1# Inline Assistant
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 3## Using the Inline Assistant
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 5You can use `ctrl-enter` to open the Inline Assistant nearly anywhere you can enter text: editors, the agent panel, the prompt 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 use `ctrl-enter` to open the inline assistant nearly anywhere you can write text: editors, the Agent Panel, the Rules Library, channel notes, and even within the terminal panel.
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11You can also perform multiple generation requests in parallel by pressing `ctrl-enter` with multiple cursors, or by pressing `ctrl-enter` with a selection that spans multiple excerpts in a multibuffer.
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13## Context
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15You can give the Inline Assistant context the same way you can in the agent panel, allowing you to provide additional instructions or rules for code transformations with @-mentions.
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17A useful pattern here is to create a thread in the [Agent Panel](./agent-panel.md), and then use the `@thread` command in the Inline Assistant to include the thread as context for the Inline Assistant transformation.
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19The Inline Assistant is limited to normal mode context windows (see [Models](./models.md) for more).
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21## Prefilling Prompts
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23To create a custom keybinding that prefills a prompt, you can add the following format in your keymap:
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25```json
26[
27  {
28    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
29    "bindings": {
30      "ctrl-shift-enter": [
31        "assistant::InlineAssist",
32        { "prompt": "Build a snake game" }
33      ]
34    }
35  }
36]
37```