Find and reuse work in a long chat

A long task can fill a chat with hundreds of messages. These controls take you to the part you need and help you use it again.

Press Cmd+F in a chat to open Find. On Windows and Linux, press Ctrl+F. Type a word, then press Enter or use the arrows to move between matches. Escape closes Find.

When you scroll, a jump bar appears at the bottom of the chat. Its arrows go to the first, previous, next and latest item. The button in the middle opens Messages & sections: a list of your prompts and the agent’s answers, with the headings and code blocks inside each answer. Choose an entry to jump to it.

In a long answer, click a heading to fold its section. Click it again to open the section.

Choose Outputs at the top of the chat. It lists the files, images, diagrams, downloads and attachments that the chat mentions, each with the message it came from. Click an item to open it, or choose Jump to source to read it in context.

An entry in Outputs means the chat refers to that item. To see what changed in the workspace, use Review and source changes.

Right-click a heading, paragraph, table or code block in an answer and choose Copy link to block. The link opens this chat at that block. Keep it in your notes to come back to a decision later.

Copy reply under an answer copies it as Markdown. The arrow beside it opens more options:

Select text in an answer and right-click it for more choices. Quote in reply adds the selection to your message as a quote, so the agent knows which part you mean. Copy text, Copy Markdown and Copy with formatting copy the selection in the form you choose.

Illustrative.

> 3. Move the retry limits into config/retry.ts and read them at startup.

Do this step only. Keep the current default values, and show me the diff when you finish.

Next: Review and source changes.