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title: More in the chat
description: Side questions, catch-up summaries, the files a session mentioned, and the cards and pills around the chat.
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## The working card and its pills

While the agent works, a one-line card above the message box says what it's doing, and reads "Worked for 2m 13s" when the turn ends. Small pills on that card open a list each:

- **Threads**: an [orchestrator](/workflows/orchestrators)'s threads.
- **Tasks**: the agent's task list.
- **Subagents**: helpers the agent started. Click one to read its transcript.
- **Background**: commands still running in the background, each with its own timer.

The down arrow on the left scrolls to the bottom (or press **Ctrl+Shift+Down**). Turn on **Previous question button** (Settings > General, under Chat) for a **?** button that steps through the questions you haven't answered yet.

## Side questions

In Claude Code, type `/btw <question>` (or turn on **Side chat** in More actions) to ask something without stopping the agent's work. The answer opens in a card above the message box with **Copy**, **Fork** (keep going on it as a background agent) and **Close**. It isn't added to the conversation. Codex has Side chat too, and answers in its terminal.

## Catch me up

Turn on **Catch me up button** (Settings > General, under Chat). While the message box is empty, **Catch me up** has your Title Generation Agent, a small and cheap model, read the session's last 30 messages and sum up what it's working on and what needs you. Nothing is sent to the session's own agent.

## Files and links

**More actions > Files and links** (Option+Ctrl+L, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L on Windows and Linux) lists everything the session mentioned: **Attachments** (pictures and files), **Files** the agent created, edited or deleted, and **Links**. Click an item to open it, or **First** and **Last** to jump to the message that mentioned it. In an orchestrator's chat, it covers every thread too.

## Session note

The **Session note** button in the message box's toolbar keeps a note on the session's conversation, for you. When the chat is narrow, it moves into More actions. From a terminal: `ghostex session-note`.

## Cards in the conversation

- **Permission requests** say what the agent wants to do, which agent is asking, and the exact command or file.
- **Workflow**: when Claude Code runs a workflow, a card shows its phases, one row per agent with its status, and **Show full script**.
- **/resume**: in Claude Code and Codex chats, `/resume` opens a card listing the agent's conversations. Type to search and press Enter to switch.
- **Diagrams**: a Mermaid diagram an agent writes is drawn as a diagram. **Source** shows its text.
- **Messages between agents** show as one line, like Message from "Sidebar fixes". Click it to read the whole message.
- **Forks**: once a conversation has forks, a branch button at the top right lists every session that shares its history.

## Context and status

The ring next to the model pill shows how full the agent's context is. Click it for details: cost, tokens, limits and resets. Its pen opens **Context details**, where you **star** the values you want in the status line under the message box.

## Marked handovers

[Orchestrators](/workflows/orchestrators) start each part of their reply with a marker, like ❓ Needs you, ✅ Done or 🧪 Untested, and the chat colors each section by its kind. Turn on **Marked handovers in every session** (Settings > General, under Chat) to have every agent do the same. With Show Advanced, **Marked sections style** picks colored labels, a thin rule, or a badge.

:::tip[Ask Ghostex]
Try "How do I ask Claude a side question without stopping it?"
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