What Orion Can Answer
The name describes the speed, but Warp Drive is also a governance policy. The speed follows from the smaller boundary, because Orion retrieves from approved material instead of exploring your data sources. These sources sit inside the boundary:
Orion can still run a query in this mode, as long as somebody defined it first. Executing a saved metric or a catalog metric is allowed, because its definition was already reviewed. Writing new queries is not.
Everything else sits outside the boundary: warehouse queries, Looker Explores, notebooks and Python, and the creation of dashboards, reports, and slide decks. Warp Drive is read-only, so it cannot edit a Knowledge Base page, a metric, or a workflow either.
Turning Warp Drive On
Warp Drive has its own tab in Project Settings. An empty project cannot turn it on. Orion needs a foundation of approved content first. Readiness checks lists the three requirements. Each row shows how many sources the project has against how many it needs, under the line “Checked automatically from project content.” Until all three pass, the tab shows Locked instead of the on and off control. Once the project is ready:- Switch Warp Drive on
- Choose a Full Analysis access policy
- Click Save Changes
Full Analysis Access
Full Analysis is the way out of the boundary. It reruns the question with the tools and the model ordinary chat uses, and it stays selected for the rest of the chat. Full Analysis access decides who is allowed to do that. The tab puts the choice as “Choose who can ask questions with Full Analysis when Warp Drive isn’t enough.”
Choose according to how far you trust the approved content to cover what people will actually ask.
What You See in Chat
When Orion cannot answer from approved content, it replies with one of the following information cards:
Where Orion read something before giving up, the card carries Sources checked, listing what it read. Named deliverables, metrics, and Knowledge Base pages link out so they can be inspected.
Where a draft was written and then rejected, the card also shows the draft. Orion keeps it so you can see what it nearly said and which claims it wanted to test. It is not an approved answer, and Orion does not treat it as context in later chats.
If your access policy allows it, the card offers Run Full Analysis. Where it does not, the card names the project owners, so you know who to ask for help.
Who Can Change These Settings
Changing the mode or the access policy needs one of the following:- A tenant admin or analyst with access to the project
- A project owner
- An admin of a group that has the project
Next Steps
Knowledge Base
Build the approved context Warp Drive reads from
Metrics
Define the numbers Orion is allowed to execute
Projects
Where the Warp Drive tab lives
Workflows
Turn a recurring answer into a scheduled deliverable