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

# Ask

> Ask Tashvi anything about jewelry — stones, metals, settings, casting, pricing, and care — without leaving the Create chat, with the design on your canvas as context.

Ask turns the Create composer into a conversation with a master jeweler. Switch it on and your messages get *answered* instead of generating a design — questions about the piece on your canvas, or about the trade in general.

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## How to open it

On the Create composer, open the **+** menu and choose **Ask**. An **Ask** chip appears next to the **+** button, and the composer switches to asking rather than designing.

Ask is sticky, because a good question is rarely a single turn — keep asking follow-ups, then dismiss the chip (**×**) to go back to designing. Starting a new chat clears it too.

It's available in both composers: the one on your empty home page and the one beside an active conversation. Start a question before you've made anything and Ask stays on once the chat opens.

## What you can ask

Anything a working jeweler deals with:

| Area                        | Examples                                                                                   |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Gemstones & diamonds**    | The 4Cs, cuts, treatments, lab-grown vs natural, colored stones, grading and certificates  |
| **Metals & alloys**         | Karat and purity, gold colors, platinum, silver, plating, durability, allergies            |
| **Settings & construction** | Prong, bezel, pavé, channel, tension, halo, cathedral, gallery, sizing                     |
| **Manufacturing & CAD**     | Casting, wax, 3D printing, stone setting, finishing, tolerances, castability               |
| **Pricing & business**      | Margins, quoting, wastage, labour                                                          |
| **Care & repair**           | Cleaning, servicing, what wears and what lasts                                             |
| **Trade & sourcing**        | Hallmarking, regulation, ethics, terminology, styles, trends, and the history of the craft |

Answers lead with the answer — a range, a number, a verdict — then the reasoning worth knowing. Ask about something outside jewelry and it steers back.

## It can see your design

The design on your canvas is sent with every question, along with any influence references you've attached, so you can ask about the specific piece rather than in generalities:

* *"What stone is this?"*
* *"Would this setting cast cleanly?"*
* *"Is the band too thin to size later?"*

Up to three images ride along — the main design first, then influences. A reference that fails to load is simply dropped, and the answer still comes back.

Ask also carries the recent conversation, so a question can follow straight on from designing: *"how would I cast the ring I just made?"*

## It answers in your market

Jewelry vocabulary isn't universal, so Ask reads which trade you work in from your own words — the terms you use, the currency or city you mention, the standards you cite — and answers inside it. Write **tunch**, **bhav**, **916**, **BIS** or **mangalsutra** and you get Indian framing: purity in 916/750, weight in grams and tola, making charges and wastage as the trade states them. Write **ujra** or price in **AED** and you get Gulf conventions, where 21K and 22K are the norm. **Ayar** gets Türkiye, **baht gold** gets Thailand, **sovereign** and **assay office** get the UK.

There's no setting for this and nothing is stored — it's re-read from each conversation, so switching markets mid-chat just works.

## Ask never changes your design

Ask can look at your design, but it cannot generate, edit, or replace it. A question can never cost you the piece you're working on, and Ask can't pull in stray context from past conversations to alter it.

To make a change, dismiss the **Ask** chip and describe it in the composer, or use **Select & edit** to change one area. The quality tier and aspect-ratio pickers hide while Ask is on, for the same reason — a question doesn't render anything.

## Credits

An answer costs **1 credit**. If an answer fails, or you stop it partway, the credit is refunded.

<Note>
  Ask turns aren't saved to your design conversation. They stay in the chat while you work, but they won't be there after a reload — copy anything you want to keep.
</Note>

## Related

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  <Card title="Conversational editing" icon="messages-square" href="/features/create/conversational-editing">
    Ready to change the piece instead of asking about it? Describe the change and Create edits it.
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  <Card title="Quality tiers & credits" icon="gauge" href="/features/create/quality-tiers">
    What each generation costs, and how to make your credits go further.
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  <Card title="Reference images" icon="image" href="/features/create/reference-images">
    The references Ask can see — from your device, Gallery, session, or Explore.
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  <Card title="Prompt Guide" icon="book-open" href="/prompting">
    New to the vocabulary? The jewelry-terms cheat sheet is a good place to start.
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