---
title: "looker-conversational-analytics"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
The "looker-conversational-analytics" tool will use the Conversational
Analaytics API to analyze data from Looker
aliases:
- /resources/tools/looker-conversational-analytics
---
## About
A `looker-conversational-analytics` tool allows you to ask questions about your
Looker data.
It's compatible with the following sources:
- [looker](../../sources/looker.md)
`looker-conversational-analytics` accepts two parameters:
1. `user_query_with_context`: The question asked of the Conversational Analytics
system.
2. `explore_references`: A list of one to five explores that can be queried to
answer the question. The form of the entry is `[{"model": "model name",
"explore": "explore name"}, ...]`
## Example
```yaml
tools:
ask_data_insights:
kind: looker-conversational-analytics
source: looker-source
description: |
Use this tool to ask questions about your data using the Looker Conversational
Analytics API. You must provide a natural language query and a list of
1 to 5 model and explore combinations (e.g. [{'model': 'the_model', 'explore': 'the_explore'}]).
Use the 'get_models' and 'get_explores' tools to discover available models and explores.
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|-------------|:--------:|:------------:|----------------------------------------------------|
| kind | string | true | Must be "lookerca-conversational-analytics". |
| source | string | true | Name of the source the SQL should execute on. |
| description | string | true | Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM. |