agent-chat

A chat screen for talking with software agents, with saved conversation history and live status updates. Each message starts a fresh run using the visible transcript; ongoing work and working memory belong in the Workspace instead.

In plain words
What is it for?
Sending messages to an agent, reviewing past chat sessions, seeing what the agent is doing, and continuing longer work in the Workspace.
Why use it?
It lets you have quick conversations while making clear that the chat does not preserve the agent's internal working state between messages. This avoids mistaking a transcript for a continuing task session.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/abilityai/trinity/agent-chat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/trinity
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,140 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01140
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash 28f072ca4126, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-chat scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/user-docs/agents/agent-chat.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Chat

The Chat tab in Agent Detail provides a bubble UI for conversing with agents, with persistent history and real-time status updates.

This tab is stateless: each message starts fresh, replaying the visible transcript as text. It is labelled as such, with a Continue in Workspace → link beside it.

For a conversation where the agent keeps its working memory between turns — tool results, mid-task state, reasoning — use the Workspace instead. The Session-mode toggle that used to live here has been retired in its favour, and ?tab=session links now redirect there.

📺 Watch: I Gave My AI Three Years of My Notes — Then Interviewed It (voice chat) (May 2026) · all videos

Concepts

  • Chat Session -- A conversation thread stored in the database. Each agent can have multiple sessions.
  • Dynamic Thinking Status -- Real-time labels showing what the agent is doing (replaces static "Thinking..."). Maps tool names to human-readable labels with 500ms anti-flicker.
  • Playbook Autocomplete -- Type / in the chat input to trigger a dropdown of available playbooks. Ghost text shows command syntax with argument hints.
  • Continue as Chat -- Resume a completed or failed execution as an interactive chat, preserving the full context (150K+ tokens) via Claude Code's --resume flag.

How It Works

  1. Open an agent's detail page and click the Chat tab.
  2. Select an existing session from the dropdown or click New Chat.
  3. Type a message and press Enter.
  4. The agent processes the message -- the status label updates in real-time (e.g., "Reading files...", "Running tests...").
  5. The response appears as a chat bubble with cost and token tracking.
  6. Type / to autocomplete playbook commands.

File Attachments

Attach files to any chat message using the paperclip button or by dragging and dropping onto the chat input.

Supported types: images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP), plain text, CSV, JSON. Images are passed to the agent as vision content blocks. Text files are written to /home/developer/uploads/ inside the agent container and are readable by name.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 93 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 28f072ca4126

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-chat is an agent published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,140 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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