> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.automatstudio.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Assistant > Build your project by describing it: the assistant creates characters, locations, props, wardrobe, scenes and shots for you The assistant is a chat panel inside every project. Instead of filling in a form, you describe what you want — "a 24-year-old nurse called Mara, blond, blue eyes, tired but sharp" — and the assistant asks a question or two if it needs to, then creates it in your project. You can carry on in the studios as usual; everything it makes is an ordinary character, location, prop, wardrobe item, scene or shot. ## Opening it There are two ways in: * The **sparkle button** at the bottom right of any project page, next to the Help button. On a phone it fills the screen; on a desktop it sits beside your work. * **Create with AI** at the top of the Characters, Locations, Props, Wardrobe and Scenes pages, and **Ask the assistant** at the bottom of each studio. These open the panel already knowing where you are, so "make her older" inside a character's studio means that character. ## What it can do * **Create and edit assets.** Characters (name, age, description, voice), locations (interior or exterior, time of day), props and wardrobe. It writes descriptions the way a screenplay introduces things, which is what the image models respond to best — and you can edit anything afterwards in the studio. * **Set up scenes and shots.** A scene needs a location, so if the one you describe does not exist yet it will offer to create it first. Shots get a first-frame description with the right `@mentions` for the characters, props and wardrobe in frame, a video description, and dialogue with its speaker. See [Mention Characters, Props & Wardrobe](/tutorial/shot-studio/mention-assets) for why mentions matter. * **Offer to generate images and video.** After creating something it will quote the price and put a card in the chat. ## It never spends credits on its own Images and video cost credits, and the assistant cannot start a generation itself. When it offers one, a card appears in the chat showing the model, the price and your balance, with a **Generate for N credits** button. Nothing happens until you press it. Pressing it does exactly what the studio's generate button does, so the same rules and prices apply. If you would rather not, choose **Not now**. Creating and editing rows — characters, scenes, shots and so on — is free. Only generations cost credits, and only after you confirm. ## What it cannot do * Delete, archive or hide anything. Use the project pages for that. * Reorder scenes or shots — drag and drop them on the Scenes page. * Change your plan, credits or account settings. Those are on the Credits and Account pages. If you ask for one of these it will tell you where to go. ## Good things to know * **It asks at most a question or two.** If you give it enough to go on, it will not ask anything. If it fills in a detail you did not want, just tell it, or edit the asset in its studio. * **The chat is not saved.** It lasts while you are in the project; leaving the project or reloading the page starts fresh. What it created in your project stays. * **Names must be unique within a project**, because shots refer to assets by name. If you ask for a second "Mara" it will ask whether you meant to update the first. * **The content filter still applies.** If a description is blocked, the assistant will say so in the filter's words and ask for a different wording. * **Stop** interrupts a reply mid-stream; anything already created stays. *** Edit what the assistant created Generate the shots it set up This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.