Introducing: Edit Your Server by Hand in the Cordary Workspace

Until now, changing your server in Cordary meant asking in the chat. That's still the fastest way to build a lot at once. But for the small things, like fixing a typo in a channel name or turning off slowmode, typing a sentence is slower than clicking.

So the Server tab is now a workspace. You can see your whole server, and change almost anything the chat can, by hand.

What's new

• Your whole server in one list. Channels first, grouped by category, then Roles, Posts and Server settings. Open any row to see it and edit it.
• Edit channels and categories. Rename them, set the topic, move a channel to another category, change the slowmode, mark it age-restricted, or delete it. Add a new channel or category from the same list.
• Edit who can see what. Each channel has a Permissions tab, where every role is set to Allow, Inherit or Deny, the way it is in Discord.
• Edit roles. Change a role's name and colour, whether it shows separately or can be mentioned, and which server-wide permissions it has. Add a new role from the list.
• Edit server settings. Name, verification level, image filter, default notifications, system messages, the inactive channel, and Community.
• Write posts as Cordary. Each channel Cordary can post in has a Posts tab, where you can write, edit and pin a message by hand.
• Drag to reorder. Pick up a channel, category or role and drop it where you want it. An amber line shows where it will land.
• Undo. Every edit can be taken back with one click.
• Find and View as. Search channels and roles by name, or look at the server as any role to see what that role can see.
• Expand. On a wide screen, open the workspace beside a narrower chat, with the list and the page for the picked row side by side.

Nothing changes until you apply

This is the most important part. A hand edit goes into the draft, the same one Cordary's chat builds. Nothing is sent to Discord when you edit.

When you're happy, press Review and apply. You'll see the full list of changes, exactly as with a plan from the chat, and you can still roll the run back afterwards.

Every edit is also checked as you make it. If Discord wouldn't allow it, or it would leave the draft with a problem, you'll see a plain message under the workspace instead of a silent failure.

Where to find it

Open a chat for your server, then the Server tab beside it. On a screen 1280 pixels wide or more, press Expand into a workspace at the top of the panel to give it room. Press Fold back to a panel to return. The app's sidebar steps out of the way while you're expanded, and Show sidebar brings it back.

Our new guide, How to use the Cordary workspace, walks through every control step by step.

Good to know

• It works together with the chat. Cordary sees what you changed by hand and keeps it. If you ask for something else afterwards, your edits stay. If you've connected your own AI agent, it sees them too.
• Editing pauses sometimes. While Cordary is writing a reply, or while a run is changing your server, editing waits, and a line under the header says why.
• Some things stay in the chat. Cards in posts, mentions of channels and roles, new AutoMod rules and their details, the welcome screen and Onboarding are best asked for in the chat. The workspace tells you when that's the case.
• Cordary's own limits still apply. A role above Cordary's role, Cordary's own role, and roles an app manages can't be changed, and the workspace marks them with a lock. A permission Cordary doesn't hold can't be given to a role. And Administrator, Manage Server and Manage Roles can never be given to @everyone.
• You need Manage Server on the server to edit it, as for everything else in Cordary.
• Editing by hand doesn't use your allowance. It doesn't ask the AI anything.
• Posts are checked like any other. What you write is checked when you review the draft, the same as a post Cordary writes for you. Cordary only posts and edits its own messages, and it never reads what your members write.

Why we built it

A chat is the right tool for "set up a gaming server with a clan and two squads." It's the wrong tool for "rename #general." People told us they wanted to take the controls for the last ten percent, without leaving Cordary or starting over in Discord's settings.

So you can now build with a sentence, polish by hand, and review it all in one place.

Try it on a server you're already working on, and tell us what's missing through the feedback option in the app.