§ 02 · Studio

For everyone
on the team.

Studio is the room inside Grove where non-coders join the AI workflow. Upload assets. Edit project memory. Review artifacts as they land. Sketch ideas the agents can read. No terminal. No git. Still shipping.

$ install grove → Next: Anywhere →
Studio — Artifacts panel showing the NoteKeeper product alongside a live chat with the AI
FIG. 01 Studio — the room where non-coders meet the AI team.
§ 01 RESOURCES

Give the agents
everything they need.

Drop in assets, wire up shared files, and let the AI team work with the same inputs you do. Studio tracks artifacts as they're produced and renders them inline — diagrams, previews, images, all without leaving Grove.

Shared Assets

Upload once. Every agent sees it.

Drag files into Studio's asset manager. They sync across worktrees via hard links so every task has immediate access, without duplicating storage.

  • Full file manager — upload, organize, rename, delete
  • Artifact sync — agent outputs surface here automatically
  • Cross-platform links (junctions on Windows, symlinks on Unix)
Shared Assets file manager with workspace instructions alongside
FIG. 02 Assets live where everyone can see them.
Inline

D2 diagrams

D2 files render inline with a source/preview toggle. Draw architecture, get diagrams.

Inline

Mermaid

Mermaid fenced code blocks render as interactive diagrams in preview and chat.

Inline

SVG & images

PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF, SVG — all preview inline. Click for fullscreen lightbox with scroll-zoom.

Live

Artifact refresh

While an agent is busy, the artifact preview panel auto-refreshes. Watch the output appear.

§ 02 MEMORY

What the agent
remembers, you control.

Project Memory and Workspace Instructions are the context your agents read at every turn. In Studio they're first-class editable panels, not hidden markdown files. No CLI required.

Project Memory editor with Shared Assets and Workspace Instructions panels
FIG. 03 Edit once. Every agent, smarter.
Editors

Markdown, made humane.

Split view, preview mode, auto-save on navigation. The kind of editor a product manager or a designer can open without googling markdown syntax.

  • Project Memory — per-project context the agent reads every turn
  • Workspace Instructions — global preferences across all projects
  • Edit / preview toggle, auto-save, no "save button" ritual
  • Merges into Studio so memory, assets, and artifacts live together
§ 03 SKETCH

Draw it.
The agent reads it.

Grove ships a first-class Excalidraw panel. Every sketch is stored in the task's workdir, synced across clients in real time, and exposed to agents through dedicated MCP tools. Show the agent what you mean.

Excalidraw integration

A canvas per task.

Open a Sketch panel in FlexLayout like any other. Create multiple named sketches per task, right-click tabs to rename or delete, draw on a real Excalidraw surface.

  • First-class panel in FlexLayout — drag, split, maximize
  • Multi-client live updates over WebSocket
  • Per-task storage under the task workdir — versioned alongside code
  • Lazy-loaded bundle — zero cost if you never open one
Excalidraw canvas sketching the NoteKeeper layout — Table of Contents, List of Notes, Note Details — with an agent in chat reading it
FIG. 04 Draw the flow on Monday. Ship it on Tuesday.

MCP tools agents see

reference

grove_sketch_read_me

One-time format reference. The agent calls this once per conversation to learn element syntax and the Grove pseudo-elements.

read

grove_sketch_list

List every sketch in the current Studio task with created/updated timestamps.

read

grove_sketch_read

Read a sketch by name — returns a rendered image (when fresh), element summary, and a fresh checkpoint_id.

write

grove_sketch_draw

Create or modify a sketch. Checkpoint-driven — one tool handles both, with restoreCheckpoint pseudo-elements for incremental edits.

You don't need to know git.
You can still ship.

Grove's bet: the next decade of software is built by teams where not everyone codes. Studio is how Grove keeps the door open.