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# Confluent Assistant overview

Confluent Assistant provides AI agents in Confluent Cloud that help
you operate and troubleshoot your resources. Each agent
focuses on one job and makes changes only after you approve
them.

During Early Access, Confluent Assistant includes one
agent, the [Connect Troubleshooting Agent](connect-troubleshooting-agent.md#ai-tools-connect-troubleshooting-agent), which diagnoses a
failed fully managed connector, recommends a fix, and applies
the fix with your approval.

Confluent Assistant is a different feature from the Confluent AI Assistant,
which is a chat interface for questions about Confluent Cloud,
Confluent documentation, and Confluent Support articles.
For more information about the Confluent AI Assistant, see [Confluent AI Assistant for Confluent Cloud](../../release-notes/cflt-assistant.md#cloud-ai).

#### NOTE
Confluent Assistant is an Early Access Program feature in
Confluent Cloud.


An Early Access feature is a component of Confluent Cloud introduced to gain
feedback. This feature should be used only for evaluation and non-production
testing purposes or to provide feedback to Confluent, particularly as it
becomes more widely available in follow-on preview editions.

Early Access Program features are intended for evaluation use in development
and testing environments only, and not for production use. Early Access Program
features are provided: (a) without support; (b) “AS IS”; and (c) without
indemnification, warranty, or condition of any kind. No service level commitment
will apply to Early Access Program features. Early Access Program features are
considered to be a Proof of Concept as defined in the Confluent Cloud Terms of Service.
Confluent may discontinue providing preview releases of the Early Access
Program features at any time in Confluent’s sole discretion.

To request access, contact your Confluent account team.
The feature is available at no extra charge during Early
Access.

## How Confluent Assistant agents work

Every Confluent Assistant agent follows the same
principles:

- **Acts as you**: An agent runs with your existing Confluent Cloud
  RBAC permissions and doesn’t grant new access. If you
  don’t have permission to restart a connector, the
  agent can’t restart it on your behalf.
- **Scoped access**: An agent reaches only the resources and
  information that its job needs.
- **You approve every change**: An agent proposes changes,
  and it doesn’t apply any of them until you confirm.

During Early Access, Confluent Assistant agents are
available in the Cloud Console only.

## Related content

- [Troubleshoot connectors with Confluent Assistant](connect-troubleshooting-agent.md#ai-tools-connect-troubleshooting-agent)
- [AI-Assisted Troubleshooting for Confluent Cloud
  Connectors](../../connectors/reference/cflt-troubleshoot-assistant.md#cloud-ai-assist)
- [Use AI Tools with Confluent Cloud](overview.md#ai-tools-overview)