1# Inline Assistant
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 3## Usage Overview
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 5Use `ctrl-enter` to open the Inline Assistant nearly anywhere you can enter text: editors, text threads, the rules library, channel notes, and even within the terminal panel.
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 7The Inline Assistant allows you to send the current selection (or the current line) to a language model and modify the selection with the language model's response.
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 9You can also perform multiple generation requests in parallel by pressing `ctrl-enter` with multiple cursors, or by pressing the same binding with a selection that spans multiple excerpts in a multibuffer.
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11## Context
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13Give the Inline Assistant context the same way you can in [the Agent Panel](./agent-panel.md), allowing you to provide additional instructions or rules for code transformations with @-mentions.
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15A useful pattern here is to create a thread in the Agent Panel, and then mention that thread with `@thread` in the Inline Assistant to include it as context.
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17> The Inline Assistant is limited to normal mode context windows ([see Models](./models.md) for more).
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19## Prefilling Prompts
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21To create a custom keybinding that prefills a prompt, you can add the following format in your keymap:
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23```json
24[
25  {
26    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
27    "bindings": {
28      "ctrl-shift-enter": [
29        "assistant::InlineAssist",
30        { "prompt": "Build a snake game" }
31      ]
32    }
33  }
34]
35```