The Data Agent

Ask questions, choose a model, follow long analyses, and find the Data Agent’s output files.

The header

The header shows the session title, the model the session runs on, and the project folder. Web workspace opens the same session in the Infera web app. Show analysis record opens each step of the analysis, recorded as it runs. Refresh Data Agent workspace re-reads the session and its sync state.

Ask a question

Type in the composer and press Enter to send; Shift+Enter adds a line. To point the Data Agent at specific files, drag them from the file explorer into the composer. Only files inside the project folder are accepted; anything else shows “Choose files from this project directory.”

Choose a model

Open the model chip under the composer, then select the model row to see every model your account can use. Models are grouped Thinking, Standard, and Fast, strongest first within each group, and each row carries its maker’s logo. Type in Search models to filter, and use the arrow keys to move through the list. Where a model offers a choice of Reasoning effort, it appears under the model row.

Your choice applies to the next reply and every reply after it, in this workspace only. Use account default returns to the model an administrator set for the account in the Infera web app. The list refreshes when you switch back to BioBase, so a model added to your account appears without a restart. You can’t change the model while a response is running.

If your account has no model, the composer shows “No analysis model is available for this account. Contact Infera support to enable one.” Infera support is [e-mail].

Long analyses

While a response runs, the reply header shows Working, the number of steps so far, and the elapsed time. A pulsing dot marks the workspace in the sidebar and its Data Agent tab.

A message sent during a response waits and starts automatically when the response finishes; the composer shows how many are waiting. Up to 10 can wait at once.

If a response finishes, fails, or needs your input while BioBase isn’t focused on that session, BioBase sends a desktop notification. Notifications for protected workspaces leave out the workspace title. Select it to open the session. To turn these off, go to Settings, Notifications.

Stop a response

Select Stop beside Send. The response ends immediately, even if the model has stopped answering, and you can send your next message straight away. A message you send before the stopped response finishes closing waits and runs after it.

A stopped or interrupted turn keeps its Agent activity and any errors in the conversation, so you can see what happened before you continue.

When the Data Agent asks you something

A Waiting on your answer card shows the question. Type your answer in the composer and send it.

Where the files go

The Data Agent writes its outputs into the project folder. Files a synced workspace pulls from Infera Cloud arrive in a research folder inside the project folder. Open them from the file explorer.

Code the Data Agent runs executes in a cloud analysis environment on copies of the project files it needs, and its outputs come back to your project folder. To work in your own local environment, use the terminal. See where your data lives for how BioBase handles those copies.

Sync state

The strip under the header shows the workspace state: Local, Cloud, Synced, or Diverged, with the space it takes on this device. Open workspace folder opens the folder in your operating system. See backup and sync for what each state means.