lobehub/docs/usage/start.mdx

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title: Introduction
description: >-
  LobeHub is the next-generation agent harness designed to democratize AI power.
  Move beyond one-off, task-driven tools and build long-term agent teammates
  that grow with you in the world’s largest human–agent co-evolving network.
tags:
  - LobeHub
  - Getting Started
  - Agent Workspace
  - AI Collaboration
  - Agent Teams
  - Memory
  - MCP
---

# Introduction

LobeHub is the next-generation agent harness designed to democratize AI power. Move beyond one-off, task-driven tools and build long-term agent teammates that grow with you in the world’s largest human–agent co-evolving network.

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## Welcome to LobeHub

Today’s agents are one-off, task-driven tools. They lack context, live in isolation, and require manual hand-offs between different windows and models. While some maintain memory, it is often global, shallow, and impersonal. In this mode, users are forced to toggle between fragmented conversations, making it difficult to form structured productivity.

**LobeHub changes everything.**

LobeHub is a work-and-lifestyle space to find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. In LobeHub, we treat **Agents as the unit of work**, providing an infrastructure where humans and agents co-evolve.

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### Create: Agents as the Unit of Work

Building a personalized AI team starts with the **Agent Builder**. You can describe what you need once, and the agent setup starts right away, applying auto-configurations so you can use it instantly.

- **Unified Intelligence**: Seamlessly access any model and any modality—all under your control.
- **10,000+ Skills**: Connect your agents to the skills you use every day with a library of over 10,000 tools and MCP-compatible plugins.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/getting-started/agent'} title={'Create a Custom Agent'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/community/agent-market'} title={'Agent Marketplace'} />
</Cards>

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### Collaborate: Scale New Forms of Collaboration Networks

LobeHub introduces **Agent Groups**, allowing you to work with agents like real teammates. The system assembles the right agents for the task, enabling parallel collaboration and iterative improvement.

- **Pages**: Write and refine content with multiple agents in one place with a shared context.
- **Schedule**: Schedule runs and let agents do the work at the right time, even while you are away.
- **Project**: Organize work by project to keep everything structured and easy to track.
- **Workspace**: A shared space for teams to collaborate with agents, ensuring clear ownership and visibility across the organization.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/agent-team'} title={'Agent Groups'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/pages'} title={'Pages'} />
</Cards>

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### Evolve: Co-evolution of Humans and Agents

The best AI is one that understands you deeply. LobeHub features **Personal Memory** that builds a clear understanding of your needs.

- **Continual Learning**: Your agents learn from how you work, adapting their behavior to act at the right moment.
- **White-Box Memory**: We believe in transparency. Your agents use structured, editable memory, giving you full control over what they remember.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/getting-started/memory'} title={'Memory'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/chain-of-thought'} title={'Chain of Thought'} />
</Cards>

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## Next Steps

<Steps>
  ### Get started

  Follow the [Quickstart](/docs/usage/getting-started/lobe-ai) to start your first conversation with Lobe AI. No setup needed.

  ### Build your first Agent

  [Create a custom Agent](/docs/usage/getting-started/agent) tailored to your workflow. Describe what you need, and LobeHub handles the rest.

  ### Spin up a Group

  [Assemble an Agent team](/docs/usage/agent/agent-team) to tackle complex tasks together, in sequence, parallel, or debate.

  ### Explore the Community

  [Discover Agents](/docs/usage/community/agent-market) built by others and use them instantly.
</Steps>

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## Make it yours

### Choose the right model for every task

Not every question needs the most powerful model.

A quick translation? A lightweight model handles it in milliseconds for a fraction of the cost. A nuanced legal analysis? Route it to the model with the deepest reasoning capabilities.

LobeHub gives you access to **70+ providers**, including GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Qwen, from over a dozen providers. Switch models mid-conversation, or let your Agent pick the best one for each turn. If your data needs to stay on-device, you can run local models too.

Each Agent can have its own default model. Your code reviewer uses one model while your copywriter uses another, all running automatically without you making a choice each time.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/providers'} title={'AI Providers'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/getting-started/lobe-ai'} title={'Try Lobe AI'} />
</Cards>

### 10,000+ Skills: Connect Agents to the tools you use

An Agent that can only chat is only half the story.

