The Three Surfaces
Command center
Search, jump, create, and act across the current workspace from one shell surface.
The command center is the workspace launcher that follows you through the app. The three main surfaces still carry the work, but the command center is how you jump between them, search the objects you can access, and run small actions without first finding the owning page.
Search starts from the app shell
Open the command center from the shell search control or with Cmd+F on macOS and Ctrl+F elsewhere. An empty search shows quickstart actions such as creating a task, creating or starting a workflow, inviting a member, starting a chat, and opening common workspace destinations. Once you type, the shortcut card disappears and the panel becomes a filtered result list.
Results stay inside your workspace role
Command center search is scoped to the current workspace and to what your role can see. It can find people, chats, projects, tasks, labels, goals, artifacts, agent profiles, skills, teams, budgets, machines, runtimes, workflows, workflow templates, workflow runs, and workflow-linked questions and approvals. If your role cannot read a record or use an action, that result or action is hidden from the list.
This permission filtering is a usability layer, not the security boundary. Opening a destination or submitting an action still goes back through the domain that owns the change, so a hidden button is never the only thing protecting the operation.
Actions keep their owning context
Some results navigate to the owning surface. A task result opens the task, a workflow result opens the builder, and a workflow run opens the backing task's activity trail where the run timeline lives. Other results open the modal that already owns the action. Starting a workflow opens the workflow-start modal, creating a task opens the task-create modal, and answering a workflow question opens the answer form.
Workflow operations use the same rule. A workflow template can be duplicated into a draft from search when you can manage workflows. A running workflow can be cancelled from search when you can run workflows. A workflow-linked question can be answered from search when you can update tasks. A workflow approval can be approved or rejected from search when the approval domain says you can decide it. Each action updates the same records that the Inbox and task activity trail use, so the command center is a shortcut into the existing control loop, not a separate workflow.
From here, see Inbox for the attention queue the command center can act on, Tasks for the papertrail most results open, and Workflow execution for how runs record their progress.