What Mesh can do
Mesh reaches almost everything in your workspace - reading it, searching it, and building with it - and steps out to the open web when the room can't answer. Here's how far that reach goes, and the few things only you can do.
It works from your whole workspace
You rarely have to feed Mesh context. Ask a question and it looks across the whole room on its own - your Maps and Topics, Notes, Artifacts, Library files, and saved Images - reading and searching them as it needs to. In Geometry, ask "where did we leave off on tessellations?" and it answers from the topic's own writing and what it remembers.
It never pulls everything at once. Mesh scans a quick table of contents of what exists, then opens only the pieces that matter - the way you'd glance along a shelf before taking down one book. So it stays fast even in a full workspace.
It can step out to the web
When an answer lives outside your workspace - a current fact, recent news, a definition your files don't cover - Mesh searches the public web and brings it back with source links. Your own materials always come first; it reaches out only when the room can't answer, or when you ask it to check your work against outside sources.
Note Mesh keeps your private text out of its web searches unless you ask it to look that exact thing up. What's in the room stays in the room.
What it can build for you
Mesh doesn't just answer - it makes things you keep, and everything it makes is saved in your workspace, not trapped in the chat. Each panel's own page goes deeper; here's the short version.
Whenever Mesh makes or changes something, a small receipt appears under that answer with a reference you can open, so you can jump straight to what it did. More in the chat panel.
What only you can do
Mesh is honest about its edges, and knowing them makes it easier to work with. A few things you hand it, and a few it leaves to you:
- Watch you draw - Mesh can't see the canvas as you work. Send it a picture with /board (the whole page) or /snip (just a piece), or pin a source onto the board to show it exactly what you mean.
- Watch a video - it sees a Video's title and link, but can't play, hear, or read it. Paste a quote, a transcript, or a screenshot and it works from that.
- Read images in bulk - Mesh opens your images one at a time. If you've saved several, point it at the one you mean and it gets there faster.
- Delete your work - it won't remove an artifact, a saved command, or a topic on its own; those are yours to delete, and it checks with you before dropping a topic.
What Mesh remembers
So you don't re-explain yourself every session, Mesh keeps a few small memory cards - short, private notes about what helps you work, plain enough that you could read them yourself. They hold facts about you, never your subject material; that lives in your topics and notes. There are four, broadest to narrowest.
- User
- Facts that follow you into every workspace - your name, how you like to be addressed, a steady preference like shorter explanations.
- Workspace
- What's true across this whole workspace - a course rule, a constraint that touches every map here.
- Map
- How work is going across a whole map - a pattern that runs through its topics, or the shape you're taking with it.
- Topic
- How work is going in one topic - a preference, a struggle, what clicked - like rotational symmetry needs a worked example first.
A fact lives in just one place: something true everywhere rides on the User card, never repeated on every topic. Mesh jots these as it learns them and tidies them as they change. Open What Mesh knows on any card to read it, and Forget to clear it - it's a working aid, never a grade.
Tip Not sure whether Mesh can reach something? Just ask - it'll tell you honestly whether it can see it, and how to hand it over if it can't.