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Version: 6.5.0

Assets Directory

The N|Solid in the IDE Assets Directory shows the diagnostic assets available to your N|Solid environment and organizes them by application. This view is designed to help you quickly see which apps have assets, download the ones you need, and hand them off to your AI agents for deeper analysis.

Assets commonly include items such as CPU profiles, heap snapshots, heap profiles, and heap samples.

How The Assets View Is Organized​

The Assets Directory groups assets by app instead of showing one flat list.

When your workspace is already associated with an app, N|Solid in the IDE highlights that app first under a This Workspace section. Other applications appear below it under Other Apps. Each app row can be expanded to show the assets available for that application.

Assets Directory

What You Can Do In The Assets Directory​

Each asset row gives you a small set of direct actions:

  • Download -- Save the asset locally into the workspace so you can inspect or analyze it.
  • Open Asset -- Open a downloaded asset from disk.
  • Ask AI -- Start an agent-assisted analysis flow for a downloaded asset.
  • Delete -- Remove the local downloaded copy of an asset from the workspace.

Asset Info

The view also shows whether an asset has already been downloaded, displays download progress while a transfer is in flight, and allows retrying a failed download.

Downloading Assets​

Assets are downloaded into the local .nsolid/assets/ area inside the workspace. After a successful download, N|Solid in the IDE can immediately guide you into the next step by letting you either open the asset or analyze it with AI.

If an asset is already downloaded, the extension recognizes that state and gives you follow-up choices instead of forcing another download.

Analyzing Assets With Agents​

The Assets Directory is not just a file browser. It is also an entry point into agent-assisted analysis.

After an asset is downloaded, choosing Ask AI launches the asset analysis workflow and passes the asset context to the N|Solid chat experience. This allows your agents to inspect an existing diagnostic artifact.

Ask AI

For some asset types, such as heap snapshots, analysis may depend on background summarization before the AI workflow can fully inspect the asset. N|Solid in the IDE handles that as part of the asset-analysis flow.

Offline And Signed-Out Behavior​

If you are not signed in to N|Solid, the Assets Directory can still show assets that were already downloaded locally in the workspace. In that state, you can continue to open local files, but AI-assisted analysis requires a valid N|Solid connection.

New Asset Notifications​

When a new asset is generated for an application, N|Solid in the IDE can surface that event and reveal the asset in the Assets Directory. From there, you can immediately choose to open it or download and analyze it with AI.

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