# Polaris > Guides for using Polaris. ## Docs - [Polaris](https://plrs.sh/docs): Hand coding tasks to agents that work in the cloud while you steer from anywhere. ## Get started - [Quickstart](https://plrs.sh/docs/quickstart): Go from an invitation to your first finished task. ## Work with agents - [Start a Session](https://plrs.sh/docs/start-a-session): Give the agent a new task in one of your repositories. - [Talk to the agent](https://plrs.sh/docs/talk-to-the-agent): Steer the agent while it works, queue the next task, answer its questions, or stop it. - [The composer](https://plrs.sh/docs/composer): Mention teammates, point the agent at files, Sessions and skills, attach screenshots and logs, quote the transcript, dictate, and pick the model for your next message. - [Conversation recaps](https://plrs.sh/docs/recaps): Catch up on a Session, request a recap with instructions, and choose whether your organization creates recaps. - [Subagents](https://plrs.sh/docs/subagents): Let the agent split big work across other agents, then watch, stop and review what each one does. - [Agent-started Sessions](https://plrs.sh/docs/agent-started-sessions): Let the agent hand independent work to a new Session on its own Machine, which you can talk to directly. - [Check-ins](https://plrs.sh/docs/check-ins): Have the agent come back later, or on a schedule, and pick up where it left off. - [Machines](https://plrs.sh/docs/machines): The agent's own computer in the cloud, which sleeps when the work is done and wakes when you send a message. ## See the work - [Previews](https://plrs.sh/docs/previews): See the app your agent is building, live, next to the conversation. - [Browser and Desktop](https://plrs.sh/docs/browser-and-desktop): Use a web browser and a full desktop on the agent's Machine, and work in them alongside the agent. - [Terminal](https://plrs.sh/docs/terminal): Open your own shell on the agent's Machine to run commands, check its work or fix a problem. - [Review changes](https://plrs.sh/docs/review-changes): Read the agent's diff, comment on lines and send your feedback to the agent. - [Pull requests and CI](https://plrs.sh/docs/pull-requests): Follow the Session's pull requests, and have the agent come back on its own when CI finishes or the pull request changes. - [Files](https://plrs.sh/docs/files): Browse, open, preview and download the files in your repository on the agent's Machine. - [Artifacts](https://plrs.sh/docs/artifacts): Find the pull requests, Previews, pages, charts, images and videos the agent made in a Session. ## Stay on top of work - [What needs you](https://plrs.sh/docs/what-needs-you): See which Sessions need you, follow what the agent reports, and keep your list tidy. - [Search](https://plrs.sh/docs/search): Find any Session by its name or by what was said in it, act on any Session without opening it, and open a setting or run an action from the keyboard. - [Notifications](https://plrs.sh/docs/notifications): Get notified on your computer or phone when an agent needs you, fails or finishes. - [Use Polaris on your phone](https://plrs.sh/docs/phone): Follow your Sessions, answer the agent and send the next task from your phone. - [Talk to Polaris](https://plrs.sh/docs/voice): Ask out loud what your Sessions are doing, hear any message in full, find earlier work, and tell a Session what to do next. ## Agents - [Agents and accounts](https://plrs.sh/docs/agent-accounts): Choose Codex, Claude Code or Pi, and connect the subscription or API key it runs on. - [Agent instructions](https://plrs.sh/docs/agent-instructions): Tell every agent how your team works once, instead of in every message. - [Skills](https://plrs.sh/docs/skills): Give agents skills from skills.sh or a GitHub repository, for a whole Project or only for you. - [MCP servers](https://plrs.sh/docs/mcp-servers): Give your agents extra tools, such as your issue tracker or error monitoring, with MCP servers. ## Setup - [Projects](https://plrs.sh/docs/projects): Connect a repository and set what every Machine for it starts with. - [Workspace setup](https://plrs.sh/docs/workspace-setup): Have every new Machine start ready to run your code. - [Variables and secrets](https://plrs.sh/docs/environment-variables): Give the agent's commands the settings and keys your code needs. - [Keep secrets off the Machine](https://plrs.sh/docs/keep-secrets-off-the-machine): Let the agent use an API key that never reaches its Machine. - [Cloud access](https://plrs.sh/docs/cloud-access): Let agents use AWS and other services without keys on the Machine. ## Teams - [Share a Session](https://plrs.sh/docs/share-a-session): Let teammates watch the agent work, drive it with you, or take the work over. - [Organizations](https://plrs.sh/docs/organizations): Bring your team into Polaris, invite people, choose their roles, and keep personal work private. - [GitHub](https://plrs.sh/docs/github): Connect your repositories, and have agents push branches and open pull requests as you. ## Reference - [Polaris CLI](https://plrs.sh/docs/cli): Install the Polaris CLI on your computer to list your Sessions, continue one locally and manage variables. - [Machine commands](https://plrs.sh/docs/machine-commands): The polaris commands on every Machine, the tools Machines come with, and how to write setup scripts. - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://plrs.sh/docs/keyboard-shortcuts): Every keyboard shortcut in Polaris, and how to change them. - [Troubleshooting](https://plrs.sh/docs/troubleshooting): What a message or state in Polaris means, and what to do about it. - [Report a problem](https://plrs.sh/docs/feedback): Have the agent draft a report about Polaris, then review it and send it to the Polaris team. ## Legal - [Terms of Service](https://plrs.sh/docs/terms): The agreement between you and Polaris: plans, usage, payments, refunds, your content and our responsibilities during the beta. - [Privacy Policy](https://plrs.sh/docs/privacy): What personal data Polaris collects, why, who processes it, how long we keep it and your rights. - [Security](https://plrs.sh/docs/security): Where your code goes, what the agent can reach, who at Polaris can see your content and what we haven't done yet. - [Subprocessors](https://plrs.sh/docs/subprocessors): The companies that help run Polaris, what each one can see and where they process data. - [Data Processing Agreement](https://plrs.sh/docs/dpa): How Polaris processes personal data on behalf of Organizations that use it for work. ## Agent resources - [llms-full.txt](https://plrs.sh/docs/llms-full.txt): The full Markdown of every page in one file. - [Page Markdown](https://plrs.sh/docs/index.md): Append `.md` to any page URL to fetch that page as raw Markdown. - [JSON API](https://plrs.sh/docs/api/docs/pages.json): Page index of the JSON docs API; each entry links the page's JSON and Markdown forms. Described by the OpenAPI document at https://plrs.sh/docs/openapi.json. - [API catalog](https://plrs.sh/docs/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset of the APIs documented here. - [AI catalog](https://plrs.sh/docs/.well-known/ai-catalog.json): ARD manifest of the agent-facing resources on this site (MCP server, skills, APIs). - [agent-readability.json](https://plrs.sh/docs/agent-readability.json): Manifest of every agent-facing artifact on this site. - [Sitemap](https://plrs.sh/docs/sitemap.xml): Every indexable page URL with its last-modified date.