Space
Space is where a team tracks its work and talks about it, in one place. Work is
issues — grouped into teams, addressed by a short key like ENG-12, moved
across a board. Conversation happens in channels, direct messages, and
the thread that every issue carries with it, so the discussion about a piece of
work lives on the work itself instead of in a separate app.
Open Space
Section titled “Open Space”Space lives at space.destesi.io. Sign in once at account.destesi.io and your session follows you across the suite — open Space from the 9-dot launcher in any product. Everything you see is scoped to your active workspace.
Create a team first
Section titled “Create a team first”Every issue belongs to a team, and the team’s key is the prefix in every issue
key it will ever mint. Pick it deliberately: ENG gives you ENG-1, ENG-2,
and so on.
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Open space.destesi.io and go to Issues.
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Create a team. The key is 2–6 characters, starting with a letter, uppercase letters and digits only —
ENG,DES,OPS,PLAT2. -
The team is ready immediately. Issue numbers start at 1 and count up per team, so
ENG-1andDES-1both exist and never collide.
Open your first issue
Section titled “Open your first issue”-
From Issues, create an issue with a title. Everything else — a description, a status, a priority, an assignee, labels — is optional and can be added later.
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It lands in
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Open it. The issue has a thread underneath it. Comment there,
@-mention a teammate by name, and react to a message with an emoji.
That key is how people refer to the issue from then on — in a channel, in a commit message, in a conversation with the assistant.
Move work across the board
Section titled “Move work across the board”The Issues page has a list view and a board view. The board has one column per status, and dragging a card between columns changes the issue’s status.
The six statuses are backlog, todo, in_progress, in_review, done and
cancelled. They are a vocabulary, not a workflow — any status can move to
any other. Dragging a card from done back to todo simply works, because
in a tracker that is an ordinary correction rather than an illegal transition.
Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) anywhere on the issues page for the command palette: it searches your issues and runs the common commands without leaving the keyboard. Filters you use often can be kept as saved views.
Talk about the work
Section titled “Talk about the work”Space has three kinds of conversation, and they are the same thing underneath — a thread — which is why messages behave identically in all three:
- Issue threads. Every issue has one, created with the issue.
- Channels. Named
product-launch-style, either public to the whole workspace or private to the people in them. A private channel you are not a member of is not listed and cannot be opened. - Direct messages. One-to-one with another member of the workspace.
In any of them you can reply to a specific message, edit or delete your own
messages, and react with an emoji. Mentioning someone by name with @ marks
the message as a mention for them, which is counted separately from ordinary
unread.
Unread is tracked per conversation: how many messages you have not read, and how many of those mention you. “What did I miss?” is the question the unread view answers.
Ask the assistant
Section titled “Ask the assistant”The assistant rides along on every signed-in page of the app rather than living on one of its own — a docked panel beside the content on a wide screen, and a collapsible bubble on a narrow one. That is deliberate: the things you want to ask it (“move ENG-12 to in review”, “tell the team it shipped”) are things you want while looking at the board or the channel, and a chat you have to navigate to would cost you the context you were asking about.
It can list and read your work, open and update issues, create channels, and post a message on your behalf.
It runs on your own workspace’s data, and its rules split cleanly in two:
- Organizing the work — creating and updating issues, assigning them, creating a channel — it does directly and tells you what it did. These change your own data, are cheap and reversible, and you see the result immediately.
- Speaking to people — posting a message into a channel, a DM, or an issue thread — always asks you to approve the exact text first. That message goes out under your own name to other humans and cannot be unsent.
Updates arrive live
Section titled “Updates arrive live”Space delivers changes over a live stream, so an issue a teammate creates appears on your board without a reload, and a message posted in a channel you have open shows up as it is sent.
If live delivery is unavailable for a deployment, the app falls back to polling on its own — you keep working, updates just arrive a little later.
Reach Space from your tools
Section titled “Reach Space from your tools”Space is not only a web app. The same operations are available from an AI coding agent and from your terminal: