AI Assistant
The AI assistant is a chat interface for interacting with an AI model in the context of your project. Unlike agent workflows — which run autonomously against a work item — the assistant responds to your direct messages in real time, making it useful for exploration, drafting, and quick questions.
What the assistant is for
The assistant is well-suited to tasks where you want to stay in the loop and guide the conversation:
- Asking questions about your codebase or architecture
- Drafting descriptions, acceptance criteria, or documentation
- Breaking down a vague idea into concrete work items
- Getting a second opinion on an approach before assigning it to an agent
- Generating boilerplate or example code to paste into a story description
Accessing the assistant
The assistant is available in three places:
Standalone page A full-page chat interface accessible from the main navigation. Conversations here are not tied to a specific work item.
Work item panel Open any work item and select the AI tab. The assistant has context about that specific work item and can reference its title, description, and metadata.
Workflow debug panel When inspecting a running or completed workflow run, the AI tab in the debug panel lets you ask questions about what the workflow did.
Starting a conversation
Type your message in the input field and press Enter. The assistant responds in the same thread. You can continue the conversation naturally — follow-up questions are understood in the context of what came before.
To start a fresh conversation, use the New Conversation button. Previous conversations are saved and can be reopened from the conversation history list.
Providing context
The assistant uses the project context it has access to (such as the open work item) automatically. You can also paste relevant text, code, or descriptions directly into the message to give the assistant additional context.
AI provider
The assistant is powered by Anthropic's Claude. It uses whichever Claude model your administrator has configured. If the assistant is unavailable, contact your administrator to verify the AI configuration.
Next steps
- AI Configuration — Set up AI providers as an admin
- Agent Workflows — Automate work with fully autonomous agents
- Conversations — Trigger workflows directly from chat