> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Agent home for Datum, with what it is, pricing, and how to act: https://agents.datum.net
> If you can only fetch URLs: read https://www.datum.net/docs/llms.txt in full and open the most specific page for the task. Commands, limits, and field paths are on task, operations, and limits pages, not on section overviews. Pages described as "Documentation is coming soon" are placeholders.
> If you have a shell or can save files: download https://www.datum.net/docs/llms-full.txt (every page, about 740 KB) once and search it with grep, instead of fetching pages one at a time.
> datumctl describes itself: `datumctl api-resources` lists resource types and `datumctl explain <resource>` shows a schema. To act on live resources, use Datum MCP or datumctl. To search the docs, use the Docs MCP server at https://www.datum.net/docs/mcp.

# Datum Assistant

> Ask Patch, the Datum Cloud assistant, about your resources in natural language, and let it diagnose problems for you.

Patch uses diagnostic tools from the Datum services your project uses, so it can work out why a Compute workload isn't available, why a load balancer isn't serving, or why a network isn't ready. It never changes anything on its own: it proposes a change as a plan, shows you the exact manifests, and applies them only when you approve.

Patch is available in the terminal with `datumctl assistant`. Conversations are kept by Datum, so you can pick one up from any machine you're signed in on.

```bash theme={null}
datumctl plugin install assistant
datumctl assistant chat "Why is the api-backend workload not available?"
```

Usage is metered by messages and tokens. See your organization's [Usage](/docs/organizations/usage.md).

> [card] [datumctl AI assistant](/docs/datumctl/ai/assistant.md)
>
> Start a conversation, choose the project, and manage your conversations.

To connect your own AI tools to Datum instead, see [Datum MCP](/docs/agents/datum-mcp.md) and the [Agents overview](/docs/agents/overview.md).


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