> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.praxis-ai.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Choosing Your Tools

> Pick which tools Pria may use in your conversations — five ready-made sets, or your own selection.

Pria can do more than talk. It can search the web, read and edit your files, make images, transcribe a video, check a web page it just built, or look something up in a service you connected. Each of those abilities is a **tool**.

You choose which ones it may use. Fewer tools make every answer **lighter and faster**, because Pria has to consider a shorter list before it replies — whether or not it ends up using any of them. Turning off what you never use is one of the simplest ways to make a Digital Twin quicker and cheaper to run.

> [!NOTE]
>
> You don't have to set this up. New accounts start on the **recommended** set, which covers the everyday things most people ask for.

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## Where to find it

Open the **\[+]** (Actions) menu to the left of the message box and choose **Tools** (in the Studio UI: **Settings › Tools**).

The entry tells you where you stand at a glance — for example **Minimal - 6 on** — so you can see the size of your set without opening anything.

> [!NOTE]
>
> **In a Digital Twin, tools are chosen for everyone.** If you use a Digital Twin, its administrator picks the set and every member gets the same one. Administrators see the entry as **For everyone in this Digital Twin - 12 on**, and it opens the same screen as **Instance Settings → Tools**. Members who can't edit the twin don't see the entry at all.

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## The five sets

Each set contains everything in the set before it, so moving up only ever adds. The number beside each name is how many tools it switches on.

> **None**
>
> No tools at all. Pria only converses with you. Choose this when you want a pure back-and-forth with nothing else happening.

> **Minimal — recommended**
>
> Ask questions about your files and the web, and save what you make to a file. This is the everyday set, and the one new accounts start with.

> **Media**
>
> Everything in Minimal, plus creating and reading images, video and audio, and transcription.

> **Builder**
>
> Everything in Media, plus editing files, working with PDFs, checking web pages, memory and assistants.

> **All**
>
> Every tool your account can use. Worth trying if you're exploring, but it makes each message heavier.

Pick a set and it applies immediately — there's no separate Save.

> [!TIP]
>
> Start on **Minimal** and add a set only when you find yourself needing it. If you switch individual tools on or off afterwards, your choice is shown as **Custom**; picking a named set again starts you from a known list.

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## Switching single tools

Below the sets is the full list of tools available to you. You can:

* **Search** by name or by what a tool does.
* **Filter by category** — for example Knowledge, Research, Documents, Creative, Memory, Assistants, Connections, Learning or Communication. Only categories that have tools for you are shown.
* **Switch any single tool** on or off.

Your selection sticks until you change it, and new tools Pria adds later stay off until you switch them on.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Every tool you leave on adds to the size of every message, used or not. Keep the ones you actually use.

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## Tools Guidance

Under the list, in the **Guidance** section, the **Tools Guidance** switch decides how much Pria is told about *how and when* to use its tools.

| Tools Guidance | What happens |
| - | - |
| **Off** (the default) | Pria gets short tool instructions with each question. Each question uses fewer credits. |
| **On** | Pria gets detailed instructions on how and when to use its tools — useful for research. Each question uses more credits. |

This switch is for your personal Pria. In a Digital Twin, its administrator decides.

### Tools for services you connected

Tools that reach Google or Microsoft behave like any other switch. The first time one is used, you're asked to connect your account — nothing is shared before you agree. A tool your account can't use at all is shown locked, with the reason in words.

If you administer a Digital Twin, choosing a set never switches off a connection you deliberately set up: Canvas while its credentials are in place, and Google or Microsoft while they're enabled for members, stay on.

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## What this doesn't change

* **It doesn't change what Pria knows.** Your files, memory and conversation history are controlled separately — see [Knowledge Modes](/mdx/user-guide/interface/knowledge-modes.md).
* **It doesn't limit spoken conversations to the same list.** A spoken turn only offers tools that work out loud, whatever your set.
* **It doesn't affect other people**, unless you're an administrator setting the tools for a Digital Twin — in which case it affects everyone in it.

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## Related

* [Instance Settings](/mdx/user-guide/profile-settings/instance-settings.md#tools) — the same choice for a whole Digital Twin.
* [Knowledge Modes](/mdx/user-guide/interface/knowledge-modes.md) — whether Pria reads your files at all.
* [Credits](/mdx/user-guide/credits.md) — what makes an answer cost more or less.
* [Reducing credit use](/mdx/user-guide/credits-optimization.md) — other ways to keep answers light.


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