# Mindview
{% hint style="danger" %}
This feature is available only on the Professional Plan and above.
{% endhint %}
## **Introduction**
The **Mindview** section provides visibility into the **prompt** that was sent to the model to generate your character’s response.\
It’s a powerful tool for:
* Understanding how your character processes context.
* Improving your **Character Description**, **Knowledge Bank**, and **Language Settings**.
* Troubleshooting unexpected or inconsistent responses.
***
## **Accessing Mindview**
You can open the **Mindview** tab directly from the left navigation menu of the Convai Playground.
When first opening it, you’ll be asked to select a **conversation or interaction** from the **Memory** tab.\
Alternatively, you can start a new conversation — Mindview will automatically display the data for the **latest message**.
To access Mindview for a **previous interaction**:
1. Navigate to the **Memory** tab.
2. Expand the desired **session**.
3. Click the **Mindview icon** next to any message to open its corresponding prompt view.
***
## Understanding the Mindview Interface
Once opened, you’ll see a structured view of how the model interpreted and responded to an input.
### **Header Information**
At the top of the screen, the following details are displayed:
* **Session ID** – Identifies which session the interaction belongs to.
* **Model Name** – Shows the LLM used to generate the response.
* **User Query** – Displays the exact message or query that initiated this prompt.
### **Main Prompt Section**
This is the core of Mindview. It shows the **entire chain of messages** (System, Assistant, and User) that formed the complete prompt sent to the model.
Each section provides insight into how the model understands the character’s context and instructions before producing a response.
***
## What Influences the Main Prompt
The main prompt displayed in Mindview is dynamically constructed using multiple aspects of your character and session:
| Source | Description |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Character Description** | Defines the character’s backstory and core context. Appears within `` ... `` tags. |
| **Language and Speech** | Includes the allowed languages and relevant speech configuration. |
| **Personality Traits** | Controls the conversational tone, emotion, and formality level of the character. |
| **Narrative Design** | Incorporates objectives or context from active Narrative Design sections into the user’s input. |
| **Knowledge Bank** | Adds relevant external knowledge to improve factual accuracy or domain-specific responses. |
| **Long-Term Memory** | Injects persistent information learned across sessions, when applicable. |
***
## Use Cases
* Debug and refine how your **character’s prompt** is constructed.
* Identify missing or conflicting information within the character setup.
* Validate that the right **Knowledge Bank**, **Personality Traits**, and **Narrative Design** data are being included in responses.
***
## Conclusion
The Mindview tab gives creators deep transparency into the inner workings of Convai’s character response generation.\
By analyzing prompts and understanding how context is layered, you can fine-tune your characters for **more consistent**, **accurate**, and **personality-aligned** interactions.
---
# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation
If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.
Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:
```
GET https://docs.convai.com/api-docs/convai-playground/character-customization/mindview.md?ask=
```
The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.
Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.