AI Tools group (sidebar)

What it is

The AI Tools group is a collapsible row in the Omniscio projects sidebar that nests the features you interact with as an AI, or that directly shape your AI experience, into one place. It ships collapsed by default — click its chevron to expand.

What's inside

• AI Council — get answers from several models at once and compare them.
• AI Coaching — your personal coaching space.
• Journal — your private reflective writing space.
• PM Advisor — strategic coaching and pattern analysis for your projects.
• What Changed — cross-board activity timeline ranked by significance.
• Ops Engine — workspace health, deadline confidence, and shift handoffs.

Ask Omniscio is no longer in this group (2026-08-19). It was pulled out to its own standalone row pinned at the top of the sidebar next to Claude, so the flagship helper is always one click away. See ask-amc.md.

Where to find it

How to use it

• Click the chevron on the left of the row to expand/collapse. The choice persists across launches.
• Click the group row itself (not the chevron) to open a small roll-up panel that lists the members; each one is a shortcut to open it directly.
• To move a member out of the group for solo sidebar use, drag it to a new position or right-click and choose Remove from Category. Right-click the solo item and choose Return to [group name] to put it back.

How it behaves

The group ships collapsed by default, so its members are not visible until you expand it — and the expand/collapse choice is remembered across launches. The nesting is presentational: the row groups its children for display only and does not re-parent them in the database, so a member you drag out or return to the group is unaffected underneath.

For agents

ai-tools entry in integration-registry.ts; its children carry parentGroupId: 'ai-tools'. Render nesting is driven by SIDEBAR_PARENT_GROUPS + consolidateChildrenUnderParent in ProjectsSidebar.tsx — render-only, no DB re-parent. Collapse state: aiToolsCollapsed (default true). See the sidebar category grouping contract.

Related

The members each have their own page — ask-amc.md is the helper that left the group for its own row, while ai-coaching.md and journal.md are two of the members listed above. For how sidebar rows and groups are shown, hidden, or reordered, see sidebar-items-visibility.md, and hub-descriptions.md covers the one-line description attached to each hub.