Edit a document with "Ask assistant"
Edit a page side-by-side with the assistant, right inside the document.
Beginner · ~5 min · Prerequisites: a document you own
What you'll do
Open a document you own, use the built-in assistant panel to request an edit, and watch the change land — without leaving the page.
The quick way: just ask
"Add a TLDR section at the top."
The assistant inserts the section and highlights it briefly so you can see exactly what changed. Reply in the same thread to keep refining.
Steps
Open a document you own
Go to Your content in the sidebar and click any document you own. You need owner access to use the assistant panel — shared viewers don't see it.
Click "Ask assistant"
In the document header, click Ask assistant. A panel slides in on the right. If this is your first time, it opens a fresh thread already bound to the document.
Ask for a change
Type your request — for example, "Shorten the second paragraph" or "Add a TLDR section at the top." Press Enter. The edit lands directly in the editor with a brief pulse highlight so you can spot it at a glance.
Check the tool-call card
The panel shows a tool-call card below your message describing what the assistant did — for example, insert_into_document(top). This is your record of what changed and when.
Keep iterating in the same thread
Stay in the panel and send another message: "Make the TLDR one sentence" or "Fix the grammar in section 3." The thread stays bound to this document, so the assistant always has the full context.
The assistant panel thread is separate from your main chat history. Reopen it any time via Ask assistant — the same thread picks up where you left off.