Team Presence (who is working on what)

  • Desktop, mobile and web
  • Team
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What it does

Inside a team (Team plan or peers group), members working on the same project see which teammates have agents running on it right now: the agent's name, the backlog ticket it works on, the git branch, and whether it is working, waiting or idle. When you launch an agent on a ticket, a branch or files a teammate is already working on, a gentle banner tells you so. It never blocks the launch. Nothing is ever shared outside the team, and never a prompt, an answer or a file's content.

Where to find it

  • Agent list of a project: up to three teammate avatars at the top of the list, then "+N". Hover an avatar for the detail (agents, ticket, branch, number of modified files). Nothing is shown when nobody else works on the project.
  • Backlog card: the avatar of a teammate whose agent works on that ticket.
  • Collision banner: over the composer of an agent you just launched, with "Message <name>" (opens a private chat) and "Continue anyway".

How to use it

  1. Be a member of a live team (Settings > Account > Team).
  2. Open a project that a teammate also has in AgentsRoom (same repository).
  3. Launch agents as usual: your teammates see them within a few seconds, and you see theirs.

"Continue anyway" sends your teammate a phone notification that you launched an agent on the same work. That is the only notification presence ever sends: seeing each other's activity never notifies anybody.

Settings

  • teamPresenceShare (global, Settings > Account > Team > "Share my activity with my team"): publish your running agents, ticket and branch to your team. Default on. Off = nothing is published; you still see your teammates. Synced with your account on every machine.
  • teamPresenceShareFiles (global, same card, "Also share the files I modify"): also publish the paths (relative to the repository) of the files modified in your checkout, used to warn a teammate touching the same files. Default on, only applies while sharing is on.
  • Both have a project override (Project settings > Members > "Team activity"): follow the account setting, On, or Off.

Agent tools (MCP)

settings_get / settings_set read and change teamPresenceShare and teamPresenceShareFiles at the global and project scopes.

Providers

All providers, no difference: presence reads the agent state AgentsRoom already tracks for every CLI.

Mobile

The project screen shows the same teammate avatars, read-only. Tap them to see the detail. The collision banner and the settings are on the desktop, where agents are launched.

Limits

  • Team plan or peers group only, and only between members of the same team who have the same project.
  • A ticket matches a teammate's only on a team backlog board or when both imported the same issue (GitHub, Jira, Linear...): each private board has its own tickets.
  • Two people on the repository's default branch (main) is not a collision by itself; shared modified files still are.
  • Presence updates every 45 seconds and on every change of state; a machine that goes offline disappears after about 2 minutes 30.

Common questions

  • Can my team see my prompts or code? No. Only the agent's name, the ticket title, the branch, the state and (if enabled) file paths.
  • How do I hide my activity? Settings > Account > Team, uncheck "Share my activity with my team", or turn it off for one project in Project settings > Members.
  • If I stop sharing, do I stop seeing my teammates? No, you still see them.
  • Why don't I see a teammate who has agents running? They are not in the same team, do not have the project, or turned sharing off.

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