--- title: "Set up the AI Assistant" url: "https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/article/set-up-the-ai-assistant/" type: "article" category: ["Admin settings", "Highlighted features"] tags: ["Admin users only", "PIM", "DAM"] language: "en" published: "2026-09-15T10:18:44+00:00" updated: "2026-09-15T10:18:44+00:00" summary: "Configure the AI Assistant chat panel in Kontainer: choose where it opens, add reusable prompts that users trigger with a slash command, and see what the assistant looks like for the people using it." --- # Set up the AI Assistant The AI Assistant is a chat panel inside Kontainer. It answers questions about your assets, folders, products and users, and it can act on them on your behalf. Everything an administrator sets for it lives in one place: ***Settings*** → ***Configuration*** → ***AI*** → ***AI Assistant***. There are two things to decide there — where the assistant opens, and which prompts your users can reuse. > These settings sit alongside the rest of your AI configuration. If you have not chosen an AI provider yet, start with [***AI Features for DAM***](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/article/ai-functions-for-dam/), which covers providers, tokens and the rest of Kontainer's AI tools. --- ## Find the settings 1. Go to ***Settings*** → ***Configuration*** 2. Open ***AI*** in the menu. It expands into ***General*** and ***AI Assistant*** 3. Choose ***AI Assistant*** ![Kontainer settings with the Configuration menu expanded to AI and then AI Assistant. The AI Assistant page shows a Layout dropdown set to Floating (centered), and a Prompts section with a New button reading No prompts yet.](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/kontainer-ai-assistant-settings-path.png?v=1789467310) --- ## Choose where it opens ***Layout*** decides how the assistant appears. The setting is per brand, so a Kontainer with more than one brand can place it differently in each. There are three choices: - **Right drawer** - **Floating (centered)** - **Left pinned** ![The Layout dropdown on the AI Assistant settings page, open and showing three choices: Right drawer, Floating (centered) and Left pinned.](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/kontainer-ai-assistant-layout-options.png?v=1789467332) --- ## Add reusable prompts A prompt is a piece of text your users can drop into the chat instead of typing it out, so a phrasing that works well is written once and available to everyone. Press ***New*** on the ***Prompts*** section and fill in: - **Title** — shown in the chat's prompt list - **Slash command** — lowercase letters, digits and hyphens. Typing / in the chat brings up the list - **Description** - **Prompt** — the text sent to the assistant ![The new prompt form on the AI Assistant settings page, with fields for Title, Slash command, Description and Prompt, and Cancel and Save buttons.](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/kontainer-ai-assistant-new-prompt.png?v=1789467341) ### System prompts A prompt can also be marked as the automatic system prompt for a brand. Its text is then appended to the assistant's own instructions rather than waiting to be called, which is the way to give the assistant standing context — house style, what your folders are for, which fields matter. --- ## What your users see The assistant opens from its launcher and greets an empty chat with *"Ask me anything about your assets, folders, products, or users."* ![The Kontainer AI Assistant panel open over the DAM, reading Ask me anything about your assets, folders, products, or users, with a message box and a row of buttons for attaching files, tool permissions, prompts and the read-only toggle.](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/kontainer-ai-assistant-panel.png?v=1789467367) Along the bottom of the message box: - **Attach files** — add a file to the conversation - **Tool permissions** — the assistant asks before it uses a tool. Approving one here stops it asking every time, and the list says so: *"Tools you approved without being asked each time. Revoke to be prompted again."* Approvals belong to that chat and can be revoked - **Prompts** — the list you configured above - **Write / Read-only** — whether the assistant may change things in that chat or only look. Each new chat starts on its own setting At the top of the panel are ***History***, ***New chat*** and ***Close***. --- ## Watch it done The same three steps end to end: finding the settings, adding a prompt, and picking it up in the chat. Subtitles are on by default and the player's own controls turn them off. [Embedded media](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/kontainer-ai-assistant-add-prompt-walkthrough.mp4?v=1789651304) --- **For providers, tokens and the rest of Kontainer's AI tools, see *[AI Features for DAM](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/article/ai-functions-for-dam/)*.** ## Related articles - [AI Features for DAM](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/article/ai-functions-for-dam/index.md): Set up and use Kontainer's AI tools on your assets: text generation and translation, AI tagging, facial recognition and search similar. Also covers MCP connections and AI token pricing for DAM and PIM… - [AI Features for PIM](https://kontainerhelpdesk.chost.cloud/article/ai-text-generation-and-translation/index.md): Set up AI text generation and translation on your PIM fields, and see which of the DAM AI features carry over to your product data.