Code Interpreter

What Is This?

Code Interpreter lets an Agent execute Python code in a secure sandbox environment, completing tasks programmatically.

With Code Interpreter enabled, the Agent can do more than just reply with text — it can write code to perform calculations, process files you upload, generate Word/PowerPoint/Excel documents, and return the results for you to download.

How Is It Different from Tools?

	Tools	Code Interpreter
Nature	Calls pre-defined external APIs	Writes and executes Python on the fly in a sandbox
Flexibility	Limited to what the API provides	Anything Python can do
Typical use cases	Send emails, query CRM, integrate third-party services	Computation, data processing, file generation, charting

Quick rule of thumb: Need to call an external API → Tools; need to compute, process files, or generate documents → Code Interpreter.

What Can It Do?

• Data analysis & computation: CSV/Excel calculations, statistics, pivot tables, data cleaning

• Chart creation: Turn data into line charts, bar charts, pie charts, and more

• Document generation: Produce Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF files for download

• File processing: Parse PDFs, convert formats, batch-process uploaded files

Sandbox Environment

• The execution environment is a secure sandbox, isolated from production systems — it won't affect any other data

• Supports standard Python along with common data and document processing packages

• Files generated by the Agent appear in the Output panel within the chat interface and can be downloaded directly

When to Use

• Finance/sales teams ask the Agent to organize Excel files and produce weekly reports

• HR/admin teams ask the Agent to turn survey results into charts and generate PowerPoint presentations

• Legal/contract teams ask the Agent to extract key fields from PDFs and output Word summaries

• Any conversation scenario that requires ad-hoc computation or on-the-fly file generation

What Do I Need to Do?

1. Go to Agent settings — Open the settings page of the AI Assistant you want to enable it for

2. Enable Code Interpreter — Turn it on in the tools or advanced capabilities section

3. Test — Ask the Agent to perform a task that requires computation or file generation in a conversation, and verify that the Output panel allows normal downloads