# Team Workspace Quick Guide

Teams let multiple OpenClaw Lite members work toward one shared goal. Choose a role template, create the Team, then describe the goal to the Leader in Team chat. The Leader plans, delegates, coordinates, synthesizes, and delivers the final result.

## Scope

- Teams currently run in **OpenClaw Lite** mode.
- Collaboration is fixed to **Leader-mediated collaboration**: work reaches the Leader first, who coordinates the members.
- Templates already define member responsibilities. You normally do not configure a runtime, resource preset, or collaboration setting for every member.

## 1. Create a Team

1. Open **Teams** from the navigation and choose to create a Team.
2. Enter a Team name and adjust shared storage when needed.
3. Choose a member template and confirm the Leader, member count, and runtime in the summary.
4. Select **Create**.

![Create a Team: enter a name, choose a template, and confirm the summary](./main/team-create.png)

The creation page fixes Teams to OpenClaw Lite and Leader-mediated collaboration. The selected template defines member responsibilities, so individual resource presets are not required.

## 2. Start Collaboration

Open the Team detail page and describe the business goal to the Leader in Team chat. For example: “Build a simple calculator app.”

The Leader creates the plan, assigns members, collects deliveries and review evidence, and publishes a final synthesis. You do not need to manually send the same task to every member.

## 3. Follow Progress

The Team detail page has two primary areas:

- **Team chat** shows plans, assignments, meaningful progress, deliveries, reviews, and Leader synthesis.
- **Execution Kanban** shows root-task state, pending work, active work, and completed deliveries.

![Team detail: chat shows collaboration while Kanban shows task state](./main/team-workflow.jpg)

States such as “Leader planning”, “waiting for member delivery”, and “waiting for Leader synthesis” indicate the current collaboration stage. Do not resend the same task; add a follow-up in chat if the goal or acceptance criteria change.

## 4. View Deliveries

Members return artifacts and validation conclusions to the Leader. The final synthesis appears in Team chat and task details. Use the **Files** tab at the top of the detail page to browse shared Team artifacts.

## 5. Choose a Template

- **Standard two-member Team**: a Leader coordinates one execution member for a focused task.
- **Delivery three-member Team**: implementation plus review for a small delivery.
- **Product discovery four-member Team**: product, design, and technical-feasibility exploration.
- **Software engineering eight-member Team**: product, design, frontend, backend, architecture, QA, and code review.

Templates are a starting point. Select the closest one, then add scope, constraints, and acceptance criteria in Team chat.