Built-in AI assistant

The built-in AI assistant is Omniscol's conversation surface for asking a question in natural language from the interface. It opens in the AI Assistant tab of the help panel, reserved for administrators.

The assistant relies on the help corpus and, depending on the account's contract, on the Omniscol tools exposed to the agent. The scope depends on the account: a documentation assistant answers from the online help, and accounts whose contract includes it add access to business tools that query the account's data.

To connect an external AI agent to your account, use MCP — connect an external AI agent.

What the assistant covers

The assistant is designed for two families of requests:

• documentation questions — finding a procedure, explaining a concept, pointing to the right help page;
• operational questions — querying the account's data through the authorized tools, for example about lessons, rooms, teachers, absences or statistics.

Examples:

• "How do I publish a timetable?"
• "Where do I configure the iCal links?"
• "Which math lessons are scheduled today?"
• "Why does this timetable generation leave lessons unplaced?"

What the assistant sees of your screen

The assistant knows which screen you are on. It does not see what the screen shows (names, figures, open windows) until you attach it.

The camera button (Attach what the screen shows), left of the input field, offers:

• Screenshot or Screenshot of an area: an image of the screen or of part of it, on Premium accounts;
• Screen context (no data): the address of the screen, its title and its visible elements, without their content;
• Foreground content: the text of what is open over the screen, such as the detail of a conflict;
• Full content (with data): the text of the whole page, with the data it shows.

On accounts without Premium, the screen context comes with every question.

When content is in the foreground, the assistant points it out above the input field: "The assistant cannot see the foreground content." Its text is sent only after a click on Foreground content.

Rights and scope

The assistant does not have unlimited access to the account. Its answers and its actions depend on:

• the account's contract, which determines whether business tools are enabled;
• the rights of the signed-in administrator;
• the tools actually exposed to the agent;
• the data available in Omniscol.

An action that changes business data goes through an explicit confirmation before being applied. For external agentic integrations, use MCP — connect an external AI agent and dedicated tokens.

Best practices

• Review the proposed actions before applying them.
• Do not copy sensitive data into a conversation if it is not needed for the request.
• For an external agent, create a dedicated token with a minimal scope and a suitable expiration.