Read a chat

The chat screen, answers and steps, step cards and statuses, records, links and failures.

• The chat screen

  What you see in a chat: the header and its views, the greeting, the side panel tabs, the cards around a reply and the message box, and how each app differs.

• Reading Oda's answers

  How a chat is laid out and how to read Oda's answers: rendering, steps, times, usage, notices, display limits and the buttons under an answer.

• Reading and navigating a chat

  Follow a long chat, load earlier history, jump between turns with the turn rail, Back to bottom and keyboard, and read the chat's statistics.

• Work details and process folding

  Understand a turn's process: the Worked control, step groups, Think rows and what each Work details mode shows.

• Oda's steps and tool results

  Understand the row every step of a task appears as in the chat, what its states mean, how approvals and rejections show, and how to expand, inspect or copy a step's details.

• Step cards in chat

  The card each kind of step shows (terminal, diff, read, image, search, web, to-do), with its limits and expand rules.

• Goal, schedule and job records in chat

  Expand the small rows Oda leaves for goals, schedules and background work, and read the recorded details of each.

• Links and files in chat

  Follow links in an answer: files open in the side panel, web links open where you set them, and line links jump to a line.

• Failures and recovery

  What the chat shows when something fails: lost connections, sign-in messages, retry countdowns, token limits and the way to continue.