> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ponder.ai/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Ponder works You edit in Ponder by talking to its agent. It looks at your footage, makes changes on your timelines, and follows whatever preferences and instructions you've given it. ## Chats The chat is where you tell the agent what you want. Say what you're making, what matters most, and anything that has to stay put. The agent might ask you a few questions, then it goes through your footage and gets to work. You can have several chats open at once. They all share the same Media Pool and timelines. See [Chats and models](/docs/using-ponder/chats-and-models). ## Working across projects Switch between projects from the sidebar, and you'll pick up right where you left off. Anything you started in one project, like a chat, an import or an export, keeps going in the background while you work in another. You can see at a glance which projects are still working, which ones need you and which are done, and keep the ones you use most close at hand. You can also hand Ponder files or folders from your computer and ask it to bring them into a project, or to copy media from one project to another. It checks with you before it deletes anything. ## The Media Pool The Media Pool is everything in your project: footage, audio, images, and documents like scripts or briefs. It's what the agent works from. See [Footage prep](/docs/editing-workflow/organizing-footage). ## Timelines Your edits live on timelines, and a project can have as many as you need, like sync groups, stringouts, a rough cut, or a couple of versions of the same cut. When you ask for a change, mention which timeline you mean. ## Make Ponder yours Everything that shapes how the agent works is in **Settings → Skills & connectors**. You don't have to set any of it up before your first project, and you can change all of it by asking in the chat. | | What it is | When Ponder uses it | | - | - | - | | [Identity](#identity) | How you like to work, in general | On every project | | [Skills](#skills) | Instructions for one kind of task, like syncing, grading or matching a style | When a task needs it | | [Memory](#memory) | Things Ponder keeps in mind about you and each project | Across your projects | | [Connectors](#connectors) | Links to other apps and services, like Envato or DaVinci Resolve Studio | When you ask for them | ### Identity Your Identity is whatever holds true across all your work: how tight you cut dialogue, how long you hold B-roll, how you name things, how you shoot. You'll find it in **Settings → Skills & connectors → Skills → Identity**, or you can just tell Ponder: > Add this to my identity: I shoot wides first, then go back for details, so file numbers aren't in room order. If you already keep your preferences in a document, click **Replace from Markdown** to load them in. Heads up that this replaces your current Identity. Leave one-off rules out of your Identity. Rules for a specific kind of task work better as a skill, and anything about one project belongs in memory. ### Skills A skill is a set of instructions for one kind of task, and Ponder only pulls it in when that task comes up. It comes with skills built in for things like planning and making an edit, footage prep, color, generating media and sending to your editing app. To add your own, click **+ Add** in **Settings → Skills & connectors → Skills**, or ask Ponder to write one for you: > Write a skill for how I cut church videos. > I added finished examples to this folder. Study them and write a skill for how I edit corporate interview pieces. ### Memory Ponder holds on to useful context as you work, so it isn't starting from zero on your next project. There's one memory about you and one for each project, and you can find them in **Settings → Skills & connectors → Skills → Memory**. To add something, just say it in the chat: > Remember that I keep B-roll under 2 seconds. It's worth opening Memory afterwards to make sure it saved what you meant. Ponder can also borrow from your other projects: > Use the same lower thirds I used in my last project. ### Connectors Connectors live in **Settings → Skills & connectors → Connectors**. Use them to give the agent extra tools by connecting services like Envato, or by adding your own MCP server. The desktop app also brings in connectors you already have each time it starts: the ones you've set up in other AI apps, like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and the ones for creative apps on your computer, like DaVinci Resolve. Each shows where it came from, and any that need a sign-in wait in Connectors for you to sign in once. If you remove one, it stays removed. If you have DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 or later, connect it and the agent can work right inside Resolve while it's running. You'll need to set external scripting to **Local** in Resolve's preferences first. ### Control Ponder from another assistant You can also drive Ponder from an AI assistant you already use, like ChatGPT, Codex or Claude Desktop. Set it up in **Settings → AI models → Control Ponder from another assistant**. It needs the Ponder desktop app. Once it's connected, you can open projects, talk to the Ponder agent and kick off tasks from there. If you'd like the agent to run on a ChatGPT or Claude plan you already pay for, see [Use your own AI plan](/docs/start-here/credits#use-your-own-ai-plan). This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.