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# Sidekicks in a Channel

> Attach a Sidekick to a Channel so its instructions and helpers are on hand for everyone there.

So far, Sidekicks have lived in their own window. This page brings them into
the room. Every Channel and Breakout has a list in its title pill menu that
shows which Sidekicks belong to it, which ones Rally has loaded there, and
which ones the team recommends.

## The Sidekicks section

Open a Channel or Breakout, click its name in the title pill (introduced in
[Names, icons and colours](https://rallywith.ai/help/working-in-a-channel/name-icon-and-colour.md#the-title-pill))
and choose **Sidekicks**. The row shows how many there are, or **None yet**. The
list it opens shows:

- **Sidekicks the Channel owns**: the ones made from inside it, with the
  **Channel** scope;
- **Sidekicks loaded in this conversation**: instructions Rally has picked
  up here because they were relevant;
- **Recommended Sidekicks**: ones someone attached to the Channel, marked
  with a small star-shaped badge.

Each row shows the Sidekick's hexagon, name and description, plus a note
when something is off: **Paused**, **Draft** or **Unavailable**. Click a row
to open that Sidekick in the Sidekicks window.

**Unavailable** means Rally can no longer load that Sidekick here, for
example because someone gave it a trigger (which turns it into delegated
work) or because the people who could use it changed.

The **Sidekicks** row is there even when the Channel has none, so you
always know where to look. If the list cannot be read, a **Refresh** row
appears instead; click it to try again.

## Add a Sidekick to a Channel

At the bottom of the list is **Add Sidekick**. Click it for two choices.

- **Attach existing Sidekick** opens a dialog of the same name. Type in
  **Search organization Sidekicks** to find one, then click it. It is now
  recommended for this Channel.
- **Create new Sidekick** opens the Sidekicks window on a new draft, ready
  for you to describe (see [Make a Sidekick](https://rallywith.ai/help/sidekicks/make-a-sidekick.md)).

Only **Organization** Sidekicks appear in the attach dialog. Your personal
Sidekicks and other Channels' Sidekicks are not offered, because the rest of
the room could not use them. If none exist yet the dialog says **No
organization Sidekicks found.**

**Add Sidekick** appears only if you are allowed to manage Sidekicks in
that Channel. If you do not see it, you are not.

## What attaching does

Attaching a Sidekick recommends it to every Breakout in the Channel. Hover
over the star badge and Rally says exactly that: "Recommended for every
breakout in this channel. Agents can load it when relevant; it isn't
automatically loaded."

So Rally in that Channel and its Breakouts prefers the
recommended Sidekick when the work calls for it, but still decides for
itself whether it is relevant. Attach your "Brand voice" Sidekick to the
marketing Channel and Rally will reach for it when drafting a launch post,
not when someone asks what time the meeting is.

Recommendations affect work from then on, not work already done. They are
the easiest way to give a whole team the same house style without anyone
having to remember to ask for it.

## Right-click a Sidekick

Right-click a row in the Sidekicks list for its options. Depending on the
Sidekick and your permissions, you see:

- **Recommend for this channel**, to recommend a Sidekick that is loaded
  here but not yet recommended;
- **Remove channel recommendation**, to take a recommendation away (this
  also unloads it from the current Breakout);
- **Remove from this breakout**, to unload a Sidekick Rally loaded here.

The menu may show **Loading Sidekick options…** for a moment first. A
Sidekick the Channel owns cannot be removed this way, since it belongs to
the room; pause or archive it from its own page instead (see
[The Sidekicks window](https://rallywith.ai/help/sidekicks/the-sidekicks-window.md#pause-and-resume)).

## Personal Sidekicks in a shared room

An **Only you** Sidekick is only ever offered where everyone in the
conversation is you. In a Channel with teammates, Rally will not load your
personal Sidekicks, and they do not appear as options. If a Sidekick should
help the whole team, make it an Organization Sidekick.

## Where to go next

The next chapter, [Rally outside the app](https://rallywith.ai/help/rally-everywhere.md),
takes Rally out of the window altogether, into Slack, email and your phone.
Those happen to be good places for a Sidekick to send its work, too.