# Siftware Dev docs > Siftware Dev is project, time, schedule, client and AI-cost software for agencies. These are its user manual and guides, each page also as plain markdown. ## For AI agents - [Connect an agent](https://siftware.dev/docs/ai/connect-an-agent.md): Claude Code, Codex and Claude Desktop connect to siftware.dev over MCP. The agent acts as the person who signed in, with that person's rights. - [MCP tools reference](https://siftware.dev/docs/ai/mcp-tools.md): The workspace server at /mcp has 36 tools. Each needs the scope shown. A connection sees only the tools its scopes allow. - [REST API](https://siftware.dev/docs/ai/rest-api.md): The REST API is at /api/v1 (https://app.siftware.dev/api/v1). It returns JSON. Use it where MCP does not fit: scripts, CI, bots, and deletes. - [Machine-readable docs](https://siftware.dev/docs/ai/machine-readable-docs.md): These docs are published for agents as well as people. - [Rules for agents](https://siftware.dev/docs/ai/rules-for-agents.md): What an agent does in siftware.dev, and what it does not. ## Siftware manual: Getting started - [Navigation and tabs](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/getting-started/navigation.md): The sidebar is grouped, and screens that overlap are tabs on one page. Each sidebar link opens a page with its tabs along the top. ## Siftware manual: Daily note - [Today and tomorrow](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/daily/today-and-tomorrow.md): The daily note is a canvas per person per day. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Daily feeds](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/daily/daily-feeds.md): The daily note fills itself with the day's calendar, the day's recorded meetings and the day's important email, one column each. ## Siftware manual: Capture - [Capture to today](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/capture/capture-to-today.md): Anything captured during the day - a line of text, a screenshot, a PDF, a recording - lands on today's daily note, beside the tasks due. - [iPhone capture](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/capture/iphone-capture.md): One capture sheet, open from every screen of the iPhone and iPad app, with three modes: Note, Task and Voice. ## Siftware manual: Canvas - [Canvas](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/canvas/canvas.md): A canvas is a freeform board of short notes joined by lines. Some cards are real tasks, some are docs, the rest are notes that give a task its context. - [Shapes, frames and lines](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/canvas/shapes-frames-and-lines.md): Flowchart shapes, frames to group them, and lines with arrows, labels and styles. A process can be drawn on the same canvas as the tasks that carry it out. - [Tables, checklists and link cards](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/canvas/tables-checklists-and-links.md): Small structured blocks for a canvas: a table of plain text, a checklist to tick through, and a link card that shows a web page's title, summary and image. - [Audio and transcripts](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/canvas/audio-and-transcripts.md): Recordings sit on a canvas as cards with a player and a transcript. ## Siftware manual: Agents - [Agent panel](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/agents/agent-panel.md): An assistant beside the canvas that draws on it. Ask for a diagram, a flowchart or a tidy-up and the changes appear on the canvas, each one undoable. - [Claude connector (MCP)](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/agents/claude-connector.md): An MCP server that lets Claude read and draw on canvases from outside the app: claude.ai, Claude Desktop, the Claude mobile apps, or Claude Code. - [AI usage](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/agents/ai-usage.md): Every model response the canvas assistant receives is recorded with its token counts and, where the model is priced, its cost in US dollars. ## Siftware manual: Docs - [Docs](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/docs/docs.md): Written knowledge that lives next to the work. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Folders and pages](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/docs/folders-and-pages.md): Docs organised as folders and pages, in two panes: a tree that holds folders and pages, and a reader. - [Git sources](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/docs/git-sources.md): A Docs folder can take its pages from a git repository. Markdown files become pages, subdirectories become subfolders, and every push keeps the folder current. - [Inbox, Agent notes and Publish](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/docs/inbox-and-agent-notes.md): Inbox: docs addressed to you. The Docs sidebar entry shows an unread count. ## Siftware manual: Projects and tasks - [Projects](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/projects/projects.md): A project is the container for a piece of work: its tasks, its people, its docs and its canvas. - [Tasks and boards](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/projects/tasks-and-boards.md): Each project opens on its board: the project's tasks, laid out in rows, cards or a canvas. - [Dashboard](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/projects/dashboard.md): The dashboard is the first page after sign-in. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. ## Siftware manual: Support - [Tickets](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/support/tickets.md): A ticket is a customer's email to the support address, kept as a conversation. Staff reply, assign and close from Support > Tickets. - [Agreements and products](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/support/agreements.md): A product is something a customer is supported on. An agreement records the support a customer has bought for a product. ## Siftware manual: Time and planning - [Time and timer](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/time/time-and-timer.md): Every minute of work is a time log on a task. Log it as a typed duration, run a timer while working, or use Log time from anywhere in the app. - [Schedule](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/time/schedule.md): Who is on what, day by day. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Capacity and budgets](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/time/budgets.md): The capacity model sets what each client bought for a month against who will do it. - [Reports](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/time/reports.md): Four reports on logged time. All time lists every entry with totals. Over budget finds open tasks past their estimate. ## Siftware manual: Clients - [Companies](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/clients/companies.md): A company is an organisation the agency deals with: a client, a prospect, or neither. - [Contacts](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/clients/contacts.md): A contact is a person the agency deals with, recorded whether or not they can sign in. ## Siftware manual: Plugins - [Plugins](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/plugins/plugins.md): A plugin adds a feature to Siftware Dev without changing the app itself: a view, a screen, an API, its own tables. Each install chooses which plugins run. - [Gantt](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/plugins/gantt.md): A Timeline layout on a project's tasks page. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Leads](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/plugins/leads.md): A pipeline for work that might be bought. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Xero automation](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/plugins/xero-automation.md): Xero automation captures documents and brings them into Xero without retyping. ## Siftware manual: Ops and estate - [Ops and estate screens](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/ops/estate-and-ops.md): Ops & admin groups the running of the workspace: Health, Agents, Access, Instance and Email. ## Siftware manual: Settings - [Settings](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/settings/settings.md): From the regrouped navigation, Settings has two sections: You (My AI, Connections) and Workspace (Company, People and sign-in, Plan, Labels and priorities). - [Account](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/settings/account.md): Each person's own corner: their profile, the order of their sidebar, their notifications, and how their screens are set out. - [Roles and permissions](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/settings/roles-and-permissions.md): A role is a set of permissions given to a login. From the Siftware manual for Siftware Dev. - [Sign-in](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/settings/sign-in.md): People sign in with Siftware single sign-on, Google, GitHub or Apple, or with an email sign-in link. - [View as and support access](https://siftware.dev/docs/manual/settings/view-as.md): View as lets an admin or ops person see every page as another person sees it, read-only.