# What is a squad

> Several agents working together on one canvas, connected by arrows.

Source: https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/squads

A **squad** is a group of agents working together. One agent can lead and hand out work; others do
the pieces; browsers, terminals and notes connect them all. You build a squad simply by adding cards
and drawing [arrows](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/canvas/arrows). The helpers don't have to be the same AI as the lead:

There are two ways to split the work — let a lead agent delegate over arrows, or put the tasks on a
[task board](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/cards/kanban) and give each one to a specific agent:

  - **[A lead agent that delegates](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/squads/lead-agent)**: One agent hands tasks to others and collects the results.
  - **[Tasks for specific agents](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/agents/tasks)**: Assign, Start, dependencies and auto-dispatch on a task board.
  - **[Canvas mode](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/squads/canvas-mode)**: The agent creates the cards it needs by itself.
  - **[Squad recipes](https://docs.neurosquad.ai/en/squads/recipes)**: Ready-made setups to copy.

## The Squad board

Every workspace has a **Squad** card: all its AI agents on one board — who is waiting for you, who is
working and for how long, who has finished — with the agent type and model of each. Click a row to
fly to that agent.

The **Squad** button in the top bar opens the same board as a **right sidebar**,
for the workspace you have open — it stays there while you switch workspaces, even if you deleted the
card. Drag its edge to resize it. While the board is in the sidebar, the card on the canvas just says
so (the board is never shown twice); **Move back to canvas** puts it back — and brings the card back
if you had deleted it.