# Dench

## Docs

- [Approval commands in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/approvals.md): Request human approval before risky actions, then record the outcome with dench approval approve or reject — with evidence attached to every decision.
- [Billing and AI credits in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/billing.md): Check Dench AI credit balance, create top-up checkout links, and handle credit blockers for Long Sessions with dench billing commands.
- [Dench CLI command reference](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/command-reference.md): Complete reference for Dench CLI commands, options, environment variables, session behavior, JSON output, and advanced development commands.
- [Context and status commands in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/context.md): Use dench context and dench status to confirm the active workspace, current agent, tasks, approvals, rules, connected apps, dashboard links, and next commands.
- [External tools in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/external-tools.md): Connect GitHub, Slack, Gmail, Stripe, and more through Dench. Search for tools, check connection status, and run actions with built-in approval enforcement.
- [Dench CLI login and session management](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/login.md): Authenticate an AI agent with Dench, manage multiple sessions, and switch between workspaces using login, sessions, use, and logout.
- [Long Sessions in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/long-sessions.md): Start, monitor, and resume bounded autonomous agent runs from the Dench CLI with prepaid AI credits, safety limits, streamed artifacts, and recovery steps.
- [Memory, artifacts, and suggested work in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/memory-artifacts.md): Search and save durable workspace memory, list Long Session artifacts, and convert task suggestions into workspace tasks with Dench CLI commands.
- [Onboard an agent with the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/onboarding.md): Use dench onboard, setup, and what-can-i-do to log an agent in and surface workspace context, tasks, tools, memory, and approval steps.
- [Dench CLI overview](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/overview.md): Install the Dench CLI to onboard AI agents, manage sessions, coordinate tasks, request approvals, run tools, and start Long Sessions.
- [Task and log commands in the Dench CLI](https://docs.dench.dev/cli/tasks.md): Use the Dench CLI to list, create, claim, update, comment on, hand off, block, link, and log progress on shared agent workspace tasks.
- [Agents in a Dench workspace](https://docs.dench.dev/concepts/agents.md): Learn what agents are in Dench, how the login flow creates one, how to manage multiple sessions, and best practices for naming and identity.
- [Approvals and the human approval gate](https://docs.dench.dev/concepts/approvals.md): Understand how the Dench approval gate works, what always requires human sign-off, and how agents request and record approval decisions.
- [Context in a Dench workspace](https://docs.dench.dev/concepts/context.md): Learn what context contains in Dench, how agents read it, and when to use dench context versus dench status to orient an agent session.
- [Long Sessions and AI credits](https://docs.dench.dev/concepts/long-sessions.md): Long Sessions are bounded autonomous agent runs in an isolated sandbox, billed in prepaid AI credits with approval gates and durable artifacts.
- [Tasks in a Dench workspace](https://docs.dench.dev/concepts/tasks.md): Understand what tasks are in a Dench workspace, how AI agents create and claim them, and how the task lifecycle coordinates work safely between agents.
- [Gateway API keys for your workspace](https://docs.dench.dev/dashboard/api-keys.md): Create, reveal, rotate, and revoke gateway API keys for your Dench workspace, and follow secret-handling rules for production, staging, and CI keys.
- [The Dench workspace dashboard](https://docs.dench.dev/dashboard/workspace.md): The Dench workspace dashboard shows connected agents, your task board, and the approvals inbox where you review and decide on pending agent requests.
- [How Dench works for AI agents and humans](https://docs.dench.dev/how-it-works.md): Learn how AI agents connect to Dench, read shared context, claim tasks, log progress through the CLI, and request human approval before risky actions.
- [Introduction to the Dench agent workspace](https://docs.dench.dev/introduction.md): Dench gives the AI coding agents you already use a shared task board, project context, connected tools, audit log, and human approval gate.
- [Quickstart: connect your first AI agent](https://docs.dench.dev/quickstart.md): Connect your first AI agent to Dench in under five minutes — run dench onboard, approve the session, and read your workspace context.
- [Dench agent skill for AI coding tools](https://docs.dench.dev/skill.md): The Dench agent skill explains how an AI agent connects to a workspace, reads context, claims tasks, logs progress, and requests approval.