Custom assistants

A custom assistant is the chat with your own instructions and your own knowledge: files from Google Drive the assistant reads before answering. Use one per recurring job, for example a support agent that knows your help articles, or a writer that follows your style guide.

Custom assistants are a Pro feature. On other plans you can see the page and the shared assistants you received, and you are offered to upgrade when you try to use one.

Create an assistant

1. Open Settings ➤ Assistants or go to app.gpt.space/settings/assistants, then click Create Assistant. You can also pick Create Assistant in the Chat ⌄ menu at the top of the chat.
2. Give it a Name and write the Personalization: the instructions the assistant follows in every chat. Say who it is, what it does, how it answers and in which language.
3. Under Knowledge, click Add drive files and choose up to 10 Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or PDFs. The assistant always reads the latest version of the files.
4. The assistant saves as you type; the status under the form says Updated.

Open an assistant from the list to edit it; the form saves as you type.

The list shows all your assistants.

From the ⋮ menu of an assistant you can Edit, Share or Delete it.

Use an assistant

Open the Chat ⌄ menu at the top of the chat and pick the assistant. The whole thread then uses its instructions and knowledge. Manage in the same menu opens the assistants page.

Share an assistant

1. Click Share in the assistant’s menu, or the Share button at the bottom of its form.
2. Choose the Link permission: Can view lets others use the assistant, Can edit also lets them change its instructions and files.
3. Click Copy and send the link.

The link expires after 24 hours. Whoever opens it signs in to GPT Workspace and gets the assistant in their own list (“Thread successfully added” style confirmation); the knowledge files are read with the owner’s access, so you do not need to share the Drive files separately. Only the owner can share an assistant or delete it; an editor sees a view only notice if the owner later restricts the link.

Limits

• Up to 10 knowledge files per assistant, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or PDF.
• Name up to 64 characters, instructions up to 8,000 characters.
• Knowledge is indexed on first use and refreshed when the files change; an index unused for 7 days is rebuilt on the next question.