User Input
How to write to CRAFTSMAN INTELLIGENCE: the message box, sending, steering a response in progress, stopping, editing, and starting a new chat.
Everything you say to CRAFTSMAN INTELLIGENCE starts in the message box at the bottom of the chat. This page covers typing and sending messages and the controls around them. The pages in this section cover the other ways you can give the assistant input:
Attachments — Add files and Asset Library assets to a message, and reuse media already in the conversation.
Questions — Answer when the assistant asks you to choose between options.
Quick Replies — Send a follow-up or a template prompt with one click.
The Message Box
Type your request in the message box. There is no special syntax to learn. Write the way you would describe the task to a colleague, and the assistant works out which specialty should handle it.
On a new chat, the empty message box cycles through example prompts from the specialties available on your current page. This is only a preview of what you can ask. It stops as soon as you start typing and does not return once the chat has its first message.
Press Enter to send.
Press Shift + Enter to add a line break.
The box grows as you type. Long drafts scroll once it reaches its maximum height.
There is no length limit on a message.
Sending a Message
Click Send or press Enter. The Send button is available as soon as your message has something in it: text, an attachment, an Asset Library asset, or a selected image or audio clip from earlier in the conversation. A message does not need text if it has an attachment.
While the assistant works, the chat shows a thinking indicator that updates with what it is doing, such as "Generating 3 images" or "Searching the web". Click the indicator to expand the steps.
Enhancing Your Prompt
Click the wand button next to the message box to rewrite your draft into a more detailed version. The assistant expands your request with the specifics a designer would assume, without inventing facts you did not provide.
The rewrite replaces the text in the message box. Review it, edit it if you like, and send when you are ready. The button is disabled while the box is empty, and typing while a rewrite is in progress cancels it.
Adding to a Response in Progress
You do not have to wait for the assistant to finish before sending your next thought. While a response is in progress the message box stays open with the placeholder Add to steer the agent..., and the Send button tooltip reads Queue message to steer the agent.
Messages you send during a response are queued, not sent immediately. They appear below the conversation at reduced opacity so you can tell the assistant has not seen them yet. The assistant picks them up between its steps and takes them into account before continuing. You can attach files to a queued message, and you can remove a queued message with the X that appears when you hover over it.
Stopping a Response
Click Stop to end the current response. The Stop button appears next to Send whenever the assistant is working.
When you stop:
Whatever the assistant has already written stays in the chat, followed by the line You stopped this response.
Any queued messages are discarded.
Changes the assistant already made to your project are kept. Stopping is not an undo. To reverse a change, use the editor's Undo, which reverts the whole response's changes in one step.
Editing a Sent Message
Hover over one of your own messages and click the Edit (pencil) icon to change it. Edit the text, then click Save or press Enter. Press Esc or click Cancel to leave it unchanged.
Saving an edit removes every message after the one you edited and sends the edited message again, so the assistant responds fresh. Any files attached to the message are kept.
Editing rewinds the conversation. Messages and responses after the edited one are removed and cannot be recovered.
You can also hover over any message and click the Copy icon to copy its text.
Starting a New Chat
Click the New Chat (+) button in the chatbot header, or press ⌘ Shift O on Mac or Ctrl + Shift + O on Windows. The shortcut works from anywhere in the platform, even when the chatbot is closed, and opens it on a fresh chat.
Your previous chat is saved in History. A new chat also starts automatically when you open a different project.
Rating Responses
Hover over any response from the assistant to show three actions: Good Response, Bad Response, and Copy Response. Ratings help us improve the assistant. Click the same rating again to remove it.
If Something Goes Wrong
If a message fails, the chat shows the reason in a red notice with a Dismiss button and, when it makes sense to try again, a Retry button that sends your last message again. Connection problems, rate limits, and temporary server issues can all be retried. If the AI provider itself is unavailable, the notice reads Intelligence Unavailable and chat resumes once service is restored.
If the chatbot is closed or your tab is in the background when a response finishes, a sound plays and the CRAFTSMAN INTELLIGENCE button and the browser tab icon show that there is something new to read.
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