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What Treehouse is, how to set up your first workspace, and how it works underneath.

If you only read one page, make it the quickstart. If you'd rather understand the model first, read how Treehouse works: it is short, and everything else in these docs builds on it.

In this section

  • What is Treehouse?A shared workspace of plain files that people and agents both work in, with the sharing, history and review that plain folders lack.
  • QuickstartCreate a workspace, sync it to your computer, connect an agent and let it set things up. About ten minutes.
  • How Treehouse worksWorkspaces, versions, conflicted copies and attribution - the handful of ideas the rest of Treehouse is built on.
  • Set up a workspace with an agentHand a new, empty workspace to an agent. It interviews you, proposes a structure and builds it once you agree.

Last updated 29 September 2026

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