A Minds chat is more than a run of messages: you can rate each answer, skip a question the Mind asks mid-run, and follow what happens to older turns as the chat's context changes. This page covers those three mechanics. To send messages and read answers, start with Ask a Mind.
Each person leaves one rating per answer. The rating stays on the answer and follows the conversation's access, like the rest of the chat: in a shared chat, the people in it can see the ratings, and a private chat keeps its feedback private. For the rest of the controls on a message, including copying, editing and versions, see Message actions and editing.
When a Mind stops with a question above the message box, you can skip it instead of answering:
Skipping settles questions only. A change that waits for your decision is not a question, and skipping does not apply to it: the chat tells you to use approve or reject instead, and the decision happens on the change's card. Until you answer or skip a question, normal sends are blocked, so skipping is also how you unblock the chat when you do not know the answer. Answering, typing your own answer and moving through a set of questions are described in Questions from a Mind, and the question card itself in Questions, sleeping and benchmarks in a chat.
Two things change what the Mind can read back from a long chat, and neither one removes messages from your view:
/ command stops the Mind's reads at the Context cleared notice, which says how many earlier messages are hidden from the assistant and that the next reply starts fresh. Everything above the notice stays readable to you. The command is described in Chat commands, shortcuts and privacy.Both changes affect what the Mind reads back, not what you can scroll back to: summarised messages and messages above a context clear stay in the chat.
Feedback is one entry per person and answer. Sending feedback that is identical to what is already on the answer counts as taking it back: the entry is removed, the same as clicking Remove. To change a rating, pick another reason and click Update instead.
It stays with the answer and follows the conversation's access, like the rest of the chat: in a shared chat, the people who can open it can see the ratings on an answer; in a private chat, feedback stays with the chat. A control beside the rating buttons shows how many ratings an answer has; open it to read the feedback that was left on the answer.
No. Both actions follow your access to the chat itself: rating an answer works wherever you can read the chat, and skipping a question works wherever you can send in it, because skipping settles the question and lets the Mind continue. Neither asks for a separate Minds permission. For the access basics, see Who can do what with Minds.
The question is settled as skipped and the Mind continues without that answer. The skip is recorded in the conversation as "The user skipped this question", so nothing waits on it any more. While a question is open, normal sends are blocked; skipping is how you unblock the chat when you do not know the answer.
Skipping settles questions only. When what waits is a change that needs your decision, it is not a question: the skip is refused with "Use approve or reject for a pending warehouse change.", and you decide on the change's card. See Change approval in a builder chat.
Older turns can fall out of what the Mind reads, in two ways: a compaction folds them into a summary, and a context clear stops the reads at its marker. In both cases the messages are still in the chat and still readable to you; the Mind reads the summary, or starts fresh after the clear. See Chat states and recovery.
No. Compaction moves older turns into a summary and marks the spot with the Conversation compacted notice; a context clear stops the Mind's reads at the Context cleared point. Neither removes messages: everything stays in the chat for you, and only what the Mind reads back changes.