Guides

These guides explain every Halo 3.0.4 feature by what you want to do: everyday conversations and workspaces, the things the AI can do for you, developer tools, using Halo from your phone, the Settings reference, and pages for admins. Not sure where to start? Read Just tell Halo first.

Just tell Halo

You don't have to read the docs first for most things. Describe what you want in a conversation, and Halo does the work. Halo reads these docs itself, so you can also ask it questions like "How do I connect a WeCom bot?" and it walks you through the steps.

Some actions need a switch turned on first in the composer's ＋ › Capabilities. For example, asking the AI to create a workspace or switch models needs Operate Halo, which is off by default. The AI can ask you to turn a switch on and highlight it for you, but it can't turn it on itself. What each switch does is in Capabilities.

Everyday use

• Workspaces: keep each project's conversations, files and memory apart, and how the Halo Workspace differs from your own workspaces.
• Conversations: send messages, stop and continue, answer the AI's questions, and manage the conversation list.
• Files and images: hand files, folders and images to the AI to work on.
• Models and accounts: sign in to an AI account or use an API key, keep several accounts, and pick the model and Deep Thinking per conversation.
• Memory: what Halo remembers, where it keeps it, and how to tidy it or turn it off.
• The task panel: see running tasks and questions waiting for you in one place.
• Work on several things at once: run several conversations and workspaces side by side, and add information while the AI is working.

What the AI can do

• Capabilities: what the AI can do once you turn on each switch in ＋ › Capabilities.
• AI Browser: let the AI open web pages, fill in forms and download files; you sign in to sites once yourself.
• AI Terminal: share a terminal with the AI, for SSH and long-running commands.
• Knowledge Base: add your documents so the AI answers from them.
• Office documents: have the AI create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.
• Files and the canvas: find the files the AI made or changed, and preview them in the canvas.
• Email and calendar: once your mailbox is connected, Digital Humans can send and read email and manage your calendar.
• Conversations that work together: reference another conversation, or let conversations pass messages, hand over work and ask for progress.
• Let the AI operate Halo: what the AI can change for you with Operate Halo on, and what stays manual.

For developers

• Changes, code review and Git: see what code the AI changed, stage, commit and push, then have the AI review it.
• Agent engines: how the default engine and the experimental ones differ, and how to switch.
• Skills: install skills from the Store and use them with / in a conversation.
• MCP servers: connect external tools to Halo and test that they work.
• Commands and shortcuts: slash commands, the stop and clear commands in chat apps, and keyboard shortcuts.

Anywhere

• Remote Access: reach the Halo on your computer from a phone or another computer's browser.
• Halo on your phone: what the Android app and a phone browser can do, and what stays desktop-only.

Settings and tips

• Settings reference: every section and option in Settings, in the order the app shows them.
• Tips and best practices: one workspace per project, keeping context and memory tidy, and picking the right model.

Use cases & comparisons

• Use cases: ready-to-copy requests grouped by job, to paste into Halo.

• AI desktop agent: an AI that works with your files, drives a browser and makes Office documents on your own computer.
• AI digital worker: AI colleagues that work on a schedule and report to WeCom, Feishu or email.
• Claude Code desktop: use Claude Code, Codex and other engines in a graphical app, without the terminal.

For IT and admins

• For IT and admins: the starting point for security reviews, deployment, model gateways and proxies, updates and private stores.
• Security, privacy and data flow: what runs locally, which addresses Halo contacts, and how credentials are stored.
• Deploy the Federation Gateway: host your own gateway so members on different networks can join the same team.
• Updating Halo: how automatic updates, Windows updates that are prepared in the background and finished by a restart, and mandatory updates work.
• Model gateway and proxy: add your company's model gateway as an AI source, and set a proxy and the addresses that bypass it.
• Deploy to many computers: system requirements, installers and first launch before you roll Halo out.
• Private store: add your company's own store source in Settings › App Store.
• Where Halo keeps your data: the folders for Halo's data, settings, logs and skills.
• Move Halo to a new computer: take Halo and its data to a new computer, or move a single Digital Human.

Digital Humans and developers

• Digital Humans overview: start here to have AI work on its own, on a schedule, on events or from chat apps.
• Developers: call Halo over the HTTP API, run Halo Server, write skills and build Digital Humans.