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In DataMind Oda, every task starts in a chat. Your chats are listed in the sidebar, grouped by workspace. Search them with Ctrl K, and pin, rename or archive a chat from its menu.
The side panel holds the chat's working surfaces: Activity (pinned by default on the desktop app), Browser, Terminal and Files. It also previews documents: Markdown, code, HTML, PDF, Office and plain text. The Trajectory tab appears only when Developer tools are on. Chat surfaces and status maps them all.
A stats strip shows the chat's counts and timings, and the turn rail outlines every turn so you can jump back to one. Chat navigation and stats covers both.
Open In... in the chat header opens the workspace folder in an app on your computer, such as an editor, a terminal or a file manager; it appears only when Oda found an app to offer. See Open files and folders in other apps.
A reply can also carry a suggested-task chip: a follow-up task that waits for you; nothing starts on its own.
The model picker in the message box shows the model of the chat. Kartlos Standard is the default; choose Kartlos Premium for complex tasks, or another model your company offers. Effort sets how long the model thinks before it answers: higher effort suits complex tasks, lower effort answers faster. The levels that Effort offers come from the model.
To choose which models appear in the model picker, open Settings > Models; see Set up models and providers.
Type / in the message box to see the commands and your skills:
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/ | Turns plan mode on or off. |
/ | Sets or shows the goal of a long-running task. |
/ | Changes the model of this chat. |
/ | Changes the access mode; Auto review appears in the picker with an EXP badge. |
/ | Shortens the older part of a long chat so Oda can keep going. See Long chats and compaction. |
/ | Downloads the chat log as a ZIP file; closing the dialog does not cancel the download. See Download a chat log. |
/ | Goes back to an earlier message, the same as Rewind to here. |
Type @ to point Oda at a file or folder of the workspace, or at an earlier chat.
@"path with spaces"; a folder you mention keeps its quote open while you type.. and node_modules, so they do not crowd the list.In plan mode, Oda first explores the task, then shows its plan in a Plan review card before it changes anything. Click Approve to let it carry out the plan, or Request changes to say what to change. Use it for larger tasks, where you want to agree on the approach first.
Turn it on with /. While it is on, a Plan chip shows in the message box: click it, or type
/ again, to turn it off.
The review is covered in full on Plan review and questions.
A goal keeps Oda working on one objective over many rounds, until the goal is met or it needs you. Set
it with /. The goal pill shows the actions and the time worked, and you can Pause and Resume it.
The goal's card in the Activity tab shows the plan and what Oda is doing now; when the goal is done,
it reads Goal met until you dismiss it. If the goal stops and needs you, the chat shows a notice with
the reason and Resume.
Ask a question that needs current information, for example Find this week's news about our industry and summarise it. Oda searches the web, reads the pages it needs and answers with the sources it used. Searches and page reads go through your company's DataMind OS.
For pages you want to work on together, open the side panel and choose Browser: a browser you and Oda share. The browser in Oda is the full guide.
Your administrator decides whether Oda may use the browser and which sites it may open there. A site outside those rules shows This site is blocked by your organization’s browser rules.
Point to an earlier message to Edit it or Rewind to here, or retry an answer. You can also run
/. Each edit, rewind or retry starts a branch of the chat, so nothing you did before is lost;
Conversation branches explains how branches work.
To also undo the file changes, turn on Restore files Oda changed after this message. Changes made by shell commands, memory, skills and scheduled tasks, and files changed outside Oda, are not restored.
You can share a read-only copy of a chat with colleagues in your company; sharing needs the Share DataMind Oda Chats permission, and files travel as they are, so check them before you include them. The Share… dialog and everything it does are covered in full on Share DataMind Oda chats.
Yes. Press Stop in the message box. To stop everything that is running, use Stop all in the Activity tab of the side panel.
Yes. Run / and choose another model from the list.
Yes. Add files to the message, or point Oda at files in the workspace with @.
Sign in on the page in the side panel browser yourself, then let Oda continue. If your company admits only compliant devices and the Microsoft sign-in page refuses you, turn on Windows work account sign-in in Settings > Developer > Advanced features.
No. You can share only with users and roles of your company's DataMind OS.
Yes. To keep Oda off the browser for a task, say so in your message, for example Use web search only, not the browser.
Oda reads the clock while it works, but when the times in the chat are mixed or its time zone is unknown, it asks you to clarify dates and times that are not fully qualified.
The Updates and troubleshooting page lists the messages Oda can show and what to do about each one.