Use Gemini Cloud Assist in the Google Cloud console
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This document describes how to get AI-powered assistance from the Cloud Assist panel in the Google Cloud console.

The Cloud Assist panel lets you write natural language statements or questions (called prompts) to get in-depth explanations, suggested actions, or guided workflows that help you complete tasks quickly and efficiently without needing to be a cloud expert. While in Preview, there is no cost for using this panel.

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Before you begin

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Go to project selector
Ensure that Gemini Cloud Assist is set up for your Google Cloud project.

Open and close the Cloud Assist panel

In the Google Cloud console, go to any page—for example, the Dashboard page.

Go to Dashboard
In the Google Cloud console toolbar, click spark Open or close Gemini AI chat.

The Cloud Assist panel opens. You can click example prompts if they are displayed, or you can enter a prompt in the Enter a prompt field.

You can manage the Cloud Assist panel in several ways:

To expand the Cloud Assist panel to the full width of your browser window, click open_in_new Open in full page.

The Cloud Assist panel opens in a new tab. Your original session remains open in the original tab. To close the expanded view, close the tab.

To close the Cloud Assist panel, click spark Open or close Gemini AI chat. If you don't choose to turn on conversation history, your conversation history remains active until you change projects or sign out of the Google Cloud console. To re-open the Cloud Assist panel, click spark Open or close Gemini AI chat.

Enter a prompt in the Cloud Assist panel

In the Google Cloud console, go to any page—for example, the Dashboard page.

Go to Dashboard
In the Google Cloud console toolbar, click spark Open or close Gemini AI chat.
In the Cloud Assist panel, in the Enter a prompt field, enter the following prompt, and then click send Send prompt:
```
Create a gcloud command to give the developer Google group
access to view my Google Cloud project.
```
In the Cloud Assist panel, a response is displayed.
In the Enter a prompt field, send a follow-up prompt:
```
Change that to editor access.
```
Gemini Cloud Assist uses your conversation history for additional context when it responds to your prompts. For example, Gemini responds with an updated explanation and command.
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Try more examples

In the following examples, you learn how to get information about various Google Cloud products by entering prompts in the Cloud Assist panel.

To learn about the differences between similar products, enter a prompt that's similar to the following:
```
Should I use GKE or Cloud Run for my
application?
```

To learn how Google Cloud can help you develop a computer vision app using unlabelled training data, enter a prompt that's similar to the following:

I'm interested in developing a computer vision application. I have a lot of
unlabelled training data sitting in my Google Drive and I'm not sure how to
get started. What are the first steps I should take to develop an image
recognition service with this data?

To learn about a log entry in Logs Explorer, you can click a button on a log entry that opens the Cloud Assist panel with a bulleted summary of the events in the log. For more information, see Summarize log entries with Gemini assistance.

For information, see Write better prompts for Gemini for Google Cloud.

Clear your chat session

To clear the chat session history, in the Cloud Assist panel, click Clear chat.

Get conversational assistance outside of the console

To use the Cloud Assist pane in an integrated development environment (IDE) instead of the Google Cloud console, set up Gemini Code Assist in your IDE.

To chat with Gemini in your IDE, click spark Open or close Gemini AI chat.

What's next

For more examples and suggestions to help you create your own prompts, see Write better prompts for Gemini for Google Cloud.
To discover other ways to get Gemini assistance, see Gemini for Google Cloud overview.