System tools

Web Search: find current information from the internet through search and fetch URL operations, with citations. These requests run in the Amazon Quick agent runtime and reach the internet from Amazon-managed infrastructure. Fetch URL can return a cached copy of a page.

File operations: download files from URLs and open local files in their default applications. Downloads from URLs run in the Amazon Quick agent runtime, which retrieves the file and syncs it to your device.

Browser Automation: launch a browser, navigate, interact with elements, fill forms, take screenshots, and extract text. It supports a default mode, which uses a separate browser instance with a copy of your profile, and a use-your-own-browser mode. Local browser automation runs a browser on your device. Remote managed browser automation, in Preview, runs a browser in the Amazon Quick agent runtime and reaches the internet from Amazon-managed infrastructure.

Image Generation: generate and edit images with Amazon Nova Canvas, including remove background, variations, and outpaint (extending an image beyond its original boundaries).

Engram Builder: analyze your writing across messages and conversations to build a personality profile (an engram), so Quick can write in your style. Operations: get, list, save, and delete engrams.

Knowledge and memory: query and build the knowledge graph, and recall learned patterns.

Agent management: create, update, delete, and trigger routines from chat.

Task management: break complex requests into parallel background sub-tasks, organized into groups, with progress tracking.

Chat and notifications: surface contextual suggestion pills, message reactions, desktop notifications for events such as task completion, and briefing summaries on the Home screen.

Transcription: convert audio and video files to text so Quick can summarize, quote, or answer questions about their contents. The Transcribe media operation transcribes an audio or video file (for example, .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .flac, .m4a, or .ogg) to text. Use it when you want Quick to work with recordings such as meeting captures, voice memos, screen recordings, podcast clips, or interview audio as if they were text.

Explainability: produce a structured account of how Quick arrived at its answer. The Emit explanation operation returns an explanation that includes assumptions (what Quick took as given), sources (which datasets, files, connectors, or memories were consulted), calculations (the steps that produced the result), and limitations (known caveats or places where the answer is uncertain). Use it when you want to see the reasoning behind an answer, share it, or check the assumptions before acting.

File indexing and search: find and cite content across the folders you have granted access to. Operations include Search files (search across indexed files by keyword or meaning), Read document (return the full content of a specific file), Check indexing (report indexing status for a folder or file), and Approve indexing (approve or skip a pending indexing operation). For how folders are indexed, see Knowledge.

Working with your data: answer questions in natural language about the datasets and dashboards you connect through Quick spaces. Quick can answer questions from datasets (run analytical queries and return an answer with the underlying data), read dashboards (interpret and summarize the data behind a dashboard visual), and discover data (browse the catalog of datasets and dashboards available to you). Which datasets and dashboards Quick can see depends on your organization's permissions.