General Q

General Q is your project co-pilot. It's always available as the first tab in the AI sidebar (the Q icon) and cannot be closed. It helps you onboard after creating a project, suggests next steps as your project evolves, and keeps the big picture in focus.

How It Works

General Q combines rule-based suggestions with AI-powered evaluation to propose actionable next steps for your project.

Suggestion Cards

Next steps appear as interactive cards in the chat view. Each card shows:

• Title - what to do
• Description - why it matters
• Confidence - how sure Q is that this is the right next step
• Action buttons - direct actions like "Set up in Settings", "Open Brief", or "Ask Q"

From the inbox, you can Accept, Reject, or Ask Q about any suggestion. Accepted suggestions move to a planned/in-progress state with action buttons.

Board View

Click "View board" to see all your active suggestions as a kanban-style board - a quick overview of everything Q is recommending. Close the board view to return to the chat.

Onboarding

When you first create a project, General Q walks you through setup with a sequence of guided steps:

1. Pick your building tool - Tell Q whether you use Cursor, Lovable, v0, Claude Code, or another tool
2. Personalize your project - Set name, status, and tagline in the sidebar header
3. Set your project identity - Configure domain, audience, and industry in Settings
4. Review your Brief - Read and refine the project brief
5. Review your Gaps - Address open questions and gaps
6. Make your first edit - Edit the brief in edit mode
7. Create an MVP-Scope page - Structure what's in scope for your first version
8. Chat with the AI Assistant - Try the Sidebar AI for hands-on work
9. Create a Dev mission board - Ask AI to break your scope into missions
10. Connect your tools via MCP - Set up Cursor, Claude, or other AI tools via the MCP Server (shown when applicable)

Each step has action buttons that take you directly to the right place - no need to hunt through menus.

Follow-Up Suggestions

After onboarding, General Q continues to watch your project and suggest next steps when meaningful events happen:

• Mission completed - When you move missions to Done, Q may suggest syncing your feature set or brief to reflect the new state of the product
• Mission created - Q may suggest related actions or context
• Context updated - When project context changes, Q evaluates whether follow-ups are needed
• MCP token created - Q may suggest next configuration steps

Suggestions are carefully gated - Q proposes at most 1–2 actions per event and has a cooldown to avoid being noisy. Low-confidence suggestions are suppressed entirely.

Chatting with General Q

You can ask General Q anything about your project in the chat input. It has access to your full project context and responds as a strategic advisor:

• Explain what to focus on next
• Help you think through architecture decisions
• Suggest how to structure your pages and boards
• Recommend integrations or workflows

When General Q has a concrete, actionable suggestion, it presents it as an interactive card inline in the chat - with buttons to navigate, open a Sidebar AI chat, or take a direct action.

General Q vs Sidebar AI