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The Chat interface provides an interactive copilot experience for ad-hoc investigations and exploratory work. Chat is helpful for ad-hoc investigations or exploring your environment. It is also a helpful starting point to build agents

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How Chat Works

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Start Conversation

Navigate to Chat, select relevant tools/integrations (by default, all tools are selected)
2

Ask Questions

Natural language queries about your environment
3

Chat Investigates

Calls tools, gathers data, analyzes
4

Iterative Refinement

Follow-up questions, drill deeper
5

(Optional) Create Agent

Convert successful chat to reusable agent

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Use Cases

Investigations

Explore alerts, users, indicators

Research

Gather information across systems

Troubleshooting

Debug issues with AI assistance

Report Generation

Create formatted reports from conversations

Agent Creation

Convert successful chat to reusable agent

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Example Conversation

You: Investigate user john@example.com - check for suspicious activity Cotool Chat:
You: Check that IP address 192.168.1.50 Cotool Chat:

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Features

File Attachments: Upload logs, screenshots, documents to chat for analysis Slash Commands: Start guided workflows like /create-agent, /create-skill, or /hunt-intel directly from the composer Create Agent: Convert successful chat to reusable agent

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Slash Commands

Start a message with / to open Cotool’s slash command menu. Use slash commands when you want chat to switch into a more guided workflow, such as:
  • creating or updating an agent
  • creating or updating a skill
  • writing a detection for a connected platform
  • sending a report directly into Hunt with /hunt-intel
  • compacting a long conversation without starting a new chat

Slash Commands

See the available commands and when to use each one

File Attachments

Learn about uploading files to chat