The outcome

Turn a plausible draft into work you are willing to stand behind.

LobeHub is a Open-source AI workspace centered on LobeChat, with multi-provider chat, agents, knowledge bases, files, plugins, MCP, and self-hosting. Using multiple AI providers in one workspace, building reusable assistants with files and knowledge, and operating a private multi-user LobeChat service with controlled extensions. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Restate the original outcome and acceptance criteria before reviewing the response.

  2. 02

    Mark every factual claim, calculation, quotation, code path, or image detail that could materially affect the result.

  3. 03

    Check those items against the original source, a primary reference, a test, or direct inspection.

  4. 04

    Ask the tool to list assumptions and uncertainty, but do not rely on self-review as the only check.

  5. 05

    Complete a human edit for relevance, tone, privacy, accessibility, and the exact delivery format.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Verify consequential claims independently.
  • Test outputs in the environment where they will be used.
  • Keep a record of sources and review decisions.

Self-hosting the interface does not make remote model, embedding, search, storage, sync, or plugin traffic local. A database deployment adds authentication, database, vector, object-storage, migration, backup, and patch responsibilities. Never expose an unauthenticated instance or provider key; isolate tenants and knowledge, vet plugins and MCP servers, restrict registration and networks, redact observability, and test restores before upgrades.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.