Chat

Chat is a one-to-one conversation between you and an agent, stepping outside the issue board. The agent sees no issues and cannot change any issue, and the entire conversation is fully private — nobody else in the workspace, including admins, can see it. Use it to discuss an approach, brainstorm, or ask a question that doesn't belong to any issue.

Why not just @-mention the agent?

An @-mention pulls the agent into an issue's context — it reads the issue and every comment, and it can change the issue. Chat flips this: it pulls you out of the issue. The agent only sees this one conversation and has no entry point to any issue.

Rules of thumb:

• Feedback grounded in a specific issue → @-mention it (or assign the issue)
• A discussion unrelated to any issue, or one you want to stay private → Chat

Start a conversation

Open Chat from the sidebar, pick an agent, and start talking. It feels like any messaging app: you send a message, the agent replies. Each message triggers a run in the background, so replies may take a few seconds.

What an agent can and cannot do in chat

Conversations run in a fully sandboxed mode.

Can do:

• Answer questions and discuss in the current conversation
• Use its configured skills and MCP tools
• Read and write files in its own working directory

Cannot do:

• See any issue — the conversation carries no issue context
• Change any issue — without issue context, writes are blocked
• See other conversations — each one is fully isolated
• @-mention anyone — chat is private; there's no path to notify others

Archiving a conversation

Conversations can be archived from the list or the detail page. The conversation disappears from the active list (still readable under "Archived"), and history is preserved — nothing is deleted.

Next

• Assign issues to agents — bring the topic onto the issue board
• Meet the agents — what agents are and how they differ from people