Ask AI Drawer

The Ask AI drawer is a chat assistant built into the DeployHQ header. It answers questions about how DeployHQ works, how to configure it, and common deployment problems, with citations back to the support articles it draws from. You can open it from any signed-in page without losing your place.

Opening the drawer

Click the Ask AI button in the top header. The drawer slides in from the right and shows a single text input along with any messages exchanged earlier on the same page. Close it with the X button, the Escape key, or by clicking outside the drawer.

The drawer is available on every page where you're signed in.

Asking a question

Type a question in plain English and press Enter. Questions are limited to 2,000 characters and must be at least one character long. Answers stream in token by token as they're generated, so you'll usually see the first words within a second or two and the full answer within a few seconds.

The assistant is grounded in DeployHQ's public support content. Good questions tend to be specific:

• "How do I set up automatic deployments for a branch other than main?"
• "What does the error 'we couldn't login to your server' mean?"
• "How do I deploy config files separately from project files?"

When the assistant cites a support article, the article title appears as a link below the answer -- click through to read the full guide.

Rating an answer

Below every answer you'll see a thumbs-up and thumbs-down. Use them to tell us when an answer was useful or when it missed the mark. Ratings are anonymous and feed directly into how we tune the corpus and the prompt.

Conversation history

While the drawer is open, the assistant keeps the last ten messages (your questions and the assistant's replies combined) so it can follow up on context from earlier in the conversation.

This history lives only in the current page. Reloading the page, navigating away, or closing the tab clears it -- nothing is persisted to your browser between sessions or shared with the server.

If you need an answer to be permanent, copy it out of the drawer before closing.

Rate limit

To keep things responsive for everyone, each user can ask up to 10 questions per 60 seconds. If you hit the limit, the drawer will show a brief message and you can retry shortly after.

What the assistant can't do

• It can't see your account, projects, or deployments. Answers are based on public support articles, not your live data.
• It can't perform actions on your behalf -- it won't trigger a deployment, change a setting, or modify a server.
• It can't recall conversations from previous browser sessions or other devices.

For tasks that require account context, use the in-product UI, the DeployHQ API, or the DeployHQ CLI.