Chats and history

Start a Nock conversation, return to an earlier chat, and understand what history is separate.

The Chats panel on the left edge contains your conversations with Nock. It is separate from coding chats in the Agents panel and from task results in Tasks.

Start a new chat or continue one

Hover over the thin line at the middle of the left edge of your primary display, or click it, to open the panel. Select a row to make that Nock conversation current; your next message continues it. Select + to start a fresh conversation. You can also type “new chat” or “start over” in the composer.

A new chat gives Nock a clean conversation. It does not delete older chats, cancel background work, or erase long-term memory. If you want the agent to stop working, use the task’s Stop task control. If you want to clear saved conversation history, use the appropriate account and history controls rather than assuming + does that.

Use the lock at the panel’s upper-left to keep it open while switching apps. Click it again to unlock. When it is unlocked, clicking outside or switching apps closes the panel.

Find an older conversation

The panel initially shows recent chats. Choose Show older chats to load more history. The list does not search every conversation that might exist on a coding tool or in a provider account; look for a Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or local Grok Build chat in the Agents panel instead.

Clicking an earlier Nock chat makes it the conversation that receives the next message. Nock resumes its saved conversation when the original engine session is available. If not, it may continue from a short summary of recent exchanges. Restate key requirements when they matter.

Delete and retain chats

Use a chat’s context menu and review the confirmation before deleting. Deletion removes that Nock conversation and its saved cards from Nock’s history, but does not necessarily erase durable memory, a separate coding-agent session, or provider-side records. Choose Settings → Agent → Keep chats for to set how long Nock keeps chat history.

See Memory and context for the difference between the current conversation, saved chats, and durable memory. See Privacy and Data and history for data handling and retention.