Build a playlist with AI Mode
Use AI Mode inside the playlist editor to build sections, pull in demos and assets, write copy, and brand the hub — with a plan you approve and a one-click undo.
Build a playlist with AI Mode
Overview
AI Mode lives inside the playlist editor. Ask it for a small change ("write an intro for this section") and it applies the change right away. Hand it a goal ("create a focused playlist — a short intro and a gallery of our best demos, on-brand") and it proposes a plan, then builds the whole hub while you watch it happen on the canvas.
Everything AI Mode does goes through the normal editor and save path, so nothing is hidden: you see each change land, and you can keep it or undo it.
Snapshot 📸
Feature Status: Generally available · consumes AI credits Role Access: Anyone who can edit the playlist Location: Playlist editor → AI Mode in the top command bar
Open AI Mode
- Open a playlist in the editor.
- Click AI Mode in the top command bar.
- The panel opens docked to the left of the canvas.
The panel has three states:
- Docked — a card pinned beside the canvas.
- Floating — drag the panel header (or click Pop out) to tear it off into a movable, resizable window. Click Dock to left to put it back.
- Closed — click ✕. The AI Mode button reopens it.
Your choice is remembered, and the floating window keeps its position and size.
Two ways to work
The panel has no Ask/Agent switch — AI Mode reads your prompt and picks the right mode.
Quick asks
Small, well-scoped requests apply immediately:
- "Write a title and intro copy for a section"
- "Update the header title, logo, and styling"
- "Reorder the demos in the gallery"
Agent runs
Bigger goals — building a playlist from scratch, or overhauling one — become an agent run. AI Mode first shows a plan card: a short summary plus the concrete changes it intends to make, each tagged added, edited, or styled. You choose:
| Choice | What happens |
|---|---|
| Run as agent | AI Mode executes the whole plan on its own. |
| Step by step | It walks the plan one change at a time. |
| Refine | Type what should change. AI Mode re-proposes an updated plan instead of executing. |
Once you approve, the card stays in the conversation with a Plan approved chip, so you can always scroll back to what was agreed.
What AI Mode can do in a playlist
Structure and content
- Add, remove, reorder, and move content sections — gallery, carousel, text, banner, embedded, and side-by-side embedded.
- Clear empty sections, or reset the hub to a blank canvas before a from-scratch build.
- Write and rewrite section titles and body copy.
Pull in your content
- Search your company's demo library by name, description, tags, folder, owner, or AI summary — and add the best matches to a gallery.
- Search the Resource Hub and add images, videos, and PDFs.
- Add a video by URL (YouTube, Vimeo, or a Walnut-hosted video).
- Set a thumbnail on any content item.
Interactive widgets
- Ask for a calculator, comparison table, pricing tiers, or quiz and AI Mode authors a self-contained interactive widget and places it in the hub.
- It surveys you first — one to three focused questions about the metric, inputs, and visual style — then recommends where the widget should live and confirms placement before building.
- Widgets inherit the hub's brand colors, stay readable down to phone width, and run sandboxed: no external scripts, no network calls, no data collection.
- Ask for a change ("add a discount row", "make it darker") and AI Mode updates that same widget in place instead of adding another one.
Branding and styling
- Set the hub name, header title, and header logo.
- Apply your brand colors, or infer them from a website — give AI Mode a URL and it reads the brand's palette and applies it.
- Set section backgrounds, including background images.
Grounding
- Web search — find real facts about a company, competitor, or product to ground the copy.
- Learn from a URL — paste a link and AI Mode reads the page for this conversation only. It does not change your account's saved AI context; that is set explicitly in the AI settings.
- Knowledge base — AI Mode can look up Walnut help articles when it needs product detail.
- Generate an image from a description when nothing in the Resource Hub fits.
Keep or undo
When a run finishes, AI Mode posts a result card:
- A N changes row — expand it to see every individual change, jump to it on the canvas, or revert just that one.
- Keep — finalize the run. The card stays in the thread with a Done pill.
- Undo — revert that run's edits in one click. Other runs in the same conversation are untouched.
Undo is blocked only when a later change overlaps the same content — AI Mode tells you rather than silently reverting something you meant to keep.
Steering a run
- Keep typing while the agent works. Mid-run prompts feed into the current run.
- Stop — the stop button sits next to send while a run is in progress.
- Attach a file — images, video, PDFs, Office documents, and audio — to give AI Mode something concrete to work from.
- Questions and confirmations — AI Mode asks rather than guesses. Clarifying questions come with suggested answers you can click, and anything destructive asks for a yes/no confirmation first.
- To finish, please add — if a run needs something only you have (a specific deck, a dashboard screenshot, an asset that isn't in the library), AI Mode leaves a checklist of asks instead of inventing a placeholder.
Conversations and credits
- Previous chats (clock icon) — reopen an earlier conversation on this playlist.
- New chat (+) — start fresh. Threads are named automatically.
- The credit chip in the panel header shows your remaining AI credits. Usage is metered as Playlists in the AI Control Center.
Good to know
- The header and footer are locked structural sections. AI Mode can change the header's title and logo, but it cannot add or remove those sections.
- Changing the layout replaces the existing sections and content with that layout's defaults. AI Mode confirms before doing it.
- Videos must be YouTube, Vimeo, or Walnut-hosted URLs. YouTube Shorts links are refused.
- Generated widgets are sandboxed by design — they cannot call out to an external service, so a widget that needs live data from your systems is not something AI Mode can build.
- AI Mode edits the playlist you have open. It does not publish or share it — that stays your call.
FAQs
Do I have to approve a plan every time? No. Only from-scratch builds and overhauls get a plan card. Small asks just apply, and you keep or undo them.
Can I stop a run halfway through? Yes. Press stop. Everything already applied stays on the canvas, and the result card still offers Undo.
Can I keep tweaking a widget it built? Yes. Say what should change and AI Mode edits the existing widget in place. You do not need to describe it from scratch again.
Does AI Mode learn from what I type? Not automatically. A URL you paste grounds that conversation only. Account-level AI context is set deliberately in your AI settings.
Can it work on a playlist that already has content? Yes — that is the common case. On a populated hub AI Mode leads with personalization asks ("personalize this for a specific customer") rather than blank-slate builds.