# Pad Documentation

> How to use Pad, the multiplayer AI workspace: chats, pads, connections, skills, memory, and organization administration.


- **Get started**
- [Welcome to Pad](https://pad.ai/docs): Pad is the multiplayer AI workspace. Every frontier model on one plan, chats you share when you choose, and pads that hold the documents, skills, and memory your team draws on.
- [Quickstart](https://pad.ai/docs/quickstart): Go from sign-in to a shared chat in a few minutes.
- [Core concepts](https://pad.ai/docs/concepts): The nouns you will meet everywhere in Pad, and how they fit together.
- [Desktop app](https://pad.ai/docs/desktop): Pad in a native window for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

- **Guides**
- [Set up your team](https://pad.ai/docs/guides/set-up-your-team): An admin's first week: invite people, put them in groups, and give every group what it needs.
- [Build a team Library](https://pad.ai/docs/guides/build-a-team-library): Turn the documents your team already has into knowledge every chat can draw on.
- [Write your first skill](https://pad.ai/docs/guides/write-your-first-skill): Capture a task you do well as a playbook anyone can run with a slash.
- [Share a tool with a group](https://pad.ai/docs/guides/share-a-tool-with-a-group): Connect a tool once and hand access to exactly the right people.
- [Connect a custom MCP server](https://pad.ai/docs/guides/connect-a-custom-mcp-server): Bring any tool with an MCP server into Pad, from a vendor's official server to a service your own team runs.

- **Using Pad**
- Chats
  - [Chats](https://pad.ai/docs/chats): A chat is a conversation with a model that draws on your team's sources. It is yours until you share it.
  - [Sources](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/sources): The pads and connections a chat draws on, and how to switch them on and off.
  - [Sharing a chat](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/sharing): Bring teammates into a chat with a mention or a link.
  - [Models](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/models): Pick the right frontier model for each chat, or let Auto choose one per turn, and switch whenever you like.
  - [Tools and approvals](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/tools): How the model uses the tools your connections lend a chat, and when it asks first.
  - [Browser](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/browser): Pad opens a cloud browser inside a chat and uses websites for you, signed in where you are.
  - [Files and attachments](https://pad.ai/docs/chats/files): Attach files to a chat, preview them, and find everything a chat has shared.
- Pads
  - [Pads](https://pad.ai/docs/pads): A pad is what a team knows: its Library, its skills, and its memory, for the people who share it.
  - [Members](https://pad.ai/docs/pads/members): Who is in a pad, how they got there, and what each role can do.
  - [Library](https://pad.ai/docs/pads/library): The documents a pad holds: pages, files, and folders, edited together and searched by every chat that draws on the pad.
  - [Skills](https://pad.ai/docs/pads/skills): Reusable playbooks that teach the model to do a task your way.
  - [Memory](https://pad.ai/docs/pads/memory): What Pad learns from your chats, where it goes, and how to take anything back.
- Connections
  - [Connections](https://pad.ai/docs/connections): The tools your organization connected once and shares with the groups and people who need them.
  - [Connect a tool](https://pad.ai/docs/connections/connect): Add a connection from the catalog or from an MCP server URL.
  - [Website connections](https://pad.ai/docs/connections/websites): Sign in to a website once, and the chat's browser starts signed in every time it uses the site.
  - [Share access](https://pad.ai/docs/connections/access): Grant a connection to the organization, to groups, or to people.
  - [Personal accounts](https://pad.ai/docs/connections/personal-accounts): Tools that act as you, with an account you link once.
- [Inbox](https://pad.ai/docs/inbox): One place for everything that needs you: approvals, suggested documents, memory notices, and mentions.
- [Search and shortcuts](https://pad.ai/docs/search-and-shortcuts): The command palette and the keyboard shortcuts that move you around Pad.

- **Administration**
- Organization
  - [Organization settings](https://pad.ai/docs/admin): What owners and admins manage, and where to find it.
  - [Models and Pad Router](https://pad.ai/docs/admin/models): Turn Pad Router on or off, choose the modes members may pick, decide whether replies name the routed model, and set which models Auto may use.
  - [Members and roles](https://pad.ai/docs/admin/members): Invite people, set their organization role, and remove them when they leave.
  - [Groups](https://pad.ai/docs/admin/groups): Sets of people that mirror your org chart and grant pads and connections in bulk.
  - [Managing pads](https://pad.ai/docs/admin/pads): Create shared pads, set how people join them, and archive the ones a team no longer needs.
  - [Security and sign-in](https://pad.ai/docs/admin/security): How people sign in to Pad, and how to manage where you are signed in.
- Billing
  - [Plans and credits](https://pad.ai/docs/billing): One per-seat plan with every model included, paid for in credits.
  - [Usage](https://pad.ai/docs/billing/usage): See where the organization's credits go.
  - [Model rates](https://pad.ai/docs/billing/rates): What each model costs in credits.

- **Resources**
- [FAQ](https://pad.ai/docs/faq): Short answers to the questions teams ask first.
- [Glossary](https://pad.ai/docs/glossary): Short definitions of the words Pad uses.
- [Support](https://pad.ai/docs/support): How to reach us.

## Optional

- [Full documentation](https://pad.ai/llms-full.txt): every page in one Markdown file
- Append `.md` to any documentation URL (for example https://pad.ai/docs/quickstart.md) to read that page as Markdown; requests with an `Accept: text/markdown` header get the same
- [Pad](https://pad.ai): product site, pricing, and downloads