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Some questions need more than one search: what the team settled on across a dozen meetings, and how that compares with what other teams do. In the chat, turn on Research, the magnifying-glass button in the message box, and Jinn plans the work, runs the searches, reads what matters, and answers with a source for every claim.

Turn on Research

While it’s on, the message box reads What should Jinn research? and every message you send goes out as research, marked with a Research chip. It stays on until you turn it off, and Jinn remembers it on this device.

Read the plan Jinn followed

The reply opens with a box that shows the plan and ticks it off. It starts at Planning the research…, then lists a row per step — Search your docs for…, Search your meetings for…, Read “…”, Search the web for…, Compare… — and marks each one done with what it found. A search Jinn added along the way is marked not in the plan. Once the answer is written, the box folds to one line, such as Researched · 4 steps. Open it to see the steps, and open a step to see what it found. The answer comes in the same shape every time: the short answer first, then the findings with their sources, then what Jinn looked for and didn’t find.

Choose what Research looks through

Research looks through whatever the chat looks through, so narrow it with chips the same way. It searches the web too when web search is on and available in your workspace. When it isn’t, Research works from your workspace alone and says so once, at the end of the answer. If there’s no Research button, the chat can’t search docs in this workspace, so there’s nothing for Research to work from.

Let the chat search the web

Web Search is a switch in the message box’s settings menu, behind the button that shows which model the chat is running. On, the chat can look things up on the internet and says so in the reply, separately from what it found in your workspace. Off, nothing about your question leaves for a search provider, and the chat answers from your workspace alone. The switch applies from the question you change it on. A greyed-out switch that says No web search key is configured means web search can’t run in this workspace. That’s set where the workspace decides how your AI is powered, and it’s a job for a workspace admin. The same page explains the other reason a chat won’t answer: chat runs on a provider account, and when the key behind it stops working, chat says so instead of replying.

Where to go next

Ask a question

Ask in plain words, and check every answer at its source.

Create with the chat

Have the chat draft an agent, a skill or a doc, or build a small tool.