# Inline Assist

## Using Inline Assist

You can use `ctrl-enter` to open Inline Assist nearly anywhere you can enter text: Editors, the assistant panel, the prompt library, channel notes, and even within the terminal panel.

Inline Assist allows you to send the current selection (or the current line) to a model and modify the selection with the model's response.

You 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.

Inline Assist pulls its context from the assistant panel, allowing you to provide additional instructions or rules for code transformations.

> **Note**: Inline Assist sees the entire active context from the assistant panel. This means the assistant panel's context editor becomes one of the most powerful tools for shaping the results of Inline Assist.

## Using Prompts & Commands

While you can't directly use slash commands (and by extension, the `/prompt` command to include prompts) with Inline Assist, you can use them in the active context in the assistant panel.

A common workflow when using Inline Assist is to create a context in the assistant panel, add the desired context through text, prompts and commands, and then use Inline Assist to generate and apply transformations.

### Example Recipe - Fixing Errors with Inline Assist

1. Create a new chat in the assistant panel.
2. Use the `/diagnostic` command to add current diagnostics to the context.
3. OR use the `/terminal` command to add the current terminal output to the context (maybe a panic, error, or log?)
4. Use Inline Assist to generate a fix for the error.

## Prefilling Prompts

To create a custom keybinding that prefills a prompt, you can add the following format in your keymap:

```json
[
  {
    "context": "Editor && mode == full",
    "bindings": {
      "ctrl-shift-enter": [
        "assistant::InlineAssist",
        { "prompt": "Build a snake game" }
      ]
    }
  }
]
```