Chat is where you actually use an Agent. Open any Agent from a Space and you'll land in its chat view.
Where to find this: Sidebar → (your Space) → (an Agent)
Embedding chat on your own website? See Embed a chat instead.
The top of the chat shows the Space you're in followed by an agent switcher — click the Agent's name (and its chevron) to switch to another Agent or Space without leaving chat. The left sidebar lists Last Chats in (Agent name) so you can jump back into any earlier conversation; hover a chat for its Rename / Delete menu.
Sending a message
Type into the input at the bottom and submit. The Agent's reply streams in as it's generated.
A chip below the input shows the active model (e.g. Secure GPT120 ACP). If the Agent allows multiple models, click the chip to switch — otherwise it just indicates which model will answer.
Attaching files — drag files onto the chat input (you'll see "Drop files to attach") or paste them directly, then send them along with your message.
Deep research — if the Agent builder has enabled Deep Research Mode, a deep-research model selector appears in the chat input for running longer, multi-step research.
The sidebar
From SAALT 1.6.0, what an Agent builds for you appears in a sidebar next to the conversation instead of getting lost in the chat:
- Artifacts — documents, interactive HTML pages and small React apps the Agent created. Each one opens as a live preview, with Preview and Code tabs, Copy, Download and Open in full screen. When the Agent revises an artifact, the new state appears as a new Version; use Switch artifact to move between several. Artifacts run isolated from SAALT and from the internet: they can't load data, send anything or open other pages ("This artifact tried to open another page and was stopped.").
- Tasks — for longer jobs the Agent keeps a task list (3/5 done) that stays up to date while it works.
- Diagrams — Mermaid diagrams in an answer appear as a card that opens in the sidebar, where you can zoom and download them as SVG. Very large diagrams ("This diagram is too large to display.") are not drawn.
- HTML files the Agent produced open there as a preview too.
Open and close the sidebar with Toggle sidebar in the chat's top bar. On a wide screen it docks next to the chat; on a phone or a narrow window it opens as a full-screen panel. Artifacts and task lists are available whenever the Agent's model supports tools; they are not available for public Agents or through the API.
Conversation history
Past conversations appear in the sidebar under Last Chats in (Agent name). Click any item to reopen it and continue, or hover an item for its Rename / Delete menu. Use the New Conversation button at the top right to start a fresh thread. The sidebar Search item opens a modal to search across all your conversations.
Conversation history is only stored when Conversation Tracking is enabled in the Agent settings. If you don't see history, your Agent builder has it turned off — your messages are still anonymously stored for privacy/compliance, just not surfaced here.
The chat menu
The kebab (⋯) menu next to New Conversation has at least two entries:
- Incognito — Private Conversation — toggle. When enabled: "This is a private conversation. Your messages will not be saved." Use it for sensitive prompts you don't want stored in conversation history. An incognito conversation does not appear in your history or anyone else's, Agent admins included, and is not added to Memory. Its messages are still stored for a while: from SAALT 1.5.0 they are deleted automatically 30 days after the conversation's last activity.
- Agent Settings — opens the Agent admin dialog. Only visible if you have permission to edit the Agent.
If the Agent has any Apps installed that ship a user-facing screen, they appear to the left of the New Conversation button — as inline items when there are two or fewer, otherwise grouped under an Apps dropdown. Click one to open that App's screen.
Leaving feedback
Each reply can carry a per-message toolbar with thumbs-up / thumbs-down buttons. Click one to record feedback — you'll see "Thank you for your feedback!" after submitting. Agent builders see this feedback under Agent Settings → Feedback.
From SAALT 1.6.0, a thumbs-down asks "What result did you expect?" (up to 2,000 characters). If you write something, your comment and the conversation up to that answer are shared with the SAALT team to improve answers — with secrets such as API keys and tokens removed first. Nothing is shared from incognito conversations or if you opted out of usage analytics in Personal Settings.
Now and then a chat also asks "How is SAALT doing so far?" on a scale from Poor to Great. It appears at most once per conversation and never in incognito conversations or if you opted out of usage analytics. For a rating of 3 or lower you can say "What could have gone better?"; the checkbox "Send my conversation to the development team to help improve SAALT" decides whether the conversation is sent along.
The thumb buttons only appear when both Show Message Toolbar and Capture Feedback are enabled by the Agent builder (see Agent settings).
When an App runs
If the Agent has Apps enabled, you'll see them surface in chat in three ways:
- Mid-reply tool calls — the Agent calls an App's tool and shows the result inline.
- Custom screens — Apps that ship their own UI appear to the left of the New Conversation button, as inline items when there are two or fewer or grouped under an Apps dropdown otherwise.
- Prompt templates — Apps can register prompt templates that appear alongside hand-authored prompts in the Prompt Library.
Remembering things about you
Some Agents can remember durable facts about you across conversations. Personal memories are picked up in the background after a conversation, and only you see them. When the Agent learns something that would help everyone using it, the start screen of your next new chat asks "Worth remembering for everyone?" — Share adds it to the Agent's shared memory, Not this discards it. Incognito conversations never feed into memory. See Memory for the full picture.
Prompt library shortcuts
If your Agent or its Space has prompts in the Prompt Library, you can pick one from the chat input to pre-fill your message with a tested template — useful for repeatable tasks like summarising a document or drafting a reply.