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

# Nova for Agents

> Meet Nova in the ticket view. It drafts replies, catches you up on long conversations, runs your team's lookups and actions, and answers questions while you work a ticket

The AI Operator (Nova) sits beside every ticket you work on. Ask it to draft a
reply, summarize a thread you haven't followed, look up an order, or run an
action in a connected system, and it does the work while you stay in the
conversation.

Nothing Nova does reaches a customer on its own. You read what it wrote, you
press **Insert**, you press **Send**. An action only runs once you've checked
its details and pressed **Execute**.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Nova is rolling out gradually. If you don't see the rail, the chips, or the
> menu described on this page, Nova isn't switched on for your workspace yet.
> Ask your admin or your Typewise contact.

## What Nova does for you

| You want to | Nova | Read more |
| :- | :- | :- |
| Answer a ticket quickly | Writes the whole reply from the conversation | [Draft a reply](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/writing-replies.md#draft-a-reply) |
| Fix wording, change tone, or translate | Reworks the passage you selected and offers it for one-click insert | [Rework a passage](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/writing-replies.md#rework-a-passage) |
| Pick up a long ticket | Summarizes what the customer wants, what happened, and where it stands | [Catch up on a ticket](#catch-up-on-a-ticket) |
| Check an order, a record, or a policy | Runs the lookups your admins configured and tells you what came back | [Lookups](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/lookups-and-actions.md#lookups) |
| Change something in a connected system | Fills in the action's form for you to check and execute | [Actions](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/lookups-and-actions.md#actions) |
| Know what the AI Agent would have said | Searches your workspace's knowledge | [Chat with Nova](#chat-with-nova-about-a-ticket) |
| Find a page in the platform | Takes you there | [Chat with Nova](#chat-with-nova-about-a-ticket) |

## Where to find Nova

Nova lives in three places. They all open the same panel and the same
conversation.

![A ticket with the composer on the left and the Nova panel open on the right](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/nova-panel-ticket.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=11765035b94777aa360ae47fe1f77550)

1. **Draft reply** and **Summarize** chips above the reply box
2. The **Nova** button in the composer toolbar, with its keyboard shortcut
3. The ticket Nova is looking at
4. The message box, **Ask Nova...**, with the conversation's credit usage beside
   it
5. **Collapse**, which closes the panel and brings back the rail

> **The rail on the right edge**
>
> A thin rail on the right edge of the platform holds three buttons: **Nova**
> opens the panel, **Past conversations** lists your earlier conversations,
> and **New conversation** opens the panel on a fresh one.
>
> ![The rail with the Nova, Past conversations, and New conversation buttons](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/rail.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=13659c95970fd343bee7d6997b49d06a)
>
> The panel opens on the right and follows you from page to page. Drag its
> left edge to resize it. Click **Collapse** in its header to close it. On a
> narrow screen there is no rail, and the Nova button sits in the left
> navigation instead.

> **The keyboard shortcut**
>
> Press `Ctrl/Cmd + K` from anywhere to start a new conversation. In a reply
> composer the same shortcut opens Nova's menu first, where **Open Nova chat**
> takes you to the panel. See [keyboard
> shortcuts](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.md#nova).

> **The composer**
>
> Once you've taken over a ticket, two chips sit above the reply box: **Draft
> reply** and, on longer tickets, **Summarize**. The **Nova** button in the
> composer toolbar opens the menu of your team's actions and lookups, and
> selecting text in your draft opens Nova's writing tools. See
> [Write replies with Nova](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/writing-replies.md).

## Nova knows which ticket you're on

While a ticket is open, a reference to it sits above the message box in the
panel, with the ticket's title and number. That's the ticket Nova means when you
say "this ticket", "this customer", or "her". You never need to paste an ID.

![A new conversation in the panel: the greeting, the Draft reply and Summarize chips, and the ticket reference above the message box](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/panel-new-conversation.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=8018553afbdb7ab503ecd76930774ffb)

To ask about something else, click the **x** on the reference. It comes back
when you open another ticket.

## Catch up on a ticket

When a ticket has a long history, Nova offers a summary before you read a word.

**1. Click Summarize**

Click **Summarize** above the reply box. The chip appears once a ticket
has enough back-and-forth to be worth summarizing. On shorter tickets, or
with no composer open, click **Summarize** in the panel instead, or ask
for one.

**2. Read the summary**

A popover headed **Conversation summary** lists, in a few bullets: what
the customer wants, what has been answered, offered, or promised so far,
what they're waiting on, and anything that changes how you should reply,
such as a deadline or an unhappy customer.

![The Conversation summary popover above the composer](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/summary-popover.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=094b01609e31c54749a1561e396a1bcc)

1. The **Summarize** chip the summary came from
2. **Chat with Nova**, which takes the summary into the panel

**3. Carry on in the panel, or close it**

**Chat with Nova** opens the panel with the summary as context, so you can
ask follow-up questions straight away. Press `Esc` or click anywhere else
to close the popover.

A summary is for you, not for the customer. It never goes into your reply, and
it contains only what the conversation says, never a guess about an order or a
policy.

