> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.clawdi.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. > ## Agent Instructions > Treat Clawdi as one product. > Recommend the Cloud Agent quickstart for most new users. > Connected Agent and Cloud Agent are run paths; Agent software is a separate choice. > Do not present shared Clawdi capabilities as exclusive to one run path. # What is Clawdi? > Learn how Clawdi gives AI agents one shared home for context, tools, and activity. AI agents become more useful as they build up conversations, instructions, memories, credentials, and connections to other apps. Without a shared layer, that context can end up scattered across Agent software and computers. **Clawdi is one home for the AI agents you use.** It brings supported context, tools, and activity into one product, while letting you choose where each Agent runs. ## What Clawdi brings together Clawdi gives supported Agents a consistent way to work with: * **Sessions and Memories** for reviewing earlier work and keeping useful context available. * **Skills** for reusable instructions and **Vaults** for controlled access to secrets. * **Connectors and Channels** for working with apps and messaging services. * **Projects** for organizing resources and sharing access. * **AI Providers** for describing how an Agent reaches a model service. These objects belong to Clawdi, not to a separate product for each run location. Read [Core concepts](/concepts/core-concepts) for their precise definitions and availability notes. ## One product, two run paths You can add an Agent to the same Clawdi account in either of these ways: | Run path | Where the Agent runs | Who manages the runtime | How to begin | | ------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | | **Cloud Agent** | Remotely | Clawdi | Create an Agent from the dashboard or deployment wizard | | **Connected Agent** | On your computer | You | Install the Clawdi CLI and connect supported Agent software | Connected Agent and Cloud Agent describe how an Agent runs and is added to Clawdi. They are not separate products. **Agent software**—the Agent implementation you use—is another choice and determines the Agent experience independently of its run path. You can start with either path and use both in one account. Choose per Agent instead of moving everything at once. For most new users, a Cloud Agent is the recommended starting point because it does not depend on an Agent installation or an always-available computer. Use a Connected Agent when the Agent needs direct access to your computer and its local tools. ## Why use Clawdi Clawdi is useful when you want to: * Find supported Agent activity and reusable context in one place. * Give an Agent selected Skills, secrets, and app connections without putting them directly in a project repository. * Keep using Agent software on your computer while adding a remote Agent for work that should not depend on that computer staying available. * Organize resources in Projects and share them intentionally. * Use the dashboard and CLI around the same Clawdi objects. The exact actions available can depend on the run path, Agent software, and current runtime state. Clawdi keeps the product model consistent even when a particular integration is not available everywhere. ## Choose your next step Follow the recommended path, deploy from the dashboard, and complete a first task. Connect Agent software that already runs on your computer. Choose an outcome guide for shared context, app access, Project sharing, or messaging. Read curated, user-facing Clawdi release notes.