Sidekick is the front door#
When you open LumenFlow, you land in Sidekick. You ask for what you need, Sidekick plans the work, agents do it, and you approve when a decision is needed.
You do not need to learn another surface to get work done. LumenFlow's product direction is to show visual structure inside the conversation: plans, approvals, output previews, proof, and the agents involved.
The words you will see#
LumenFlow uses plain words for the things you interact with:
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Ask | What you say you need |
| Job | The thing LumenFlow is handling for you |
| Steps | What will happen, in order |
| Agents | Who or what is doing the work |
| Connections | The apps and services LumenFlow can use |
| Rules | What LumenFlow is allowed to do |
| Approvals | Where you need to decide |
| Outputs | The files, docs, code, or results produced |
| Proof | The record of what happened and why |
What Sidekick can show you#
Sidekick is a conversation, but it can render structure inline when structure helps. The visual direction is to make panels like these available in the chat as the widget system grows:
- Plan — the steps for a job, editable and approve-to-run
- Connections — what's wired up, what's missing, one tap to connect
- Approvals — approve or deny without leaving the conversation
- Outputs — preview, download, or send a generated file or result
- Proof — the record of what happened and the replay of how
- Agents — who is working on this right now and how they're handing off
- Publish/Send — pick the connected destination, confirm, and go
These are visual without being a separate canvas. LumenFlow stays one surface.
What Agents is, and is not#
Agents is the operator depth surface. Today it shows job progress, safe operator actions, outputs and live runtime activity.
Agents is not the place a consumer goes to do work. For making something, asking a question, approving, or reviewing — stay in Sidekick.
Where things live#
Three top-level surfaces, each with one job:
| Surface | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Sidekick | The conversation. Ask for outcomes, see plans, approve actions, review outputs and proof — all inline as widgets in the chat. |
| Settings | Configuration. Connections, rules, approvals policy, notifications, API keys, model defaults, and your memory preferences all live here in one consistent shell. |
| Agents | Operator depth. The job graph, safe operator actions, outputs and live runtime activity — for users running the agents, not asking them for work. |
Jobs is the workspace overview for users who want a non-conversational list view of jobs. It is reachable from Sidekick and from the sidebar. Objectives — outcomes you've delegated to Sidekick in conversation — has its own review page too; see Objectives.
You will not see a long list of separate /sidekick/<x>/ pages for tasks, today, activity, tools, integrations, or model config. Those have moved: configuration into Settings, governance memory into Agents, and the job-adjacent list views into Sidekick widgets and Jobs.