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The Assistant presents the same conversation in two surfaces in Chronosphere Observability Platform: a side panel that stays open as you move between pages, and a full page. Use this reference to identify the controls in each surface, the elements that make up a conversation, and the keyboard shortcuts that the Assistant supports.

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Panel and page controls

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Side panel header

The side panel header displays the Assistant title and these controls:
  • Copy URL copies a link to the current conversation. This control appears only after you send a message, and doesn’t appear for accounts in temporary mode.
  • New chat starts a conversation, ending any response in progress.
  • Chat history opens a searchable list of your recent conversations. Enter text in Search chats to filter the list. When no conversation matches, the list displays No chats found.
  • Go to chat page moves the current conversation to the full-page view.
  • Close Panel closes the panel.

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Full page controls

The full page displays the Assistant header and a Chat history sidebar containing:
  • New chat, which is selected when no conversation is open.
  • A Recents list of your saved conversations, most recently updated first.
  • Close chat history, which collapses the sidebar to a rail. The rail displays New chat and Open chat history.

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Message field

The message field accepts multiple lines and expands as necessary. To enter a manual line break, press Shift + Enter (Shift + Return on macOS).

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Slash commands

Type / at the start of the field to open a menu of Skills. Each entry lists the command and a description of what it does. Continue typing to filter the menu, use the arrow keys to select a command, and press Enter (Return on macOS) or click a command to insert it.

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Send and stop

The circular button at the right of the message field reflects the state of the conversation:
  • Send message submits your prompt.
  • Stop generating ends a response in progress.

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Context gauge

When a conversation has consumed part of its context window, a gauge appears next to the message field displaying the percentage used. Hold the pointer over the gauge to view a precise token usage count. The gauge changes color and message as usage increases:
  • Under 80%, it reports the percentage and token count.
  • At 80% or higher, it turns amber and advises you to clear the chat soon.
  • At 100%, it turns red, reports that the context window is full, and advises you to clear the chat or start a new thread to continue.
Start a new chat to reset the context window.

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Conversation elements

A conversation alternates between messages you send and responses from the Assistant. Responses can contain several element types.

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Your messages

Your messages display in a shaded block. When the page you’re on differs from the page of your previous message, a chip preceding the message names the page context, such as Dashboard, Alert, or Metrics explorer. Hold the pointer over the chip to view the full URL, which you can click to open in a new tab. For more information, see Page context.

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Reasoning

While the Assistant works out its approach, it displays animated Thinking... text, or the current step of its reasoning. After it finishes, the reasoning collapses into a row reporting how many seconds it thought for, which you can expand to inspect in full.

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Tool calls

The Assistant displays each search, query, and command it runs. A single step displays as its own row. Two or more consecutive steps collapse into one group labeled Ran followed by a count of tool calls, commands, or both. Groups expand automatically while the Assistant is working and collapse when it finishes. Click a group to change its state. Each step displays its status:
  • A spinner while the step is running.
  • A green check icon with the step name struck through after it completes.
Expand a step to view its Input: and Output:. Shell commands display the command that ran, prefixed with $:, followed by its output. Failed commands display their error output in red. Steps that use a skill name the skill and report whether the Assistant is using it, used it, or failed to use it. Expand a failed skill to view the error.

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Code blocks

The Assistant returns queries and structured data in code blocks labeled with their language. Every code block has a Copy code button. Code blocks that contain a query also have an Open in Explorer button, which opens the query in the matching explorer with the time range the Assistant used. This button appears for PromQL, logging queries, change event queries, and Graphite queries. Long blocks scroll rather than expanding the conversation. While the Assistant is still writing a long block, the block header displays Generating....

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Timestamps

The Assistant writes timestamps as chips formatted in your account’s time zone and clock preferences.

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Investigation cards

When the Assistant starts or checks a deep investigation, it displays an Investigation card rather than raw output. The card names what’s being investigated, such as a dashboard panel or an alert, and displays a status:
  • Investigation in progress, which displays Starting investigation as its initial summary
  • Report ready for review
  • Investigation complete
  • Investigation incomplete, when the investigation fails
Click View full investigation to open the investigation in a new tab.

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Rate a response

Each completed response displays rating controls:
  1. Click Helpful or Not helpful.
  2. Optional: Add detail in the Tell us more about your feedback dialog, and then click Submit rating. To record only the rating, click Cancel.
Ratings are recorded per response, and you can’t change a response after submitting it.

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Manage conversations

Unless your role prohibits it, Assistant saves your conversations. You can resume or share your saved conversations from the chat history.

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Resume a conversation

To resume a saved conversation, open chat history and select it. Unless your account is in temporary mode, the chat history retains your 20 most recent conversations. Observability Platform names each conversation after your first message in it, truncated if the message is long. You can’t rename, delete, or export conversations.

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Share a conversation

To share a conversation, click Copy URL in the side panel header, or copy the URL of the Assistant page while the conversation is open. Observability Platform displays Copied to confirm. When another account opens the link, the conversation appears read-only with an alert naming the account that shared it. The message field doesn’t appear, so recipients can’t continue a conversation you shared. To ask their own questions, they can start a new chat. Accounts in temporary mode can’t share conversations.

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Errors

When a response fails, the Assistant displays a Couldn’t get a response alert next to the message field with Try again to resubmit your prompt. The alert describes the cause:

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Keyboard shortcuts

The following table lists the Assistant’s supported keyboard shortcuts: To view the shortcuts available on the current page, press Control+/ (Command+/ on macOS).