Quickstart

Five steps from a fresh login to a working AI conversation.

1. Sign in#

Open ScaiWave at your tenant's URL — for the ScaiLabs-hosted instance, that's https://scaiwave.scailabs.ai. Click Sign in; you'll be redirected to ScaiKey (the identity provider), enter your credentials, and bounce back into the app.

If you're hosting your own ScaiWave, the URL is whatever your operator gave you. If you don't have an account yet, ask your tenant's admin to invite you.

No password? Tenants can run in mock auth mode for development. If your screen never asks for credentials and you land straight in the app, that's why.

2. Find your way around#

Three columns:

• Left: your workspaces, rooms, AI assistants, and people. Click a room to open it; click a person to start a DM.
• Middle: the active room — message history, composer, members.
• Right (when open): details, notes, calls, the prompt studio, or the plan card when an AI is working.

The bottom-left button is you: profile, presence (Online / Idle / Busy / Appear offline), settings, sign out.

3. Send your first message#

Press N anywhere in the app (or click the + next to your workspace name) to start a new room. Pick Group for a multi-person room or Direct message for one-to-one with another participant.

Type into the composer at the bottom and press Enter to send. Shift+Enter inserts a newline. The composer supports Markdown, emoji shortcodes (:smile: → 😄), @mentions against any member of the room, and /slash commands.

4. Bring an AI in#

Pick an AI from the AI Assistants section in the left sidebar — clicking starts a DM with that AI. Or in any group room, type /engage <ai-name> to bring an AI into the existing conversation.

Type a message and press Enter. The AI's reply will stream into the chat in chunks. If the response is long, you'll see a "peek" popup above the composer summarising what's being written so you don't have to scroll.

To stop the AI mid-response: click the Stop button that appears during generation, or send a new message (interrupts immediately).

5. Try one power move#

Pick whichever fits what you do:

• Multi-step task? Ask the AI: "Research three vector databases for our use case and compare them." The AI will commit to a written plan, work through it step-by-step, and let you pause or cancel at any time. See Use the planner.

• Want notes alongside chat? Click Save as note on any message, or open the Notes panel (right sidebar). Notes support [[wiki links]], math, todos, and live multi-cursor co-editing. See Create and organize notes.

• Long room, lots to read? Click Catch up in the chat header. An AI summarises everything you missed and shows the priority items in a separate panel. See Catch up on busy rooms.

• Building an integration? Skip ahead to Your first REST API call.

Where next#