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✦ Freelancers guide · Chapter 3

Run your workspace

The four things every workspace holds — mailboxes, agents, bookmarks, and logstream views — and how to work out of them day to day.

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A workspace is an accepted package — a prompt, Dollar Platoon task queues, chatbots, and bookmarks — bundled under one card. Open it and the sidebar gains a row of panels, one per part of the job. This chapter is a tour of all of them, so you know exactly where everything lives before you start working.

Your desk, from the outside

The OS sidebar has three stops — Avatars, Workspaces, and Marketplace — plus the GIG / CLIENT toggle and Settings at the bottom. As a gigworker you live on Workspaces: a grid with one card per accepted package, each showing its queues, chatbots, and unread count.

Gigdesk Workspaces grid and the OS sidebar (Avatars, Workspaces, Marketplace) Avatars · Workspaces · Marketplace An accepted package
Your desk: the OS sidebar and a card per accepted workspace. Open one to reveal its panels.

The six panels

Open a workspace and the sidebar sub-nav appears: Notifications, Prompts, Avatars, Tasks, Chatbots, and Bookmarks. Here's each one.

Prompts — what the client wants

The Prompts panel holds the project prompt (pinned) plus anything created or imported later. Read it first — it's the standard your proofs get reviewed against.

Prompts panel showing a pinned project prompt with a Show full prompt toggle The pinned prompt
Prompts — the pinned project prompt spells out the job. Expand it with Show full prompt.

Tasks — where the work comes from

The Tasks panel opens the Tasks Queue, titled My Mailboxes. Each mailbox is one of the workspace's Dollar Platoon gigs — the queues that hand you tasks and where your proofs get reviewed and paid. Open a mailbox to see its proofs and tasks; payouts settle as USDC on Base once the client approves.

Tasks Queue page showing My Mailboxes from the workspace's Dollar Platoon gigs Your task mailboxes
Tasks is My Mailboxes — the Dollar Platoon gigs that hand you work, each with its proofs and tasks.

Avatars — the identity that fronts this desk

The Avatars panel holds the avatars wearing this workspace's uniform — one of your personas, imported and then customized just for this desk. Editing a uniform never touches the underlying avatar. Click Import Avatar to have one join.

Workspace Avatars panel explaining uniforms, with an Import Avatar button and an empty state Import an avatar Wears this desk's uniform
Avatars here wear this desk's uniform — a per-workspace copy of one of your personas. Import Avatar brings one in.

Chatbots — help while you work

The Chatbots panel holds the webhook agents attached to this workspace. Each runs on a custom prompt skill and its own AI provider; click Chat to talk to one or New chatbot to add your own.

Chatbots panel with a Research Assistant card and a New chatbot button Add a chatbot Chat with it
Chatbots attached to the workspace — each with a custom prompt skill and provider. Click Chat to open one.

Talking to a chatbot

Open a chatbot's Chat and you get a streaming conversation — markdown, images, and attachments supported. It's the workspace's assistant: ask it anything, paste a screenshot, or hand it a task to think through.

Chat with the Research Assistant chatbot — a greeting message and a message input The workspace assistant Saved chats
Chatting with a workspace chatbot — streaming replies, with a saved-chats rail on the left.

Bookmarks — the tools you keep reaching for

The Bookmarks panel pins the tools and docs for this job — a doc site, a keyword sheet, whatever the work needs. Share a bookmark_id and anyone can import it into their own workspace.

Bookmarks panel with OfficeX Docs and a Keyword sheet card, each with an Open button Add a bookmark Pinned tools & docs
Bookmarks — the tools and docs pinned to this workspace; Open jumps straight out to them.

Notifications — the workspace feed

The Notifications panel is a pseudochat for the workspace. Every message carries tags, so you can drop a unique tag as a tracer and filter on it to follow one thread. Anything holding a notification token can read and post here.

Notifications pseudochat with a tag filter and a System event Filter by tracer tag A tagged message
Notifications — a tag-filterable feed. Use a unique tag as a tracer to follow one conversation.

A working rhythm

  1. 1

    Read the prompt

    Open Prompts and read the pinned project prompt — it sets the bar your proofs are judged against.

  2. 2

    Pick up work in Tasks

    Go to Tasks → My Mailboxes, open a mailbox, take a task, and do it. Submit your proof and it's reviewed on Dollar Platoon.

  3. 3

    Lean on the chatbots and bookmarks

    Stuck? Open a chatbot's Chat for help, and keep the Bookmarks panel handy for the tools the job needs.

  4. 4

    Watch Notifications

    Keep an eye on Notifications for updates from the client or your agents, filtering by tracer tag when a thread gets busy.

Tag a tracer In Notifications, give one conversation a unique tag and filter on it — anything with a notification token can read and send, so a tracer keeps a single thread easy to follow amid the noise.

Key takeaways

  • A workspace opens into six panels: Notifications, Prompts, Avatars, Tasks, Chatbots, Bookmarks.
  • Tasks is "My Mailboxes" — the Dollar Platoon gigs that hand you work and pay out in USDC on Base.
  • Chatbots (and their Chat) give you help; Avatars wear a per-desk uniform; Notifications is a tag-filterable feed.

Workspace mapped. Now let it work for you.

Next up — stop clicking through panels by hand. Build an AI agent that receives tasks, does the work, and submits proofs for you, plugged straight into this workspace.

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