# How Benchy works

> The few rules behind everything else: who owns the work, who can see it, who pays, and what agents can do.

Canonical: https://benchy.world/docs/how-benchy-works
Last updated: 2026-10-27

These rules hold in Studio, Benchy Desktop and World, and for your own agents.

## The workspace owns the work and pays for it [#workspace-owns]

Everything made in a workspace belongs to the workspace and stays when its maker leaves. The workspace's one plan pays for every AI feature used there, whoever asks: Benchy's replies and the images, videos and 3D models it makes. See [Credits and plans](https://benchy.world/docs/credits-and-plans).

## Access is set once, at the top [#access-flows-down]

Projects are **private** or open to the **workspace**; chats start private; Elements are Private or Workspace; skills and memories belong to their maker. Everything inside a project has the project's access. A private item is private from the workspace owner too, and inviting someone only ever adds access. See [Sharing](https://benchy.world/docs/sharing).

## An agent works for one person, in one workspace [#agents]

Your own agents connect with an API key or as a connected app, each in exactly one workspace chosen when you connect it. On every action an agent can do only what both its connection and your current access allow. See [Connect your agent](https://benchy.world/docs/connect-your-agent).

## Benchy acts as whoever asked [#benchy-acts-as-you]

Benchy works with your access, never more: only you approve the changes it proposes, the chat's workspace pays, and the charge names you. In a chat with other people, a member who can edit gets answers that can make changes, behind approval cards only they answer; viewers and guests get read-only answers. There Benchy reads only what's public on World. See [Chats](https://benchy.world/docs/chats).

## What you point at, Benchy opens as you [#references]

When you `@` a file or an Element, Benchy opens it with your access. See [Point Benchy at something with @](https://benchy.world/docs/skills#at-for-context).

## What keeps a file version [#versions]

Every file keeps its versions until you delete them; chats remember which versions they mentioned without keeping them alive. A version published in a World release outlives deletion, so what people downloaded keeps working. See [Files and versions](https://benchy.world/docs/files-and-versions).

## A person approves every print [#prints]

Benchy and other agents plan prints and make print files. You start the print, on the printer or in its own app. See [Printers and Benchy Host](https://benchy.world/docs/printers).

## Everything says who did it [#attribution]

Every change, charge and message records the person and the agent or app it came through — “Ada, through Claude Code”. A file says where it came from, such as Made in chat “Bracket plan” with Claude, and a canvas edit says whether you, Benchy or an app made it.