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Onboarding tips

The first time you sign in, Elitea takes you to the onboarding screen before dropping you into Chat. Use it, and this page, to get oriented quickly.

Find your way around

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  • The Elitea icon at the top of the sidebar opens the full menu: Chat, Agents, Pipelines, Skills, Toolkits, Applications, Credentials, Artifacts, and Settings.
  • The Project Selector at the top of the sidebar switches between your personal project and any team projects you belong to. Start experimenting in your personal project before sharing work with a team.
  • The socket connection indicator on the Elitea logo shows whether your browser has a live connection to the server (green) or has lost it (red).
  • A ? button near the bottom of the sidebar opens the Help Center with documentation, release notes, and tutorials configured by your administrator.

Your first hour

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  1. Open Chat

    Chat is where everything comes together. Start a new conversation and send a message directly to a model — no setup required for a plain conversation. See Chat.

  2. Add a toolkit

    In the Participants panel, add a toolkit (for example GitHub or Jira) so the conversation can act on an external service. Create the toolkit and its credential right from the chat editor. See Toolkits and Credentials.

  3. Create an agent

    Add an Agent participant and use its inline editor to write instructions, pick a model, and attach the toolkit you just created. See Agents.

  4. Test it

    Mention the agent with # in the chat input, activate it, and send a message. Iterate on the instructions until the responses look right.

  5. Build a pipeline when you need multiple steps

    Once a task needs more than one agent or a decision point, move it into a pipeline.

Keep learning

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