# Using tools in chat

Using tools in chat is easy. Once you've installed tools to an agent, just ask it to perform a task that would use a tool!

* [Using a tool](#using-a-tool)
* [Inspecting tool details](#inspecting-tool-details)
* [How compute credits work](#how-compute-credits-work)

## Using a tool

Here's an example of generating an image:

<figure><img src="/files/5Hw3XsxunvqfXTl2zNR5" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Here I've asked an agent with the [Nano Banana 2](https://superuser.app/org/superuser/toolkits/nano-banana-2) toolkit to:

> Hey can you generate a picture of two palm trees high-fiving?

And that's all it took to work!

## Inspecting tool details

Once a tool has run, you can click on it to expand and see details.

<figure><img src="/files/UbXoBTdVVIODHTtfvmek" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

In this case I can see;

* The tool that was requested
* The compute credit fee (in this case, 6.8 credits + 0.5 credits of compute)
* The arguments provided to the API endpoint (all tools are APIs!)
* All files are saved as attachments, any raw data output will be shown as JSON

## How compute credits work

In the example above, you'll notice the request was billed for **Premium** + **Compute**.

* **Premium** is developer-defined compute pricing, intended to cover costs of performing the task. You'll see these charges with things like media generation.
* **Compute** is platform-defined, and is billed at 50 credits per 1,000 GB-s of usage. 1 GB-s of usage = 1GB of RAM in use for 1 second. You can read more on our [pricing page](https://superuser.app/pricing).


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

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Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.superuser.app/hosted-tools/using-tools-in-chat.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.