> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.forepost.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ask Forepost > Conversational layer over your live numbers, when you want to interrogate, not just read. The Daily Brief gives you the read. **Ask Forepost** lets you push on it. Same data, same voice, on demand. ## Three ways to ask **The bar in the top header.** Every dashboard view carries an *"Ask Forepost…"* input in the top bar, between the breadcrumb and the date. Always visible, no scrolling needed to reach it. Press **⌘K** (Mac) or **Ctrl+K** (Windows/Linux) from anywhere to jump straight into it. Type a question, press enter, and Forepost routes you to the chat with the answer already streaming. The hint chip in the input shows the shortcut so you don't have to remember it. **The sparkle next to a signal.** Watchlist cards, Weekly Watch metric cards, and per-agent rows all carry a small sparkle icon. Click it and Forepost opens the chat pre-loaded with a question scoped to that signal — *"Explain the Weekly Watch CSAT trajectory: sustained falling across 4 weeks (-4pp). What's behind the shape?"* — so you don't have to phrase the question from scratch. This is the fastest path from *I notice something* to *I understand it*. **The dedicated "Ask Forepost" tab in the sidebar.** Still there, still works the same way. Right entry point for free-form, multi-turn conversation that isn't tied to a specific card. All three routes land on the same chat surface with the same system prompt. ## When to use it * *"What's actually driving CSAT this week?"* * *"Should I be worried about capacity?"* * *"Make the commercial case for hiring one more agent."* * *"Draft a Slack message to engineering about the bug spike."* * *"What should I focus on this week?"* These five appear as suggested prompts when the chat is empty. Click any one to send it; or type your own. ## How it answers Forepost feeds your eight signals + team list + flags into the same system prompt the Daily Brief uses, then streams the model's response in real time. The voice rules are the same: direct, named numbers, no padding. ([Voice & tone](/reference/voice).) ## Threads, not sessions Conversations persist across reloads, devices, and tabs. The chat header carries a **Threads** dropdown listing your recent conversations and a **New thread** button to start fresh. Threads auto-title from your first message, so "Q2 staffing" or "Sarah situation" appears in the list without you typing a name. Each thread keeps full message history; the model sees the entire back-and-forth when you reply. ## Tools — when Forepost can look things up The header also carries a **Tools on/off** toggle. With tools off (the default), Ask Forepost streams answers from the workspace state baked into the system prompt — fast, single-turn, no lookups. With tools on, the model can query your own data mid-answer: * **get\_metric\_series** — pull weekly history for any of the eight metrics. * **get\_agent\_history** — pull a single teammate's CSAT and ticket trajectory. * **search\_briefs** — search your archived Daily Briefs by keyword. * **get\_recent\_actions** — list recent suggested actions with their outcomes. When tools fire, a small "Looked up: …" caption appears under the answer so you can see what was queried. Use it for follow-ups that need a lookup ("how has Sarah's CSAT moved over 8 weeks", "what did you say about deflection last month"). Tool-on turns are a bit slower because the model may call several tools before answering; tool-off is for everyday Q\&A. ## When to use it * *"What's actually driving CSAT this week?"* * *"Should I be worried about capacity?"* * *"Make the commercial case for hiring one more agent."* * *"Draft a Slack message to engineering about the bug spike."* * *"What should I focus on this week?"* These five appear as suggested prompts when the chat is empty. Click any one to send it; or type your own. ## Ask Forepost in Slack If your workspace has the Forepost Slack app installed, you can mention `@forepost` in any channel — or send a DM — and Forepost will reply in-thread using the same agentic loop. The Slack agent runs with tools on by default, so questions that need a lookup ("show me Sarah's last 8 weeks") work in-channel without leaving your inbox. ([Slack delivery](/help/slack).) ## What it can't do * It can't read individual ticket bodies. It only sees the aggregates you've entered or imported, plus the worst-CSAT sample summary surfaced in the Daily Brief. * It can't take actions for you yet — but it can draft them. See [Action drafts](/help/actions) for how Forepost generates copy-ready Slack messages or emails per action. * It can't promise things outside the data, and won't try. The system prompt has an explicit honesty clause: *never extrapolate from a zero, name gaps directly*. ([Honest "I don't know"](/reference/honest-no-data).) ## Drafting external messages A common use case: *"Draft a Slack message to engineering about any bug spikes."* Forepost will produce a clean, brand-consistent message you can paste straight into Slack. You'll usually want to edit a sentence, that's the [chief-of-staff metaphor](/help/forwarding) at work. Forepost equips you; it doesn't speak for you. ## Privacy Every Ask Forepost call goes through Forepost's own AI proxy, authenticated and rate-limited (60 calls per hour). The same Anthropic privacy model applies. Threads and message history persist in Forepost's D1 database scoped to your workspace; only the workspace metrics and your own conversations are stored.