With [Skills](/docs/usage/agent/skills), your Agent reads your GitHub issues, queries your database, sends a Slack message, generates a PDF, or books a meeting. All within the same conversation.

LobeHub supports the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](/docs/usage/community/mcp-market), an open standard that connects Agents to an ever-growing ecosystem of **10,000+ tools**. Install a Skill from the marketplace in one click, or build your own and share it with the Community.

A few real-world examples:

- *"Summarize the top 5 GitHub issues and post a digest to Slack"* → your Agent reads the issues, writes the summary, sends the message.
- *"Pull this week's sales data and build a chart"* → your Agent queries the database, processes the numbers, renders a visual Artifact.
- *"Find flights to Tokyo next month under $800"* → your Agent searches, compares, and presents options with booking links.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/skills'} title={'Agent Skills'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/community/mcp-market'} title={'MCP Marketplace'} />
</Cards>

### Resource Library: Give your Agents real knowledge

Generic AI answers are fine for generic questions. But when you need an Agent that knows *your* codebase, *your* product docs, *your* company policies, the [Resource Library](/docs/usage/agent/resources) is where you start.

Upload documents, images, spreadsheets, audio, or video. Your Agent references them during conversations, so its answers are grounded in your actual data, not just training-set knowledge. Build a knowledge base for each Agent, or share resources across your Workspace.

Imagine a customer support Agent that knows your entire help center. A legal assistant trained on your contract templates. A product manager who has read every PRD you've ever written. That's Resource Library at work.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/resources'} title={'Resource Library'} />
</Cards>

### Create visuals without leaving the conversation

Need a hero image for a blog post? A diagram for your architecture doc? A quick mockup to pitch an idea?

Ask your Agent. It generates images using DALL-E 3, fal.ai, and other models, and renders them as Artifacts right in the chat. No switching to a separate design tool, no export-download-reupload cycle. The image is there, in context, next to the conversation that produced it.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/agent/artifacts'} title={'Artifacts'} />
</Cards>

### Community: Shared intelligence

LobeHub's philosophy starts with people. The [Community](/docs/usage/community/agent-market) is where thousands of creators publish Agents, Skills, and workflows for everyone to discover, install, and remix.

Found an Agent that's 80% of what you need? Install it, tweak the prompt, swap the model, add your own knowledge base, and it becomes yours. Or build something from scratch and share it back. The best ideas compound when they're open.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/community/agent-market'} title={'Agent Marketplace'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/community/mcp-market'} title={'MCP Marketplace'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/community/become-a-creator'} title={'Become a Creator'} />
</Cards>

### Available everywhere

LobeHub runs in the [browser](https://app.lobehub.com), on [macOS and Windows](/docs/usage/getting-started/get-lobehub), and on [iOS and Android](/docs/usage/getting-started/get-lobehub). One account, and your Agents, Pages, and Memory sync across all devices.

Start a research session on your laptop, continue the conversation on your phone during lunch, and pick it up on your desktop when you're back. Nothing is lost.

- **[Keyboard Shortcuts](/docs/usage/user-interface/shortcuts)**: Power users can navigate, switch conversations, and trigger actions without touching the mouse.
- **[Command Menu](/docs/usage/user-interface/command-menu)**: Press a key and search everything: Agents, conversations, settings, actions. All from one place.

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/getting-started/get-lobehub'} title={'Get LobeHub'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/user-interface/shortcuts'} title={'Keyboard Shortcuts'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/user-interface/command-menu'} title={'Command Menu'} />
</Cards>

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<Callout type="info">
  For self-hosting, visit the [Self-Hosting Guide](/docs/self-hosting/start). For developer
  resources, see the [Developer Guide](/docs/development/start).
</Callout>

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  <Card href={'/docs/usage/migrate-from-local-database'} title={'Migrate from v1.x to v2.x'} />

  <Card href={'/docs/usage/help'} title={'Help & Support'} />
</Cards>