Session Management

Fork

Want to try a different direction without losing current progress:

1. Find the assistant message to fork from
2. Hover and click “Fork from here”
3. Choose how to continue: New chat (same directory), or—for Git projects—Continue in a new worktree (changes fully isolated; see Git Worktrees)
4. Original session is unaffected; switch between both to compare

The fork carries the full context up to that point, including:

• Sub-agents: any still running are marked canceled and don’t continue into the fork
• Historical artifacts, referenced text, attachments, and notes
• Approval mode and unlocked tool grants

Choosing a new worktree carries uncommitted changes (including new files), so work in progress is never lost.

Rewind

Unsatisfied with the direction after a message:

1. Hover the user message and click “Rewind”
2. Content after that message is no longer read by the agent
3. Message text auto-fills the composer for editing and resending

Rewind doesn’t delete history; it just stops the agent from reading beyond that point.

Retry

Hover an assistant reply and click “Retry”: a retry sub-session is created from before the user message, resent verbatim. The original stays intact; multiple retries converge in the same sub-session.

Session Titles

After your first message in a new session, the title is generated by AI (up to 80 characters); if generation fails, it falls back to a temporary title from the first 80 characters of your message, so the session is never blank. Names you set manually are never overwritten.

When renaming (sidebar button, context menu, or /rename), the dialog pre-fills an AI-suggested title based on the recent conversation. Adopt it or edit freely—the suggestion isn’t written until you confirm.

Export

More menu “Export” or /export: exports as Markdown, sectioned by role, with thinking collapsed and tool calls listed.

Compact Context

When approaching the token limit, use /compact or the more menu:

• Agent distills history into a summary
• A “Context Compacted” marker appears (showing message count and tokens)
• History remains visible; the marker shows where the model stops reading
• Markers persist across restarts

Append custom instructions: /compact focus on technical decisions.

Session Search

Cmd/Ctrl+F opens the search dialog: title + full-text search with keyword highlighting; click to jump to the session. With cloud enabled, search can be scoped to “Local / Cloud”.

Side Chat

Right panel “+” menu → Side Chat:

• Independent parallel conversation without interrupting the main task
• Full message stream (thinking/tools/artifacts)
• No sub-agents, plan mode, or forking
• Closes = destroyed (content unrecoverable)

Perfect for quick side questions while a long task runs.