Here's a quick overview of CloudShare's Solis AI Virtual Administrator Assistant user interface.
1 Solis Button
The Solis button opens the Solis pane. This button appears at the top of each CloudShare platform page, ready to help with the functionality it supports and according to the logged-in user's permissions.
2 Pane Controls
A persistent dropdown in the chat header shows the currently active agent and lets you switch between agents.
- Displays the currently selected agent's name as the dropdown label. When no agent is selected, the chat shows the default Solis branding.
- Lists only the agents you're permitted to use — gated by role permissions, feature flags, and project-level settings. Unavailable agents are hidden entirely, not greyed out.
- Each entry shows the agent name plus a status label (Beta / New) where applicable.
- Selecting a different agent starts a new chat session and resets the current plan. If you have an unconfirmed plan or unsent input, Solis asks you to confirm before resetting.
- Once selected, the agent's icon and name persist in the chat header for the session, and the prompt suggestions update to that agent's suggestions.
3 Pane Controls
The pane controls let you start a new chat , view chat history
, expand the pane
, or close the pane
. Closing the pane does not start a new chat.
To begin a new conversation, use the new chat control.
Note: It is recommended to start a new chat when beginning an unrelated environment creation request. See Using the Solis AI Virtual Assistant for more information.4 Greeting and Current Capability Message
The greeting introduces Solis and explains the current supported actions. When no agent is selected, this message is driven by the CloudShare page you opened Solis from (see Context Awareness below) rather than by a fixed capability list, since Solis can now do several different things depending on which agent you choose.
5 Prompt Suggestions
Prompt suggestions provide quick ways to start a supported action. Clicking a suggestion places the prompt in the input box, where you can review or edit it before sending.
- Up to 4 suggestions are shown in the empty chat state.
- Suggestions are generated per agent (once an agent is selected) or per page context (before an agent is selected), based on the most commonly used entities in your project, your permissions, and enabled feature flags.
- Suggestions are re-generated each time the chat opens — they are never cached or reused across sessions.
Hovering over a suggestion displays it in the input box, providing additional information about it. For example, as shown below:
6 Most Used / Recently Used Badges
Badges help identify commonly used suggested actions within the selected project. The Most Used and Recently Used badges are contextually sensitive and are based on usage by the current user and other users in the project.
7 Prompt Input Box
The prompt input box is where a user types or edits a request. For example, it can be used to create environments from predefined project blueprints. The user can describe the desired environment in plain language, select a suggestion and edit it, or ask Solis to change part of a proposed plan.
8 Project Selector
The project selector defines the project context for Solis. Prompt suggestions, answers, available blueprints, and values are based on the selected project.
Note: The Solis chat is scoped to the currently selected project. If you switch projects during a session, Solis starts the initial state for the newly selected project. If you switch back to a previous project, Solis can restore the previous session for that project for up to seven days from the last use.9 Send Button
The Send button sends the prompt to Solis to execute the action specified in the Solis pane. Alternatively, the Enter key can be pressed. Solis then analyzes the request and prepares a plan summary. Solis does not perform the requested action (such as creating an environment) until the user approves the plan.
10 AI Disclaimer
The AI disclaimer reminds the user that Solis is AI and can make mistakes. Review the plan summary carefully before creating an environment, such as the values for project, region, policy, blueprint, owner, and environment name.
Context Awareness
Solis detects the CloudShare page you're on and uses it to tailor prompt suggestions — it does not use this to pick an agent for you.
| Your current page | Prompt suggestions shown |
|---|---|
| Environment list / detail / creation wizard | Environment creation actions |
| Blueprint list / detail | Environment creation actions based on existing blueprints |
| Training experience list / detail / creation wizard | Training experience creation actions |
| Sales experience list / detail / creation wizard | Sales experience creation actions |
| Any other page (for example, Integration Hub, user details) | Environment creation actions (generic default) |
- Context is re-evaluated whenever you navigate to a different page while the chat stays open, and suggestions update accordingly. The selected agent, if any, does not change.
- If the page context can't be resolved, Solis falls back to a generic set of suggestions — no error is shown.
- Page context only affects which suggestions you see. It never pre-fills your plan or skips the Plan Summary step.