Assistant
The Assistant is the everyday agent — the one that answers when no specialist owns the question. It holds the general toolset: web search and fetch, code execution, document and image generation, and the small utilities people actually ask for.
At a glance
| Handle | @assistant |
|---|---|
| Availability | Seeded in every organisation |
| Model tier | default |
| Autonomy | supervised (the platform default — the definition declares none) |
| Tools | web_search, web_fetch, code_execution, generate_document, generate_image, current_time, calculate, convert_units, qr_code, get_weather, currency_convert |
| Also gets | render_chart, added by the platform when a person is watching in a client that can draw one |
| Knowledge | None attached by default |
| Routable | Yes — and it is the fallback when a routed step names nobody |
How it works
The Assistant is a plain markdown agent with no engine of its own. What makes it the default is the Orchestrator: a message no specialist owns is handed to the Assistant as a single child run, and its answer is adopted verbatim — no planning, no critic, no synthesis pass rewriting it.
When it answers that way it is also handed the catalog of agents you can see, which is why it can say "the Market Watcher can chart that for you" instead of guessing. It is told to do one quick web search for a current fact rather than inventing one, to suggest Deep Research for a genuine multi-source investigation, and to say plainly when web search is not configured.
What it reaches for
| You ask for | It uses |
|---|---|
| A chart, graph or plot | render_chart — an interactive chart in the thread, never ASCII. It falls back to matplotlib only where a chart cannot be drawn, such as a Slack thread. |
| A Word, PowerPoint or Excel file | generate_document, applying a workspace document template when one matches. |
| A table, a PDF, some analysis | code_execution in the sandbox — pandas, matplotlib, pillow and reportlab are available. |
| A picture or illustration | generate_image. |
| The date, arithmetic, a unit or currency conversion, a QR code | The built-in utilities, rather than doing it by hand and getting it wrong. |