Chat
Open the sidebar and switch to the Chat tab to chat with an AI assistant about your patch.
- Ask questions about Patchies, get help debugging, or brainstorm ideas
- When a object is selected, its type and data are automatically included as context so the AI understands what you're working on
- Press
Enterto send,Shift+Enterfor a newline - Use the trash icon to clear the conversation history
Canvas Tools
The assistant can act on your canvas directly when you ask it to. It will present proposed changes as action cards that you can apply or dismiss before anything is modified.
- Insert: Create new objects on the canvas
- Edit: Modify an existing object's code or settings
- Turn Into: Replace an object with a different type
- Fix: Fix errors using console output
- Split: Break an object into multiple connected objects
- Fork: Derive a new object from an existing one
- Connect: Wire objects together with edges
- Disconnect: Remove edges between objects
Context Tools
The assistant automatically uses these behind the scenes to understand your patch before acting:
- Get Graph Objects — Lists all objects and edges on the canvas so it knows what exists and how things are connected
- Get Object Data — Fetches the full data of a specific object (code, settings, connected edges)
- Get Object Instructions — Looks up the API reference for a specific object type (e.g., handle IDs, inlet/outlet specs)
- Search Docs — Searches topic guides and object reference pages by keyword
- Get Object Errors — Fetches recent error and warning logs for any object, useful for diagnosing issues across the patch
- Get Doc Content — Fetches the full content of a documentation page