Work inside a conversation

A Gideon chat gives you ways to revise, branch, plan, and direct work without losing the thread. Start with the message controls and the composer’s + menu.

Branch or rewind

Branch from here copies the conversation up to the selected message into a new chat. The original stays intact, and the new chat keeps a link to its origin. Use it to explore a second direction.

Rewind to here is available on an earlier message you sent. It replaces the visible ending after your edit and asks for confirmation. Removed turns are retained at that point; restoring them creates another session rather than swapping the active conversation. Retention is bounded, so rewind is not a backup system.

Temporary and incognito conversations do not offer branching because there is no retained transcript to copy.

Plan before work starts

In a started chat, choose + → Plan this first. Review the plan above the composer. You can edit it, comment and redraft, approve and run it, or cancel plan mode. Approving continues in the same conversation.

Steer the next step

You can quote a message to focus a reply, search the loaded conversation, and use an available interrupt control when the direction needs changing. Check whether a message is queued or has actually started; queued work is not a completed result.

Add visual context

The screen-snipping control depends on browser screen-capture support. If it is absent, attach an image instead. Review the captured area for unrelated private information before sending.

See privacy and approvals for temporary and incognito behavior.