# Ako - Help Center

> ako keeps what your team knows in brains that people and AI agents both read and write. These docs show you how to set up your organisation, build brains, invite your team, and connect Claude, Slack and Linear.

## Docs

- [Documentation](https://docs.useako.com/index.md): How to set up ako, organise what your team knows into brains, and connect it to Claude, Slack and Linear.

## Assistant

- [Add a skill](https://docs.useako.com/assistant/add-a-skill.md): Give agents standing instructions, such as your house style, for the whole organisation or just for you.
- [Chat with your knowledge](https://docs.useako.com/assistant/chat-with-your-knowledge.md): Ask the assistant about what your team knows, choose which brain it works in, and have it make changes for you.
- [Assistant](https://docs.useako.com/assistant.md): Chat with your knowledge, write documents with ako, add skills and schedule routines.
- [Schedule a routine](https://docs.useako.com/assistant/schedule-a-routine.md): Set up an agent that runs on a schedule to keep a brain current, such as a weekly digest.
- [Write a document with ako](https://docs.useako.com/assistant/write-a-document.md): Draft a document alongside the assistant, with the conversation on one side and the document on the other.

## Brains

- [Create a brain](https://docs.useako.com/brains/create-a-brain.md): Set up a new brain for a team or topic, from a starting point, a description, or your own folders.
- [Delete files and folders](https://docs.useako.com/brains/delete-files.md): Remove a file, or a folder and everything in it, from a brain, and see when a delete waits for approval.
- [Import existing files](https://docs.useako.com/brains/import-files.md): Bring markdown and text files you already have into a brain, from your computer or from GitHub.
- [Brains](https://docs.useako.com/brains.md): Create brains, write, import and delete files, protect what matters and review proposed changes.
- [Protect what matters](https://docs.useako.com/brains/protect-what-matters.md): Keep agents from changing checked facts, choose which folders need approval, and set the instructions agents follow in a brain.
- [Review and approve proposals](https://docs.useako.com/brains/review-proposals.md): Find changes waiting for approval, read what they change, and approve or reject them.
- [Write and edit files](https://docs.useako.com/brains/write-and-edit-files.md): Create a file in a brain, edit it, set its properties and save your changes.
- [Your personal brain](https://docs.useako.com/brains/your-personal-brain.md): A brain only you can open, for notes and drafts before they're ready to share.

## Connections

- [Add your own MCP server](https://docs.useako.com/connections/add-an-mcp-server.md): Connect another service's MCP server so the assistant can use the tools you choose from it.
- [Connect Claude and other AI apps](https://docs.useako.com/connections/connect-claude.md): Use your brains from Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or ChatGPT.
- [Connections](https://docs.useako.com/connections.md): Use your brains from Claude and other AI apps, and connect Slack, Linear and your own MCP servers.
- [Linear](https://docs.useako.com/connections/linear.md): Connect Linear so the assistant can read issues and file new ones when someone asks in a chat.
- [Slack](https://docs.useako.com/connections/slack.md): Add ako to Slack to answer questions from your brains and approve changes without leaving Slack.

## Getting started

- [Bring what you already have](https://docs.useako.com/getting-started/bring-what-you-already-have.md): Import your existing files into a new organisation and split them between the org-wide brain and brains for each team.
- [Create your organisation](https://docs.useako.com/getting-started/create-your-organisation.md): Sign up for ako, create your organisation and set up your first brain.
- [Getting started](https://docs.useako.com/getting-started.md): What ako is, and the first steps from signing up to your first brain.
- [Introduction](https://docs.useako.com/getting-started/introduction.md): What ako is, and the five ideas you need before using it.

## Public docs

- [Choose who can publish](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs/choose-who-can-publish.md): Let people who aren't admins publish your docs or change the site's settings.
- [Create a public docs brain](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs/create-a-public-docs-brain.md): Set up the brain your public documentation site is published from.
- [Public docs](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs.md): Write your product documentation in a brain and publish it as a website your customers can read.
- [Publish your docs](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs/publish-your-docs.md): Review what changed in your public docs brain, put it live, restore an earlier version, or take the site offline.
- [Change how your site looks](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs/site-settings.md): Set your docs site's title, theme, accent colour, logo, footer links and search engine settings.
- [Write pages for your site](https://docs.useako.com/public-docs/write-pages.md): How files, folders, properties, links and images in a public docs brain become your published site.

## Your team

- [Your team](https://docs.useako.com/team.md): Invite people, give them the right role, and decide who can reach each brain.
- [Invite your team](https://docs.useako.com/team/invite-your-team.md): Invite people to your organisation by email and choose what they can do.
- [Manage members](https://docs.useako.com/team/manage-members.md): Change someone's role, remove them from your organisation, or hand ownership to another member.
- [Restrict a brain to certain people](https://docs.useako.com/team/restrict-a-brain.md): Limit a brain to the people you choose, so it doesn't exist for anyone else.
- [Roles and what they allow](https://docs.useako.com/team/roles.md): What admins, members and the owner can do, and what each brain role (Read, Draft, Write, Approve) allows.