Docs
Follow the tutorial path, then use help, product notes, and integration docs. Help is in English; other long specs use an English body when one exists.
Learning path
Read Start → Plus → Upgrade → Mastery. The other groups come from in-product help, product docs, SDKs, and mechanism notes.
Help
Cadau new user help (contents)
New user guide — first visit, interface, and account (theme folder help/en/new-user-guide/):
ReadNew user guide: first steps and workspaces
- Top bar, left: current workspace name (click to switch). In Messages you also see the expand/collapse control for the agent list.
ReadNew user guide: navigation and two kinds of assistants
How to enter: farthest right of the top bar is Messages; Apps is to the left of Messages; local seats or support-group members see Support (between the feature menu and Apps); othe
ReadNew user guide: login, theme, and account
- Two ways: phone or email + password (default) and verification code. Switch on the login page.
ReadCadau product features (contents)
What each module can do and how to use it — for everyday lookup and help-agent retrieval (theme folder help/en/product-features/).
ReadProduct features: overview
what each module can do and how to use it — for users past the first visit, and for the help agent to retrieve by question. First visit: New user guide.
ReadProduct features: chat as action
Cadau’s core: you say what you want done, and the help agent tries to finish it for you. You do not have to memorize which menu to open and click the page yourself.
ReadProduct features: create and manage workspaces
Tell the help agent “help me create a workspace”. It asks for a name; if you do not provide one, it uses the default My workspace. You can include the name in one sentence, e.g. “c
ReadProduct features: asset library (templates and sheets)
Team-shared reusable files in the workspace, plus presentation / document / spreadsheet styles you made. After publish, you and colleagues can download. When you pick an office sty
ReadProduct features: workspace apps
lightweight business tools in this workspace — UI plus data. You can also ask a work agent in Messages to create or improve them.
ReadProduct features: plugin apps
Human Resources, Manufacturing HR, warehouse, compliance, email, camera, E-Sign, and similar professional modules appear on the apps desktop, so you work in the same place as chat
ReadWorkflow (product help)
in Workflow, create a process from a template, optionally publish to the apps desktop, then start instances and handle to-dos.
ReadProduct features: data connections and predefined queries
after a workspace admin configures a data connection (MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQL Server / SQLite), members can ask a work agent in Messages to query business data (mostly read-only)
ReadProduct features: messages, conversations, and attachments
Tell the help agent what you want done and it tries to do it; only “how / how do I” questions get a guide. See Chat as action.
ReadProduct features: human support
when the agent cannot help, the user can hand off to a person. Admins enable it per agent, assign local support colleagues or authorize a support group, and handle tickets at the s
ReadProduct features: make a presentation
From content already discussed in this conversation (plus extra requirements), the assistant generates a laid-out .pptx in one pass (cover, points, process, summary pages) and lets
ReadProduct features: write a document
From content already discussed in this conversation (plus extra requirements), the assistant generates a laid-out Word file (.docx) in one pass: header, heading levels, tables, sum
ReadProduct features: generate a PDF
From content already discussed in this conversation (plus extra requirements), the assistant generates a laid-out PDF in one pass: header color bar, titles, tables, summary cards,
ReadProduct features: make a spreadsheet
From content already discussed in this conversation (plus extra requirements), the assistant generates a laid-out Excel file (.xlsx) in one pass: title bar, header fill, zebra rows
ReadProduct features: agent memory
what the assistant remembers across conversations, how to write, edit, and clean it. Not the same as a knowledge base (team/personal how-to materials).
ReadProduct features: look up past conversations
have a work agent pull original text of earlier chats with it. You do not need to tap Remember first, and you do not need to write a daily note.
ReadProduct features: agent memos
store records you will need in chat (text, files, images) by tag and look them up later. This is not preferences the assistant remembers automatically.
