Ask Waydev

Ask Waydev is an AI agent that answers questions about your engineering data. Type a question in natural language and the agent queries your connected integrations, runs analysis, and returns results as text, charts, or both. Ask Waydev is accessible from the left sidebar.

Starting a conversation

The Ask Waydev page opens with a prompt input at the bottom of the screen. You can type any question about your engineering data, or select one of the suggested prompts. A new set of prompts appears every 5 seconds, or you can close the card and open it again to see the next set.

What is our AI cost per merged PR, and which teams get the best return?
How do our DORA metrics compare across teams this quarter?
What should I bring to the board about engineering performance this quarter?

Type your question in the input field and press Enter to submit.

Thinking process

When a query is submitted, the agent displays a Thinking process panel showing how it is interpreting the request, including which metrics it will fetch, what filters it will apply, and what data it will return. This panel can be collapsed once the response is ready.

Response types

The agent can respond in two formats depending on the nature of the query:

Text - A written analysis with ranked findings, key insights, and recommendations.
Chart - An interactive chart generated from the queried data. The chart includes X-axis and Y-axis selectors, a Show trend line toggle, and a chart type selector with the following options: Line, Bar, Area, Scatter, and Stacked Bar. You can switch between the table view and chart view using the icons below the graph.

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The Graph setting can be toggled on and off.

SQL Query editor

Each graph response includes an SQL Query label below the thinking process panel. Click it to expand and view the query the agent used to generate the result. Click Edit to open the Edit SQL Query modal.

The modal is split into two panels:

Left panel — A scrollable list of all available database tables. Click any table to expand it and view its columns and data types.
Right panel — A SQL editor where you can view and modify the query directly.

The editor includes two actions:

Format — Automatically formats the SQL query for readability.
Run — Executes the query and updates the graph with the new results.

Skills

Skills provide the agent with specialized instructions and capabilities. Active skills are shown as badges in the input bar. Click the Skills button to open the skills picker and select which skills to apply to the current thread.

When a skill is active, its name appears as a tag next to the input field. Multiple skills can be active at the same time.

Note: Skills can be managed under Settings → AI → Skills. See the Skills documentation for more details.

Widget Creator skill

The Widget Creator is a system skill that lets you create dashboard widgets directly from the chat. To use it, select Widget Creator from the skills picker before submitting your query.

When the Widget Creator skill is active, the agent generates a widget based on your request. The widget preview appears inline in the chat and includes one of the following widgets:

Metric Radial Bar - Circular progress visualization for one metric.
Metrics Table - Compare multiple metrics in a structured table.
Chart - Visualize metric trends over a time range with the following options: Line, Bar, Area, Scatter, and Stacked Bar
Metric Focus - Deep dive into up to 5 key metrics.
Heatmap - Color-coded intensity view across metrics.
Composite Time Metric - Combine up to 4 time-based metrics.
An + Add to Dashboard button to save the widget to an existing dashboard

Clicking + Add to Dashboard opens a dropdown listing your available dashboards. Select a dashboard to add the widget to it directly.

Example prompts when using Widget Creator:

"Create a widget with AI metrics, make it a graph with separate metrics"
"Show me a widget with the most used AI tools"

Create a dashboard from a widget

When a widget appears in the chat, two actions sit under it:

Add to Dashboard saves that widget. Choose an existing dashboard, or Create new dashboard and set it to Private or Public.
Create related dashboard starts a Dashboard Creator turn from the metrics on that widget. The agent builds a dashboard around them. Save the result with Add to Dashboard.

Dashboard Creator skill

Dashboard Creator is a system skill that builds a full dashboard from the chat. To use it, select Dashboard Creator from the skills picker, or open the Dashboard Creator card above the input, before you send your question.

When the skill is active, the agent returns a dashboard preview in the chat: a short description, metric cards, charts, a metric focus, and a metrics table. Each metric is used once.

Under the preview, Add to Dashboard opens a list of your dashboards. Select one to add the dashboard to it, or choose Create new dashboard and set it to Private or Public.

Example prompts when using Dashboard Creator:

"Build a VP of Engineering dashboard: delivery, speed, quality, and AI share by team."
"Build an AI ROI dashboard: adoption, AI share of shipped code, and speed vs. non-AI work."
"Build a DORA dashboard by team: deploy frequency, lead time, CFR, and time to restore."
"Create a delivery predictability dashboard: planned vs. delivered work per quarter."