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# Assistant Panel

> Use Comet Assistant to ask questions, summarize pages, act on websites, and work with context from your open tabs while you keep browsing.

## What is Comet Assistant?

**Assistant** is a Perplexity service that runs alongside your main browser window in a panel, giving you quick access to asking questions and executing tasks without interrupting your web flow.

## Why is the Assistant valuable?

<ul>
  <li>
    **Instant help:** Assistant is always available — just open it when you want answers, summaries, or actions taken on the website.
  </li>

  <li>
    **Multitask-friendly:** You can freely browse other pages while Assistant is doing the work. And run as many errands in parallel as you want.
  </li>

  <li>
    **Stay focused:** No need to switch tabs or interrupt your workflow; keep your research or writing on one side and your assistant’s help on the other.
  </li>

  <li>
    **Context-aware:** The Assistant can pull in the content from the tab you’re currently viewing, or any tab you mention with @. This lets you ask detailed or nuanced questions about it, get summaries, extract action items, and more.
  </li>
</ul>

## Example queries you can use with the Assistant

<ul>
  <li>
    “Summarize this web page’s main points”
  </li>

  <li>
    “What are the next steps described here?”
  </li>

  <li>
    “Who is mentioned in this article?”
  </li>

  <li>
    “Draft an email reply based on the content of this tab”
  </li>

  <li>
    “Translate this section to French”
  </li>

  <li>
    “Extract any dates and locations found on this page”
  </li>

  <li>
    “Summarize my last five tabs”
  </li>
</ul>

## How does the Assistant use context extraction?

It pulls in the visible text, headlines, and website metadata from your open page every time you submit a request.


## Related topics

- [AI Assistant & Use Cases](https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/help-center/comet/en/collections/18800267-ai-assistant-use-cases.md)
- [Inline Assistant](https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/help-center/comet/en/articles/13533742-inline-assistant.md)
- [Getting Started with Comet: Set Up](https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/help-center/comet/en/articles/11583745-getting-started-with-comet-set-up.md)
- [Key Settings to Get You Going](https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/help-center/comet/en/articles/11642841-key-settings-to-get-you-going.md)