ReadProduct features: scheduled tasks
for your own agent, set “remind at a time” or “auto-run one round at a time”. Remind only goes to service notifications; auto-run creates a scheduled conversation in Messages (agen
ReadProduct features: skills and agents
Retrieval points: Skills Center can import / export a skill pack (standard or with history); the agent marketplace can save as a template and review to list; in chat you can type /
ReadProduct features: agent operating rules (AGENTS.md)
Some agents need “last three days”, “this month”, “as of today”, or fixed steps calling business APIs. That how to do it belongs in operating rules, not piled into persona (tone, s
ReadProduct features: how to write workspace skills
A skill is instructions for an agent to repeat a class of work step by step, not background knowledge (that belongs in a knowledge base). Quality decides whether chat recalls it an
ReadProduct features: interactive HTML report scripts (ECharts / Mermaid / Leaflet)
when the assistant writes a previewable HTML report in chat, which platform scripts to use for charts, org/process diagrams, and maps; how to import sample skills; how to tell they
ReadProduct features: what belongs in a skill (allow-list)
Purpose: when generating or updating a skill, keep only what execution needs; drop everything else.
ReadProduct features: Contacts (chat with colleagues and friends)
They stay separate so “ask AI” and “talk to a colleague” are not mixed in one list.
ReadAgent team meeting
Pick a common lineup (product launch, content publish, customer go-live, compliance review), or add roles yourself. Then pick an agent for each role. After you publish a task they
ReadProduct features: Account (identity and preferences)
manage your login identity, how you appear in Contacts, and Web UI preferences. You can use this without selecting a workspace.
ReadProduct features: Human Resources (app)
with a workspace selected, open Human Resources on the apps desktop to maintain this workspace’s org, people, recruiting, and development. Aimed at R&D service companies; factory f
ReadUse the action assistant for Human Resources
with a workspace selected and Human Resources enabled:
ReadHuman Resources: how permissions work
how to bind accounts and appoint roles in Human Resources, and how each identity does self-review, manager review, and calibration.
ReadProduct features: Email (app)
with a workspace selected, open Email on the apps desktop and use your mailbox or a shared mailbox for this workspace to receive and send.
ReadProduct features: Camera (app)
with a workspace selected, open Camera on the apps desktop, connect face-recognition cameras for clock-in and security alerts. Video defaults to continuous write on this machine’s
ReadProduct features: Manufacturing HR (app)
with a workspace selected, open Manufacturing HR on the apps desktop to maintain factory-side org, people, attendance, contracts/certificates, and plant ops.
ReadUse the action assistant for Manufacturing HR
with a workspace selected and Manufacturing HR enabled:
ReadManufacturing HR: how pay and social insurance work
in Apps → Manufacturing HR → Pay and social insurance, first define pay items and plans, then set each person’s job pay. Each month calculate payslips from attendance, overtime, pi
ReadThree layers of the knowledge base
Cadau splits materials that agents read into three layers so you write the right content in the right scope. Usage: Using the knowledge base.
ReadWho maintains which layer
Optional index paths: inject that article only when it matches a file path in the user’s attachment or message. Applies to all three layers. See Three layers and System knowledge i
ReadCadau practice guides (contents)
Tips and how features connect — finer than product features: should this go into persona, operating rules, or memory? Includes templates and examples (theme folder help/en/guides/)
ReadPractice guides: contents
finer than Product features — tips and how features connect. Helps you decide whether a sentence belongs in persona, operating rules, or memory, with templates you can rewrite. For
ReadPractice guide: where to put your rules — decisions and examples
the same sentence behaves differently in persona, operating rules, memory, knowledge base, or a skill. Self-check with the questions below, then compare examples.
