# AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations/ai-capabilities-the-asset-picker |
| **course_slug** | contentstack-assets-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | ai-capabilities-the-asset-picker |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations/ai-capabilities-the-asset-picker.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-28T12:30:00.531Z |

> Part of **[Contentstack Assets Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/contentstack-assets-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** AI Capabilities
- **Duration:** 2m 54s
- **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/aHKVzcRZ
- **Publish date (unix):** 1778505341

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#### Video transcript

You've built the structure, you've modeled the data, now it's time to let the platform do the heavy lifting. Content Stack Assets isn't just a storage locker, it's an intelligent engine. Between AI-powered automation and the new Asset Picker, we're removing the friction between finding an image and publishing a page. The work starts the second you upload a file, instead of having to manually enter tags or descriptions for every single asset, you can use automatic tag and description generation inside the asset. Let me show you what I mean. If I come over here and open this image, on the right-hand side where we can configure the metadata, you'll notice the description text field has a Suggest Description with AI option. If you click it, AI will automatically generate a description. If you're happy with it, you can click Insert, and it'll be inserted into that text field. Now the great thing is, this is a starting point, so if you need to modify or change this in any way, you certainly can do that. Likewise, you can do the same thing with tags. I can have AI recommend some tags, and then I can come in and select the tags that make the most sense for this particular asset. Once you're done, you can click Insert, and those tags will be placed into the Tags section. When you're done, you can come over and click Save Asset. Now the great thing is, with all this work we've done within assets, things like modeling, localization, and this tagging, it really comes to life once you're working inside the CMS. So I'm going to come over to the CMS, and once I'm inside the CMS, I'm going to enter my stack, and I'm going to choose Entries. At this point, I'm going to create a new entry based upon the image detail content type. I'll go ahead and click Proceed. Now what I can do here is type in the image name and a description. So for the image name, I'll type in Gondola on Canal During Sunset, and then I want to choose a file. This will open up the Asset Picker, and what I can do, and this is really helpful, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of assets here. In this menu, instead of choosing All, you can have AI make some recommendations. It's going to take a look at the image name, and then it will show you images that match that description. So in this case, I do want this asset here, and then I'll come down and click Use Selected Asset. And even better, this browser respects localization. If an editor is working on a French entry, the picker automatically services the French version of the asset or follows the fallback rules that we've already defined.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker. AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker in Contentstack Assets Foundations (contentstack-assets-foundations).

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- Capabilities
- The
- Asset
- Picker
- contentstack-assets-foundations
- lesson 08
- AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker
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Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "08" and topics: [Capabilities, The, Asset, Picker].
Parent course slug: contentstack-assets-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

| Label | URL |
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| Video thumbnail: AI Capabilities & The Asset Picker | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aHKVzcRZ/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |