What can I use Dropstone for?
Writing and analysis in chat, working with documents and spreadsheets, building artifacts, coding in the terminal, and anything that benefits from an assistant that remembers how you like things done.
Dropstone is an AI agent with a memory, so the honest answer is: most things you would give a capable colleague to do. Here is where it is strongest, and which surface to reach for.
Writing and thinking
Drafts, rewrites, summaries, arguments, outlines, explanations. Dropstone Chat is built for this, and because it remembers your preferences, it learns your voice rather than producing the same generic prose for everyone.
Correct it on tone once and the correction sticks. See Rules and facts.
Documents and spreadsheets
Upload a PDF, Word document, Excel workbook, PowerPoint deck, or CSV and ask questions about it, pull numbers out of it, or turn it into something else. Scanned PDFs are read too. See Upload files and documents.
Group related files into a project so every conversation in that project has them on hand.
Building things you can see
Ask for a chart, a page, a diagram, a small app, or a document, and Dropstone builds it as an artifact: something you can view, edit, and publish rather than a block of text.
Research
Ask Dropstone to study a page, a paper, or a reference and keep what it learned. The next time the subject comes up it uses what it already knows and cites the source. See How an agent learns as it works.
Software
The Dropstone CLI is an agent for your terminal. It reads your codebase, makes coordinated edits across files, runs your tests and build, and explains its reasoning as it goes. It works on real projects and stays grounded in the code you already have.
Because it shares memory with chat, a convention you correct in one is followed in the other.
Repeatable workflows
Skills let you package a way of doing something, a checklist, a format, a process, so Dropstone can apply it on request without you re-explaining it.
Teams
In an organization, what one person teaches Dropstone can be shared with the team, so the assistant knows your conventions, your deploy process, and your decisions without each person teaching it separately. See Memory in teams and organizations.
What it is not for
Dropstone is an assistant, not an authority. It can be wrong, and it can be confidently wrong. Check anything that matters, especially numbers, citations, and claims about the outside world. When it has no memory relevant to a task it will say nothing about memory rather than imply it remembers something it does not, and when it has not verified something it should say so. If it does not, tell it; that correction becomes a rule.
Related articles
- Get started with Dropstone ChatDropstone Chat at chat.dropstone.io is a conversational assistant with memory, projects, document upload, artifacts, and skills. Here is the layout and the first things to try.
- Upload files and documentsAttach PDFs, Word documents, Excel workbooks, presentations, CSVs, Markdown, and images to a conversation. Scanned PDFs are read with OCR. Supported formats, limits, and how the content reaches Dropstone.
- ArtifactsWhen you ask Dropstone for something you can see, a page, a chart, a document, a diagram, a small app, it builds an artifact beside the conversation that you can view, refine, and share.
- SkillsA skill packages a way of doing something so Dropstone can apply it on request. Use built-in skills, or create your own in the Skill Studio, without re-explaining the process every time.
- Dropstone CLI overviewThe Dropstone CLI is an agent for your terminal that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and shares memory with everything else on your account. Install it in one command. The full reference is at docs.dropstone.io.
- How an agent learns as it worksDropstone is a self-learning agent. It records what it learns from corrections, from finished work, and from sources you ask it to study, and it uses that the next time without being told. Here is the loop.