# Chat
URL: https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/chat
Description: Ask questions across organization knowledge, projects, reviews, uploaded files, and connected tools.
**Chat** is an AI assistant for security, privacy, compliance, and review questions. It is best for exploratory work: understanding evidence, asking follow-up questions, checking what a policy says, comparing a proposed design to organization guidance, or deciding what to review next.

[Image: Chat answer with a generated data flow diagram and sources]

You can even use it to edit answers within a review.

[Image: Editing answers with chat]

For a structured, auditable assessment against a review template, run a [review](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/reviews).

## How it works [#how-it-works]

Chat is an agent with tools. Depending on your permissions and your organization’s integrations, it can search or read:

* [Knowledge Base](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/knowledge) documents
* projects, reviews, answers, and citations
* files uploaded to the current conversation
* pasted links and connected records, such as Confluence pages, [Archer IRM](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/integrations/governance/archer) records, GitHub pull requests, tickets, or ServiceNow records
* project and review setup actions, when those actions are enabled

When Chat has supporting records, a **sources** button appears under the answer. Open it to check where a claim came from. If an answer has no sources, ask which sources it used or ask it to search a specific project, review, or policy.

## Controls [#controls]

Use **@** in the input to focus the conversation on a project, then optionally one or more reviews inside that project.

When you're reading a review, you can click 'Chat with this question' to open up the chat and include that question as a focus.

Use **+** to upload a file for the current conversation. Chat uploads are conversation context only; they do not become project sources or Knowledge Base content. To add review evidence permanently, use [project sources](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/reviews#step-2-add-sources).

Use **Chat history** to reopen or delete recent chats. When you are chatting from a project, history is filtered to that project.

On the full Chat page, use **Share** to copy a conversation, copy it as Markdown, or download it as Markdown.

## Starting reviews [#starting-reviews]

When review creation is enabled, Chat can start a review from an existing project or help create a new project from files, links, tickets, or repository context. It chooses a review template when the fit is clear and asks you to choose when it is not.

## Admin controls [#admin-controls]

Admins and owners can configure organization-level chat behavior from **Settings > General > Chat**.

The **System Prompt Extension** adds organization-specific instructions to Chat. Keep it short, and put source material in the [Knowledge Base](https://docs.clearly-ai.com/docs/knowledge) instead of the prompt.

When **Chat Admin** is enabled, admins can open **All Chats** to review organization chat history, including creator, update time, status, origin, and project association. If the feature is not enabled, the page shows **Feature Not Available**.

[Image: Settings General page with the Chat card and System Prompt Extension toggle]