Ask

“Ask” is a mode for questions without changes, about code or company documents: Buff reads the project’s source code as well as the trackers, knowledge sources, the internet and your own MCP servers connected through the connector — read-only — and answers. It works in any development project, including an ordinary connected repository, and in a space without code.

• A new question: “Ask about the project” — read-only, no edits. An example about code: “why does the CSV export fail?”; an example about documents: “What first-response time does the contract promise a client on the ‘Business’ plan, and does it match the FAQ?” — the answer names both documents and the discrepancy between them.
• The answer shows the “Reasoning”; Buff may ask a clarifying counter-question with options.
• You can attach files to a message — Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, PDFs, text and, if the model can see images, pictures, up to 10 MB each (see Attachments); from a phone also photos from the camera, in the Buff app. The conversation header shows the usage — input and output tokens (input counts the cache, output the reasoning) and the cost.
• The list of questions can be filtered by “All / Mine”.
• The model reads connected sources and trackers in any development project: their tools appear when the connection names this project and is running. Answers based on them come with a link to the page or ticket.
• In a space without code the question is asked not about code but about the team’s documents and knowledge: the model reads the connected sources and the knowledge base and answers with links to pages and entries. How to phrase it — How to ask a good question about documents; when you need a research instead of a question — Question or research?.