Access Paver in the console

Paver is built into the IBM Cloud console, so you can access it from anywhere in your account without leaving the page you're on.

1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
2. From the IBM Cloud console menu bar, click the Help icon > Paver AI assistant.

Note the mode switcher where you can change between Safe and Edit mode. Since you're just getting started, stay in safe mode for now, which keeps Paver from modifying your resources until you're ready. You can still ask Paver to explore your account and plan changes.

Take the getting started tour

To help you get familiar with Paver in the console, you can take a quick tour.

1. From Paver in the console, click the Help icon > Getting started tour.
2. Select Let's get started.
3. Follow the prompts to tell Paver a little bit about yourself and try out a prompt for the first time.

Start a new conversation

Pick a starter prompt or write your own to send a first message to Paver.

1. Select New task to start a new conversation.
2. Choose a starter prompt from the Getting started, Create, or Investigate categories, or type your own question. Use natural language to describe what you want to do or what you want to know.
3. Click Send message to start the conversation.

You can ask Paver to tell you about its capabilities and features to learn more about how Paver can assist. It knows your account and resources, so it can help you troubleshoot, gain insight, make a plan, or accomplish a task.

Tell Paver about how you work

Paver remembers things about you across conversations such as your preferred regions, how you like to work, the projects you're running, and other context that makes future interactions faster and more relevant. This is called memory in Paver. You can explicitly teach Paver about your preferences by telling Paver directly in a chat, or you can try out the personalization workflow to have Paver ask you a series of questions about your working style and preferences:

1. In the chat, enter the /personalize slash command and send it as a message. This starts an interactive interview to help Paver learn more about your preferences.
2. Respond to Paver as it asks you questions to build new memories.

You can view and change these memories later from the Memories settings page, or you can tell Paver to delete or update a memory directly in an interactive chat.

Explore the settings

Set your theme, language preference, or Paver Guard approval policies that put guardrails in place and control how often you're asked to approve specific actions.

1. Click the Settings icon .
2. Set your theme to match how you like to work.
3. Set your preferred language.
4. Review the auto-approve and auto-deny options. For more information about setting guard policies, see Managing safeguards and controls.
5. Select All settings to explore more options for managing memories, storing secrets in the keyring, switching your plan, or updating the region where your data is stored.

Next steps

Now that you know how to find Paver and start a chat, you can explore all of the possibilities by chatting directly with Paver. Paver is your best guide to understanding all of its capabilities and making a plan to streamline your infrastructure operations.

You can also use the following resources to learn more about Paver:

• For more information about Paver and its core concepts and tasks, see IBM Paver.
• Explore common use cases and best practices to learn more about what Paver can do.
• Decide which plan works best for you.
• Install the Paver CLI to work with Paver in your terminal.