Round Table
A round table is a private, workspace-scoped discussion in which selected AI personas review a topic against the workspace's repositories and help the owner reach decisions, summaries, and drafts.
When to use a Round Table
Use a round table for design review, risk analysis, scope debate, or specialist feedback before creating implementation work.
It is not an approval authority. Validate conclusions with the responsible developer, QA, security, product, or operations owner.
Before you start
Built-in personas are disabled in every workspace until someone with Manage Personas enables them, so a new installation cannot create round tables until personas are enabled.
- Open Settings → Personas.
- Select the workspace.
- Enable the built-in personas the team should use, or create custom ones.
Configuration
A round table is configured once, at creation.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Workspace | Workspace whose repositories provide discussion context. |
| Model | Model used by every persona. |
| Personas | One to ten personas enabled in the workspace. |
Personas are captured when the round table is created; later persona edits do not change it, and personas cannot be added afterward. Start a new round table to change the participants. Persona tools are set in Management → System → Round Table.
Personas
Personas provide named review perspectives, not separate users or approval roles.
Built-in personas are Moderator, Devil's Advocate, Steelman, Senior Developer, QA Lead, Product Owner, and Designer. Users with Manage Personas can create workspace personas such as Security Reviewer or DevOps Lead (name up to 80 characters, role up to 120, prompt up to 8,000), edit or remove them, and enable or disable any persona per workspace. Removed custom personas remain represented in existing discussions.
Turns
A turn processes one user action at a time and updates connected viewers automatically.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Send Message | Adds your message (up to 8,000 characters and 10 attachments of 10 MB) and generates persona responses. |
| Retry turn | Retries a failed turn. |
| Call a vote | Runs a structured vote. |
| Summary | Generates a summary of the discussion since the last summary. |
A turn is Processing, Completed, or Failed. While a turn is processing, other actions on the same round table are blocked.
Votes
A vote records persona preferences on one question.
Open the vote action from the round table menu. Enter a question (up to 500 characters) and two to six choices (up to 80 characters each, unique ignoring case), or use the Yes/No preset, select the voting personas, and select Start vote. Each selected persona casts one vote; an invalid answer counts as an abstention. The tally is added to the discussion. Treat the result as advisory and record the human decision in the resulting ticket or plan.
Summaries
A summary creates a concise snapshot of the discussion at that point.
Generate a summary after major decisions or scope changes; it requires new messages since the previous summary. The latest summary is highlighted, while the transcript remains the source for how a conclusion was reached.
Reactions
Reactions let you mark a persona reply with Agree or Decline; pending reactions are sent with your next message as context.
Remove a pending reaction before sending if it no longer applies.
Ticket and plan drafts
Draft actions convert discussion context into a pre-filled creation form.
- Create Ticket opens ticket creation.
- Create Plan opens Planner creation.
A draft is not saved until the creation form is submitted. Created tickets and plans link back to the originating round table. Review workspace, branches, title, description, approvals, and assignments before saving.
Export
Export provides an offline record of the current discussion as Markdown or Text.
Store exports according to the sensitivity of the repository context and discussion; the round table's private access does not protect a downloaded copy.
Lifecycle
Lifecycle state controls whether a discussion accepts new turns.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | Accepts new turns. |
| Completed | Closed to further discussion. Completing cannot be undone. |
Hide from sidebar removes a round table from your My Work list without changing its status. The My Work indicator distinguishes a round table waiting for you from one that is processing. Completed round tables release their working copy.
Access and permissions
A round table is visible only to the user who created it — other workspace members and administrators cannot open it.
| Permission | Capability |
|---|---|
| New Round Table | Create round tables (the owner can then operate their own). |
| Manage Personas | Enable, disable, create, edit, and remove personas per workspace. |
The owner must remain a member of the workspace.
Troubleshooting
These checks address common discussion failures.
| Symptom | Check |
|---|---|
| Cannot create a round table | Enable personas for the workspace (Settings → Personas), then confirm New Round Table, workspace membership, model, and host availability. |
| No personas to choose from | Built-in personas start disabled; enable them per workspace. |
| Send action is blocked | A turn is processing; wait for it to finish. |
| Persona edit is not reflected | Existing round tables keep the personas captured at creation; start a new one. |
| Summary cannot be generated | There are no new messages since the last summary. |
| Turn failed | Review the failure, correct the model or repository access, then use Retry turn. |
| Draft disappeared | Drafts are temporary until the ticket or plan form is submitted. |
| Another user cannot open the discussion | Round tables are private to their creator; share an export or a created ticket or plan instead. |