What you can do
- Ask and converse. Type a prompt and get a streamed reply. Conversations are kept as threads you can return to.
- Bring in a persona with
@. Pull a persona into a message. - Insert a skill with
/. Choose from your installed skills to shape how a run behaves. - See it run locally. When you use a downloaded model, replies are generated on your machine, not in the cloud.
- Manage a reply. Regenerate an answer, or use Answer as to have a different persona respond to the same message.
Answer as — choose which persona responds
Every reply has an Answer as control in its toolbar (the dropdown next to the regenerate and copy buttons). Open it and pick any of your personas — the General Assistant, a specialist you’ve built, or any other — and that persona answers the conversation. It’s the quickest way to get a second perspective, or to hand a question to a more suitable persona, without starting a new thread.Skills
Skills are reusable add-ons that shape how the assistant handles a request — applying one tailors the way that response is approached, so you don’t have to spell out the same instructions every time. To use one, type/ in the composer to open the skills picker and choose an installed skill. It applies to that message, then the assistant replies with the skill guiding how it works.
Recent conversations
- Recent threads appear on the Chat home and in the sidebar. You can rename and delete them.
- Direct and group conversations with people stay out of this list — those live in Messages.
Common questions
More answers are in the FAQ.