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<Columns> <Card title="Channels" icon="message-square" href="/channels"> Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more with a single Gateway. </Card> <Card title="Plugins" icon="plug" href="/tools/plugin"> Bundled plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and more without separate installs in normal current releases. </Card> <Card title="Routing" icon="route" href="/concepts/multi-agent"> Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions. </Card> <Card title="Media" icon="image" href="/nodes/images"> Images, audio, video, documents, and image/video generation. </Card> <Card title="Apps and UI" icon="monitor" href="/web/control-ui"> Web Control UI and macOS companion app. </Card> <Card title="Mobile nodes" icon="smartphone" href="/nodes"> iOS and Android nodes with pairing, voice/chat, and rich device commands. </Card> </Columns>

Full list

Channels:

  • Built-in channels include Discord, Google Chat, iMessage (legacy), IRC, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WebChat, and WhatsApp
  • Bundled plugin channels include BlueBubbles for iMessage, Feishu, LINE, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, QQ Bot, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Zalo, and Zalo Personal
  • Optional separately installed channel plugins include Voice Call and third-party packages such as WeChat
  • Third-party channel plugins can extend the Gateway further, such as WeChat
  • Group chat support with mention-based activation
  • DM safety with allowlists and pairing

Agent:

  • Embedded agent runtime with tool streaming
  • Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions per workspace or sender
  • Sessions: direct chats collapse into shared main; groups are isolated
  • Streaming and chunking for long responses

Auth and providers:

  • 35+ model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more)
  • Subscription auth via OAuth (e.g. OpenAI Codex)
  • Custom and self-hosted provider support (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint)

Media:

  • Images, audio, video, and documents in and out
  • Shared image generation and video generation capability surfaces
  • Voice note transcription
  • Text-to-speech with multiple providers

Apps and interfaces:

  • WebChat and browser Control UI
  • macOS menu bar companion app
  • iOS node with pairing, Canvas, camera, screen recording, location, and voice
  • Android node with pairing, chat, voice, Canvas, camera, and device commands

Tools and automation:

  • Browser automation, exec, sandboxing
  • Web search (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, MiniMax Search, Ollama Web Search, Perplexity, SearXNG, Tavily)
  • Cron jobs and heartbeat scheduling
  • Skills, plugins, and workflow pipelines (Lobster)