# hob Documentation

> Independent workspace for coding agents.

- [Headless mode](/docs/headless): Keep your development stack running on a stable host and return to the same work from a browser or phone.
- [History](/docs/core-features/activity): Find past work, reopen the relevant turn, and follow the commits and issues connected to it.
- [Mark up and annotate](/docs/core-features/annotations): Point to the change you want, send the context to an agent, and return to its notes on the work.
- [Commits and artifacts](/docs/core-features/artifacts): Follow a change from review to commit, then back to the agent conversations and decisions that produced it.
- [Automation reference](/docs/core-features/automation-reference): Look up the YAML fields, CLI commands, execution rules, and retained results for hob automations.
- [Secrets, schedules, and trust](/docs/core-features/automation-safety): Give repeatable work a schedule, keep credentials out of prompts, and decide which shared workflows may run.
- [Automations](/docs/core-features/automations): Combine repeatable commands, agent judgment, and reviewable results in one workflow.
- [Saved](/docs/core-features/bookmarks): Keep the moments worth returning to, and reopen the workspace layouts that help you work.
- [Browser previews](/docs/core-features/browser-previews): Try your app beside the agent building it, reload local files, and keep preview-server setup with the workspace.
- [Building automations](/docs/core-features/building-automations): Turn a fixed workflow into a reusable plan with inputs, reliable handoffs, and explicit failure behavior.
- [Returning to your work](/docs/core-features/checkpoints): Come back to your projects, conversations, and working layout, and know what needs to start again after a shutdown.
- [hob CLI](/docs/core-features/cli): Look up the commands people and agents use to arrange work, read results, coordinate, and automate in hob.
- [Diff viewer](/docs/core-features/diff-viewer): Review an agent's changes in place, keep the useful parts, and revert individual chunks before committing.
- [Working with your agent](/docs/core-features/integration-layer): Let agents show their work, ask for your judgment, and bring the right context into view.
- [MCP](/docs/core-features/mcp): Bring external tools and data into your agent’s work, with their activity visible in the conversation.
- [Parallel agents](/docs/core-features/parallel-agents): Divide a task across agents and providers, keep their exchanges visible, and decide when work continues.
- [Remote access](/docs/core-features/remote): Continue the same project from a browser or phone, with your agents, tools, and working context still on the host.
- [Files & previews](/docs/core-features/render-panes): Keep source, specs, reports, and media beside the agents working on them, with live updates and direct editing where you need it.
- [Slash commands](/docs/core-features/slash-commands): Find pane actions and your agent’s reusable commands without leaving the composer.
- [Stats](/docs/core-features/stats): Understand your patterns with agents, follow work through to results, and find useful changes to your workflow.
- [Terminals](/docs/core-features/terminals): Run checks beside your agents, keep command output in context, and find and reuse commands across sessions.
- [Testing](/docs/core-features/testing): Try the guestbook's behavior, give an agent useful evidence, and verify the fix beside the work.
- [Issues](/docs/core-features/todos): Turn findings into focused tasks, hand them to agents, and review the result with its original context beside you.
- [Projects and workspaces](/docs/core-features/workspaces): Keep each project organized, give every workstream its own panes, and carry shared context between tasks.
- [Accounts and profiles](/docs/customizing/agent-accounts): Keep a conversation going on another subscription, choose different launch options, or separate work and personal setups.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](/docs/customizing/keyboard-shortcuts): Start agents, move between tasks, and make hob's keyboard controls your own.
- [Project icon](/docs/customizing/project-icon): Recognize each project at a glance with a logo or custom initials and colors.
- [Settings](/docs/customizing/settings): Find the control you need, tailor hob to each project, and choose how you work with agents.
- [Themes](/docs/customizing/themes): Choose your workspace colors, follow light or dark mode, and give terminals their own palette.
- [Welcome](/docs/get-started): Your whole agent stack in one app. Run, review, automate, and recover the work in one connected system.
- [Quickstart](/docs/get-started/quickstart): Set up hob and a coding tool, open your project, and review one useful result.
- [Subscription](/docs/get-started/subscription): Check your license, activate a machine, and manage your subscription.
- [Your first task](/docs/get-started/your-first-task): Take a small guestbook improvement from a local issue to a preview, reviewed diff, and commit you can find again.