Command-K searches, and it can also answer a question in words. Ask it something in plain language and you get an answer drawn from these help docs, sitting above the usual list of results.
Asking a question
Open the Command-K palette and type your question the way you'd say it out loud. Alongside the matching pages, you'll see an action for asking the docs — it's labelled Ask. Choose it and the answer appears at the top of the palette, ahead of the result list, so the pages Command-K found are still there underneath if you'd rather read the source.
The answer is rendered the way a doc page is, so lists, bold text, and code read properly instead of arriving as one flat paragraph. It also starts straight in on the answer — it doesn't restate your question first.
What you'll see while it works
An answer takes a moment to come back, and Command-K shows a placeholder in its place while it does. Three things are worth knowing about how that settles:
- Changing your query clears the answer. Keep typing and the previous answer disappears rather than hanging around under a question it no longer matches.
- A corrected question wins. If you fix a typo and ask again before the first answer arrives, you get the answer to the question you actually meant — the earlier one is discarded, not shown late.
- No results means no results. When a search has come back genuinely empty, you won't see a loading placeholder suggesting something is still on its way.
Asking doesn't replace searching. If you know the page you want, type its name and pick it from the list as before; asking is for when you'd rather have the answer than the page.
To check: the palette's keyboard shortcut on Windows and Linux, whether the Ask action is always present or only appears for question-shaped queries, and the exact look of the empty, loading, and answered states in the running app.