Test an Assistant in Preview
Preview is a chat with the Assistant inside the Platform. It answers with the settings you are editing, before you save them, and it costs nothing within the organization's daily preview allowance. It needs no Origin Domains and no deployment, so you can test an Assistant before any visitor can reach it.
Ask a question
In AI Assistants, open the Assistant.
Select the Preview tab. In a wide window, Preview is the pane beside Configure.
Type a question in the message box, or click a conversation starter to fill it in.
Press Enter, or click Send.
The answer streams in. Shift+Enter starts a new line instead of sending.
What Preview answers with
Setting | In Preview |
|---|---|
Instructions, Model, Reasoning | As they stand on the Configure tab, saved or not. While anything is unsaved, Preview says |
Knowledge Base | As saved. A change applies once it is saved and indexed; until then Preview answers from the Knowledge Base as it was. See Knowledge Base. |
Name, description, avatar, conversation starters | As they stand, in an empty chat |
Daily budget, Per-visitor message limit, Origin Domains, In Deployment | Not applied |
Until an Assistant's first Knowledge Base finishes indexing, Preview refuses questions with Assistant is indexing your knowledge files. Please try again in a few minutes.
Read an answer
In or under the answer | What it shows |
|---|---|
A number in brackets, such as [1] | A passage from the Knowledge Base the text drew on. Point to it or click it to highlight its file. |
File names with a link icon | The Knowledge Base files the answer cites. An answer without them cites nothing from the Knowledge Base. |
The figure with a coin icon | What writing the answer costs at the rates it is billed in deployment |
A summary above the answer, while it is written | The model's reasoning, when Reasoning is on |
The coin figure covers the answer only. The question is billed too, so a turn costs a little more than the figure. On the free model the figure is what the answer would have cost; nothing is charged.
What Preview costs
Preview answers draw on the organization's daily preview allowance, which every Assistant and every member share and which is refilled at 00:00 UTC. The Daily preview allowance bar above the message box shows how much of today's is used. Once it can't cover an answer, the rest of the day's preview answers are billed like other usage. See Daily preview allowance.
When the organization can't pay for an answer, Preview answers on the free model and says so above the message box. It says so too when the Assistant's Model is the free option.
Start over
Preview keeps your conversation when you save and when you come back later, and each person in the organization has their own. Earlier questions shape later answers, so start a new conversation before you test a change:
Click Clear Chat, the arrow at the bottom left of the message box.
How Preview differs from the installs
On a website or in Reverb 2.0 help | In Preview |
|---|---|
Each question carries the page the visitor is reading | No page is sent |
The Embedded Assistant follows its own rules for links and lists the imported pages it used in a Sources row | The cited files are listed under the answer |
The daily budget, the per-visitor message limit and the daily limit on free answers apply | None of them applies |
Once the Assistant is in deployment, ask a few questions from the pages where visitors will ask them. See Test answers with a question list.