# Turnstone

> The user guide for Turnstone, your AI workspace.

- [Meet Turnstone](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/index.md): Turnstone is an AI workspace where persistent Agents help with your work, files, knowledge, and connected apps.
- [Getting started](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/getting-started.md): Learn the basic Turnstone workflow: choose an Agent, add context, and review actions.
- [Agents](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/agents.md): A Turnstone Agent is a named, persistent conversation with its own history and behavior.
- [Families](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/families.md): Families group related Agents without becoming conversations themselves.
- [Side Chats](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/side-chats.md): Use a Side Chat for a separate question or direction without interrupting an Agent's main conversation.
- [Brain](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/brain.md): Brain is Turnstone's durable local knowledge about you, your people, and your work.
- [Browser](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/browser.md): Browser keeps websites beside an Agent without automatically granting that Agent access.
- [Skills](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/skills.md): Skills are reusable workflows you can select, install, or create with an Agent.
- [Automations](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/automations.md): Automations schedule recurring work for an Agent and return each result to that Agent.
- [Connected apps](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/concepts/connected-apps.md): Connected apps let an Agent work with services such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, Notion, and Linear.
- [Permissions](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/controls/permissions.md): Read only, Ask first, and Always Allow control what an Agent may do.
- [Coding Mode](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/controls/coding-mode.md): Coding Mode opts an Agent into software work without changing permissions.
- [Personalization](https://docs.myturnstone.ai/controls/personalization.md): Combine account-wide preferences with a distinct personality for each Agent.