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

A new session gets its title immediately after your first message: a temporary title lands first so the session is never blank, then the model refines it into something apt. Automatic naming is attempted once per session—failure doesn’t affect usage—and 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.

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.