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AI Chat Sidebar

What it does

The AI Chat Sidebar is a context-aware AI assistant that's available throughout Specky. Unlike a standalone chatbot, it knows exactly what you're looking at — the current document, the current view, the current workspace — and uses that context to give you relevant, grounded responses.

The AI Chat Sidebar can:

  • Answer questions about your product data, documents, and signals
  • Generate content for the document or view you're currently working in
  • Take actions like creating a decision log entry, adding a node to the Product Graph, or pushing a ticket to Jira
  • Explain what a feature does, what a signal means, or why a recommendation was made
  • Summarize long documents, signal lists, or meeting transcripts

    • The sidebar maintains conversation history within a session, so you can ask follow-up questions and build on previous responses without repeating context.

    When to use it

  • While writing a PRD — ask "Generate acceptance criteria for this requirement" or "What signals support this section?"
  • While reviewing the Opportunity Tree — ask "What evidence supports this opportunity?" or "What solutions have we tried for this problem before?"
  • While looking at the Product Graph — ask "Why is this node connected to that one?" or "What decisions affected this feature?"
  • While planning a roadmap — ask "What's the estimated effort for this initiative based on similar past work?"
  • For quick lookups — ask "When did we last update the checkout PRD?" or "Who owns the mobile app initiative?"
  • For content generation — ask "Write a one-paragraph summary of this document for a stakeholder email"

    • How to use it

  • Click the chat icon in the top-right corner of any view, or press Cmd+K
  • The sidebar opens with context about your current view already loaded
  • Type your question or request in natural language
  • The AI responds — if it references specific data, citations appear as clickable badges
  • Use the Insert button on any AI response to add it directly to the current document
  • Use New conversation to start fresh without the current context
  • Access Conversation history to revisit past sessions

    • Context modes:

  • Document mode (when a PRD is open): AI has full access to the document content and can generate, edit, or explain sections
  • View mode (when a dashboard is open): AI has access to the data in the current view
  • Global mode (from the home screen): AI has access to your entire workspace

    • Example

    You're writing a PRD for a new search feature. You have the PRD Editor open with a rough outline. You open the AI Chat Sidebar and ask:

    *"Based on the signals in our workspace, what are the most important search use cases I should cover in this PRD?"*

    The AI responds:

  • "Based on 34 signals from the last 60 days, the top search use cases are: (1) searching for past decisions by topic [12 mentions], (2) finding PRDs by feature name [9 mentions], (3) searching within a document [8 mentions], and (4) searching across all integrations at once [5 mentions]."

    • You click Insert and the four use cases are added directly to your PRD as a bulleted list with citations. You've just saved 45 minutes of manual signal review.