Nomu Assistant
Nomu Assistant is a general-purpose assistant for Noon sellers. Ask in plain Chinese and it streams an answer back; when there is work to do — parsing a product, for instance — it calls the tools itself.
It opens in a standalone extension page with two columns: a session sidebar on the left, the conversation on the right.
How to open it
- Extension popup → "Nomu Assistant"
- Action menu on the Noon seller dashboard → "Nomu Assistant" (subtitle: Q&A and product parsing)
Both entries go through the same channel. If the page is already open it is focused instead of spawning a second tab.
What it can do
The assistant's actual capabilities are delivered by the server. Nomu deliberately does not render a categorised "what it can / cannot do" table — that would commit to a promise the backend can change at any time. The only place a capability shows up in the interface is the tool-call pill inside the assistant's bubble, lit up as each step runs.
An empty conversation offers three example questions; click one to fill the composer:
- Why was the SKU template moved from hardcoding to a brand field?
- What is the Currency fetch interval?
- Parse this product for me
Day-to-day it splits into two shapes: ask (listing rules, what a field means, what to do about an error) and have it do something (parse a product, look something up). Whether a given question can be answered directly is decided per answer.
Reading an answer
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Text appears word by word | Answers stream in and render as they generate — long answers need no waiting |
| "Generating" | This turn is not finished yet; press "Stop" to interrupt |
| "Jump to latest" | Appears bottom-right when an answer grows long; click to snap back to the live edge |
| Tool-call pill | The assistant is working: "Running" → "Done" |
| Online | Shown at the right of the top bar as the assistant's connection state |
Markdown and code blocks are readable while the answer is still generating. Chinese punctuation and inline styles are handled for Chinese typography, so lines do not break out of alignment.
Answers are generated by the Nomu Assistant — please read them critically.
Sessions
The sidebar does three things:
- New session — start a clean context
- Recent conversations — ordered by last activity; the title is the first question of the thread
- Delete session — the delete key surfaces on hover over a session row
Only the session id, title, and time are stored locally. The conversation body is not kept in a local store — it lives on the backend and is read back by session id.
Sign-in
The assistant needs a signed-in Nomu account. When you are signed out or the session has expired, the composer is disabled and reads "Sign in to your Nomu account" — sign in on the account page and come back.
Once signed in, the sidebar and message bubbles show your own username as the avatar.
Shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Enter | Send |
⇧ Enter | Newline |
Not the same as the right-click "Parse with AI" entry
Both entries have AI in the name, but they do different things:
| Dimension | Nomu Assistant | Right-click "Parse with AI" |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | Popup / action menu | Right-click on any page |
| What it does | Conversational Q&A and delegated work, including product parsing | Turns the current page into a draftable product |
| Output | Streamed answer text | A product draft landed in the local batch (or pushed to the cloud pool) |
| Fits | You are mid-task and want to ask something | You hit a page with no adapter and want a draft on the spot |
Right-click parse fits "this site has no adapter but I want a draft right now". The assistant fits asking a question without leaving what you were doing.
Related docs
- NomuFab entry point — where the assistant sits in the action menu
- Account & AI credits — sign-in and credits
- Features overview — index of every Nomu capability