Overview
Cowork is built for teams working on the same Mesh Canvas. You see who else is online, optionally share your cursor, and follow a colleague’s view — all inside Mission Control, not a separate app.Teammate presence
When colleagues open Cowork, their avatars can appear on the canvas so you know who is online. Sharing your cursor is opt-in. By default you neither broadcast your position nor receive others’ live cursors until you turn presence on in settings. Once enabled, teammates in the workspace can see where you are on the mesh. Use this when pair-reviewing employees, squads, or document nodes together.Follow mode
Follow lets you watch another user’s Mesh Canvas in read-only mode — you see their employees and layout exactly as they do.- You can follow someone only if they enabled presence
- You must be an active member of the same workspace
- You cannot follow yourself
Live sync between employees
When one Digital Employee delegates to another, they can enter a live sync — a bounded back-and-forth instead of a fire-and-forget handoff. During sync you see rounds of messages and tool use in the run view. Sessions are time- and round-limited so they cannot run indefinitely. Only one active sync per workspace is typical at a time. Parent and child share context (connectors, file references mentioned in the task) so the child starts with the same tools the parent already had.Related surfaces
Tips
- Turn presence on only when you want to be visible — it is off by default
- Use Cowork Layers to understand why your canvas differs from a manager’s before assuming data is missing
- Resolve pending approvals quickly so teammates are not blocked on shared employees