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Chat

The chat surface is built for conversations that run long enough to get lost in. Everything here exists because a thousand-turn session is normal and scrolling is not a navigation strategy.

Turns collapse, and one stays open

Each exchange is a turn you can collapse by clicking its header. Collapsed, it keeps the full human message and the first line of the reply, so the transcript still reads as a list of what you asked. Browser find still reaches inside a collapsed turn.

Auto-collapse keeps only the newest turn open and folds the rest as they age. A turn you open by hand stays open as new ones arrive.

Six turns of a conversation, the older ones folded to their question and a first line, the newest open in full, with the minimap running down the right edge

The minimap replaces the scrollbar

Beside the transcript is a proportional overview of the whole conversation: one segment per compaction period, one sub-bar per turn, sized by how much the turn actually rendered and how long it took. White marks show human messages; yellow ones show bookmarks. Click or drag anywhere on it to move.

For jumping rather than scanning, Alt+Up and Alt+Down step between human messages relative to what is on screen, and Alt+Home and Alt+End go to the ends.

Queue instead of waiting

Alt+Enter queues a message rather than sending it. Queued messages sit as dimmed bubbles under the response in progress and drain in order as each reply completes. Hovering one offers send-now, edit and cancel. An interrupt or an error pauses the queue rather than discarding it, and the whole queue is per session and survives a reload.

Two queued messages sitting as dimmed bubbles under the last exchange, waiting their turn

Attachments

Drag and drop onto the input, or paste an image straight into it. Attachments preview above the composer with a remove control, any file type is accepted up to 10MB each, and images in the transcript open to a zoom overlay on click.

The right column: terminal or work

The chat area splits in two on desktop, transcript on the left and one of two views on the right. They are mutually exclusive - one slot, one occupant - and the choice, along with the divider position, is remembered per session.

Terminal collects every shell command the session has run, oldest first, regardless of which turn ran it. Each entry shows the model's own description as a comment, then the command, then its output. Long lines scroll sideways rather than wrapping. Failed commands are marked, and visible as failures from the overview without scrolling to them. Turning the column off puts every command back inline in its turn.

The terminal column listing every shell command the session ran, each under the model's own description, with a failed one marked in red

Work collects every top-level tool call instead, grouped by the turn that made it, each rendered as the same block it would have been inline. The transcript keeps the prose and the thinking; the tool calls move out of it. A subagent's own calls stay nested inside its task block.

Either column follows new output while you are at the bottom and holds position when you have scrolled away. Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown step through it - never through the transcript - landing each entry at the top of the column. Every entry offers a jump control that scrolls the transcript to the turn responsible.

Both columns build only what is near the viewport, which is why browser find and Save-as-PDF reach only what is currently on screen.

On a phone

Touch devices get a different layout, chosen by device type rather than window width: a top bar, a thin status strip, and the chat. No side panels, no icon strips, no tab bar, and no session rail.

Everything the panels would have carried moves into two surfaces. The hamburger opens a drawer with the workspace switcher, a new-session button and the full session list, each row carrying the same detail its desktop counterpart does. The details button drops a sheet with connection, workspace, turn count, cost, elapsed time, context usage, model, effort and permission mode.

The status strip keeps the two things worth watching without opening anything: a connection dot and a context-usage bar that fills and changes color as the window fills. The send button doubles as the stop control while a reply is arriving.

Quoting and inline replies stay on desktop.

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