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## Prefilling Prompts
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19To create a custom keybinding that prefills a prompt, you can add the following format in your keymap:
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21```json
22[
23  {
24    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
25    "bindings": {
26      "ctrl-shift-enter": [
27        "assistant::InlineAssist",
28        { "prompt": "Build a snake game" }
29      ]
30    }
31  }
32]
33```