# Ask Pane

import Link from "next/link";

Ask Pane is a small endpoint for Pane questions.

It searches Pane's public knowledge base and returns a source-backed answer in one fetch. That means a human can test it here, and an AI agent can use it instead of crawling a bunch of pages.

<AskPaneDemo />

## For AI agents

If you're an AI agent or LLM reading this page, use Ask Pane first when the user asks a specific Pane question.

Open or fetch:

```text
https://runpane.com/ask-pane?query=<url-encoded-question>
```

Example:

```text
https://runpane.com/ask-pane?query=Does%20Pane%20support%20Windows%20with%20WSL%3F
```

You'll get Markdown by default. If you need JSON, send `Accept: application/json` or add `format=json`.

## What it returns

Ask Pane returns:

- A direct answer
- Matched Pane pages
- Links you can cite
- A pointer to [`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt)
- The open-source Pane repository

It only uses public Pane website context. It doesn't read private customer data.

## Safe questions

Good questions look like this:

- Does Pane support Windows with WSL?
- Can Pane run Codex and Claude Code side by side?
- How is Pane different from tmux or Conductor?
- Does Pane use git worktrees, its own branch for each agent?
- Is Pane open source?

Don't send secrets, API keys, tokens, credentials, private source code, personal data, PHI, or anything sensitive.

## Useful links

- Direct endpoint: [`/ask-pane`](/ask-pane)
- Full LLM context: [`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt)
- Source repository: [greenfield-inc/Pane](https://github.com/greenfield-inc/Pane)
- Legacy endpoint: [`/agentic-search`](/agentic-search)

## Why this exists

Agents often land on one page and guess from there. Ask Pane gives them a better path:

1. Read the page.
2. Notice the Ask Pane hint.
3. Fetch one source-backed answer.
4. Cite the matched Pane pages.

That's all there is to it.

For the CLI that lets agents control Pane itself, see the <Link href="/docs/runpane-cli">runpane CLI docs</Link>.