Shared bot threads

What it is

Ask one of your team's bots to do a job from any chat, with the person you're talking to. The bot works in a thread of its own, and you get a link to that thread to send. Whoever opens it follows the work as it happens. Your other threads with that bot stay private.

How it works

• Start it. In Aden's chat, open a chat's menu and pick Ask a bot…. In the desktop app's Links inbox, type / in any chat (WhatsApp, Instagram, anything Beeper connects) and pick Ask a bot…. On the phone, use Ask a bot in the composer. ⌘K has it too.
• Write the brief. Pick the bot and say what it should do. The chat you asked from goes to the bot as context, but the link never shows it.
• Send the link. It lands in your message, ready to send.
• Follow along. In Aden (web, desktop, mobile) the link shows as a live card: the bot, the task, and what it's doing now. Anywhere else it opens a share page that updates while the bot works. With the Aden browser extension, links on WhatsApp Web, Instagram, Messenger and X show the same live card.
• Let them reply, or not. Turn on "People with the link can reply" to let others write to the bot in that thread. They need an Aden account.
• Stop sharing. The link button in the thread's header shows the link, switches replies on or off, and stops sharing. A stopped link stops working for everyone.