ReadPractice guide: agent runtime files at a glance
My agents in a workspace have runtime materials on the server (you edit them on Web pages; you do not hunt disk paths). The table uses UI names first; implementation filenames are
ReadPractice guide: USER.md and memory — templates and split
user profile (USER.md), long-term memory, and daily notes are all “information about you”, but how you maintain them and how chat injects them differ. All live on Agents → Memory (
ReadPractice guide: SOUL.md persona templates and examples
persona decides how the assistant speaks; it does not replace how to do it in operating rules. Maintain at Agent marketplace → My agents → Persona: pick an item on the left (basics
ReadPractice guide: AGENTS.md operating-rules templates and examples
operating rules say how to do it — steps, tool constraints, date math. Edit on the Operating rules page (maps to AGENTS.md). Persona and tone belong on the Persona page.
ReadServer configuration (mindlink.json)
Env-only mode: with no mindlink.json, the process depends entirely on environment variables (see each section’s Env column).
ReadSystem knowledge base and retrieval index
- Body: Markdown under help/ (new-user guide, product capabilities, admin operations). English UI prefers help/en/ when that tree’s index.json exists.
ReadAgent memory maintenance (admin)
nightly or on-demand tidy of each user’s agents’ personal memory (dedupe, expired daily notes). Not the same as memory forge (scan conversations → improve help/workspace knowledge
ReadMember connection credentials (multi-system secrets)
Workspace admins can configure several external-system credentials (API keys, Bearer tokens, etc.) per member. When that member’s agents in this workspace make network requests in
ReadScript execution and member grants
Workspace admins can enable script execution for members: in chat the agent runs Python scripts in a skill to generate or edit downloadable Excel / Word / PPT. Permissions are plat
ReadModel console (router)
each Cadau deployment must be opened here before it may call large models. Monthly plans include quota; agents on “Auto” are billed at a flat rate; a named model is billed at that
ReadProduct
Product introduction
Cadau is an AI assistant for companies and teams. You can think of it as:
ReadProduct handbook
This edition is mainly for company admins / ops and host-system developers / architects. Suggested reading:
ReadAdmin console
Document version: 0.7
ReadDocumentation index
Wording: Product capabilities follow the header of 产品规格.md; this page is navigation only. File names remain in Chinese.
ReadIntegrate
SDK overview
This directory organizes code and docs by four ways to extend Cadau. If you are unsure which to pick, start with the table, then open the matching subdirectory.
ReadHost embed
Directory: sdk/host-embed
ReadWebsite integration
Give this document to the colleague who owns the website or frontend, or paste it into a coding assistant as full integration context.
ReadEmbed contract
Cadau embed SDK contract V1.5.13.
ReadHost knowledge writing
Host means your business system that mounts the Cadau embed widget (or an equivalent SDK), not the Cadau console itself.
ReadHR embed example
- Create/pick the embed agent in Cadau, agree on app_id
ReadHost LLM service
If the host backend used to call a large model directly, switch to: a chosen work agent in Cadau answers instead. Users need not sign in to Cadau or open the page widget.
ReadHost agent run and data scope
For legacy / existing business systems (host enhancement; see product spec §4.2.4). Runnable example and API walkthrough: examples/hr-multi-tenant/docs/HOST_LEGACY_INTEGRATION.md i
ReadPlatform plugins
Put specialist systems such as HR, warehouse, compliance, email, and cameras on the app desktop as full web modules.
ReadPlugin API contract
The API contract between a plugin app and Cadau, for the integrating team.
ReadWorkspace apps SDK
Directory: sdk/appsdk
ReadApp UI description
Workspace apps · UI description spec (full).
ReadApp package layout
What a pack must contain.
ReadApp actions
Actions and handlers (UI button → code).
ReadApp data pipeline
Fetch and pipeline.
ReadApp views
Views and layout: what you can do, what you cannot, how to add more later.
ReadHand-build an app
Goal: without depending on “create from conversation”, using only this directory’s docs + a template walkthrough, hand-build a workspace app you can open, click, and optionally fet
ReadApp assistant brief
App-development assistant · runtime-rule summary.
