Chatting with Naumu

Start a chat, ask questions, tell Naumu what happened, and bring in people, files, and voice.

Updated October 8, 20267 min read

Chat is the main way you work in Naumu. You write the way you'd brief a colleague. Naumu answers from what your space already knows, and it remembers what you tell it.

Start a chat

Select New chat at the bottom of the sidebar, type your message, and send it. There is no syntax to learn.

Each chat keeps its own history and its own people. To get back to an older one, press Cmd+K - see Find anything.

Ask a question

Ask about anything in your space: "Who owns the Acme account?" or "What did we decide about pricing?" Naumu looks through your memory, notes, and past chats, then answers in the chat. Asking changes nothing.

You can ask about anyone the space knows, not just current members: "What did Anton work on?" works for someone who left the space or who only appears through an integration such as Jira.

If you ask how Naumu itself works, it answers from these docs and can link the full article.

Tell Naumu something

Describe what happened, paste your notes, or list people and projects: "Acme signed last week. Dana owns the account." Naumu picks out the facts and saves them to your space's memory, next to the things they relate to.

You never have to say whether a message is a question or an update. Naumu works it out, and asks you when it isn't sure.

When it fills in an Assignee or another Person field, Naumu picks from the people the space already knows. It never creates a person - people join by invite, or come in through an integration.

When you ask, Naumu can also write a note for you - a summary, a plan, meeting minutes - and link it in the chat. Otherwise it keeps a multi-step plan as a checklist in its reply. Paste a link to a note you already have, say what to change, and it edits that note in place.

Review and undo changes

Naumu saves changes as it works. You don't approve them first.

While Naumu works, the card under its reply reads Applying changes. Select Stop agent to halt it; changes it already made stay.
When it finishes, the reply shows a Memory updated line. Select it to see every change, as a List or as a Graph.
To take one change back, hover it and select Undo this change. To reverse everything from that reply, select Undo all.

The Memory updated card with one change row hovered, showing its Undo this change button, and Undo all at the bottom. — Undo one change from the row, or everything from the reply with Undo all.

Some changes can only be undone together. For those, the card offers Undo all only.

Every change in the space is also listed under Explore → History. For what memory is made of, see core concepts.

In a shared space, changes go into the space's memory even when the chat is private. Teammates see what changed, but not the chat. A card under the update offers Disclose, which shares the chat with everyone in the space or with the topics you pick.

Answer Naumu's questions

When Naumu needs a decision from you, it shows a short form in the chat instead of guessing. Each question has options to pick, plus Other for an answer of your own. Questions come one at a time. Select Send on the last one, and your answers post as a normal reply.

Naumu's question form asking how often a check-in should run, with three options (one marked Recommended), Other, page dots and Next. — Naumu asks one question at a time; pick an option or write your own under Other.

Mention people, agents, and topics

Type @ to mention a person or an agent. A teammate who can already see the chat is added and notified right away. When someone who can't see it yet is mentioned, a card asks Add [person] to this conversation? with Add and Dismiss, so nobody gets access without a yes.
Type # to tag a topic. The chat is filed there, and the topic's members can see it.
To point at a note, a view, a node, a file, or another chat, paste its link. The link turns into a chip that anyone in the chat can open.

Attach files and voice

Use the attach button, or paste or drag files into the message box. Naumu can read images, PDFs, office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and their OpenDocument equivalents), plain text, and structured data files (JSON, XML, YAML).

To speak instead of type, select the microphone, record, and send. The recording posts to the chat as a voice message with a transcript. To record a whole meeting, see Meeting notes.

A message you haven't sent stays with its chat. Switch to another chat or open a note, and your text and attached files are still there when you come back.

Control when Naumu replies

To stop or start Naumu replying in a chat, click the chip above the message box or press Tab. The choice sticks for that chat.

While you write, the chip tells you what happens to your next message:

Naumu will reply - it answers every message in this chat.
Naumu will reply (tagged) - it answers this message because you mentioned @Naumu.
Naumu won't reply - it stays quiet.

In a chat that's just you and Naumu, it answers everything. In a chat with other people, it stays quiet until you mention @Naumu or turn auto-reply on. In a space where you are the only member, the chip usually appears only when Naumu won't reply.

Mentioning a teammate keeps Naumu quiet for that message. Mentioning another agent hands that message to it instead.

Steer or stop a reply

You don't have to wait for Naumu to finish. Send a message while it is working and Naumu takes it into the answer in progress. Your message shows Steering the current response until Naumu picks it up.

To cut a reply off, select the stop button (the square) on the status pill above the message box.

Switch which agent answers

If you use Claude Code or Codex through the desktop app, tag @Claude Code or @Codex once and it answers your messages in that chat on this device from then on. Tag @Naumu to hand the chat back.

Get a stronger answer with Ultra

For a hard question, type / and pick Ultra. An Ultra chip appears in your message, and that one reply comes from a stronger model.

Ultra is available on every plan, to every member.
An Ultra reply uses 2x usage - 20 credits instead of 10.
While the chip is in your message, a line above the message box reads Ultra uses 2x usage.

See Plans & billing for credits.

Which memory an answer used

Every answer from Naumu has a small memory icon beside its name. Hover it, or tap it on a phone, to see which memory the answer could draw on - for example Answered using your full Memory in a chat that's just you, or Answered using Memory shared with the whole space in a chat the whole space can see.

Naumu never answers a shared chat from memory that someone in it can't see. When a guest is in the chat, the answer is limited to what the guest can see too.

Reply and react

Hover a message and select Reply to answer it directly. Your reply shows a small quote of the message it answers. You can also react to any message with an emoji. Both work on messages from people and from Naumu.

Find anything - get back to a chat, note, person, or topic fast
Topics - file chats so the right people see them
Meeting notes - record a meeting and get a transcript
Agents - shape how Naumu behaves, or add agents of your own