Get started with Glass

Overview

Early Access. For access information, see Request access to Glass.

Start with a real task, review the result, and add connections or shared context when they help. This checklist takes you from your first useful chat to a repeatable workflow in Glass.

Choose your Glass starting path

For Glass admins: Prepare shared company context

In Glass, update Company context with background and terminology your whole company can use.

Enable the apps your team needs in company Plugins. Each person connects their own account afterward. A company account is shared, so do not use your personal account for it.

If your company settings include Users, use Invite users for teammates who need Glass. If Users is missing, ask another Glass admin to review setup. Project invitations do not grant Glass access. Then try the personal workflow below yourself.

For Glass users: Begin with your own task

Open Glass with your business account. If you cannot sign in, check the account and ask your Glass admin to review access, or see Glass overview and access.

Start with a task, not a setup checklist. Connect tools and invite teammates when they help.

Step 1: Try a real task in Glass

Choose something you need to finish: a customer-meeting brief, a source-linked project update, or a comparison for an upcoming decision. Check whether the chat is in your personal space or a shared project before adding information.

Start with notes or an approved excerpt you can provide now. Adapt this prompt:

I work as [role], and my current priority is [real priority]. Help me finish [task] using [notes or sources]. Suggest a useful approach, then produce [desired result]. Identify missing information and cite the sources you use. Keep the result here for review; do not send messages, change records, or create an automation.

Name the actual meeting, project, or decision. Check the facts and sources, then refine the result in the same chat. If information is missing, provide an approved excerpt or narrow the task. Prompt instructions do not restrict a connected account's permissions.

Step 2: Connect tools for your Glass task

When your task needs a tool, open personal Plugins, find the app, and use its Connected switch. Follow the connection form using your own work account.

Review the account and requested access. Personal connections are not automatically available to every shared project. If a tool is not enabled, ask your Glass admin to enable it or continue with context you can provide.

Step 3: Optionally bring personal memory into Glass

If memory import is offered in personal setup, use its export prompt to gather preferences from another assistant. This is optional; copying the prompt does not import anything.

Review the export before pasting or uploading it into the personal import chat. Remove secrets and anything you do not want Glass to receive; declining a later memory save does not undo submission.

Ask Glass to summarize proposed memories, wait for your selection, and save only your choices as personal memory. Ask it to show what it saved. If import is not offered, give Glass the preferences relevant to your current task instead.

Step 4: Continue ongoing work in a Glass project

Save context for ongoing work in Glass

For ongoing work, create a project in Glass. Add a brief with its goal, decisions, sources, and open questions. Review project access and connected accounts before inviting collaborators.

Ask Glass to save and pin a useful reference. Project files follow the project's audience; pinning neither changes access nor puts the full file into every answer. Keep company-wide guidance in Company context.

Check the audience before adding sensitive material: even a restricted chat can inform shared project context. If you cannot create or share a project, continue in a chat you can use and ask the project owner to review access.

Bring existing skills into Glass

Bring the written instructions from a skill you already use, such as a research checklist or writing guide. Review them and remove sensitive information before sharing. In a project chat in Glass, ask Glass to save the reviewed instructions as a Markdown project file with a clear name and a description of when to use it. For a future task, ask Glass to read the file and use its instructions. Teammates with access to the project can read and reuse the saved instructions, too. Review results and refine the instructions as your work evolves.

Step 5: Use personal Slack and message Glass

Connect personal Slack: Use personal Plugins when a task needs your Slack access. This does not install the company Glass app.

Message Glass: Once your admin installs the Glass Slack app and you have Glass access, DM Glass a real task or invite it to an internal channel and mention @Glass. You do not need a personal Slack connection just to message the app.

Link a project: In a project chat, ask Glass to link the intended channel. You need permission to edit the project, and Glass needs access to the channel. Public channels require an Everyone project; a private Slack channel does not make the Glass project private. For private channels, invite the bot and check its membership.

If the app or access is missing, ask your Glass admin to review setup and keep working in Glass.

Step 6: Continue a useful Glass Feed recommendation

Review Feed in Glass for personal recommendations. Chat or Take action opens a personal chat with removable recommendation context, not a completed action.

Review or remove the attached context, add your instructions, then send a message. Check the result against your priorities and sources. If Feed is empty, unavailable, or irrelevant, continue your own task.

Step 7: Turn a tested task into a running Glass automation

Test the task in ordinary chat first, keeping the result there for review. Refine it before creating a schedule.

  1. Ask Glass to propose instructions and a schedule without creating it yet. Review sources, account access, timezone, and first run. Include delivery destination, recipients, and sending account in the saved instructions, not just the setup chat.
  2. When ready, ask Glass to create it in the intended personal space or project. Creation activates scheduling, so finish your review first.
  3. Open the project's Automations tab in Glass. Check Instructions, Schedule, and next run. Make sure required accounts are available in that space or project, not only connected personally.
  4. After a run, open Run history and inspect the actual chat output and requested delivery, not status alone. If output or a run chat is missing, check errors and account access before retrying to avoid duplicate sends. Pause and correct problematic automations before resuming.

Run now is real execution, not a dry run: it can send messages or make changes. Paused schedules must be resumed before they can run. Missing connections or approvals can block unattended work.