# AI

# AI

Ask Hamming, Phloem's agent, about your data. It queries runs and channels,
builds charts, drafts Trellis documents and looks up records from your other
tools, showing each step.

| Where | How |
|---|---|
| The console | **Sessions** in the sidebar |
| Computer | **Hamming** in the rail — about this device, with its history |
| Slack and Teams | @mention it in a channel, or message it directly |
| An AI coding tool | the Phloem MCP server, set up with the `phloem` CLI |

It is the same Hamming everywhere, with the same sessions. A conversation
started in Computer opens in the console from its link.

```
Your question → Hamming reads (devices, runs, the lake, Trace) → steps you can expand → an answer, a chart, a table
                                ↘ anything that changes something waits for your approval
```

- [Hamming](https://phloem.ai/docs/ai/agent/): Ask, approve, stop and steer; what it can reach
- [Trace](https://phloem.ai/docs/ai/trace/): Records from your other tools, and changes that flag a procedure
- [MCP for coding tools](https://phloem.ai/docs/ai/mcp/): Use Phloem from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
- [AI provider](https://phloem.ai/docs/workspace/ai-provider/): Who serves the models: Phloem, or your own cloud
- [AI usage and limits](https://phloem.ai/docs/workspace/ai-usage/): Monthly AI credits per plan, and where usage shows