Quick answers to the most common questions. If yours isn't here, reply to your invite email and your team owner will help.
agencyBrain is the team-side companion to Ads to AI. Your team owner has set up a shared folder of skills, context, and workflows that your AI assistant (Claude Cowork or Claude Code) uses to help you do your work. Agency Brain is a small app that keeps your local copy of that folder up to date with your teammates.
You don't run any sync command. Agency Brain watches your team brain folder, commits and pushes your changes 30 seconds after you stop typing, and pulls your teammates' changes about every minute. Look for the brain icon in your menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows). That's Agency Brain running.
Make sure you're using Cowork desktop, not the web version. Open Cowork desktop, choose "Add a folder" or "Open project", and navigate to the folder Agency Brain installed for you (it's usually in ~/Documents/ on Mac or Documents\ on Windows, with a name ending in -brain).
Ask your team owner to send you a fresh one. They can resend the invite from their owner page.
The owner needs to install the Agency Brain Sync GitHub App on their team brain repo. They'll have done this during their initial setup. If you see this error, your owner's setup didn't fully complete. Ask them to finish it before you try again.
Yes, but your edits won't reach your teammates until Agency Brain starts up and pushes them. Agency Brain auto-starts at login, so this rarely matters in practice.
No. Agency Brain only watches the team brain folder you picked during setup. It does not see other folders, your browser, your messages, your apps, or your keystrokes. It runs git add, git commit, and git push on the contents of one folder. Nothing else.
Anything you put in personal/<yourname>/ inside the team brain folder stays on your machine and is never synced to teammates. That folder is gitignored at the repo level. No commits go up from it.
The invite link came from their email. Reply to that email and they'll get it.
Mike runs paid help sessions at cal.com/ideas/30min. Otherwise, ask your team owner first. They'll usually be able to help quickly without needing Mike.