ReadAgent capabilities
Directory: sdk/agent-capability
ReadMechanisms
Mechanism index
This directory holds Cadau core mechanism notes (product language plus implementation mapping) so the team can share one picture and keep iterating.
ReadProduct specification
Cadau is an AI assistant product for enterprises and teams (multi-user, multi-workspace collaboration). Web and mobile both call business and conversation capabilities through the
ReadInterface and layout
Document version: 1.0 (merged former WEBUI_DESIGN, responsive-breakpoints, LAYOUT_BASELINE_RULES, HOMEPAGE_LAYOUT_INTERACTION)
ReadHow agents use knowledge
Document version: 1.3
ReadIndexed docs and feedback
Unify how-to articles and skill documents into a two-layer index, so the system can retrieve the right content quickly before answering or acting, then keep improving answer qualit
ReadStandards library
- 产品规格.md §3.2.1 (three layers of knowledge documents), §3.2.2 (standards library), §4.2.4 (platform plugins)
ReadCheck schemes
- 产品规格.md §3.2.2 standards library, §3.2.3 asset library, §3.2.4 check schemes, §4.2.4 compliance
ReadAsset library
- 产品规格.md §3.2.1 (knowledge documents), §3.2.2 (standards library), §3.2.3 (asset library)
ReadChecklists to machine packs
- 检查方案.md (official home of machine packs; must cite standards)
ReadRebuild knowledge index
Rebuild index with AI means: under the current agent’s knowledge base, from existing Markdown how-tos, automatically create or refresh two-layer retrieval index files, so later con
ReadAgent conversation orchestration
Voice: How Cadau chooses materials, calls tools, and constrains answers when the user talks to the help assistant or a work assistant in Messages. Users keep speaking naturally; th
ReadMemory forge
- English name: memoryforge
ReadAgent memory
Do not write into memory: code paths, facts already in knowledge documents, generic product how-tos, whole conversation transcripts.
ReadAgent memos
Copying an agent plan does not bring memos. The help assistant has no memos.
ReadScheduled tasks
- English name: scheduled_tasks (implementation package suggested schedule)
ReadHelp action links
Voice: Clickable jumps in help-assistant answers, described in language users understand; the implementation protocol is mindlink://action/….
ReadHelp assistant actions
Voice: When the user talks to the help assistant in Messages or the bottom-right action assistant, they are not limited to “how do I use this” — they can also ask it to do what the
ReadQuick help prompts
The three quick prompt buttons at the bottom of the action-assistant panel (tap to switch to the matching module and send a preset question) should not stay fixed forever. They sho
ReadChat and contacts
- One conversation experience: 1:1 with a colleague, 1:1 with an agent, and workspace group chat share the conversation list, bubble timeline, attachments, and unread.
ReadService notices
- The system finds the user: when product events happen — workspace invites, join-request results, friend requests — the user sees a fixed entry “Service notices” in Messages, with
ReadHuman support
Voice: While talking with an agent, if the user wants someone online right now, they tap Human support; support colleagues already assigned to that agent claim the ticket on the wo
ReadTickets
Voice: When the user does not need a person online immediately, they can submit a ticket and leave the question; support colleagues later handle it on the workbench, comment, and c
ReadChat window loading
Date: 2026-07-29
ReadReading mode and export
Date: 2026-07-29
ReadConversation topic and review
A work-agent conversation keeps the user’s purpose. Say change, add to, or summarize the topic and the assistant does it; review when the work is done.
ReadWorkspace data residency
Voice: Product capabilities and UI copy follow user language. This page describes which database layer data lives on, for implementation and integration mapping.
ReadSkill composition
Document version: 1.2
ReadCapability packs
Document version: 1.3
ReadWorkspace apps
Document version: 3.0
ReadWorkflows
Create approvals, checks, or onboarding from a template. Todos reach the right person; publish to the app desktop when needed.
ReadWorkflows and compliance
How on-site checks work with workflows: create from a template, photograph, review, remediate, recheck.
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