AI assistance for sources

Use the AI assistance panel for sources to understand files loaded and used by your website.

Open the "AI assistance" panel

The AI assistance panel opens in the drawer.

The AI assistance panel opened in its default state.

From the Sources panel

To open AI assistance from the Sources panel, right-click a file and select the Ask AI option.

The file context menu with 'Ask AI' highlighted.

When you open AI assistance like this, the selected file is pre-selected as context for the conversation.

Alternatively, click the floating button when hovering over a file.

The floating button attached to hovered file.

From the command menu

To open AI assistance from the command menu, type AI and then run the Show AI assistance command, which has the Drawer badge next to it.

The opened ommand menu with 'Show AI assistance' highlighted.

From the "More tools" menu

Alternatively, in the top right corner, select More options > More tools > AI assistance.

The opened more tools menu.

Conversation context

The selected file is used as context for your conversation with AI assistance. A reference to this file is shown in the bottom left corner of the panel.

The AI assistance panel with the context file highlighted.

Change context by clicking on another file in the Sources panel.

AI assistance is using the selected file's name, URL, source map (if available) and content to answer your questions.

Click the button in the Analyzing file chip after starting a conversation to see the raw data used by AI assistance.

The AI assistance panel with the Analyzing file chip highlighted.

Prompting

When starting a new conversation, AI assistance for files offers example prompts to help you get started quickly.

The AI assistance panel with the example prompts highlighted.

Click any of the prompts to prefill the prompt input field at the bottom of the panel.

Alternatively, type your own prompt or question into the input field.

To send a prompt, either press Enter or click the arrow on the right hand side of the input field.

No answer given

AI assistance might not provide answers due to various reasons.

The AI assistance panel with a refused conversation.

If you think your prompt is something AI assistance should be able to discuss, file a bug.

Conversation history

Once you start a conversation, every next answer is based on your previous interactions between you and the AI.

Use the controls in the top-left corner of the panel to control your conversation history.

The AI assistance panel with the history controls highlighted.

Start new

To start a new conversation with the currently selected conversation context, click the button.

Continue

To continue a past conversation, click the button and select it from the context menu.

Delete

To delete a conversation from history, click the button.

Rate answers and provide feedback

AI assistance is an experimental feature. Therefore we are actively looking for your feedback to learn how we can improve answer quality and the overall experience.

The AI assistance panel with rating controls highlighted.

Vote answers

Rate an answer using the Thumbs up and Thumbs down buttons below the answer.

Report answers

To report inappropriate content, click the button next to the voting buttons.