Tools in chat
Which tools Kasimir can use in chat, how to switch them on and how to see what is happening.
While answering, Kasimir can use tools: search the web, analyse data, draw diagrams or look things up in connected services. You decide which tools are available in a chat – via the Tools menu directly below the text field and the Knowledge sources in the bar below the input field.
How to see what Kasimir is doing
While Kasimir works, a line above the answer shows the current step, e.g. “Searching the web” or “Reading file”.
Below the finished answer, Steps lists every tool that was used and Sources shows the references.
Actions that create, change or send something (e.g. sending an email) only run after you confirm. By default this also applies to queries against connected databases, even though they only read. A card with Run and Reject appears in the chat.
The “Tools” menu
Tool | What it does | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
Web search | Searches the internet, reads the most relevant pages and backs the answer with links. | If your company sets “Company knowledge only” or blocks certain websites, that applies here too. Kasimir searches at most 10 times per answer and does not repeat the same search or re-read a link it has already read. Some websites cannot be read – Kasimir then says so. |
Data analysis | Analyses attached tables and data (CSV, Excel, JSON, text) and produces calculations and charts. | Up to 5 files totalling 10 MB. Charts appear directly in the answer. |
Generate image | Creates an image from your description. | Only available if your company allows the image generator. |
Diagram | Has the answer drawn as a diagram, e.g. a flow or an org chart. | More under Diagrams. |
Active tools appear as chips above the input field; the × turns one off again. “Thinking” is in the model menu.
What Kasimir uses on its own
Charts from numbers – when an answer contains series of numbers, Kasimir can draw them as bar, line or pie charts.
3D sketch – if you explicitly ask for it, Kasimir shows a room with doors, windows and simple objects in 3D.
Skills – your company’s saved work instructions; Kasimir picks the matching one when a task fits. See Skills.
Other agents – an agent can hand sub-tasks to other agents assigned to it. See Agents.
Knowledge sources
Source | What Kasimir can do with it |
|---|---|
Company knowledge | Answers from your files and notebook – with source and page number. |
Folder | Works in a linked cloud folder. See Work in a folder. |
Connected services | Uses your connected integrations, e.g. searching and reading files in OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Nextcloud or ownCloud, emails and events in Outlook or Google, Jira issues, Confluence pages. |
Databases | Queries connected SQL databases – read-only, at most 200 rows per query, by default only after you confirm. See SQL databases. |
If you connected a service yourself, Kasimir only sees what your own account may see there. Without your own connection – and always in project and team chats – Kasimir uses the company connection, i.e. the account your company has set up; what you can reach through it depends on your role and on the shared folders. Which services exist and how to connect them is described under Integrations.
Tools and sources are deliberately opt-in: a service only contributes when it is switched on for this chat. In project and team chats the room’s sources apply; personal connections are not available there.