Use the chat workspace

Attach the right context

Type @ or [[ to select a note. The + menu offers Add current note, Add notes from vault…, Upload from computer… and Pin files for every message…. You can also paste or drop supported files. Attached items appear as chips; remove an item you do not want included. The active-note suggestion attaches nothing until you choose it.

Pin files only when you want them available for every message. Search exclusions are not an absolute access-control boundary: explicitly named or pinned files can still be supplied as context. File processing and formats explains the difference between attaching a source and creating an extracted note.

Choose a mode

New chats default to Auto, subject to preserved native preferences; saved chats retain their choices. Mode names differ by backend:

For hosted SystemSculpt, Auto permits reads and ordinary creates/edits without asking, and asks before move, rename or trash. Ask asks for every vault mutation, but not reads. Full access permits mutations without asking, including move/trash. A saved hosted chat with an unrecognized or missing mode falls back to Ask.

Claude Code and Codex apply their native review behavior; Auto is not a promise that every edit waits for you. Choose your AI explains those differences.

Review requests in the conversation

When approval is needed, the request appears inline with its action details and available diff. Approve or deny that request after reading it. A scoped session approval applies only to the scope offered; it is not blanket permission for every future action. Denied requests remain visibly distinct. Tool activity and results can be folded without losing the surrounding conversation.

Make media and use Studio from chat

Since 6.19.0, SystemSculpt, Claude Code and Codex chat agents can make images and videos, and list, create, open, edit and run Studio workflows. Image and video generation and Studio tools in chat need a SystemSculpt subscription; native Studio text generation with your own agent does not. Generation uses SystemSculpt hosted credits even when chat uses your own agent; your native chat can still run without a SystemSculpt plan.

Images and videos appear in the chat and save to SystemSculpt/Images and SystemSculpt/Videos. In Ask modes, chat asks before generating or changing and running a workflow. Stop also stops a running workflow. Agents can list workflow outputs; citation links in replies open their source. See Images and videos for more.

Find and continue a saved chat

Select Chat history beside the chat title, or press Cmd/Ctrl+K while focused in chat, to search conversations. Rename or favorite a chat, or open it in another tab. Saved chats are Markdown notes in your vault, by default at SystemSculpt/Chats/<chat-id>.md; the filename need not match the title. Settings → SystemSculpt AI → Workspace can change the chats directory for new chats; older chats keep their original folder. Notes created by an agent are separate files at the paths it wrote: check those files, not just the chat reply. Native agents also maintain their authoritative native sessions; copying a Markdown transcript does not recreate that native session.

Switching backend in a populated conversation starts a new chat, carrying the draft, attachments and pinned context while preserving the original. Use Back to previous chat to return. While Claude Code or Codex works, you can open another chat or close the chat pane; the answer still saves to its own chat, and Stop stops it. On mobile or when a native backend is unavailable, a saved native chat can be read but not run there.

Send, queue and stop

On desktop, Enter sends or queues a message; Shift+Enter adds a line. On touch devices, Enter adds a line and Send submits. Escape closes an open menu first; otherwise it stops a response. Hosted web search is service-managed and used when useful, not a separately documented toggle. See Commands and shortcuts for focused-chat controls.