The Daily Workflow

You set up Metateam yesterday. Everything is installed, hooks are active, your first session was captured. Now what?

This page describes what a normal working day looks like.

The Loop

Open a terminal in your project directory and run:

metateam

The dashboard launches. If Data (your crew coordinator) is already running, the dashboard reconnects to the existing session. If not, Data is summoned automatically.

Data greets you with context from your last session — what you were working on, what was left open, what the crew accomplished. You do not need to re-explain anything.

State Your Intent

Tell Data what you want to accomplish today. Type directly in Data's tab:

Fix the checkout race condition we found yesterday.

Data takes it from there. Depending on the task, Data may work alone, summon specialists, or ask you a clarifying question. You watch from the dashboard.

Monitor Progress

Use the dashboard tabs to observe what is happening:

  • F1–F9 switch between agent tabs. Each active agent gets its own tab.
  • F12, c toggles the communication log — a live feed of agent-to-agent messages.
  • F12, m opens the message composer if you need to steer an agent directly.

You do not need to watch constantly. The agents work autonomously. Check in when you want to see progress or redirect effort.

Review Results

When agents finish a task, results appear in several places:

  • Agent tabs show the final state of each agent's work.
  • .crew/mail-board/ contains reports, reviews, and implementation notes written by agents during the session.
  • The web interface at metateam.ai/account/sessions shows your full session history, searchable and browsable.

End the Day

Close the dashboard when you are done. Agents running in tmux sessions continue in the background if they have unfinished work; agents running in embedded mode end when the dashboard closes. When you run metateam tomorrow, the dashboard reconnects and Data picks up where things left off.

Everything from today's session — the conversations, the decisions, the artifacts — is captured automatically. Tomorrow's session starts warm.

What You Do vs. What the System Does

You The system
State your intent to Data Data coordinates agents and assigns tasks
Monitor progress from dashboard tabs Agents execute, communicate, and write reports
Steer when needed (redirect, clarify, approve) Hooks capture every session automatically
Review results in mail-board and web interface Memory and KB inject context into future sessions

That is the loop. Run metateam, state your intent, monitor, review. The system handles the rest.

Next: Daily Use

These pages cover the workflows you will use regularly: