Edge Assist

Quick Start

Create an Assist site in the control panel, point it at your content (see Ingestion below), and add the widget to your pages:

<script src="https://assist.edge.network/widget.js"
  data-sitekey="ea_your_sitekey"></script>

By default the widget renders a floating launcher. To render it inline — in a help centre, docs sidebar, or 404 page — give it a mount point:

<!-- Render inline instead of as a floating launcher -->
<div data-edge-assist></div>

Content Ingestion

Assist answers only from content you give it. Two ways in, both kept in sync automatically:

• Content index — your site build publishes a JSON index at a URL on your domain (e.g. /assist-index.json); Assist polls it hourly and re-ingests when the content hash changes.
• Storage bucket — point Assist at an Edge Storage bucket and drop in documents (markdown, plain text, HTML, PDF). Changes are picked up incrementally.

The index format is deliberately small:

{
  "hash": "sha256 of the content",
  "chunks": [
    {
      "url": "/pricing",
      "title": "Pricing",
      "section": "pricing",
      "text": "One chunk of page content, ~1,400 characters,\nsplit on sentence boundaries…"
    }
  ]
}

Sites support up to 10,000 documents. Larger knowledge bases are handled by Expert Services.

API Reference

Search

Instant results over the ingested content — no AI call, unlimited and free.

GET /api/assist/search?q=how+much+is+storage

{
  "results": [
    { "url": "/storage/pricing", "title": "Storage Pricing", "section": "storage" }
  ]
}

Ask

Composes an answer over the ingested content and streams it as Server-Sent Events: a sources event first (retrieval is instant), then delta events with JSON-encoded answer fragments, then done.

POST /api/assist/ask
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "question": "How much does storage cost?",
  "history": [],            // optional: prior turns [{ role, content }]
  "page": "/storage/pricing" // optional: page the visitor is on
}

// Response: Server-Sent Events
event: sources
data: [{ "url": "/storage/pricing", "title": "Storage Pricing", … }]

event: delta
data: "Storage is billed at "

event: delta
data: "$0.015 per GB per month…"

event: done
data: {}

Each answered question is one metered question. Answers are grounded in the retrieved passages: Assist declines rather than inventing facts your content doesn't contain.

Limits