Navigation, project scope, and AI status

The TOW app shell keeps navigation, project scope, organisation switching, account settings, and AI status visible while you work.

Understanding the shell prevents the most common support issue: looking at the right page in the wrong scope.

Main navigation

The sidebar is organized around the operating loop.

Group	Pages
Command Center	Today, Inbox, Chat.
Company Memory	Memory, Docs, Diffs, Snapshots.
Execution	Tickets, Roadmap, Decisions, Risks, Experiments.

Use Today as the operating cockpit, Inbox for review, and Chat for grounded questions.

The sidebar can be collapsed. Your sidebar preference is stored with your user settings.

Project picker

The project picker appears at the top of the sidebar. It shows either All Projects or the currently selected project.

Use it to:

• Switch between company-wide work and project-specific work.
• Create a new project.
• Keep Chat, Today, Docs, Tickets, Decisions, Risks, Snapshots, and Inbox focused on the intended scope.

When a project is selected, TOW adds the project to page links so the scope follows you as you move through the product.

note

Project scope: Scope is sticky in the URL. If you send a teammate a link with project= in it, they will open that page in the same project scope if they have access.

All Projects versus a specific project

Choose All Projects when you want company-wide context:

• Reviewing the overall company snapshot.
• Asking Chat about cross-project strategy.
• Checking organisation-wide priorities or risks.
• Looking for AI review items across the workspace.

Choose a specific project when the work should stay inside a project:

• Writing project docs.
• Asking Chat about one initiative.
• Running a project-specific check-in.
• Reviewing project tickets or roadmap epics.
• Generating a project snapshot.

tip

If an expected ticket, doc, proposal, or snapshot is missing, switch between All Projects and the relevant project before assuming it was deleted.

Project settings navigation

When you are scoped to a project and have project management permission, the sidebar shows Project Settings links:

• General.
• Members.
• Workflow.
• Boards.
• Custom fields.

These links are hidden for users who cannot manage the selected project.

Organisation and account menu

Open the account menu from the bottom of the sidebar.

Depending on your role, you may see:

• User Settings.
• Organisation Settings.
• Organisation switcher.
• New organisation.
• Server Settings.
• Documentation.
• Guide.
• Theme settings.
• Log out.

Organisation switching changes the active organisation for your session. After switching, TOW refreshes workspace data.

caution

Review-sensitive action: When working across multiple organisations, confirm the active organisation before inviting users, editing organisation settings, or accepting AI proposals.

AI status in the sidebar

The sidebar footer shows the current Agent Run state:

• Agents idle means no active background runs are visible for your user.
• Agents: N running, M queued means background work is active.

Some pages also show an Agent running badge next to the item being processed, such as a daily session, snapshot, or roadmap generation.

info

Agent Runs: Background runs are per user and can finish after the page that started them has already returned. If results are missing, wait for Agent status to return to idle, then refresh or revisit the page.

What AI status affects

Agent Runs can be started by:

• Submitting onboarding.
• Generating snapshots.
• Submitting project Check-Ins.
• Editing docs in ways that trigger memory review.
• Chat turns that are reviewed for memory diffs.
• Roadmap generation, regeneration, or scans.
• Background operating reviews and ticket conflict scans.

When jobs complete, TOW invalidates and refreshes affected areas such as Today, Docs, Snapshots, Tickets, Inbox, Memory Diffs, and Memory.

Role availability

Area	Who sees it
Main navigation	Signed-in organisation members, subject to project access.
Project picker	Signed-in organisation members with access to the active organisation.
Project Settings	Project leads/admins, organisation admins/owners, and server admins.
Organisation Settings	Organisation members can view some details; management actions require organisation admin or owner permission.
Server Settings	Server admins.
AI status	Signed-in users for their own background jobs.

Hidden gotchas

• Selecting a restricted project you cannot access can make project-scoped pages appear unavailable or empty.
• A project-specific Chat conversation is separate from an All Projects conversation.
• Some write actions require project write access even if you can read the project.
• AI status does not show every completed historical job. It is a live operational indicator, not a long-term audit log.
• Browser refresh may be needed after long-running background work if the page has been open for a while.