The Gezel Handboek
Gezel lets you assemble a crew of AI companions and put them to work — on your own computer, with your own files. This is their handboek: what they are, what they can do, and how to work with them.
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- What is gezel?A crew of AI companions that works for you, from your own computer.
- Your crew: gezellen, the Meester, and the VoormanWho's who in your workshop, and how the roles fit together.
- Projects, threads, and where work livesHow gezel organizes work, and where the results end up.
- Craftbooks: procedures your crew can followRepeatable, checkable, multi-step work — written down like a recipe.
Concepts
What gezel is, who your crew are, and how the pieces fit together.
- What is gezel?
- Your crew: gezellen, the Meester, and the Voorman
- Projects, threads, and where work lives
- Memory, documents, and the shared library
- Models, tiers, and what runs on this device
- Tasks, scheduled work, and supervision
- The Night Shift: work your crew does while you sleep
- Local-first: your data stays on your disk
Gezel Roles
The roles a gezel can take, and what each one is good at.
Craftbooks
Step-by-step recipes your crew can run — one per job.
Project Types
Ready-made project setups, each with a crew and a bench.
Technical
Architecture, file layout, providers, security, and the CLI.
What's New
What changed in each release, in plain language.