AI Chat, AI Guide, or reports?

Your goal	Start with	What to do next
Understand an unfamiliar project	AI Guide	Walk through the architecture, inspect evidence, and record unanswered questions.
Investigate one resource or ask a follow-up	AI Chat	Include the selected resource or project context and ask for the evidence behind the answer.
Review findings, costs, or recommended actions	Reports	Check source freshness, coverage, and applicability before prioritizing work.
Inspect containment or relationships yourself	Architecture / Dependency view	Select resources and use the assistant when you need an explanation.

Your goal

Start with

What to do next

Understand an unfamiliar project

AI Guide

Walk through the architecture, inspect evidence, and record unanswered questions.

Investigate one resource or ask a follow-up

AI Chat

Include the selected resource or project context and ask for the evidence behind the answer.

Review findings, costs, or recommended actions

Reports

Check source freshness, coverage, and applicability before prioritizing work.

Inspect containment or relationships yourself

Architecture / Dependency view

Select resources and use the assistant when you need an explanation.

A practical review sequence

Orient with AI Guide

Open the project and choose Complete architecture tour. Identify the main resources, boundaries, and chapters with missing evidence.

Ask a specific follow-up in AI Chat

Select the relevant resources and ask, for example: “Which recorded relationships connect these resources, and what cannot be inferred from them?”

Check the report

Review the relevant cost or posture findings. Confirm that the report covers the same project source and that it is recent enough for your decision.

Verify before changing anything

Use the source template, cloud configuration, or operational evidence to check the recommendation. Record the next action and owner.

What kinds of comparisons can I make?

Comparison	How to approach it
Architecture versus Dependency	Switch views of the same project: containment and overall shape versus recorded relationships.
Two resources in one project	Select them and ask AI Chat a specific question about their available properties or relationships. Ask it to identify missing evidence.
A resource versus documented guidance	Inspect the cited guidance and verify that it applies to the configuration in your project.
Before and after a change, or two projects	Do not assume an ordinary AI Guide is comparing snapshots. Check the currently available workflow and explicitly identify both sources.
Cloudeval versus another product	This page compares Cloudeval workflows, not competitor capabilities or pricing.

An ordinary AI Guide is a walkthrough of its loaded project context. It is not automatically a before/after review, a live traffic monitor, or proof that a recommended change has been applied. See Interfaces and workflows for release boundaries.

Example questions

AI Guide: “Help me understand the project boundaries and major resources.”

AI Chat: “What evidence supports this dependency, and which configuration should I inspect next?”

Reports: “Which findings are actionable for this source, and what evidence supports each one?”

​A practical review sequence

​What kinds of comparisons can I make?

​Example questions

A practical review sequence

What kinds of comparisons can I make?

Example questions