| Backups and restore | Administration | Back up the data directory safely, restore it, and what a second node does and does not replace. |
| Keys and credentials | Administration | How Mandala stores API keys and sign-ins, and how to add, replace and remove them. |
| Logs | Administration | Where Mandala writes what it does, and how to get more detail. |
| Models and workload routing | Administration | Route each kind of work to the right model, set reasoning effort, and keep costs in check. |
| Notifications | Administration | Get your accomplice's alerts, replies and approval requests on your phone and computers. |
| Updates | Administration | Let Mandala update itself from signed releases, or install a build by hand — with automatic rollback either way. |
| Users and permissions | Administration | Your account, sign-in and sessions, Face ID for sensitive acts, and who else can reach your Mandala. |
| Testing contracts | Building with DHL | Prove that a contract accepts what it should and refuses what it should — before it holds real records. |
| Upgrading a contract | Building with DHL | Change a contract that already has records — signed upgrades, migrate blocks and archived versions. |
| The Workbench | Building with DHL | Write a contract, try it on a throwaway node, and install it — from the app or with your accomplice. |
| Acting for a company | Businesses and teams | Switch who you act as, and what changes across the app and for your accomplice. |
| Exchange between businesses | Businesses and teams | Recognize counterparts, send and receive signed documents, and introduce people. |
| Inviting people | Businesses and teams | Bring colleagues and household members into your home, each with their own identity and accomplice. |
| Who owns what | Businesses and teams | Give each mailbox, chat account, conversation and vault an owner — and move a single chat to your company. |
| Ahrefs | Connecting your life | SEO data for your accomplice, within a daily units budget. |
| Apple Health | Connecting your life | Push daily health measurements and workouts from your iPhone into your personal records. |
| Cloudflare and webhooks | Connecting your life | Let services reach Mandala through a dedicated tunnel, and let your accomplice manage DNS and zones with approval. |
| Set up your email | Connecting your life | Gmail in Communications — mailboxes, signatures, translation, and what your accomplice may do. |
| Facebook and Instagram | Connecting your life | Publish to your Pages and Instagram accounts with approval, and let comments reach your accomplice. |
| GitHub | Connecting your life | Repositories your accomplice may read and change, with approval for every change. |
| Google Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sheets | Connecting your life | Per-account, per-service access to your calendars, files and documents. |
| MCP servers | Connecting your life | Add tools from any remote MCP server, reviewed one by one. |
| Meta Ads | Connecting your life | Ad accounts your accomplice may read, and where it may propose changes. |
| PostHog | Connecting your life | Product analytics your accomplice can read, with events and thresholds that wake it. |
| Telegram | Connecting your life | Sign in with your own Telegram accounts and choose, chat by chat, what your accomplice reads. |
| Web search and pictures | Connecting your life | Brave Search for the web, WaveSpeed for generated pictures. |
| WhatsApp | Connecting your life | Link your WhatsApp number as a companion device, like WhatsApp Web. |
| Install the web app on your phone | Devices and sync | Add Mandala to your Home Screen, with its own icon, window and notifications. |
| Join a device with a code | Devices and sync | Add a new phone, computer or browser by scanning a temporary QR or typing a short code, approved with Face ID. |
| Keys and recovery | Devices and sync | What decides which devices are yours — and how you get back in if you lose them. |
| The Mac app as a second node | Devices and sync | Join your Mac to your home so it keeps a copy, works offline, and syncs. |
| Pair two nodes | Devices and sync | Make two Mandala nodes sync — by device key, over Tailscale or the device mesh. |
| Choose a model | Getting started | Connect the AI model your accomplice thinks with — a sign-in, an API key or a local model. |
| The first run | Getting started | Create your identity with a first name and Face ID, choose what powers your accomplice, and you're in. |
| Install on a Mac | Getting started | Mandala for Mac — one app that is a full node, with its window and menu bar item. |
| Install on a VPS | Getting started | Run your Mandala home on a rented server you control. |
| Install on Linux | Getting started | Build Mandala, install it as a systemd service, and open it over Tailscale. |
| Meet your accomplice | Getting started | Decide who your accomplice is — from a plain assistant to an accomplice with a personality. |
| Monitoring | Sysops | Know that Mandala is up and healthy — health check, service state, disk and the app's own signals. |
| Tailscale and HTTPS | Sysops | Reach Mandala privately from your devices over HTTPS, with a stable name. |
| Troubleshooting | Sysops | Common problems, what they mean, and how to fix them. |
| Agenda | Workspace guide | Your Google calendars and dated tasks in one calendar, by day or week. |
| Code | Workspace guide | Run coding agents in your repositories from any device — approvals, CI fixes, reviews and pull requests. |
| Communications | Workspace guide | Mail, Telegram and WhatsApp in one place, by person, with your accomplice at hand. |
| Dashboards | Workspace guide | The payables board — supplier invoices from received to paid, every step signed. |
| Data | Workspace guide | The back office — every record your rules govern, queries, actions with previews, and the Workbench. |
| Folders, moves and tidy-ups | Workspace guide | Keep a vault in order — folders, moves that keep links, and tidy-up plans you review before they apply. |
| Types, views and type actions | Workspace guide | Give documents a shape with types, query them with views, and add actions to types. |
| Knowledge | Workspace guide | Vaults of Markdown documents with types, links, tasks, calculations and live co-editing. |
| Library | Workspace guide | Every file in one place — attachments, uploads and your accomplice's work, filed with reasons. |
| Personal | Workspace guide | Groceries, money and health — lists by aisle, accounts and budgets, measurements and goals. |
| Pins | Workspace guide | Bookmarks to anything in the Workspace or on the web, in folders, with up to seven superpins always at the top of the sidebar. |
| Tasks | Workspace guide | Every task across your documents, filtered, grouped and scheduled by dragging. |
| Approvals | Your accomplice | Approve what your accomplice prepared — with a tap, from your phone, or in your own words. |
| What your accomplice may do alone | Your accomplice | Choose, family by family, what your accomplice does without an approval card. |
| Choices, reactions and branches | Your accomplice | Answer with a tap, react with an emoji, and take a message aside to think it through. |
| Memory and rules | Your accomplice | What your accomplice remembers, the rules it always follows, and how to change both. |
| Sensitive mode | Your accomplice | An explicit, adult-only opt-in for private conversations with your own accomplice. |
| Talking with your accomplice | Your accomplice | The conversation, attachments, replies, and the accomplice panel on every page. |
| Voice messages and calls | Your accomplice | Talk instead of typing — voice messages, spoken replies and live calls. |
