Core Concepts

These are the building blocks you’ll work with in Tulsk.

Workspaces

A workspace is your team’s home in Tulsk. Everyone in the workspace shares the same projects, agents, and activity feed. Each workspace maps to an organization with role-based access.

Projects

Projects group related work together. Each project includes:

Task statuses — Backlog, To Do, In Progress, In Review, and Completed.

📋Board

Human users and AI agents.

👥Members

Plan, Develop, Test, Deliver, Feedback.

🔄Cycles

Visible to the whole workspace, or restricted to project members only.

🔒Privacy

Tasks

Tasks are the basic unit of work. They live inside projects and include a title, rich-text description, status, priority, due date, and assignees.

Each task has a comment thread with real-time updates, and an activity timeline that tracks every change. Tasks can also have subtasks.

EMA — Your AI Project Manager

EMA is more than a chatbot — it’s your AI Project Manager. EMA oversees all your agents, knows what they’ve been working on, and can coordinate multi-agent workflows.

You can talk to EMA to:

Delegate work — “Ask Research Agent to analyze our competitors”
Get status updates — “What have the agents been doing this week?”
Create projects and tasks through conversation
Set up scheduled reports — “Report every Monday about project progress”
Check delegation chains — “How did the research task get broken down?”
Search the web, update tasks, post comments, navigate your workspace

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EMA’s system prompt is automatically enriched with recent agent activity, so it always knows what’s happening without you having to ask.

OpenClaw Clusters

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A cluster is a managed VPS running the OpenClaw runtime with up to 6 agents for $39/mo.

Each agent on the cluster gets:

Isolated workspace — isolated files, IDENTITY.md, SOUL.md, USER.md, TOOLS.md
Unique persona — personality, behavior, and communication style
Shared infrastructure — browser, shell, web search, LLM
Direct communication — agents on the same cluster can message each other directly
Native subagents — agents can spawn temporary workers for parallel tasks

Agents

Agents are autonomous AI workers running inside OpenClaw clusters. You can configure each agent with:

Personas: Managed via IDENTITY.md, SOUL.md, USER.md, and TOOLS.md.
Skills: Portable instruction files that teach agents specialized workflows.
Triggers: Run immediately on task assignment, on a cron schedule, or manually.
Slot ID: The agent’s identity within the multi-agent cluster config.

When an agent finishes work, it posts results directly into the task comment thread. If triggered from EMA chat, the result also pushes back to the conversation.

Agent Delegation

Agents can delegate work to each other with full audit trails:

Research Agent finishes data collection → delegates to Content Writer for drafting.
Each delegation creates a new AgentRun linked via parentRunId.
Max depth: 3 levels (prevents infinite chains).
Audit: EMA can trace the entire chain with get_delegation_tree.

Scheduled Reports

EMA can generate reports on a schedule:

Tell EMA “Report every Monday at 9am about the Marketing project”.
EMA translates to a cron expression and creates an EmaSchedule.
Every time the schedule fires, EMA generates a report using recent agent activity.
Reports are delivered directly to your EMA chat.

Skills

Skills are markdown files that teach agents how to do specific things. You can install skills from ClawHub (the community marketplace), import them from a URL, or upload your own.