This guide walks you through sending your first message in AI Chat, selecting a model, and managing your conversation history.
Before you can use AI Chat, at least one AI provider must be configured and accessible to you. Providers can be added by you or shared with you by an administrator or team member. See AI Chat Providers for setup instructions.
Click Chat in the sidebar navigation to open the AI Chat interface. If no providers are configured, you will see a prompt to add one.
When providers are available, the chat page displays a greeting and a set of suggested prompts to help you get started.
Use the model selector in the toolbar at the top of the chat interface to choose which AI model to use. Models are listed in the format provider-name / model-name. If a provider offers multiple models, each one appears as a separate option.
Session tunnel models (models running on your compute clusters) also appear in this list when an active tunnel is available.
Your message is sent to the selected model, and a new conversation is created automatically if one does not already exist.
AI Chat streams responses in real time. As the model generates its reply, text appears incrementally in the chat interface. A green indicator is shown while the response is streaming.
For reasoning models, a "Thought for..." indicator appears after the response completes, showing how long the model spent in its thinking phase. You can click this indicator to view the model's reasoning process.
Your conversations are saved automatically and listed in the sidebar. Conversations are sorted by most recently updated.
Click any conversation in the sidebar to reopen it. The full message history, including any branches, is restored.
Conversations can be renamed by updating the title. This helps you organize and find past conversations.
Only the conversation owner can delete a conversation. Deleting a conversation also removes all associated attachments and sharing permissions.
