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Follow a conversation

A Task's Conversation shows the agent's conversation as it happens: your prompts, the agent's messages, the work it does, and the approvals it asks for.

A finished Task: the prompt, the agent's answer, and its plan above the Composer

What the conversation shows

  • Your prompts, as you sent them, with their attached files.
  • The agent's messages, formatted as Markdown. While a turn runs, its progress messages appear as they arrive.
  • The work: commands with their output, changed files, reasoning summaries, and tool calls. When a turn finishes, its work folds into one Worked for line with the number of updates; choose it to unfold the work.
  • Approval requests and how each was answered. See Approvals.
  • How each turn ended: completed, interrupted, or failed, with the error the agent reported.

The same turn with its work unfolded: a progress message, the test command, and the changed files

View output on a command opens its full output.

Copy an answer

Every message from the agent has a Copy message button, which copies the message as Markdown.

Earlier history

Scroll to the top of the conversation, or choose Load older messages, to load earlier turns.

Coming back to a Task

The Task list shows where each Task stands:

  • a spinner while a turn is running;
  • an alert when the Task is waiting for your approval, a question mark when it is waiting for your answer, and a warning when its turn failed;
  • a dot when a turn finished since you last opened the Task;
  • otherwise, how long ago its last turn finished.

To be told when a turn ends or an approval is waiting, turn on Notifications.