Chat

Chat is an AI assistant that reads your patch, explains it, and queues canvas changes for you to review.

Open the sidebar. Select Chat. Ask a question, describe a change, or ask Chat to build something on the canvas.

How It Works

Chat acts like a collaborator beside your patch. It inspects the canvas, reads selected object data, checks errors, and searches the documentation.

Chat also reads object instructions before it proposes a change. When you ask Chat to change the canvas, it creates an action card.

Nothing changes until you select Apply. If a suggestion is not right, select Dismiss and ask for another version.

Try It

Ask About the Selected Object

Select an object on the canvas.
Open Chat.
Ask:

What does this object do?

Chat includes the selected object type, data, and recent errors as context.

Make a Small Edit

Select a code object.
Ask:

Make this animation slower and use warmer colors.

Chat reads the current object data, changes the related fields, and queues an edit card for you to apply.

Build From a Preset

Ask Chat:

Find texture presets that would work well for a soft background.

Chat searches built-in and user presets, reads the complete preset, and inserts a preset by name. For a request in the current view, Chat reads your viewport and places the preset there.

What Chat Can Do

Chat queues these canvas actions:

Create one object from generated data.
Create multiple connected objects.
Insert an existing preset.
Edit object data or code.
Replace an object with another type.
Delete objects.
Move objects on the canvas.
Connect objects with edges.
Disconnect existing edges.

For a large creative request, Chat may generate content before it queues the canvas change. For example, a request for a kick and snare patch can generate an object graph.

Chat then shows one action card that adds the objects and connections.

What Chat Can Read

Chat uses these context sources:

The current canvas objects and edges.
Your current viewport, zoom level, visible bounds, and canvas center.
The complete data and connected edges for a specific object.
Recent object errors and warnings.
Object instructions, handles, inlets, and outlets.
Topic documentation and object reference pages.
Built-in object packs and preset packs.
Preset search results and complete preset contents.
Built-in sample libraries and Freesound, when configured.

This context helps Chat avoid assumptions. If a patch fails, ask Chat to check its errors before it changes the patch.

Working With Action Cards

Action cards show proposed changes.

Apply changes the canvas.
Dismiss leaves the patch unchanged.
Applied actions use Patchies history. You can undo them.

Enable auto-approve in the chat controls to make changes faster. Keep it off for broad changes or for a patch you care about.

Useful Prompts

What objects are on this canvas, and how are they connected?

Fix the selected shader error.

Create a p5 object that draws bouncing circles.

Search for presets in the Texture Filters pack.

Insert the Blur preset.

Insert the Blur preset in the current view.

Move these three objects into a cleaner layout.

Connect the slider to the oscillator frequency.

Current Limits

Ask for clear changes that you can review. Some operations are easier to do yourself or with another prompt:

Object code usually sets object titles, such as setTitle.
Chat handles deep nested settings as normal object data edits.
Chat can approximate duplicated objects, but it has no dedicated duplicate action.