Ask Origin is the AI assistant built into the Origin console. It has direct access to your fleet’s AI observability data and can answer questions in natural language — no SQL, no dashboard configuration required. Every answer is grounded in your actual endpoint data.
Where to find it
Ask Origin lives in the right panel of the Origin console. It’s always accessible regardless of which view you’re in (Overview, X-Ray, Inventory, Canvases). Click the New chat button at the top of the right panel to start a fresh conversation.
Starting a conversation
Using pre-built prompts
When you open a new chat, Ask Origin surfaces contextual prompt suggestions tailored to your current data. These are starting points, not limitations. Examples you’ll see:
- MCP tool sprawl over time — “Show me the top MCP tools over time by the number of distinct endpoints using each one, in weekly buckets over the last 8 weeks, so I can see which servers and tools are spreading across the fleet.”
- Skills running in the field — “Show me the top agent skills running in the field over time, sampled daily over the last 30 days, so I can see which skills are active and spot any that appear or drop off across the window.”
- Where token capital went — “Show me where token capital was spent in the last 7 days by provider, model, client surface, endpoint, and registered user.”
- New since last week — “Compare this week to last week and show me everything new: MCP servers, tools, models, providers, and endpoints seen for the first time.”
- How concentrated is your AI usage — “Show me how concentrated AI usage is across the tenant over the last 30 days — what share of all prompts and tool calls comes from the top endpoints and the real registered users behind them.”
Click any suggestion to run it immediately.
Typing your own query
Click in the input box at the bottom of the right panel and type any question about your AI fleet. Ask Origin understands:
- Metric queries — “How many sessions did Claude have last week?”
- Comparison queries — “Compare Claude usage this month vs last month”
- Anomaly queries — “Which endpoints have unusually high token spend?”
- Inventory queries — “What AI agents are running on endpoints that don’t have Copilot?”
- Trend queries — “Is AI usage growing week over week?”
How Ask Origin generates answers
Ask Origin uses a two-step process:
- It translates your natural language question into a Kernel — a structured analytic query against your Origin data
- It executes the Kernel and returns a visualization (chart, table, or metric card) alongside a plain-language explanation
The generated Kernel is shown alongside each answer. You can fork it into your Library to save it for future use.
Working with answers
After Ask Origin responds, you can:
- Drill down — click elements in the visualization to filter or narrow the query
- Fork to canvas — add the visualization to a custom Canvas
- Save to library — save the underlying Kernel for reuse
- Follow up — ask a follow-up question in the same thread; Ask Origin maintains context across the conversation
Ask Origin is context-aware. If you’ve scoped the console to a specific agent or endpoint group in the left panel, Ask Origin’s answers will reflect that scope automatically — you don’t need to repeat the filter in your question.
Tailoring suggestions to your org
Click the “Tailor these to your data” link at the bottom of the suggestions list to profile your organization’s AI usage patterns. This customizes the pre-built prompt suggestions to be more relevant to your specific fleet composition and usage patterns. 
