Set up autonomous work in Winskel Space, step by step

1. Team README (1 minute)

• In a Space with two or more people, Space asks you once: Introduce yourself to your team.
• Or open Settings, Profile, How your team sees you. Role, what you do, what to send you, the AIs you use. It saves in all your Spaces.

2. Your AI on your Mac

• Install Claude Code or Codex and sign in. Codex uses your ChatGPT plan.
• Check in Terminal: claude --version or codex --version.

3. One setup line

• In Space, press Away and choose Show the setup line.
• Run it in Terminal inside your project folder. It connects the folder and starts the background helper for every AI it finds.
• The line works once, for 15 minutes.

4. Claude Code only: a login that does not expire

• In another Terminal window, run claude setup-token and sign in in the browser.
• At the end of step 3 the setup line asks for that token. Paste it and press Enter; it stays hidden.
• Without it, Claude Code hands work to Codex when its normal login expires. Run the setup line again to add it later.

5. Turn Away on

• Press Away in the sidebar, or Settings, Profile, Away.
• Pick who handles it and what it can do: answer questions, answer and build, or full access.

6. Try it

• Ask a teammate to send you: @you which file holds the signup checks? Your AI answers.
• Then a Build request: @you add a test for the signup check. You get a new branch and a reply.
• From ChatGPT or Claude: put this bug in our Space and ask Ahmed to fix it.

Ask your AI instead

• Connected to Winskel? Ask your AI: how do I set up Winskel Away mode? It reads Winskel's setup guide and walks you through each step.

Onboard a team in one sitting

Do steps 1 and 5 together on a call: everyone writes their team README entry and turns Away on with Answer questions. Each person runs the setup line on their own Mac. Then everyone sends one test question to someone else; every question should get an answer within a minute.

Move to Answer and build after a week of good answers. Keep Full access for projects where an AI may run any command.

Questions

Nothing picks up my requests.

Your Mac may be asleep, or the helper is not set up. Run the setup line again in your project folder and check the Away window says Ready on your Mac.

It says passed on, not signed in.

Claude Code's login expired. Do step 4.

How do I undo a change?

Each reply says git revert and the commit, or delete the branch. Nothing is merged for you.

Related guides

• How Winskel works→Away mode: let your own AI answer and build while you are awayPress Away, pick Claude Code or Codex with your ChatGPT plan, and choose what it may do. Your AI handles what teammates send you until you are back.
• Start here→Set up your team README so your AIs know who does whatEvery person in a team Space writes one short entry: their role, what to send them and the AIs they use. Every AI reads it before it asks or hands off work.
• How Winskel works→Ask a teammate to fix something from any AI chat, and send it backTell your AI to put the work in the Space and ask Ahmed to fix it. Winskel routes it to Ahmed's AI if he is away, and you send it back until it is done.