Assistant Center
After reading this page you will be able to: enable the right assistants and set their default model and permissions, so every new chat starts your way.
Assistants are ready-to-work AI experts, preloaded with skills and tools. Enable them and they show up in your chats, teams, and scheduled tasks, ready to go.
1. Opening the Assistant Center
Section titled “1. Opening the Assistant Center”Where: Assistants in the left sidebar (the ghost icon, fixed above “Scheduled Tasks”)
The page has three tabs at the top:
| Tab | What is inside |
|---|---|
| Enabled | The assistants currently switched on, ordered by your drag-and-drop order, ready to chat |
| My Assistants | ”Assistants auto-generated from your local CLIs, plus ones you created or duplicated from official.” |
| Official | ”Official assistants built into AIPC UP, maintained and updated with each release; duplicate as “My Assistant” to customize freely.” |
The top-right Create Assistant button offers Create via chat (the Butler walks you through it) or Create manually; next to it is a search box (“Search assistants by name or description”).
2. Three kinds of assistant sources
Section titled “2. Three kinds of assistant sources”| Source | What it is | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| Official | Experts bundled with AIPC UP — ready to use out of the box, read-only, and updated with each release | The Official tab |
| CLI | Generated automatically when a CLI tool is detected on this computer, linked one-to-one with that CLI | My Assistants → “CLI Assistants” group |
| Custom | Duplicated from an official assistant and then tuned, or created from scratch | My Assistants → “Custom Assistants” group |
Official assistants are experts aimed at concrete tasks; the common ones include:
| Assistant | Example use |
|---|---|
| Cowork | General collaboration — files, research, everyday tasks |
| PPT Creator / Word Creator / Excel Creator | Produce presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets |
| Dashboard | Build data dashboards |
| Academic Paper Writer | Help with academic paper writing |
| PDF to PPT | Convert PDF to PPT and strip watermark rules |
The full list lives in the app.
3. Enable, reorder, and filter
Section titled “3. Enable, reorder, and filter”- Flip the switch on an official or my-assistant card to enable it; off means disabled, and you can turn it back on anytime
- In the Enabled tab, drag cards to reorder. The page explains: “Drag to reorder — this decides the display order wherever you pick an assistant (home, teams, scheduled tasks, …).”
- While searching or filtering you cannot drag; the page says “Clear search to reorder.” — clear the keyword first
- With no match, the page shows “No assistants match the current filters.”
4. Editing an assistant: Assistant Details
Section titled “4. Editing an assistant: Assistant Details”Click any assistant card to open its Assistant Details page with five sections top to bottom:
| Section | Fields | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Identity (Applies immediately) | Avatar / Name / Description | Three avatar sources: “Upload image”, “Emoji”, “Built-in”; the description placeholder is “What can this assistant help with?” |
| Recommended Prompts (Applies immediately) | Suggested prompt list | ”Enter one suggested prompt per line”; they appear as clickable examples in the chat |
| Engine (New conversations only) | Agent | Picks the Agent that does the work. The page notes: “Changing the Agent updates which model and permission values are available below.” |
| Default Configuration (New conversations only) | Model / Permission / Thought Level / Skills / MCP | Each item is either “Use fixed value” or “Remember last used automatically”; “Not configured” keeps the global default |
| Rules (New conversations only) | Markdown rules | Type the rules this assistant must follow into “Enter rules in Markdown format…”, with “Edit / Preview” to switch |
About Default Configuration:
- Use fixed value: every new chat starts with the exact model, permission mode, or thought level you chose; a fixed value requires picking a concrete option, otherwise saving is blocked with a prompt
- Remember last used automatically: you pick the first time, then it reuses your last choice. The page notes: “Remember last used only takes effect after this assistant has recorded a previous selection.”
- The Skills item links to “Manage in Skills Hub”, and the MCP item to “Open MCP settings”
Click Save at the top right when done.
5. Duplicate, chat, and delete
Section titled “5. Duplicate, chat, and delete”- Duplicate as my assistant: find it in the ”···” menu of an official assistant card. The duplicate is a freely editable copy; the original official assistant stays read-only. Opening an official assistant’s details says: “This is an official assistant — only engine-related settings can be changed. To customize anything else, duplicate it as “My Assistant”.”
- Chat: hovering a card reveals the Chat button, which starts a conversation with that assistant right away
- Delete: only assistants you created or duplicated can be deleted, after confirming “Are you sure you want to delete this assistant? This action cannot be undone.”; official and CLI assistants cannot be deleted — for the latter the page says: “This assistant is auto-generated by an Agent and linked one-to-one with its CLI. Name, avatar, and Agent can’t be changed; everything else is freely editable.”
What success looks like
Section titled “What success looks like”- You can open the Assistant Center from Assistants in the sidebar and switch between the Enabled / My Assistants / Official tabs
- An official assistant is enabled (its name shows up in the assistant picker of a new chat)
- A fixed default model and permission are set on an assistant, and a new chat opens with exactly that combination
- You can drag your most-used assistant to the top of the Enabled list and see the new order in the assistant picker