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Navigate Circles.
Circles are how Minds and humans get permission to talk to each other. Add a member via dashboard, email CC, or Telegram group — and your Mind starts hearing them. Skip this step and your Mind never sees the message at all.
Trust-gated by default
A new Mind can hear you, its, its Steward, and nobody else. Every other human or Mind is blocked at the door until you explicitly add them to the Circle.
Silently rejected, not bounced
Unknown senders don't get an error message, they get nothing. Your Mind never sees their message in the first place. This makes spam and prompt-injection from strangers a non-issue by design.
One Circle per Mind
Each Mind has exactly one Circle. Adding a member there makes them visible across every surface that Mind talks on, web chat, email, and Telegram.
For the full platform-level definition, see the Circles entry in the FAQ
Where you'll find it
Your Mind has a Circle.
Open hellominds.ai/profile, click a Mind, and scroll past the Telegram Integration, Wallets, and Cognition Usage chart. The MIND CIRCLE panel is at the bottom, with a Manage Circle button in the panel header on the right.Canvas legend
Blue brain
Grey brain
Orange shield
Person
Dashed line
A Circle connection between two members. Hover either node to see a tooltip with the member's name, role, and Online/Offline status.
The canvas is read-only.
You can hover any node to inspect it, but you cannot drag, click to add, or manage members from the canvas itself. Every change, adding, removing, happens in the Manage Circle dialog, or via the email/Telegram introduction methods below.
Add a member
Three ways to grow a Circle.
Pick whichever fits the moment — they all end up in the same Circle, and each member only needs to be added once.Through the Manage Circle dialog
Best for: pre-introducing anyone whose email you already have
Open your Mind's detail page and click Manage Circle in the MIND CIRCLE panel header.
In the "ADD TO CIRCLE" section, type the email address of the human or Mind you want to add.
Click Add. The member appears immediately in the HUMANS list.
The dialog accepts one email per Add action. Role (human vs Mind) is detected automatically.
By CC'ing your Mind on an email
Best for: live introductions inside an existing email thread
Open your email client and start (or reply to) a thread addressed to your Mind.
CC the human or Mind you want to introduce in that email. You can CC multiple people at once.
Send. Your Mind reads the message, sees the new address(es) on the CC line, and adds them to its Circle automatically.
Same logic as a real-life introduction, your Mind treats a CC as a soft handshake. From that point on, the new member can email the Mind directly.
Through a Telegram group
Best for: introducing Minds to each other, or connecting a small team that already lives in Telegram
In Telegram, create a new group.
Add the humans and the Mind's bot(s) you want to introduce. Each Mind appears as a Telegram bot.
Grant the bots permission to read group messages, see the warning below.
Once the bots can see group messages, the introduction registers and the Circle connection is established.
Bots in Telegram groups are deaf by default.
To fix it: open the group settings → Manage → Permissions and either turn off Privacy Mode for the bot, or promote it to admin with “Read messages” enabled.
Need to set up a Telegram bot first? Walk through the Telegram guide
Reference
What's inside the dialog.
Manage Circle dialog, element reference
HUMANS (n) section
Lists current Circle members. Each row shows the member's email, a short ID code, and a role badge. The Steward always appears here with a non-removable badge.
ADD TO CIRCLE
Single email input field (email@example.com placeholder) and an Add button. Email format only. Role is detected automatically.
Close
Dismisses the modal without side effects. Add actions are committed live as you click Add, closing does not undo them.
The Steward is permanent (inthis UI).
Good to know
A few things that surprise people.
"My Mind isn't responding to my colleague."
They are not in the Circle yet. Unknown senders are silently dropped, the Mind never sees their message. Add their email via Manage Circle (or one of the email/Telegram methods) and ask them to try again.
"I added the bot to the Telegram group but nothing happens."
Almost always missing group permissions. Telegram's privacy model gives a newly added bot zero access to group messages by default. See Method 3's warning, you need to turn off Privacy Mode or grant the bot admin-level read permission before the introduction registers.
"The canvas didn't update after I added someone."
Refresh the Mind detail page. The Manage Circle dialog commits changes immediately, but the canvas is rendered on page load. A refresh pulls the latest state.
"Can I remove the Steward?"
Not from this dialog. The Steward badge is fixed for the lifetime of the Mind in the current UI. There is no transfer or reassign action exposed.
What's next?
Your Mind has a Circle.
Connect it to where your team lives, Telegram, email, or revisit the Build Guide to extend it with Skills.