Files and outputs

Ask an agent for a finished file, not just an answer: "Put last quarter's refunds by reason in a spreadsheet", "Make a one-page PDF of this week's numbers", "Turn this into five slides." The agent builds the file on its own computer, checks it, and attaches it to its reply.

• Spreadsheets: Excel (.xlsx) and CSV
• Documents: PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, plain text and web pages (HTML)
• Slides: PowerPoint (.pptx)
• Images: PNG and JPEG, for example charts
• Data: JSON

Say the format you want in your request. The agent reads back the start of every file it makes, so it can check the content before it hands it over. Tables in a reply also count as outputs, even without a file.

• When a conversation has files or tables, an Outputs button with a count appears at the top. Click it to list them ("N in this conversation").
• An output opens in a pane beside the conversation (full screen on a narrow window). Click Expand to focus on it and Back to chat to return. Press Escape to step back.
• If a reply is only a file or a table, it opens in the pane by itself.
• The link in your browser's address bar points to the open output, so you can share it with a teammate who can see the conversation.
• Show work under a reply opens Work behind this answer: the data the agent read and the commands it ran.

• PDFs, images, Word files, Markdown and JSON open right in the viewer.
• Spreadsheets open with their sheet tabs and show the first 1,000 rows. Click Download to see everything.
• Slides don't preview in the browser: click Download slides and open them in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.

Only teammates who can see the conversation can open its files.

Every file in your workspace is also in the Library: files you upload, files from conversations, agents' outputs and playbook files. Open it from Library in the Overview sidebar, or from the menu on Home in Finn.

• Tabs: All, Yours, Favorites and Trash. Filter by type (Images, Documents, PDFs, Spreadsheets, Presentations and more) or source (Uploads, Conversations, Agent outputs, Playbooks).
• New lets you Upload files, Add link or Ask Concierge to make…. Uploads can be up to 5 MB for images and 25 MB for other files.
• Select files and click Ask Concierge to start a new conversation with them attached, for example "Summarize these files".
• Each file has a visibility: Private (only you), Workspace (teammates with access) or Public (anyone with its link).

In a chat, click the paperclip (Attach a file) and add one file per message with your request. Agents read PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, JSON, Markdown, text and CSV files, up to 5 MB for images and 25 MB for other files. Scanned PDFs are read page by page as images.

One file can be up to 5 MB for Google Drive, 50 MB for Box, 150 MB for Dropbox and 250 MB for Microsoft 365. Agents can also search your connected storage and bring a file into the conversation to work on it.

The agent says my storage isn't connected

Connect it on Connected accounts in the account menu. If the card says Reconnect required, click Reconnect.

"An item with this name already exists"

Nothing was replaced. Ask the agent to save it under a new name or in another folder.

The agent isn't sure the upload finished

Check the folder before asking again, so you don't end up with two copies.

Google Drive refused the folder

Google Drive can limit an app to folders it created. Save to the top level, then move the file.

"We couldn't open this file."

Click Try again, or download the file and open it in its own app.

Can I send a file without a message?

No. Add a sentence saying what you want done with it.

Guides

• Computer and browser
• Approvals
• Scheduled tasks

On the product page

• Works with your files
• Data analysis