Working with the assistant
What Radiant's assistant can read, what it can change, and what it always asks about first.
Radiant has an assistant that can read your map, answer questions about it, and propose changes to it. It is built on the same model catalogue you choose from in the chat panel, and it works through the same project permissions you already have.
Verifying your email
Chatting with the assistant and running tasks such as Generate title both need a verified email address. Until you verify, the composer is replaced by a prompt to verify it, and Generate title stays disabled.
Where you talk to it
Chat is the panel on the left of an open map. It knows which project you are in, and it can read and change that map.
It sees what you have selected
Whatever is selected on the map when you send a message is attached to that message automatically. A badge above the composer shows what is going along — a node's title, an edge's label, or a count when several things are selected.
This means "explain this node" works without you describing which node. It also means the selection is frozen at the moment you press send: selecting something else afterwards does not change a message already sent.
What it can do
Reading is always available: the map's nodes and connections, the compiled forecasting model and its diagnostics, and Metaculus search. It can also run a fresh simulation to answer a question, though it cannot open a run you saved earlier.
Changing the map is gated by the permission mode, and by default every change is proposed to you before it happens. See Permission modes and Approving map changes.
It can be wrong, and it can be misled
The assistant reads content from your map and from the web. Both can contain text that tries to instruct it. The approval step is the containment: read what a change actually does before you accept it, particularly on a map that imported content from somewhere else.
Chats and tasks are different things
A chat is a conversation. It keeps its history, you can rename it, and it stays until you delete it.
A task is one structured job with a defined output — naming a project, finding related Metaculus questions, suggesting a formula, pulling historical data for a base rate. Most tasks start from the menu on the thing they apply to, not by asking in chat. It runs in the background and tells you when it is done.
Most tasks finish by asking you to review the result before anything is applied. A running or review-ready task shows on the node it belongs to, and in the Tasks panel.
Starting an AI forecast or operationalization
Ask the assistant to operationalize a node into a full forecasting question, or to get an AI forecast for a node whose question is already written, and — where that action applies to the node — it starts that task itself instead of writing the question or estimating the probability yourself.
Starting one always asks you to approve it first — the one moment Full access does not skip. The run is paid from your monthly AI credits and can take several minutes. It does not reach the map right away: review its result like any other task, from the node or the Tasks panel.
If the question changes before you accept its AI forecast, dismiss the result and start a new forecast for the updated question.
Choosing a model
The model picker in the chat composer sets two things: which model answers, and how much reasoning it does before it does. Pick a model from the list, then use the Thinking slider at the bottom of the picker, or press Tab while it is open, to choose Instant, Low, Medium or High. Some models always reason, so their slider has no Instant step.
Each model starts at its own reasoning level when you pick it. A new chat opens with the last model and level you chose in this browser, or GPT-6 Luna at High if you have not chosen one yet.
Both can only be changed while the chat is idle, and an existing chat keeps the settings it was using. When a model is retired, its chats move to the model that replaced it, or to the default model if nothing did. A reasoning level the new model does not offer becomes that model's own level.
AI credits
Agent work uses a monthly allowance of AI credits, shown as credits used and remaining behind the dial in the top bar. The allowance refreshes on your signup day each month, and unused credits do not roll over. When the allowance is exhausted, new AI messages and tasks are refused until the next refresh.
Stopping it
Stop ends the current turn. A map change already being applied may still finish, but nothing new starts, and the next message begins a fresh turn rather than resuming what you interrupted.