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Your Mellow handbook.

From your first conversation to your own little team. Find the next step, understand the choices, and make Mellow yours.

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26 guides

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Your first little win

Install Mellow, choose a model and start a useful conversation.

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Everyday

A place for your thoughts

Organize conversations, work with a project and understand what an agent is doing.

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Agents

Make your little team

Create focused helpers and decide how they work together.

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Everyday

Bring your reference shelf

Give agents reference material and review the files they change.

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Everyday

Keep what matters

Understand the difference between remembered context and a document library.

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Models & voice

Think out loud

Set up speech input, dictation and spoken responses.

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Connections

Take the conversation with you

Pair a Mac or Mobile and keep the execution destination clear.

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Connections

Connect your shared workspace

Use Mellow Cloud for the workspace resources your account can access.

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Connections

Say hello where you already are

Connect messaging channels with clear boundaries for replies and outgoing messages.

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Agents

Make a little room for routine

Use schedules for time-based work and watchers for changes in a folder.

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Connections

Give your helper a useful toolkit

Combine connected tools with reusable instructions.

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Models & voice

Choose your creative engine

Manage local models, hosted providers and image capabilities.

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Personalize

Keep the important choices yours

Review permissions, retained data and connection identity.

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Personalize

Make yourself at home

Choose your companion’s look and keep Mellow up to date.

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Developer tools

Build a little further

Explore the local API, sandbox and runtime diagnostics.

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Reference

Local API reference

Connect an API client while keeping model requests separate from full agent execution.

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Reference

Plan a configuration change

Make repeatable setup changes with a reviewable plan.

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Reference

Shortcuts for repeatable prompts

Use slash commands for actions, reusable text and skills.

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Reference

Structured records for a helper

Keep tabular information across an agent’s conversations.

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Reference

Understand what happened

Read execution history without confusing it with a complete network recording.

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Reference

Let a helper plan its next check-in

Understand agent-chosen wake-ups separately from fixed recurring schedules.

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Reference

When something needs a little attention

Use the symptom to find the right layer of setup.

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Reference

Manage models on your Mac

Download, verify and maintain the model files used for local inference.

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Reference

Connect a model provider

Set up external inference independently from a Cloud workspace.

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Reference

Extend your helper thoughtfully

Understand tool plugins and imported workflow bundles before installing them.

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Reference

Research with the right tool

Distinguish searching the web from interacting with a browser or desktop.

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Written for the current Mellow app structure. Availability varies by installed build, model and connected service. These guides describe workflows; they are not a certification that every deployment is configured.