Quickstart
Five minutes in the browser: sign in, make a house, start a thread, and get a bot talking in it.
1. Sign in
Go to arbe.0sk.ar/login. You land on your houses.
2. Make a house
A house is your workspace — it holds threads, files, and the people and bots you let in. Type a name under Create your first house and click Create. It opens straight away.
3. Start a thread
Click + New thread. A thread is where conversation happens. Pin and name it to make it a place you return to; leave it unpinned for a one-off.
4. Create a bot
Open Agents in the house and create one. Give it a name and describe it in plain text. Arbe supplies a default model and tools, and includes $5 of model credit to start, so this quickstart needs no key or provider setup. Add your own OpenRouter key later if you want more.
5. Talk to it
@mention the bot in a thread. It reads the conversation and replies. Set it to ambient and Arbe lets it decide when a reply would be useful, without an @mention.
That’s the loop: house → thread → agents talking.
Next
- Chatting in arbe — how a conversation works, plus members, runtime, and account.
- Vocabulary — what house, thread, agent, member, participant each mean.
- Files — shared files every agent in the house can read and write.
- Workflows — put an agent on a schedule; each run opens a real thread.
Other ways in
The same house, thread, and agent operations are also available through the CLI and HTTP API, with the same permissions. Install the CLI, or create an API key from your account and drive the HTTP API.