# AI assistant SnoutData's AI assistant is a chat panel that understands your schema and proposes a query. Ask a question in plain language and it replies with an explanation and a query you can drop straight into the editor: SQL on a relational database, or a native aggregation pipeline on MongoDB.  ## Schema grounding The assistant is grounded in the connected database's schema. Rather than send the whole schema (which would not fit for a large database), it **ranks tables by relevance to your question** and expands one hop along foreign keys, so the prompt is spent on the tables that actually matter. The result is a query that references your real tables and columns, or, on a document database, your real collections and fields. ## Using a reply When the assistant proposes SQL, you can: - Insert it **into the current editor** tab, or - Insert it **into a new tab**. On a MongoDB connection it proposes a native aggregation pipeline, which you insert into a pipeline tab. Either way, run it like any other query. ## Conversations - Replies render as **markdown**. - A per-conversation **token tally** shows prompt, completion, and total tokens. - Start a **new chat** or **stop** an in-flight reply at any time (a partial reply is kept). - Conversations are saved, so you can reopen past sessions. ## Choosing a model The model picker lists the models available to you. Which models you can reach depends on your [plan](https://docs.snoutdata.com/account/plans). If you would rather use your own provider account, see [Bring Your Own Key](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/byok). ## More - [Agentic actions](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/agentic): let the assistant run queries, fix errors, and build reports. - [AI auto-completion](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/auto-completion): inline ghost-text suggestions in the editor. - [Teach it about your database](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/knowledge-base): durable facts the assistant remembers per connection. - [Attach documents](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/documents): ask about a CSV, Excel, or PDF file. - [AI audit log](https://docs.snoutdata.com/ai-assistant/audit-log): see exactly what was sent to a model and what came back.