FOLIO

A folio is a binder with two sides: one holds pages, the other holds instruments. Current agent interfaces offer only the pages. Folio opens the other side, placing sorting, grouping, and annotation tools directly in the user's hands so that intent is expressed through action rather than description.

 

In practice, Folio decomposes agent output into discrete visual units arranged on an infinite canvas in real-time. Each unit, whether a tool invocation, a drafted response, or an alternative approach, can be inspected, repositioned, annotated, resized, and operated on. A user might circle a region and apply a rephrase operation, reorder units by dragging to indicate priority, or move content containing credentials into a designated protected zone. These spatial actions are relayed back to the agent as structured context for its subsequent turn, reducing the need to re-prompt.

 

This project originates from a recurring observation during daily work with coding agents: capable models routinely produce output that is nearly usable, yet the effort required to verbally specify the remaining adjustments often exceeds the cost of the adjustments themselves. Folio attempts to narrow that gap, shifting the space between human and agent from text-based negotiation toward a workspace that responds to direct manipulation in spatial canvas.