Choose Chat, Work, or Code

A closer look at each Vibe mode: when to use it, what it does, and where to start.

Pick Work when you want the agent to do the legwork, not just answer a question. Available in the Vibe web and mobile apps with a chat interface, Work is the right mode when your task needs multiple steps, several sources, or actions in connected tools, and when you want to review the result before using it.

Typical tasks:

• "Catch me up on what happened in the Q4 launch Project this week."
• "Summarize this 80-page contract and flag the renewal risks."
• "Draft replies to my unread emails from the legal team."
• "Research the top 5 competitors in our space and create a one-page brief."
• "Find the latest customer feedback in Notion, group it by theme, and prepare a slide deck."

What Work gives you:

• Agentic work across an unbounded number of Connectors including Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Atlassian, Google Drive, SharePoint, and Stripe.
• Real-time progress and tool-call visibility, with clarifying questions when your prompt is ambiguous.
• Approval prompts before sensitive actions (sending email, modifying data, deleting).
• Skills and Projects to make repeated work easier over time.
• Schedule tasks to run a prompt automatically, once or on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly cadence.

Pick Code when the task depends on a codebase, terminal, IDE, or coding session. Available as a CLI, a VS Code extension, or remote web sessions, Code is the developer mode where Vibe reads files, edits code, runs commands, and opens pull requests.

Typical tasks:

• "Explain how authentication works in this repo."
• "Refactor src/api/handlers/ to use the new error handler pattern."
• "Add unit tests for the parseInvoice function."
• "Run the test suite, fix what fails, and open a PR."
• "Continue the session I started in the CLI on the web."

What Code gives you:

• CLI: terminal-native, scriptable, ideal for local repos and automation.
• VS Code extension: inline help, file editing, and chat right in your editor.
• Remote sessions: cloud sandbox you can launch from any surface (web, mobile, desktop, IDE, CLI) against a GitHub repo.

Pick Chat when you want a quick turn-based conversation, or when you rely on a legacy feature. Available in the Vibe web and mobile apps as the Chat tab, Chat keeps the turn-based experience and the features that shipped in Le Chat, so existing workflows keep working.

Each of these features is being reimagined in Work. Stay in Chat if you depend on the current behavior; switch to Work when the new shape fits the task better.

Chat features and their Work equivalents: