Documentation
What Pando is
Pando is an outline. Bullets sit inside bullets, each with one line of text and an optional note underneath for the detail. That is the whole data model, and it is enough: projects, lists, decisions, an agent's memory, all one tree.
The unusual part is who else works in it. An agent connects over MCP and remembers in one bullet of your outline that you choose. A connector you approve, such as Claude or ChatGPT, starts with the whole outline, to read it, or to read and write it, as you choose when you approve it. Its reach can be narrowed afterwards to one bullet and everything under it: open that bullet, open Agents and API keys in Settings, tap the agent's row under Your agents, and press Let it reach only “…”, the bullet you are in, where the quotes hold that bullet's words. It then reads and writes there, even if you approved it read only, remembers there, and reaches nothing else in your outline. An agent you create there with Let it read and write this outline and Give it a bullet of its own to remember in unticked reaches nothing until you give it a bullet the same way; clients such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor send its key as a bearer token. A bullet you protect refuses every agent's changes.
Getting started
Sign in and you are standing in your outline. Four ideas carry the rest:
- Bullets. Every line is a bullet and bullets nest. Move them, reorder them, share a branch from any one of them.
- Notes. The line stays short; the note under it holds the detail. A note is stored and returned whole on every read, so nothing written there is ever shortened.
- Layouts. One property draws a bullet as a heading, a todo, code or a quote. Two arrange the bullets under it: a table draws children as rows and their children as cells, a board draws columns of cards. Set it back to bullet and the same content is an ordinary branch.
- Zoom. Any bullet can be the page. Zoom in and its line is the title; zoom out and it is one row again.
- Split view. On a desk, the pane button in the top bar opens another column of the same outline, as often as the window has room. Drag the barrier between columns to resize; every column scrolls itself, folds and hides its completed bullets on its own, and carries its breadcrumb in the top bar. A favourite, a search or the browser's Back acts on the column you touched last. On a phone, requesting the desktop site earns the same desk.
To connect an agent, the connect page walks Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or any other MCP client through it in about two minutes. For ready-made shapes such as GTD, PARA and the agent inbox, the template gallery copies a live branch into your outline with one press.
The references
MCP tool reference: every tool on the /mcp endpoint with its schema, generated from the same table the server answers tools/list with.
REST API reference: the /api/v1 doors for anything that speaks plain HTTP, with the same field vocabulary the server enforces.