Hubs
Editing, archiving & deleting a hub
Change a hub's settings, archive it to tidy up, move it to Trash, and restore or delete it for good.
Step 1
Editing a hub
Open the hub and press Manage, then open Settings. Name and appearance holds the name, description, colour and icon; below sit the instructions, the brief and the AI defaults. Change what you need and press Save changes. Only hub admins can edit; everyone else sees the settings read-only. If your role does not allow editing hubs, the settings are read-only for hub admins too, with the note "Your organization role does not allow changing hub settings.", and Archive and Unarchive are not offered. Manage hub in a hub's menu or on its card goes to the same place. To change only the name, the same people can rename a hub without opening Settings: choose Rename hub in the card menu on the Hubs page, or double-click the name on the card, or press the hub's title at the top of its page. Type the new name and press Enter; Escape cancels. If the name is taken, you are told so and the old name stays.
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Instructions
AI Defaults
Danger Zone
Delete hub
Moves this hub and its chats to Trash, where you can restore it for 30 days.
Step 2
Changes apply to new chats
A new default model or persona is used by chats started after the change. Chats that already exist keep the model they started with. Instructions and the brief apply to every chat straight away. If the default model is retired, new chats use the model that replaced it, the hub's owner and admins get one notice, and the card shows Model retired: review. Press it to open Manage with Settings open, then Save changes to keep the new model or pick another.
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Instructions
AI Defaults
Danger Zone
Delete hub
Moves this hub and its chats to Trash, where you can restore it for 30 days.
Step 3
Archive to tidy up
Hub admins whose role allows editing hubs can choose Archive from the hub's menu, or Archive hub from its card in the overview. The hub disappears from the panel and the grid, but nothing is deleted.
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5 chats
Finance
3 chats
Step 4
Bring an archived hub back
Scroll to the bottom of the overview and open Archived. Hub admins whose role allows editing hubs see Unarchive hub, which brings it back exactly as it was. An archived hub also says so in a banner when you open it, and hub admins can unarchive it from there.
Old campaign
2025 autumn campaign
Step 5
Delete moves it to Trash
Delete hub, from the hub's menu, its card or the Danger Zone in Settings, is only offered to the hub's owner, and only if their role allows deleting hubs. After a confirmation the hub and its projects move to Trash with everything in them kept.
Move hub to trash?
Step 6
Open Trash
Press Trash at the bottom of the Hubs overview, under the hub cards (it is also at the bottom of the Hubs panel while a hub chat is open). It lists the hubs and projects you deleted, each with how many days it has left. Only the owner sees and restores their own deleted hubs. If it cannot be loaded, it says Trash could not be loaded. with a Try again button.
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5 chats
Step 7
Restore
Press Restore on a row, which is always there, and the hub comes back with its chats, files and members. Anything left after 30 days is deleted automatically.
Trash
Hubs auto-delete after 30 days
- Restore
Old campaign
Hub · 12 chats · 27 days left
- Restore
Press kit
Project · 2 chats · 9 days left
Step 8
Delete permanently
The bin on a row opens a final check: type the hub's exact name to unlock the buttons. Delete hub only removes the hub and moves its chats back to your Chats list. Delete hub and all chats removes those chats too. Empty trash at the top deletes everything in Trash, and moves their chats to your Chats list; any hub that cannot be deleted stays in Trash, and a note says so. The bin and Empty trash only show if your role allows deleting hubs.
Delete hub
You are about to permanently delete Old campaign. This hub contains 12 chats.
Type Old campaign to confirm
Step 9
Handing a hub over
Only the owner can delete a hub, and only if their role allows deleting hubs. The owner is the person who created the hub, until they hand it over. To hand it over, open Manage, Members and choose Make owner on someone else; you stay on as an admin, and they get a notification. Secretary refuses if their organisation role does not include managing hub members, since they could not run the hub or hand it back; an organisation admin can change their role first.
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Related guides
Creating a hub
Set up a workspace with its own instructions, brief, model and persona for a project or a team.
Finding and switching between hubs
Where your hubs live, how to open one, and how to move a chat into a hub.
Inside a hub: Chats, Team, Files and Manage
What each part of a hub's workspace is for, and who can do what in it.