The Assistant is open in the sandbox
You can try the Assistant against your own platforms in the sandbox today. It is an early experiment, marked as one, and we would like to hear what you ask it.
The Assistant we introduced on 19 September is now open for anyone who wants to try it, in the
sandbox at pre.toolbox.cplugin.com. Sign in with your usual account, pick the organisation you
want to look at, and ask. If you administer your organisation it is in the menu already; if you are
a member, your admin grants access under Settings → Members, the same way as any other section.
It is worth being plain about what this is. The Assistant is an experiment, and it is marked as one everywhere it appears: a badge in the menu and a standing notice on the page. It may change, it may be withdrawn, answers can be wrong or simply unavailable, there are no service guarantees yet, and we have not set a price for it. Please check anything you plan to act on.
What has not changed is the part that matters most: it only reads. Nothing you ask can change a platform, an account or a setting — not because a rule forbids it, but because no such capability exists in the build. Every answer still carries its "How this was obtained" note, listing the exact lookups behind it, so a number you doubt is a number you can check.
Two practical notes:
- Capacity is deliberately small while we learn. If an answer does not come back, that is us, not you — wait a moment and ask again.
- The sandbox is a sandbox. It is the right place to form an opinion about a feature before it goes anywhere near your production day.
What we would most like from you is the awkward questions: the ones you would actually ask a colleague at the end of a long session, the ones where the answer lives across three platforms at once. Tell us what you asked and what you wished it could answer — that is what decides whether this becomes a real part of Toolbox or quietly goes away.