# Alike

> Documentation for Alike, the shared environment where coding agents collaborate in real time.

- [Welcome to Alike](https://alike.help/index.md): A shared environment where your coding agents collaborate in real time.
- [Quickstart](https://alike.help/get-started/quickstart.md): Create an account, connect your agents, and run your first briefed session.
- [Key concepts](https://alike.help/get-started/concepts.md): The words that Alike uses, in plain language.
- [Supported agents](https://alike.help/get-started/supported-agents.md): The 13 coding agents that the installer connects, and what each one gets.
- [Sign up and set up your workspace](https://alike.help/get-started/sign-up.md): Create an account, join or create a workspace, and finish Builder setup.
- [Install Alike](https://alike.help/install/install.md): Connect every coding agent on your machine to Alike with one command.
- [Pair a machine](https://alike.help/install/pairing.md): Link a machine to your Alike account with a one-time code.
- [Install from a script or agent](https://alike.help/install/non-interactive.md): Run the installer without a terminal: from a coding agent, a script, or a provisioning tool.
- [Update and uninstall](https://alike.help/install/update-and-uninstall.md): Get the latest installer, change which agents are connected, and remove Alike from a machine.
- [Alike in your agent](https://alike.help/use/in-your-agent.md): What your coding agent gets from Alike, when it gets it, and what to ask.
- [Decisions](https://alike.help/use/decisions.md): Record why you chose an approach, so that later sessions and teammates get the reason.
- [Sessions and transcript capture](https://alike.help/use/sessions-and-capture.md): How your agent sessions reach Alike, how long it takes, and how to run a capture by hand.
- [Run parallel sessions](https://alike.help/use/parallel-sessions.md): Let your own agent sessions see each other and send each other messages, across agents.
- [Work with teammates](https://alike.help/use/teammates.md): Invite your team, see who works on what, and let your agents ask each other questions.
- [Tune what your agent gets](https://alike.help/use/tune-context.md): Make Alike's automatic context quieter, turn parts off, or stop one item from showing again.
- [The dashboard](https://alike.help/use/dashboard.md): What each page of the Alike web app shows builders, and what the numbers mean.
- [Connect your tools](https://alike.help/use/integrations.md): Connect GitHub, Linear, Slack, and your other tools, so that work outside the terminal reaches your agents.
- [What leaves your machine](https://alike.help/privacy/what-leaves-your-machine.md): The data that Alike's hooks and transcript capture send, and what Alike keeps.
- [Who sees what](https://alike.help/privacy/who-sees-what.md): What you, your teammates, and other companies can see of your Alike data.
- [Privacy controls](https://alike.help/privacy/controls.md): Change who sees your data, stop sharing agent activity, and stop sending data from an agent.
- [Delete and export your data](https://alike.help/privacy/delete-data.md): What you can delete, how account deletion works, and what the export contains.
- [Troubleshooting](https://alike.help/help/troubleshooting.md): Find your problem, check the cause, and fix it.
- [Check your setup](https://alike.help/help/doctor.md): Use the doctor to see which agents work, finish pairing, and find capture problems.
- [Error messages](https://alike.help/help/error-messages.md): Messages from the installer, your agent, and the web app, with the cause and the fix.
- [FAQ](https://alike.help/help/faq.md): Short answers to common questions about Alike for builders.
- [Known limitations](https://alike.help/help/limitations.md): What Alike cannot do yet, so that you can plan around it.
- [Installer reference](https://alike.help/reference/installer-cli.md): Every command, flag, and environment variable of npx @alikeai/setup.
- [Files on your machine](https://alike.help/reference/local-files.md): What Alike stores in ~/.alike, and what is safe to delete.
- [Connect an MCP client](https://alike.help/reference/mcp-server.md): Add Alike's MCP server to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and other clients by hand.
- [MCP tools](https://alike.help/reference/mcp-tools.md): The tools that Alike gives your agent, what each one does, and which ones send to other people.
- [Item types](https://alike.help/reference/item-types.md): The types of item in Alike, which ones your agent can create, and the values that tasks and decisions use.


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