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Cards, Suggested Links and Suggested Actions in the AI Guide

Last Updated: November 8, 2026 (checked against the code: card links, suggested links, who can confirm, flags)

The AI Guide can show you your own records directly in the chat panel, and offer quick links to the right page — so you spend less time describing what you mean and more time looking at it.

Cards​

When you ask the Guide about a specific item in your project, it can answer with a short note plus a card — a compact view of the real record, shown right in the conversation:

  • An evidence item — its title, type, source and date, a short excerpt, and how many questions it's linked to.
  • An analysis result — the conclusion, check result, faithfulness, coverage and passages considered, matching what you'd see on the analysis page.
  • Evidence gaps — the gaps from your project's saved gap analysis, with their impact and next steps. It needs a gap analysis to have been run.
  • Evidence comparison — for one question, the evidence you linked to it side by side with the evidence the latest AI analysis actually drew on, with the mismatches in both directions highlighted. Ask it when you want to know whether the analysis used your linked evidence.

A few things worth knowing:

  • Cards show your real data. Everything on a card comes straight from your project's records — the same information you'd see if you opened the item yourself. The Guide doesn't write card content.
  • Every card links back to your records. Evidence and analysis cards have an "Open" link to the record. The gap card opens the analysis page. The comparison card links each item and the full retrieval trace.
  • You can expand a card into a wider view.
  • The Guide can't see a card's contents. The card loads directly in your browser, so ask about the record by name rather than "the card above".
  • Cards are read-only. They display information; they never change anything in your project.

Getting a card​

Just ask naturally about a specific item:

  • "Show me the evidence titled Q3 vendor invoice."
  • "What did the analysis for my first question conclude?"
  • "Where are my evidence gaps?"
  • "Did the analysis for question 2 use the evidence I linked?"

The Guide will still answer in plain text when that's the better fit — cards appear when there's a specific record worth showing.

If a card can't be shown​

Occasionally the Guide refers to something that can't be displayed — for example, an item that was deleted or a reference that didn't match a record. When that happens you'll see a small note saying the reference couldn't be shown, and you can simply ask again or open the item from your workspace. You'll never see a made-up or broken card.

After answering, the Guide may offer up to three small buttons — shortcuts to relevant pages in your current project, like your evidence list or the analysis page. Clicking one navigates there and closes the panel; suggested links never create or change data. They can only point to a fixed set of project pages: overview, evidence (the list or one item), analysis, topics, report, organize, theme clusters and settings.

Suggested actions​

Sometimes a conversation turns up a concrete next step. When it does, the Guide can propose one, as a card with Confirm and Dismiss buttons:

  • Add a question: the proposed question text and why it's worth asking. It may be placed under a topic or an existing question.
  • Link evidence to a question: which evidence item, which question, and why they belong together.

How it works:

  • Nothing changes until you click Confirm. Dismiss just closes the suggestion.
  • The wording is the Guide's. Unlike the record cards above, the proposed question and the reason are written by the AI, so read them before confirming.
  • A confirmed action is the same as doing it yourself. It goes through the same steps and permissions as adding the question or linking the evidence by hand, so you need member access. It is recorded in the audit log the same way, with an extra entry noting that it came from a Guide suggestion.
  • One suggestion at a time. At most one appears per reply.
  • These two are the only actions. The Guide can't propose anything else.

Privacy and safety​

The same rules that apply to the AI Guide's answers apply to cards, links and suggested actions. The Guide only sees the project you're working in, and it can only show you records you already have access to. It never changes anything on its own. A suggested action takes effect only when you confirm it.

Availability​

Cards and suggested links use GUIDE_CARDS_ENABLED. Suggested actions use GUIDE_ACTIONS_ENABLED. Both are on in hosted Inqura and in a fresh licensed install, and either can be turned off without the other. See Availability and flags.