Ask questions, get writing help, create multiple documents, and take action on your Briefs — all from the conversation panel alongside your work.
The AI assistant is available in every Brief, Blueprint, and Method conversation in Hamster Studio. You interact with it by typing in the chat panel. The assistant understands the document you're currently working on, the Knowledge your workspace has built up, and the context you've explicitly attached. It can answer questions, write and update document sections, create related documents, and trigger actions like generating a Plan — responding immediately in the same thread where you're working.
The assistant coordinates specialist agents — research, writing, code analysis, document editing — routing your request to the right expert automatically. When a request spans multiple concerns, Hamster fans out to specialists in parallel and synthesizes their work into a single response. You see labelled progress steps as each specialist completes its part.
Open the chat panel — On any Brief, Blueprint, or Method page, the AI chat panel is available in the sidebar. Type your message and press Enter or click Send.
The assistant reads your context — Before responding, the assistant considers what document you have open, any files or URLs you've attached as context, relevant Knowledge from your workspace (Blueprints, Methods, previous conversations), and the conversation history from earlier turns.
Requests are routed automatically — Simple questions get answered directly. Requests involving research, file analysis, URL extraction, or multi-step planning are delegated to specialist agents. Hamster decides which specialists to involve and in what order. You see labelled steps in the chat as each specialist completes its work.
The response is delivered in-thread — The assistant's answer appears in the conversation. If it updated your document, the changes appear in the editor immediately. You can continue the conversation naturally from there.
Document editing: Ask the assistant to add a section, rewrite a paragraph, or restructure your Brief. Changes are applied directly to the open document without copy-pasting.
Unified document creation: Ask for a Brief, Blueprint, and Initiative in one message. Hamster creates the documents together, links them when it can, and returns the set in one Hamster Chat thread.
Cross-document edit suggestions: Ask for changes to an existing Brief or Blueprint, and Hamster opens a suggestion thread on the document instead of silently rewriting it. Review the suggested change in context before applying it.
In-context Q&A: Ask questions about your Brief's content, your Team's guidelines (Blueprints), or your process library (Methods). The assistant searches your workspace Knowledge before answering.
Multi-step flows: Structured flows handle more complex requests — researching a topic from multiple sources, extracting content from a URL, processing meeting notes — and run as a visible sequence of labelled steps in the chat.
Auto-threading: When the assistant's response involves a detailed multi-step flow, it can move the conversation to a dedicated thread automatically. This keeps the main conversation focused while giving the detailed work its own space. A link card in the main thread lets you jump to the detail thread at any time.
Brief management from chat: You can manage your Brief lifecycle directly from the conversation — mark a Brief as ready, cast an alignment vote, or notify your Team — without switching to a different tab or page.
Chat suggestions: When you open a new conversation, quick-start prompts organized into categories (ideas, strategy, features, code) help you start without staring at a blank input.
Try again: If a response misses the mark, ask the assistant to try again from the same message. It re-runs the last flow with any additional guidance you provide.
Conversation memory: The assistant retains context across turns within a thread. It remembers what you discussed earlier and can build on previous responses without you repeating the background.
Historical attachments stay in scope: A screenshot, PDF, or document you uploaded earlier in the conversation is still visible to the assistant several turns later. You can refer back to "the wireframe I sent" or "the spec from yesterday" and the assistant will re-read the file rather than asking you to re-attach it.
Writes the language you Brief in: The assistant detects the language of your Brief and replies (and generates Plans) in the same language. A Brief written in Spanish gets a Spanish response and a Spanish Task list, even when the rest of your workspace is in English.
When your message arrives, Hamster decides how to handle it:
During a flow, Hamster collects Results from parallel specialists, synthesizes them, and produces the final output — whether that's a written addition to your document or a standalone answer in the thread. Each specialist's contribution appears as a labelled step so you can follow what's happening.
What the assistant can do for you depends on your role on the team: