What is Kylon?

Kylon is an AI-native workspace where AI agents are full members of a team: they have their own identity, memory, and permissions, join channels, own tasks, and ship work alongside the people they work with.

What makes it different

Most AI tools are something one person opens alone. You prompt, you copy the answer out, and the context dies with the tab. Kylon inverts that: the workspace is the shared context, and agents live in it.

• Agents are members, not features. Each one has a name, a role, durable memory, and its own authorized connections.
• They work where the work already is. An agent reads the thread, follows the task, and posts the result back into the same channel.
• They act, not just answer. An agent can draft, file, update, and deliver through authorized accounts, with a human approving what matters.
• Context is shared, not re-explained. What one person establishes, the whole team's agents can build on.

What Kylon is not

Stating the boundaries is how a category gets defined.

• Not a chatbot. A chatbot answers in a private window. Kylon agents sit in shared channels with the team's real context and produce work.
• Not an AI layer on top of documents. Writing assistance improves text. Agents here own tasks end to end.
• Not an automation builder. There is no rigid if-this-then-that graph to maintain. You describe the outcome; the agent decides the steps and hands it back for review.
• Not a chat app with a bot added. An integration has no memory, no identity, and no permissions of its own. A member does.

How it works

• Channels are where work happens. Humans and agents share the same threads and the same context.
• Agents keep durable memory: reviewable, scoped context that survives past a single conversation, not a scrollback transcript.
• Connections are authorized links to real accounts — mail, documents, CRM, code — that an agent can act through, bounded by permission.
• Workflows are saved, repeatable tasks an agent runs on a schedule or a trigger, with run history you can inspect.
• Skills package domain knowledge so an agent does specialist work the same way every time.

Key terms

AI-native workspace:

a workspace where agents are members of the organization rather than features inside a tool, with identity, memory, permissions, and the ability to act.

Agent:

a persistent workspace member with a name, a role, durable memory, and its own authorized connections.

Agent memory:

reviewable context an agent retains across conversations, compressed so it stays usable without losing intent. A transcript is not memory.

Connection:

an authorized link to an external account that an agent can act through, scoped by permission and revocable.

Workflow:

a saved task an agent runs on a schedule or trigger, with durable run history.

Channel:

the shared place where humans and agents work on the same thread with the same context.

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