# Introduction

> A persistent home for your relationships, built for the agents that work with you.

## A shared home for your agents’ context

Orbit gives agent workflows a common place to remember people, organisations, projects, tasks and activity. Instead of choosing and connecting a new store for every workflow, create a workspace and let compatible MCP agents use its structured records. Orbit stores the context; your agent or automation platform runs the workflow and any external actions.

The public homepage includes interactive, fictional examples for a design studio, dentistry and personal projects. These illustrate shared context and separate workspaces; they are not live customer data or prebuilt workflow integrations. The beta includes three workspaces and up to 20 active agents per account. Start with the [quickstart](/docs/quickstart) to create your account and connect an agent.

## A little context goes a long way

A useful relationship is more than a name in a list. It is the conversation you had, the work you are doing together, and the small details you want to remember next time.

Orbit gives your agents a persistent, structured place for that context. Create a contact once, find it in another conversation, and keep building on what you already know.

## Built for the way agents work

**One shared source of context.** Your records live in your private workspace, independently of any agent session.

**A small, explicit interface.** Agents connect through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Every tool has a defined purpose, validated inputs, and an authenticated caller.

**You stay in control.** Orbit stores records and enforces permissions. Your agents provide the reasoning and decide how to help, within the permissions you give them.

> **Headless by design**
> CRM operations happen through MCP. The [account interface](/docs/account) lets you manage workspaces and agent access, browse records, and download your data.

## Your first conversation

Once [Hermes is connected](/docs/connect-hermes), ask it to start with the workspace context and look for a contact before creating one:

```text
Search Orbit for Maya Chen. If there is no matching contact,
create one with maya@example.com and the tag “collaborator”.
Remember the contact ID so we can retrieve it next time.
```

Hermes can use `contacts_search`, `contacts_create`, and `contacts_get`. Orbit attributes any creation to the authenticated agent and keeps the result available after the conversation ends.

## What you can do today

The **0.4 CRM** supports contacts, organisations, projects, affiliations, participants, sourced activity, assigned tasks with expiring claims and outcome-backed completion, structured briefs, reusable tags, and typed custom fields. Mutable records use revision checks and archive/restore. It includes reader and contributor permissions, duplicate candidate warnings on creation, safe mutation retries, and an audit trail.

You can export a workspace from Settings. Custom-field definition management and exceptional activity redaction still require the service operator. See the [release roadmap](/docs/roadmap) for the full picture.