Chat experience
How an answer is built — whether the assistant may lay out cards instead of plain text, what it may not exceed, and what that costs.
An assistant that can only reply in sentences describes your data instead of showing it. This page decides whether it may build a small layout instead — a number, a table, a couple of panels — and sets the ceiling on how far it may go. Everything here narrows what an answer may do; nothing here widens what the assistant may do.
The switch
One control turns composed answers on and off for the whole workspace. It is the same switch as the one in Labs, so turning it off here turns it off everywhere. With it off, the assistant answers with text and single components exactly as it does today — nothing breaks, it simply shows less.
How a session opens
What a returning visitor meets before they have said anything. Three choices:
- Greeting only
- A short hello and nothing else. This is the default.
- Personal digest
- A greeting plus a compact summary of what changed since the visitor was last here. Only for people the assistant recognizes, and only when there is something worth reporting.
- Nothing
- The chat stays quiet until the visitor writes.
What it may not exceed
Three levers, from broad to precise:
- How much structure an answer may use at most — at most a few pieces in one compact card, a small set when the answer calls for it, or up to a full page on the widest screens.
- Whole kinds of building block you would rather it never used. This is the lever that stays correct as more blocks are added.
- A single named block that does not suit your product, matched exactly. The precise lever, for the one exception.
What to lean toward
Preferences the assistant follows where nobody has said otherwise — lean toward a table, or toward a short answer, or toward one particular block. A visitor always wins: if someone has asked for something different, in this conversation or an earlier one, their wish is used and yours is not.
The pieces an answer is built from
Every rule on this page acts on the same library of pieces, so the library is listed where you act on it rather than on a page of its own. The preference control below names each piece; the preview at the foot of this page shows what they look like once the assistant has arranged them.
- The preference control lists every built-in piece, so you are excluding or favoring something you can see.
- The preview runs the real layout engine over sample data, at a room size and language you choose — including what did not fit.
- Components you register from your own app are managed in the Design Studio, where you allow or block each one and style its frame.
What it costs
Composed answers come with an allowance included in your plan, and the page shows how much of it this workspace has used. At the limit the assistant keeps answering exactly as it normally would, in plain text, until the window resets — reaching the ceiling costs you presentation, never service.