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Overview

The agent can draw two kinds of figures right in the chat:
  • Charts of numbers, from your files, a spreadsheet, a CSV, or figures you give it. Point at a chart to see the exact values.
  • Diagrams of how things connect or happen in order: a process, a timeline, a project plan, an org of ideas.
A figure is a file like any other the agent makes. It stays in the chat until you save it to a folder, and you can copy it as a picture, download it as a PNG, or ask the agent to change it.

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Charts

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Chart types

If you don’t name a type, the agent picks the one that fits the question. For example, it uses a line for anything over time, and usually a sorted bar chart rather than a pie.

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How to ask

Open the folder with your data, open the agent, and say what you want to see.
The agent takes the numbers from your files, never from memory. After drawing the chart, it tells you in a line what the chart shows and where the numbers came from, including anything it left out. It can chart numbers it pulls out of many documents too, such as the total of every invoice in a folder. It reads the documents first, then charts the totals.

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Good to know

  • A chart shows a summary. The agent groups and totals the data first, such as by month or by vendor, rather than plotting every row. A long list of categories becomes the top ones plus “Other”.
  • Each currency is kept separate. Amounts in different currencies are never added together.
  • One scale per chart. Two measures on very different scales, such as revenue and headcount, become two charts.
  • Up to 5,000 rows of data. For more, the agent totals the data first.

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Diagrams

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Diagram types

It can also draw pie charts, user journeys, kanban boards, and architecture and requirement diagrams.

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How to ask

When a diagram describes your own files or workflows, the agent builds it from what it reads in the workspace. Keep a diagram to about 30 boxes so it stays readable. For something bigger, ask for two diagrams, such as an overview and a detail.

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The figure card

A figure appears in the chat as a card, drawn at the width of the panel. Below it are its title, its type and its size, such as “bar · 12 rows”.
A line chart of monthly revenue in the agent panel, with its title, buttons and Save to a folder
Under the newest figure in the chat, the agent offers a few follow-ups, such as As bars, Top 5 only, Add a trend line or Simplify it. Click one to send it as your next message. Like other files the agent makes, a figure you don’t save stays in the chat for 30 days. See Document Creation.

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Saved figures

A figure is saved as a small file: When you open one in The Drive AI, it’s drawn just as it was in the chat. Switch between Rendered and Source to see the figure or the text that describes it. Click PNG to download a picture, or Download for the file itself. Other tools that understand Vega-Lite or Mermaid can open these files too. To put a chart into a document or slide deck, use Copy picture or Download as PNG, or ask the agent to make the document with the chart in it.

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Changing a chart or diagram

Ask for the change in the chat. The agent draws a new figure, as a new card, and keeps the earlier one in the chat.
For a chart, the agent reuses the numbers from the first chart, so the figures stay the same unless you ask for different data. If you saved the earlier version to a folder, save the new one too. The saved file doesn’t change on its own.

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Tips

“Which vendors cost us the most this year?” gets a better chart than “chart the invoices”. The agent puts the answer in the title, such as “Spend by vendor, 2025”.
“From sales-2025.csv” or “from the invoices in /Finance/2025” tells the agent exactly where the numbers come from.
Click Show the data to see exactly which values the chart draws.

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What’s next?

Document Creation

Make PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets and decks.

Conversations

Work with the agent over a conversation.