Inline Assistant

Using the Inline Assistant

You can use ctrl-enter to open the Inline Assistant nearly anywhere you can enter text: editors, the agent panel, the prompt library, channel notes, and even within the terminal panel.

The Inline Assistant allows you to send the current selection (or the current line) to a language model and modify the selection with the language model's response.

You can use ctrl-enter to open the inline assistant nearly anywhere you can write text: editors, the Agent Panel, the Rules Library, channel notes, and even within the terminal panel.

You can also perform multiple generation requests in parallel by pressing ctrl-enter with multiple cursors, or by pressing ctrl-enter with a selection that spans multiple excerpts in a multibuffer.

Context

You can give the Inline Assistant context the same way you can in the agent panel, allowing you to provide additional instructions or rules for code transformations with @-mentions.

A useful pattern here is to create a thread in the Agent Panel, and then use the @thread command in the Inline Assistant to include the thread as context for the Inline Assistant transformation.

Prefilling Prompts

To create a custom keybinding that prefills a prompt, you can add the following format in your keymap:

[
  {
    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
    "bindings": {
      "ctrl-shift-enter": [
        "assistant::InlineAssist",
        { "prompt": "Build a snake game" }
      ]
    }
  }
]