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# Ask the AI Agent about a dataset or an automation

> Open the Ask chat docked beside a dataset or the Automations tab to ask the Mammoth AI Agent about its source, columns, schedule or failures.
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> Applies to: Enterprise plans. Where: A dataset's page or Data Library › Automations › Ask

A dataset's page and the **Automations** tab have their own agent chat, docked beside the page and about that one thing. Click **Ask** at the right of the page's top bar, or press ⌘J (Ctrl+J on Windows).

## Open the docked chat and pick a question

| Where | **Ask** opens | Suggestions |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A dataset's page | "Ask about this dataset": its source and refresh, its columns, or what a column means | "Where does this data come from?", "When was it last refreshed?", "What does each column mean?" |
| **Data Library** > **Automations** tab | "Ask about these automations": every automation in the project | "Which automations failed this week?", "What runs every morning?", "Which ones are paused?" |
| The same tab, with one automation selected | "Ask about this automation": when it runs, who gets it, or why it didn't fire. A change you ask for waits for your OK. | "When does this run next?", "Why didn't it fire last time?", "Who gets it?" |

Click a suggestion to send it, or type your own question in the box ("Ask about this dataset…").

- Each dataset or automation has one chat per person. Your earlier messages are still there when you come back.
- The chat is 360 pixels wide and sits beside the page. In a window narrower than 1,100 pixels it lies over the page instead.
- Close it with the ✕ in its header, Esc, or ⌘J again. Mammoth remembers whether you left it open, and opens it the same way on the next dataset.
- A dot on **Ask** means news: blue for a new result, amber when it waits on you.

## See a main chat's messages in the docked chat

Open a dataset from a chat on the Agent page and the docked chat shows that chat's messages about the dataset at the top ("from Carrier mix review"), read-only. Click **Open in the chat** to go back to them.

## Move a request to a better place

When the agent decides a request is better done somewhere else, it shows a card that says "Your request goes with you" (or "Your request and what I found go with you").

- **Continue in Automations** or **Continue in the agent** takes the request there, where it runs at once. The receiving chat says where it came from, for example "Handed over from Orders".
- **Add it here** keeps working in the chat you're in.

## Related

- [Chat with the agent](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/chat/): the full Agent page.
- [Results, charts and canvases](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/results-and-canvas/): the handoff cards the agent shows.
- [Notifications](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/automate/notifications/): agent news in the bell.

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Source: https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/agent/ask-about-a-dataset.md · Updated: 2026-11-08