Pencil documentation

Learn the system, then make it yours.

Guides for shaping work, collaborating with your AI team, connecting external tools, and choosing the right Pencil surface.

Understand products, features, iterations, tasks, and bugs before choosing a workflow.

Using Pencil

Mental models and everyday workflows for planning and shipping.

The opinionated mental model behind products, features, iterations, tasks, and bugs.

When to write a PRD vs an FRD, and how to use the AI-generated drafts well.

Your head agent (Chief of Staff), tagging agents in chat, and what they're actually good at.

Picking iteration scope, the relationship between iterations, sprints, and goals, and when to call something done.

Keep Pencil Ideas and a Notion database in sync without giving agents direct Notion credentials.

Cmd+K, quick-add, and the handful of small moves that compound the more you use Pencil.

Connect agents and clients through Pencil-owned tool surfaces.

Use Pencil tools from MCP clients through hosted OAuth/API-key access or the paired local gateway.

Structured access for services, integrations, and automation.

Use Pencil's REST API and OpenAPI reference when agents or external tools need structured access.