table"
- "Research our top 5 competitors and save a battle card for each one"
- "Schedule a daily job that checks for new high-fit prospects and posts them to #outbound in Slack"
- "Create a workflow that takes a contract PDF, extracts the key terms, and emails a summary to legal"

For complex tasks, Mothership delegates to specialized subagents automatically. You'll see them appear as collapsible sections in the chat while they work — building, researching, writing files, executing actions.

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## Adding Context

Bring any workspace object into the conversation via the **+** menu, `@`-mentions, or drag-and-drop from the sidebar. Mothership also opens resources automatically when it creates or modifies them.

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| What to add | How it appears |
|-------------|---------------|
| **Workflow** | Interactive canvas in the resource panel |
| **Table** | Full table editor in the resource panel |
| **File** | File viewer with editor, split, and preview modes |
| **Knowledge Base** | Knowledge base management UI |
| **Folder** | Folder contents |
| **Past task** | A previous Mothership conversation |

## Layout

Mothership has two panes. On the left: the chat thread, where your messages and Mothership's responses appear. On the right: the resource panel, where workflows, tables, files, and knowledge bases open as tabs. The panel is resizable; tabs are draggable and closeable.

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<FAQ items={[
  { question: "How is Mothership different from Copilot?", answer: "Copilot is scoped to a single workflow — it helps you build and edit that workflow. Mothership has access to your entire workspace and can build workflows, manage data, run research, schedule jobs, take actions across integrations, and more." },
  { question: "What model does Mothership use?", answer: "Mothership always uses Claude Opus 4.6. There is no model selector." },
  { question: "How do I reference an existing workflow or table?", answer: "Type @ followed by the name in the input, use the + menu, or drag the item from the sidebar into the chat." },
  { question: "How long can a Mothership task run?", answer: "Up to one hour. For tasks that exceed that, set up a scheduled job or break the work into steps." },
  { question: "Can Mothership work on multiple things at once?", answer: "Mothership processes one message at a time. You can queue messages — they will be processed in order." },
]} />
