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Ask a question, inspect the answer and its sources, and keep useful conversations within reach.

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Chat is the quickest place to ask about a document, understand a topic, or refine an answer through follow-up questions. The assistant can search accessible knowledge and fetch public pages when the question needs them. Check its sources before relying on a factual answer, especially when the information may have changed.

A conversation keeps the question and answer together so you can refine the request without starting over.

Start with a useful question

Open Home, choose New chat, type in the composer, and send. A starter prompt can help if you are unsure where to begin. Include the outcome you need and the relevant source: “Using the onboarding guide, list the steps a new customer needs to complete. Cite the guide.”

When several usable models are available, the model picker can start on Auto. Select a named model when you want control over which available model answers, and adjust reasoning effort where supported. You can attach a file for a question about its contents or open a project chat for recurring reference material.

Starter prompts offer a first question; the composer also accepts your own.

Choose the surface for the work

You want toStart in
Ask, compare information, or clarify an answerA chat
Reuse the same files and instructions across conversationsA project chat
Produce a deliverable with an owner and a reviewA project task
Run a repeatable process on a schedule or incoming eventAn automation

Chat focuses on conversation and retrieval. For a substantial deliverable, the assistant may direct you to a task so an agent can work in a sandbox and a person can review the result. See Tasks and Automations.

Use the conversation well

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