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Answers grounded in your own material

When you task in a Project, Chief can draw on eligible files in that Project’s Library. It reads documents, recordings, and saved pages and bases its response on what they say. Add spreadsheets individually because they are excluded from whole-Library scope.
Chief: how Chief uses your files — Chief reads the source file behind the answer

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How it decides what to use

Chief: how Chief uses your files — the Using scope in the prompt bar
Chief searches your Library for the material most relevant to your question and pulls from it. You can let Chief use your whole knowledge base, or narrow the task to specific files, Labels, or Collections so the answer stays focused on exactly what you want.
  • All eligible knowledge — Chief considers non-spreadsheet content in the Project’s Library. Spreadsheets must be selected individually.
  • A specific file or files — limit the task to just what you add to it.
  • None of your files — ask a general question without your Library.
ℹ️ Good to Know: A file must finish processing before Chief can use it alongside the rest of your knowledge. Until then it is only usable in a single-file task.
Related articles: How Chief finds answers in your files: retrieval and citations · Chatting with one file vs. many files together · Understanding sources and citations in answers

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FAQ

Either the file is still processing, or it was not part of the files powering that task. Check the file’s status, and confirm which files are scoped into the task.
Yes. Set the task to use none of your files so Chief answers from general knowledge only.