Ask Chord Technical Overview

this guide explains how ask chord works under the hood, from data connection through to generating answers it's designed for both brand users and technical teams who want to understand what's happening at each step how ask chord works ask chord is a ground up rebuild of the classic chord ai experience rather than following a fixed pipeline, ask chord uses an llm agent that reasons through your question and decides which tools to call, making it better suited for complex, multi part questions how it works you ask a question in ask chord an llm agent receives your question along with access to a set of ask chord tools via chord mcp, a model context protocol server that exposes your schema, saved views, sql pairs, instructions, and sql execution as individual callable tools the agent chains these tools as needed searching your schema, retrieving relevant context, and executing sql against your warehouse results stream back in real time as the agent composes its answer ask chord at a glance ask chord orchestration llm agent that chains tools dynamically data access individual mcp tools via chord mcp best for complex, multi step, or exploratory questions status generally available data privacy ask chord does not store your data we work with your schema only, meaning the structure and definitions of your data, not the records themselves your data never leaves your warehouse without your explicit configuration for more detail on data security, see the chord faq docid\ zpwngfj3ck6uwam29tio9