Notebook

A dedicated investigation surface per chat thread, anchored to something on the Wire.

A Notebook is where you investigate. It lives at /dashboard/threads/[id], one per chat thread, and is always anchored to something concrete — a dispatch, an interest, or the brief itself.

The Wire is for scanning. The Notebook is for following up.

How you get into a Notebook

Ask scout on any dispatch — opens a Notebook anchored to that dispatch.
Free-text cmd+k — typing a question into cmd+k (instead of a slash command) opens a fresh Notebook with that question as turn one.
Direct navigation — clicking an existing thread in your history.

What's in a Notebook

A streaming conversation — scout replies arrive token-by-token over SSE. No "thinking…" wait wall.
A bottom composer for follow-ups.
A right rail showing the anchor and cited dispatches:
- ANCHOR — what this thread is about. The dispatch, interest, or brief that scoped the conversation.
- CITED DISPATCHES — every dispatch the scout has referenced inline, listed for quick jumping back to the Wire.
Inline tool-call action chips — when the scout takes an action mid-conversation (e.g. paused interest "anduril hiring"), a small chip appears in the transcript instead of plain text. Click through to undo or inspect.

What the scout can do in a Notebook

Beyond just answering, the scout can take actions on your behalf — tool calls that mutate state. Examples:

Pausing or resuming an interest.
Creating a new interest or tagging an existing one.
Pulling fresh signals on a sub-topic.
Generating a one-off PDF brief.

Every mutation surfaces as an inline tool-call chip; nothing happens silently.

Anchors, in detail

The anchor shapes the scout's context window:

Anchor	What the scout sees
Dispatch	The full dispatch, its sources, and the run that produced it.
Interest	The interest's signals, recent runs, and recent dispatches.
Brief	The whole brief and the recent Wire.

A free-text cmd+k question that doesn't reference anything specific opens with the brief as its implicit anchor.

Notebooks vs the Wire

Use the Wire when…	Use a Notebook when…
You want to scan what's new.	You want to follow up on something specific.
You want to filter / triage.	You want the scout to do work for you.
You want a deep-link to share.	You want a private working transcript.