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The Begin AI sidebar with a new-chat action above recent conversations The Begin AI sidebar with a new-chat action above recent conversations Select Begin AI in the sidebar ribbon to open your AI navigation and chat history. The full page keeps earlier chats close while you work; Cmd+J (Ctrl+J on Windows) opens the current chat in a side panel instead.
The Begin AI sidebar selected with New, Skills, Loops and dated chatsThe Begin AI sidebar selected with New, Skills, Loops and dated chats

Begin AI lists your chats by their latest activity.

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Start or reopen a chat

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Open Begin AI

Select Begin AI in the ribbon at the top of the sidebar. The ribbon switches between your normal navigation, AI chats and Messages when your role has access to each area.
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Choose where to continue

Select New for a blank chat, or select a chat title to return to its conversation. The open row has a filled background.
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Ask or continue

Enter a new request in the composer. Continuing a chat keeps its earlier questions, sources and approval boundary available as context.
Chats are ordered by their latest activity and grouped under headings such as Today and Yesterday. A chat can move to the top when Begin AI finishes later work in it.

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Read its status

An unread dot means a chat has a result you have not opened. A moving Begin AI mark means work is still running, so you can leave the chat and return without stopping it. Loop results stay in each loop’s Run history instead of adding a separate group here, and so do follow-up conversations: you ask a follow-up on the run itself, under its result, where everyone in that loop’s Visible to audience reads it. A follow-up carried over from Scheduled tasks stays private to its original creator when it already contains a personal reply. Open Loops near the top of the panel to manage how a loop starts and what it may do. The Skills link opens reusable AI workflows when your role has access and read permissions.

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Export a chat for troubleshooting

Open the chat’s three-dot menu in its header and select Export chat to download a Markdown diagnostic file. It includes the saved conversation and model details, the current approval mode and your permissions, and summaries of work assigned to other agents. If work is still running, the file includes only what has been saved so far and marks unfinished work. Export again after it finishes for the later results.

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Next

Choosing an assistant mode

Choose how the next request is handled.

Loops

Create recurring or event-driven work and inspect its run history.

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