Agentic Engineering
AI agents provide substantial advantages for engineering tasks like requirements capturing by significantly enhancing efficiency and automating complex, repetitive workflows. Requirements Portal's Engineering Assistant leverages AI technologies to provide you with fast, automated review tool for your requirements that allows you to ask questions about requirements in your current project in free-form, natural language and get quick answers without manually filtering or searching through the requirements, for example:
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How many requirements are not verified?
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Are there any engineering gaps in these requirements?
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Show me all requirements about the power supply.
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Which requirements need to be taken into account for PCB design?
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Do any requirements conflict with each other?
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Give me an overview of all battery-related requirements.
Enabling the Engineering Assistant
The Engineering Assistant can be enabled and disabled by an admin using the External Provider option on the Settings – ValiAssistant page (accessed by clicking the 
icon at the top right, selecting Settings from the menu that appears, and then selecting ValiAssistant from list in the left-hand pane).
Accessing the Engineering Assistant
The Engineering Assistant is accessed via the Engineering Assistant pane available in the Requirement Module by clicking the 
icon at the top right.
To use the Engineering Assistant, type your query into the Ask anything field at the bottom of the Engineering Assistant pane and click the 
icon or press Enter. The Engineering Assistant will analyze the requirements and present a relevant answer in the pane. Depending on the query, the Engineering Assistant will return a numeric answer, a list of requirement IDs, or a brief summary.
At the initial access to the Engineering Assistant pane (or after starting a new conversation), several query examples will be presented in the pane (
). If the currently selected specification contains no requirements, you will be suggested to create requirements first (
). Click the corresponding button to apply a query/action.
The Engineering Assistant supports multi-turn dialog within a session, i.e., it remembers the context of the current conversation for relevant follow-up queries. For example, if the Engineering Assistant has listed several requirements in response to a query and you then ask How many of those are high priority?, the assistant understands that those refers to the previously listed requirements and answers accordingly. That way, you can keep a 'conversation' by further refining or drilling down into the information without restating context.
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When the Engineering Assistant service cannot be reached or produces any error, an error indicating the failure will be displayed in the pane (
). Click the Retry button to retry the last failed request.
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To clear the current conversation and start a new one, click the
icon at the top right of the Engineering Assistant pane. Note that only one conversation at the time is available (i.e., there is no history of conversations).