README
Last updated 13 September 2026
Ariadne User Documentation
Welcome to the Ariadne documentation. Ariadne is a continuous cognition platform that brings together AI agents, memory, tools, and integrations into a single coherent workflow.
Documentation Index
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | First steps, interface overview, and core concepts |
| Chat & Conversations | Using the chat interface, conversation modes, the artifacts/canvas side panel, and per-conversation settings |
| Code Mode & Remote Development | How Code mode connects to Desktop, Console, and Docker containers for real file and terminal access |
| Projects | Project workspaces — charter, work, documents, code, releases and support in one place |
| Deep Research | Multi-round cited research runs with grounding anchors and editable reports |
| Notes | Personal markdown notes with AI-powered search |
| Briefings | Daily AI-generated briefings on topics you care about |
| Knowledge | Dynamic knowledge, agent skills, documents, and key–value pairs |
| Whiteboard | Collaborative visual workspace for diagrams and brainstorming |
| Work | Kanban-style project and task management |
| Visualise | 3D scene and object visualisation |
| Summarisation | Summarise web pages, videos, audio, and documents |
| Web Spider | Crawl and index content from websites |
| Website Automation | Record and replay browser automation flows |
| Email & Calendar | Connect email and calendar accounts |
| Agents | Configuring AI agents, tool collections, and MCP servers |
| A2A — Other AI Agents | Work with agents built on other platforms: let them use your agent, or hand work to theirs |
| Personas & Web Chat Widget | Create public-facing chat assistants and embed them in websites |
| Guard Rails | Safety and governance rules for agent behaviour |
| Goals & Schedules | Long-term goals, agent-derived goals, schedules, watchers, and the autonomy activity feed |
| Workflows & Webhooks | Workflow automation and external event ingress |
| Console App | CLI client with ACP IDE integration and local tool access |
| Desktop App | Windows native desktop application |
| Account & Organisation | Profile, API tokens, organisations, and subscriptions |
| How Ariadne Compares | Capability comparison with Claude and ChatGPT — gaps and differentiators |
Quick Feature Map
Ariadne
├── Conversations
│ ├── Chat – general-purpose AI assistant
│ ├── Code – coding-focused mode
│ ├── Query – data analysis and structured queries
│ └── Briefing – automated topic briefings
├── Side panel (per conversation)
│ ├── Artifacts – what the conversation produced
│ ├── Canvas – documents you and the agent co-edit
│ └── Data – structured output (Query mode)
├── Personal workspace
│ ├── Projects – charter, work, docs, code, releases, support
│ ├── Notes – markdown notes with AI search
│ ├── Whiteboard – collaborative diagrams
│ ├── Work – kanban task tracking
│ └── Visualise – 3D scene objects
├── Tools
│ ├── Deep Research – planned, multi-round, cited research runs
│ ├── Summarisation – web, video, audio, documents
│ ├── Web Spider – website crawling and indexing
│ ├── Automation – browser automation flows
│ └── Autonomy – activity feed of what agents did on their own
├── Integrations
│ ├── Email – IMAP/SMTP mailbox access
│ ├── Calendar – calendar event viewing
│ └── MCP Servers – 5,000+ catalogue integrations, one-click install
├── Settings
│ ├── Agents – prompts, tools, reasoning
│ ├── Personas – public web-chat widgets
│ ├── Knowledge – skills, dynamic facts, documents
│ ├── Guard Rails – safety classifiers
│ ├── Goals – long-term agent goals
│ ├── Schedules – time triggers
│ ├── Workflows – workflow automation
│ ├── Webhooks – external triggers
│ └── MCP Servers – visibility, auth & per-user credentials
├── MCP Server (outbound)
│ └── /api/mcp – expose Ariadne to external MCP clients (OAuth 2.1)
├── A2A (agent-to-agent)
│ ├── Inbound – other platforms' agents work with yours
│ └── Outbound – your agent delegates to theirs
└── Clients
├── Web UI – browser-based interface
├── Desktop App – native Windows application (auto-updating)
└── Console App – CLI / ACP IDE integration