Overview and history

Your Code conversations are stored on your account, not on the device. This page covers how you find them again: the start page, the history in the sidebar, and groups.

The start page

When you switch to Code and no conversation is open, a start page shows what is waiting for you, from Code only:

• Sessions: the same conversations as the history in the sidebar, most recently used first. One that needs attention is marked Needs input, Failed, Running or Done. Click one to open it.
• Pull requests: the open pull requests of your shared folders that are yours (Yours) or ask for your review (Review requested). This list comes from the GitHub CLI gh on your machine. If gh is missing or not signed in, the section says so; gh auth login fixes the latter.
• Reminders: reminders that are due.

New chat in the header opens an empty composer instead. Cowork has the same start page without the pull requests.

Adjusting the history view

The Adjust view menu above the history decides what the list shows:

Setting	Options
Last activity	1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, All
Group by	Date, Folder, Status, Custom groups, None
Sort by	Custom order, Name, Date created, Last activity

The default is all conversations, grouped by Custom groups, in Custom order: a conversation stays where it is when you open it or write in it, and a new one starts at the top of its group. Drag a conversation above or below another to place it there; a line shows where it lands. Reset brings that back. Grouping by Status sorts the list into Needs you, Running, Unread and Inactive, which is the fastest way to find a run that is waiting for an approval.

Groups

Groups are your own way of sorting conversations, independent of the folders.

• New group creates one. Drag conversations onto it or between two conversations of a group, or use Move to group in a conversation's menu. Conversations outside any group are listed under Ungrouped.
• A group's ⋯ menu renames it, holds its instructions, and deletes it. Deleting a group keeps the conversations in it.
• Your account remembers which folders a group works in. On another device the app offers to share those folders under Remembered folders and never shares them silently. A folder that does not exist on that device is named and skipped.

Your groups appear in the history while Group by is set to Custom groups, which is the default.

A conversation's menu

Right-click a conversation, or use its ⋯ button:

Entry	What it does
Mark as unread	Keeps the conversation flagged until you open it again
Show files	Opens the conversation's files in the panel
Open in …	Opens the primary folder in the File manager, a Terminal or an Editor
Output style	How the assistant talks while it works: Default, Explanatory, Learning or Concise
Keep computer awake	Prevents sleep while this conversation is working
Move to group	Sorts the conversation into a group
Pin	Keeps it at the top of the history
Archive	Moves it to the Archive, from where Restore brings it back

The output style changes how the assistant talks, not what it may do. Explanatory adds short asides on why it decides the way it does. Learning leaves small, clearly marked pieces for you to write yourself. Concise reports the result and little else.

Several at once

Shift-click selects a range, Cmd/Ctrl-click adds or removes single conversations. A right-click or a drag then acts on all of them, for example to move them into a group, mark them as unread, or delete them.

Sharing a conversation

Click Share Conversation in the header, then Create link. People in your organization can open the link. It shows the conversation as it is at that moment, and your shared folders do not go along. What the assistant read or changed is visible only as far as it appears in the history.

Two people cannot work in the same conversation. With Continue chat your colleague gets their own copy as a normal chat, without access to your folders. To keep working on the same files, they share the folder on their own device, for example a shared network drive.