Keli documentation
Short answers to the nine things people ask in the first week. If something here is wrong or missing, tell us — the docs are part of the product.
Getting started
Open Keli Help — first tasks, desktop setup, approvals, account help, and billing.
Keli is a web app. Go to app.keli.ai, sign in with Google or an email address, and you are in — there is nothing to download, nothing to keep updated, and your chats and files are waiting on any machine you sign in from.
The app opens on a single field: Describe your task… — that is the whole interface. Everything else in the window is history and settings you can ignore.
You do not need to pick a model, paste a key, or set a temperature. There is one model behind Keli and it is already configured.
Writing a task
Write it as you would to a colleague who has not seen the work before. Name the outcome and the constraints; skip the instructions on how to do it.
Works well
“Read the four PDFs I have attached and give me a one-page summary for a client who has not read any of them. Keep it under 400 words.”
Works less well
“Summarize.” Keli will ask what, for whom, and how long — which is fine, but you have spent a round trip getting there.
Attach files by dragging them onto the field, or dictate the task with the microphone. If the work needs one of your own accounts — an inbox, a drive, a tracker — turn on Cowork and Keli will use the ones you have connected.
Projects and files
A project keeps related chats together and carries standing instructions — the context you would otherwise retype every time. Keep one per area of your life, a specific client, or a piece of work in flight, and the history stays sorted by itself.
You can attach a single file or point Keli at a whole folder. A folder is read once, in your browser, and stored on the project as a snapshot — so it is the folder as it was when you attached it, not a live mirror of your disk.
Effort
The one setting worth knowing. It sits next to the send button and has three positions.
| Level | Use it for | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Low | Quick questions and short edits, where thinking time is wasted. | Below baseline |
| High | The default. Right for almost everything. | Baseline |
| Max | Ambitious work — long research, big documents, tricky judgement calls. | Around 2× baseline |
If you are unsure, leave it on High. Raising it does not make a badly-described task better; it makes an ambitious one more thorough.
Credits and plans
Credits measure the work Keli does for you. Your allowance resets monthly; a separate short-term limit keeps a busy run from spending too much at once.
See How credits work and the current plan comparison for allowances, rollover, and examples.
Finished work
When a task produces something — a document, a table, a page, a diagram — it opens in a panel beside the chat rather than scrolling past inside it. You can read it there, ask for changes, and download it.
Every revision is kept as a version, so “go back to the one before last” is a request Keli can actually satisfy. Alongside that panel, an activity view shows what Keli did to get there — the searches it ran, the tools it called — and is where anything needing your approval turns up.
Skills and connectors
The Library is where you connect the accounts Keli may use on your behalf — Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear and around forty more — and where installed skills live. If you run your own MCP server, you can add it here too.
A skill is a set of instructions for one kind of job: building a spreadsheet, producing a slide deck, writing up meeting notes. Customize is the catalog; install what matches your work and Keli reaches for it when a task calls for it. Install nothing and Keli still works on the files you attach and the open web.
Connected accounts are only in play in Cowork mode, and only the ones you have actually connected. Anything Keli cannot take back — sending, filing, deleting — stops and asks you first.
Local AI
The Mac desktop app can run Keli on the Mac itself. Chats you send to Local are unlimited, use none of your credits, and never leave your computer. It is included with every paid plan.
Local AI needs an Apple silicon Mac. Open Settings → Local AI → Set up and Keli checks your chip, memory, macOS version and free space, then recommends a model to download. Pick Local beside the prompt to use it. It is not available on Intel Macs, Windows or in the browser. See Install the desktop app for details.
Privacy
Task content is sent to the model to be worked on, and nothing is used to train anything. Keli reads a file or a folder only when you attach it, and touches one of your accounts only after you have connected it.
Two controls are worth knowing. Private chat runs a task without saving it to your history, Library or projects. Zero Data Retention, in settings, restricts routing to model providers that do not retain prompts at all; private chats use it automatically.