Agents

The desktop app runs a coding agent installed on your machine in a panel next to your project: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode or Goose. You ask in plain words; the agent explores your data, writes queries and builds pages, and you watch the files change.

What the agent can do

Dash gives the agent its own MCP server with a few tools:

• Read and edit files: the project's pages (.md) and queries (.sql), with small edits rather than rewrites.
• Run queries: read-only SQL against your DuckDB database, also as a block of a given page, to check a query before it goes into a file.
• The format guide: how pages, blocks and query files are written, so what it writes opens as you expect.

When the agent answers with data, it writes a block into its reply and Dash shows the chart or table right there in the chat.

Setting it up

Install the agent's command line tool and log in to it once in a terminal, as you would to use it on its own. Dash finds it on your machine and offers it in the agent panel; the setup steps for each are shown there.

Queries the agent runs through Dash are read-only; changes to your project go through the file tools, so you see each one.