What are Assistants?
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AI applications don’t always need to be complex to get the job done.
Sometimes, all you need is a quick way to give an LLM secure access to
your data. If you’d like to build a simple chat app that has access to
your data sources, create an Assistant.

Assistants are a special type of Gen AI Builder chatbot Agent Structure
that can be created easily in less than a minute, without writing or
deploying any code. They offer much of the same functionality provided
by Agent Structures, through a simple configurable interface.

Assistants can be configured to use Gen AI Builder resources such as
:ref:`Knowledge Bases <Knowledge Bases>`  , :ref:`Rulesets <Rulesets>`  , and :ref:`Tools <Tools>`  . Once your Assistant
is created, you can immediately begin chatting with it by sending a
message on the following screen.

.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 3

  assistants--getting-started-with-assistants
  assistants--assistant-runs