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  • Addresses Assistant: docs reorganization positron#10538
  • Most of the work was moving existing content into subpages, but I did make some content edits and added a bit of new content (in particular, Tips & Troubleshooting is new content)

Reorganized structure

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  • Overview: short blurb and feature overview; clickable card buttons to navigate to Getting Started and other docs/resources
  • Getting started: how to get access to e.g. Anthropic/Copilot, how to login to the providers in Positron, how to remove providers (future home for Custom Providers enablement docs as well)
  • Chat: how to open chat, chat modes, inline chat, console actions
  • Completions: how to enable, toggle, snooze completions, etc
  • Customization: custom chat modes, custom prompts, etc. kept this separate from Chat to avoid the Chat page getting too long/unreadable (gives more space for Assistant: add concrete examples to docs for chat mode, instructions, prompt customizations positron#10570)
  • Tips & Troubleshooting: some recommended practices when using Chat, troubleshooting issues, how to get log output/chat logs/diagnostics, a small glossary (not sure if we want to have the glossary?)

Looking for feedback on

  • new structure
  • content on each subpage
  • anything else you have thoughts on!

Future work

Preview link

https://deploy-preview-228--positron-posit-co.netlify.app/assistant.html

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- overview
- getting started
- chat
- completions
- customization
- tips & troubleshooting
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## Glossary

### BYOK
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🚫 [vale] reported by reviewdog 🐶
[Posit.Headings] 'BYOK' should use sentence-style capitalization.

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If we want to keep the Glossary section, I'll fix this up

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Thank you for working on this! 🙌

Can you make sure we are using "dataframe" vs. "data frame" consistently in these files?


:::{.callout-important}
Positron Assistant requires a **Claude Console account** with API access. See Anthropic's [Claude API and Console](https://support.claude.com/en/collections/5370014-claude-api-and-console) documentation for more information.
Positron Assistant is provided relevant information about your current workspace through metadata about your Positron environment and through tool calling:
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This "and" is very confusing to me. Maybe we can just take off "tool calling" here?


#### Additional resources

Custom chat modes are now called custom agents in VS Code documentation. To learn more about the format of custom agents, see the following VS Code documentation:
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This is already updated in the dailies to "custom agents" and will be in a regular release within a day or two. Do you think you could update this now, to be more up-to-date?

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Let's update this once posit-dev/positron#10889 is implemented, as part of posit-dev/positron#10614

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Non blocking for future:
Thoughts on making a landing page for AI Tools which can have a section that links to Assistant, Databot and ideally some shared content i.e. provider management, data policy. It would be helpful for this page to explain when to use assistant over databot and vice versa.

It can look similar to this welcome page https://deploy-preview-228--positron-posit-co.netlify.app/welcome.html


::: {.callout-important}
Positron Assistant is a **preview** feature in Positron 2025.07.0-204 and beyond.
Positron Assistant is an AI client that provides LLM integration within Positron, both for chat and for inline completions. Currently available in **preview** (Positron 2025.07.0-204 and beyond), it supports **Anthropic Claude for chat** and **GitHub Copilot for code completions and chat**.
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Can we 1-2 sentences about the value prop here. I.e. "Positron Assistant is an AI client built specifically for data science workflows."

Maybe even include some example questions you can ask Assistant like "Why is my plot showing unexpected outliers?"

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