> [!NOTE]
>
> From the chip, the summary is written in the ticket's language, because you're
> about to reply in it. Asked for in the panel, it's written in the language you
> asked in. If the customer writes in German and you don't, ask in the panel.

## Chat with Nova about a ticket

The message box at the bottom of the panel reads **Ask Nova...**. Write in plain
language and press `Enter` (`Shift + Enter` adds a line). With a ticket open,
the panel greets you with two shortcuts, **Draft reply** and **Summarize**, but
you can ask for anything:

* "What has this customer been promised so far?"
* "Has she contacted us before about this?"
* "What's the status of her order?"
* "What would the AI Agent answer here?"
* "Draft a reply that confirms the refund and apologizes for the delay."
* "Take me to the Inbox."

To answer, Nova reads the ticket, the same customer's earlier conversations,
your workspace's knowledge, and the lookups and actions your admins configured.
It tells you what it found in a couple of sentences.

### Read a reply

![A Nova reply with reply text and an Insert button, followed by a question with numbered options](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/nova-reply.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=6b1b403553046e097b86e24bb7e4da17)

1. **Insert** under text Nova wrote for your customer
2. A question with options to pick from, or **Something else...** to type your
   own
3. The message box, which reads **Or reply here directly...** while a question
   is open

| What you see | What it means |
| :- | :- |
| **Finished thinking** | How Nova got there, collapsed. Expand it to see each step, such as reading the ticket. |
| **A card headed with a lookup's name** | A lookup Nova ran, with the values it used and the answer. Nova sums the answer up in plain words below it. |
| **A form with Execute or Look up** | An action waiting for your go-ahead, or a lookup that needs a value Nova doesn't have. See [Lookups and actions](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/lookups-and-actions.md). |
| **A numbered list of options** | A question for you. Click an option, type your own answer under **Something else...**, or reply in the message box. |
| **Insert** under a block of text | Reply text Nova wrote for your customer. Click to put it in the composer. See [Write replies with Nova](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/writing-replies.md). |
| **Copy** and the thumbs-down icon | Copy the reply, or tell the Typewise team it was wrong or unhelpful. |
| **N credits used** | What this conversation has cost so far. See [Credits](#credits). |

While Nova is working, the send button turns into a stop button. Stopping ends
the reply but doesn't undo a lookup that already ran.

### Two languages, one conversation

Nova answers **you** in the language you write to it in. Text it writes for your
**customer** stays in the customer's language, whatever language you asked in.
Ask in English for a reply to a Spanish customer, and the reply comes back in
Spanish with a note to you in English. Only naming a language, "say it in
French", changes that.

### Manage conversations

**New** in the panel header starts a fresh conversation. Start one when you
switch to another ticket or another task, so old context doesn't pull answers
off course. **Past conversations** lists your history, grouped by day, with a
search box. Your conversations are private to you. You can also dictate instead
of typing: click the microphone in the message box and speak.

![The Past conversations list in the panel header, grouped by day with a search box](https://mintcdn.com/typewise/Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r/images/documentation/nova/for-agents/overview/past-conversations.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Dj83fGQ8BZevB12r\&q=85\&s=0fa2bb4cbe365470f5375fff04ede81b)

See [Nova conversations](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/conversations-and-credits.md) for
dictation, feedback, and stopping a reply.

## What Nova won't do

* **Send anything to a customer.** Nova writes. You read, insert, and send.
* **Run an action on its own.** Every action shows you a form with its details
  first, and only runs when you press **Execute**, with the values you see.
* **Change how the AI Agent is set up.** Specialists, knowledge sources,
  actions, channels, and company settings are an admin's job. Nova says so and
  offers what it can do instead.
* **Run manual actions.** Those are tasks for a person. Nova explains what they
  are and where your team handles them.
* **Use unpublished changes.** Lookups and actions run against the published
  configuration. A tool an admin added but hasn't published yet isn't there.
* **Share what your admins marked as not shareable.** A result from a knowledge
  source set to **No sharing allowed** stays in the panel for you to read. Nova
  never pastes it into a reply to the customer.

## Credits

Nova runs on your workspace's AI credits. A badge above the message box shows
what the current conversation has used so far. If the allowance runs out, the
panel says so and Nova pauses. Only an admin can add credits or change the plan,
so ask them. The AI Agent keeps answering customers meanwhile.

See
[Nova conversations and credits](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/conversations-and-credits.md#credits).

## If you're an admin

Everything on these pages works for admins too. On top of it, admins can ask
Nova to configure the workspace: create and edit Specialists, add knowledge
sources, set up actions, write tests, and pull reports. See
[What Nova can do](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/what-nova-can-do.md).

## Where to go next

> **[Write replies with Nova](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/writing-replies.md)**
>
> Draft, improve, retone, translate, and iterate on a reply

> **[Lookups and actions](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/for-agents/lookups-and-actions.md)**
>
> Check your systems and act in them, with you in control

> **[Nova conversations](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/nova/conversations-and-credits.md)**
>
> History, dictation, feedback, and credits

> **[Keyboard shortcuts](https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.md#nova)**
>
> Every Nova shortcut


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