Minnow documentation
Learn Minnow.
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Setup guides, product concepts, and detailed reference for the whole workspace. The same manual ships inside the app.
First five minutes
Start with a working chat
Three short guides take you from download to your first approved tool call.
- 01 Install Minnow Download the app and open a project folder.
- 02 Connect a model Use a local server or a cloud provider.
- 03 Send your first chat Ask for a change and approve a tool call.
Next, read How Minnow works for the ideas the rest of the manual builds on.
The manual
Browse by topic
Concepts
The mental model behind modes, tools, permissions, context, and memory.
Chat
Work with the assistant, attach context, and reuse repeatable skills.
Apps
Learn the surfaces that keep code, models, issues, knowledge, and jobs together.
Orchestrate
Turn plans into boards and coordinate agents across larger work.
Extend
Connect services, add voice, or reach Minnow from another device.
Reference
Look up shortcuts, configuration, security, fixes, and terminology.
Go deeper
Build on Minnow
Architecture, source setup, plugin authoring, and the public roadmap.
01
Contributor guide
Set up the repository and understand how the app fits together.
02
Plugin authoring
Expose new tools that agents can discover and call.
03
Roadmap
See what has shipped, what is next, and what is still gated.