> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.open-hive.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Working in a colony

> The chat, the action plan, and the panels beside them.

Opening a [colony](/concepts/colonies) gives you its chat on one side and a workspace
panel on the other. The chat is where you and the agents talk; the panel is where you
see what they've actually produced.

## The action plan

Each colony keeps a plan of tasks. Agents work through it and update it as they learn,
so it reflects what's really happening rather than what was intended at kickoff.

* **Refresh the plan** — ask the queen to review the plan and bring it up to date,
  marking off what's done and adding what's been discovered.
* **Archive completed tasks** — move finished work out of the active plan into
  **History**. Nothing is lost; archived tasks can be restored to the plan.
* **View archived tasks** — read the history, and pull anything back if it turns out
  the work isn't finished after all.

### Distill a prompt

**Distill prompt** turns what a colony is currently working on into a single reusable
prompt, written for a business user rather than an engineer. It's the fastest way to
turn a run that worked into something you can run again — save it to your
[prompt library](/guides/prompt-library) and deploy it as a new colony next time.

## The workspace panel

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Overview">
    Where the colony stands: its goal, current status, and the workers on it. Background
    subagents the queen spawns show up here, so you can see the shape of the team she
    assembled rather than just its output.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Automation">
    Schedules attached to this colony. Create a schedule to have the colony run its work
    on a recurring basis instead of only when you ask.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Data">
    Tables the colony has built — prospect lists, research results, enrichment output.
    You can browse rows and **download any table as CSV**.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Preview">
    Rendered output — sites and assets the colony has produced, viewable before anything
    is published.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

The panel remembers which tab you had open per colony, so returning to one puts you back
where you were.

## Transcripts

You can open a worker's transcript to read exactly what it did and why. This is the
thing to reach for when output surprises you — it's usually faster to read the reasoning
than to re-run the work and guess.

## Previous sessions

A colony's earlier [sessions](/concepts/sessions) stay available. The colony is the
durable thing; sessions are the passes of work against it, and you can look back at any
of them.