Multica / Workspaces and Teams

Comments & Mentions

Collaborate on issues - comments, replies, @mentions, emoji reactions, and trigger agent work in comments.

Overview

Each issue has a comment area. You can post comments, reply to others, name members or agents with @, and add emoji reactions—the same things you do in familiar task management tools. The only difference is: @ an agent will automatically trigger it to start working.

Write content in the input box at the bottom of the issue details page, click Send, and the comment will immediately appear in the comment stream. Comments support Markdown - titles, lists, code blocks, and links all work.

Reply to a comment

Click the reply in the upper right corner of any comment, and a nested input box will expand below the comment. Replies you write will appear as children of this comment, forming a conversation thread. You can continue to reply after replying, unfolding layer by layer.

What you see in the issue list is only the number of top-level comments. Only by clicking on the issue can you see the complete conversation tree.

Expressive reaction

You can add emoticons (such as 👍, 👀, 🎉) in the upper right corner of each comment to express your opinion quickly - there is no need to send a separate "+1" just for approval.

@mentions

Entering @ in the comment will pop up a prompt to select a member or agent. The other party's slug (such as @alice or @reviewer-bot) will be filled in after @. Mentioned people will receive a notification in their inbox.

If you mention an agent, it will be automatically triggered to start working - see Calling agents in comments for details.

If @ is used by the same person multiple times in the same comment, the other party will only receive one notification.

`@all` will notify the entire workspace

@all is a special target: it will push the notification to every member of the workspace. Both humans and agents can issue @all - this means that the triggered agent may also issue @all when reporting progress, and it needs to be reminded to use caution in the agent's instructions.

Use @all with caution. When there are many people in the workspace, a @all comment will instantly generate the same number of inbox notifications. Only use it on really important matters that everyone needs to know - not everyday trivial matters.

Quote issue

To link to another issue, select it in the comment's mention selector. Multica will save the issue link as an explicit MUL-123 mention link. Issue links are only cross-references: members are not notified and agents are not triggered.

Directly entering the bare issue key, such as MUL-123, will remain as normal text. In this way, branch names and paths in comments, such as feature/MUL-123, will not be rewritten.

Markdown bold follows CommonMark rules. When bold text ends with punctuation or closing quotation marks and is immediately followed by a Korean particle, the trailing ** may not be recognized. It is recommended to put the quotation marks outside the bold range:
"**무엇을 먼저 정해두고 시작할지**"가
instead of:
**"무엇을 먼저 정해두고 시작할지"**가

Edit and delete comments

Only the author of the comment can edit or delete his or her comment.

Deleting a comment will also delete all replies below it (including replies to replies). If you just want to change the content, use the edit function.

Editor's comment: Adding @ will not trigger the agent. The trigger occurs at the moment when the comment is created - if you later modify the comment content to add a new @, or change the @ object, the system will not re-send the notification, nor will it wake up the agent. To summon an untriggered agent, post a new comment @ it.

So far, we have been talking about the "human world" - workspace, members, issues, projects, and comments. If you’re familiar with products like Linear or Jira, the content so far shouldn’t seem unfamiliar.

But Multica’s core feature hasn’t arrived yet: making agents first-class citizen members of the workspace. At the beginning of the next chapter, we officially get to know this new species.

Next step

Agents - What are they and how are they different from humans?
Calling agents in comments - Use @ to trigger the start of agents in comments