> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.avibe.bot/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Workbench

> Operate Avibe from your browser: chat with your agent and manage sessions, agents, the Harness, and Skills.

The **Workbench** is Avibe's browser app — a first-class way to operate your machine's agent, right alongside chat.

Open it locally with `vibe`, or reach it from anywhere with [`vibe remote`](/concepts/remote-ui).

## What you can do

* **Chat with your agent** directly in the browser — the same sessions you'd reach from Slack or Discord.
* **Talk instead of type** — built-in voice-to-text lets you brief the agent by speaking, the fastest way to kick off work from your phone.
* **Open Show Pages** — when the agent builds a [Show Page](/concepts/show-pages), you view it right here.
* **Run apps from the Dock** — the Show Pages your agent builds install as [apps](/concepts/apps-dock): keep the ones you use in the Dock, open them in windows, and manage them in the App Library.
* **Answer interactive prompts** — when the agent needs a decision, it pops buttons or a short form instead of making you type it out.
* **Inbox** — a live timeline of every turn, including the self-initiated turns your [Harness](/concepts/harness) tasks and watches produce.
* **Agents** — configure your backends (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode), models, and per-project routing.
* **Skills** — manage [Skills](/concepts/skills) for your agents.
* **Projects and sessions** — start, resume, and organize work across projects.

## Install it as an app

The Workbench is a PWA. Add it to your desktop or phone home screen and it behaves like a native app — its own window, and a push notification the moment a job needs you. You leave the agent running on your machine and carry the control surface in your pocket.

## Browser and chat are both first-class

Avibe is not "a chat bot with a settings page." The Workbench and your chat apps are two equal ways to talk to the same local agent: open the browser when you want a richer view, use chat when you're on the move. Either way, your AI partner and your data stay on your machine.