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title: "Get started"
description: "What Treehouse is, how to set up your first workspace, and how it works underneath."
canonical_url: "https://trytree.house/docs/get-started"
last_updated: "2026-09-29"
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# Get started

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](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/quickstart). If you'd rather understand the model first, read [how Treehouse works](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/how-treehouse-works): it is short, and everything else in these docs builds on it.

## In this section

- [What is Treehouse?](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/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.
- [Quickstart](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/quickstart): Create a workspace, sync it to your computer, connect an agent and let it set things up. About ten minutes.
- [How Treehouse works](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/how-treehouse-works): Workspaces, versions, conflicted copies and attribution - the handful of ideas the rest of Treehouse is built on.
- [Set up a workspace with an agent](https://trytree.house/docs/get-started/set-up-with-an-agent): Hand a new, empty workspace to an agent. It interviews you, proposes a structure and builds it once you agree.