> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.goosybear.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Asking Goosy

> How to ask Goosy for work, what he can see from the page you are on, and what he hands back.

Goosy is the assistant who does the work, and he travels with you. A panel
headed **Goosy Does…** sits beside whatever page you are on, and the box at the
bottom of it reads **Give it to Goosy…**. Type what you want, press Enter, and
he starts.

You never tell him where you are. Under the panel heading is a **Context** line
naming what he is currently bound to — *this week* on your dashboard, *boards*
on the boards page — so "make three more like this one" means the thing in front
of you.

## Ask for an outcome, not a button

The panel is called *Goosy Does…* for a reason: it takes instructions, not
questions about the menus. Say what you want to end up with and let him choose
the steps.

| Ask him this                                      | Rather than                        |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| "Draft next week's posts about the spring offer." | "Where is the posts page?"         |
| "Give me 6 thumbnail options for my next video."  | "How do I change the size?"        |
| "Catch me up on what happened this week."         | "Which report shows me last week?" |

Three things make an ask land well:

* **Say what it is for.** "A post announcing the new opening hours" gives him
  the point. "A post" does not.
* **Say how much.** Six options, one email, a week of posts.
* **Open the thing you mean first.** He works on what you are looking at.

Above the box he offers up to three **starter chips** — one-tap instructions
suited to the page you are on. The chip sends exactly the words printed on it,
so there are no surprises.

## Where to ask

Goosy is in the same place on every screen, and the shape changes with the size
of yours.

* **On a wide screen** the panel sits open beside your work.
* **On a narrower screen** it collapses to a slim bar. Opening it floats the
  panel over the page rather than squeezing your work.
* **On a phone** an **Open Goosy Does…** bar sits at the bottom of every screen,
  with a microphone beside it. Tapping it opens the conversation as a sheet over
  the page.

Keyboard shortcuts are printed under the box: **Enter** to send,
**Shift+Enter** for a new line, **Esc** to close, **⌘⇧M** to dictate, and
**⌘K** to open Goosy from anywhere. You can talk instead of typing on any of the
three shapes.

Some surfaces host the conversation themselves — a board, for instance, has its
own conversation down its left side, headed *Goosy Does…* and bound to that
board by name. On those pages the side panel steps back, so there is never a
second place to type.

## What he hands back

Not every ask returns the same kind of thing.

**An answer.** For a question about your own material — what is waiting on you,
how last week went, what is on a board — he answers in the panel.

**A plan you approve.** For anything with consequences, Goosy prepares first and
stops. The plan opens in the panel showing what he intends to change, marked up
so you can see exactly what is different. **Approve** it, **refine** it (say
what is off, in your own words, and he re-prepares), or **discard** it. If you
approve and then change your mind, an **undo** appears.

**Work in the right place.** When the result is a piece of content it lands on
the surface that owns it — a new image on its board, a post in the week's grid.

## He may also start the conversation

Goosy sometimes opens with a **check-in** of his own: a short card in the panel
naming something he has noticed, with one or two buttons. If nothing is
scheduled for the week ahead, for example, he offers to draft a plan — you can
say yes, ask to see it first, or dismiss the card.

## He prepares; you decide

Goosy never publishes, never spends money, never deletes anything and never
hands out access on his own. Those four always stop for a person, whatever role
that person holds, and whether the request came from you directly or from an
assistant acting on your behalf. When an ask runs into one of those gates, he
does the preparation and leaves the decision waiting for you.

## When your ask belongs somewhere else

If you ask for something that lives on another surface, Goosy does not silently
move you. He answers what he can and offers a link to the surface that owns the
rest — you choose whether to follow it. Your conversation stays where it is
either way.

## Picking up an earlier conversation

The history control in the panel header opens **Recent conversations**: what you
and Goosy have been working on, each row naming where it was bound and when you
last touched it. A conversation held on a board is a link straight back to that
board. A conversation bound to a surface is picked up by going to that surface —
the panel re-binds when you arrive and the thread is simply there.

## Connecting your own assistant instead

Goosy in the app is one way in. You can also point an AI assistant or a script
of your own at your account and have it read and act there. See
[Connect an assistant](/connect/claude-code) or the [Quickstart](/quickstart).