Ask Your Records

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Most questions land here: you describe the records you want and Oracle returns them as a table.

Ask a Question

Open Oracle in a project.
Type the question the way you would say it — for example, Automated test cases created in the last 10 days that have never been executed.
Select Ask, or press Enter.

The answer opens with a count, then Understood as — every condition Oracle applied — then the rows.

What You Can Ask About

Thirteen kinds of record are queryable:

Group	Records
Repository	Test cases, shared steps, parameters, custom fields, labels
Delivery	Requirements, tasks, and the two together
Quality	Defects
Execution	Releases, test runs, release executions, and a test case as it sits inside one

Alongside the fields on each record, twenty connections are askable — coverage, execution history, defect links, flakiness, CI build evidence. These are what make questions like Test cases that have an open defect against them work: the condition asks a second question of a second collection.

Your own vocabulary is part of it. Folder names, label names, release titles, custom field options and team members are read fresh from the project every time you ask, so a label you created this morning is askable this afternoon.

Check What It Understood

The Understood as row is the point of the feature, not decoration.

Each condition is shown resolved. “The last 10 days” becomes the date it computed. A name becomes the member it matched. A predicate reads as a sentence — Never executed, Never added to any run.

Select the × on a condition to remove it. The answer re-runs immediately and calls no model, so correcting Oracle costs nothing and takes no thinking time.

Work With the Results

All of these re-run without a model call:

Sort — select a column header. One sort column at a time.
Show more — raises the row count toward the ceiling of 500.
Columns — choose which fields to display. Your choice is remembered per record type.
Readiness — on releases and runs, folds in the computed columns: verdict, score, coverage, pass and fail rates.

Export downloads a CSV of the rows on screen with the columns you have visible — not the whole matching set. The count above the table is always the true total; the table shows the first hundred unless you asked for more.

Open a Record

Select a row and it opens in a panel beside the answer, with arrows to move through the results without losing your place.

⌘-click, middle-click and open in new tab all still work normally — the panel only intercepts a plain left click.

When It Asks You Something Back

A question that is answerable but underspecified comes back as one short question with two to four answers as buttons. Select one and Oracle plans that reading.

Answering a clarification is a full re-ask, unlike removing a condition — Oracle plans the original question again, now settled by your reply.