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Opening history
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Core
Agent
Chat
History
View and manage chat conversations
Access past Agent conversations from the history panel.
Opening history
Click the history icon in Agent sidepane
Press
Alt+Ctrl+‘
Managing chats
Edit titles
: Click to rename
Delete
: Remove unneeded chats
Open
: Click to review full conversation
Chat history is stored locally in a SQLite database on your machine.
To preserve chats,
export them
as markdown.
Background Agents
Background agent chats aren’t in regular history but instead stored in a remote database. Use
Ctrl+E
to view them.
Referencing past chats
Use
@Past Chats
to include context from previous conversations in your current chat.
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