> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryflowy.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI Assistant Overview

> Chat with Flowy's assistant and watch it plan, build, and generate on your canvas.

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Flowy's AI assistant turns plain language into real work on your canvas: it creates nodes, wires them together, runs generations, and checks the results. Describe what you want — a single image or an entire campaign — and it handles the plumbing.

<DemoVideo src="/videos/canvas/ai-overview.mp4" poster="/images/posters/canvas/ai-overview.jpg" caption="Sending a prompt from the canvas dock and watching the assistant build nodes" />

## Opening the chat

Two entry points, same assistant:

* **The prompt dock** at the bottom of the canvas — "Describe what you want to generate…". Type and send, and the full chat panel opens with your request already running. Suggestion chips above the dock offer one-click starting prompts.
* **The Flowy button** in the bottom-left corner opens the chat panel directly.

The panel docks on the left edge of the canvas and is resizable. The ☰ button in its header opens your chat history — search past threads, reopen one, or start a new chat. You can also paste or drop images into the composer; the assistant sees them and can build from them.

## Chat or click — your choice

The assistant doesn't replace the canvas; it operates it. Everything it makes is an ordinary node you can select, rewire, and edit by hand afterward. Use chat for the broad strokes — "storyboard this ad, generate the shots, assemble a cut" — and switch to direct manipulation whenever it's faster to drag a node yourself.

## What it can and can't do

It can read your canvas, create and connect nodes, edit prompts and settings, tidy the layout, generate media, import images from the web, and critique its own results — the full catalog is on [Agent Actions](/canvas/ai/agent-actions).

Its guardrails:

* **Generations need your approval.** In the default **Review** mode, nothing spends credits until you confirm it. Switch the **Modes** picker in the composer to **Auto** to let generations run automatically.
* **It never overwrites generated media.** To change a result it regenerates, so earlier versions stay in the node's history.
* **It asks before guessing.** When the brief is ambiguous, it asks one short clarifying question with concrete options.

## Effort levels

The **Effort** picker in the composer sets how hard the assistant works on a request:

| Level        | Behavior                                 |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| **Swift**    | Fast riffs, light verification           |
| **Balanced** | The default — verified output            |
| **Thorough** | Deeper thinking and wider fan-out        |
| **Max**      | Maximum fan-out with triple verification |

<Note>
  Generations the assistant runs use workspace credits, with an estimate shown before you approve. See [Credits](/billing/credits).
</Note>

## Go deeper

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  <Card title="Agent Actions" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/canvas/ai/agent-actions">
    Everything you can ask for — building, editing, arranging, generating, importing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Plan Mode" icon="list-check" href="/canvas/ai/plan-mode">
    Review, edit, and approve the assistant's plan before it builds.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Memory & Skills" icon="brain" href="/canvas/ai/memory-and-skills">
    Preferences it remembers and build patterns it learns from you.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Canvas Audit" icon="magnifying-glass-chart" href="/canvas/ai/canvas-audit">
    Have the assistant check wiring, layout, and result quality.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Voice & Cursor Chat" icon="microphone" href="/canvas/ai/voice-and-cursor-chat">
    Talk with collaborators live and drop quick messages at your cursor.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>