## For agents

- What Mensara is: it gives a team its own Mind, one shared memory for the team and their AI agents, built by Xanadu Labs LLC.
- Status: signup is not open. A person joins the waitlist at https://www.mensara.ai/#waitlist. Agents cannot create an account or sign up.
- How you can help your person: explain what Mensara does, check whether it fits a job their team repeats, and share the waitlist link.
- Agent references: https://www.mensara.ai/llms.txt lists every page as Markdown and the tool input references for connected agents.

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# Choose the right kind of help

Content updated 29 October 2026.

Guides · Run agents, automations and loops · [How it works](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works)

Mensara gives you several ways to work with the saved information in your Mind. You can ask a connected agent a question, give it a written procedure, install a program or supervise recurring work. This page explains those choices so you can start with the help your job needs.

[Page as Markdown](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/right-kind-of-help.md)

## Start with the job

A **connected agent** is the AI tool you use in a chat or coding client. A client is simply the application through which you connect to the Mind. Use it for a question or work you are supervising; it can use only the information and actions your account is allowed to use.

A **skill** is a written procedure the agent follows. It can help the agent repeat a method, but it does not keep a process running after your session ends.

An **installed agent or app** is a program set up on the server hosting your Mind to do a defined job. It has its own identity and permissions rather than borrowing your whole account. An agent uses an **AI model**, the service that generates its response, so the owner must allow the model and set its spending limits.

An **automation** starts a set of available actions when a trigger occurs, such as a scheduled time. A **loop** manages recurring work that also needs checks, a person's decision or a way to handle problems. It follows each individual attempt as a **case**, so you can inspect its progress and result.

## Choose a first step

- To find an answer, ask a small question and inspect its source.
- To repeat a method in your chat, discover the available skills.
- To run a custom program, build and test an agent bundle, then have it reviewed and installed.
- To supervise recurring cases, start with a small loop and inspect its results.

## Check what you have

Connecting a client proves that connection. A proposed bundle is waiting for review. An approved bundle still needs installation. An installed program needs an observed run with useful output before you can call the job working.

## Related

- [Ask your first question](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/first-useful-question)
- [Build a governed AI agent](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/build-an-agent)
- [Build your first recurring workflow with a loop](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/first-loop)

Previous page: [Review what needs your attention](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/review-attention)

Next page: [Use a skill or turn a repeated job into one](https://www.mensara.ai/how-it-works/use-and-create-skills)

A skill is a written procedure your connected AI tool can read and follow.

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