Chat with sven

A conversation is a thread of messages between you and sven. It stays in your account, private to you, and you can come back to it from the list at the left of the chat.

Start a conversation#

Type in the message box and press Enter to send. Shift+Enter starts a new line. While an answer is being written, the send button becomes a stop button.

A message can be long: paste a whole plan, up to 100 KB of text, and sven acts on it as written.

Under the box, two quiet menus say where the conversation runs and which model answers. Both are chosen before the first message:

• Where it runs. In sven itself, or on one of your connected computers, where it can read and edit files and run commands. See Your computer. A conversation stays where it started.
• Which model answers. Each model is listed with its price, so you know what a message costs before you send it. You can change the model of a conversation that is under way; sven asks first and tells you what the switch means for the answers that follow. See Models and data.

If you start typing a question before you have an account, sven keeps it and carries it into sign-up.

Research with sources#

When a question needs current information, sven searches the web and opens the pages it needs instead of guessing. Every page it opened is listed in the conversation, so you can check what an answer rests on.

Edit, resend and ask again#

• Edit and resend changes one of your earlier messages and sends it again. The conversation continues from the edited message.
• Regenerate answer asks for a fresh answer to the same message.
• Copy is on every message and every answer.
• If an answer fails, the conversation says why and offers a way to try again. An answer always ends one way or the other; you are never left waiting on one that will not finish.

Keep what matters#

Rename a conversation from its header. Pin the ones you need to the top of the list. Conversations stay private to the person who started them, even inside an organisation.

Deleting a conversation deletes it for good, with its files.

Your storage#

The files you upload, and the files models make for you, count against your storage: 1 GB unless your account has more. Settings, Storage shows what you keep, with a tab for your files and one for your chats, each with what it stores; delete a file, or a whole chat with its files, to make room. From 90% sven tells you above the chat; once it is full, new files are refused, and so is asking a model for an image or speech, before anything is charged. Nothing is deleted for you.

Slash commands#

When the conversation runs on a connected computer, typing / at the start of a message offers the commands of the agent working there, narrowed as you type. Press Enter or Tab to complete the one chosen, then add its arguments.

Tool runs#

On a connected computer, sven can run commands and edit files. sven asks before running a tool, such as a command on your machine, unless the conversation is in auto-accept mode, where it goes ahead. New conversations ask first. Always allow on a tool run allows it and switches the conversation, and every new one, to auto-accept. Under Settings, Chat you choose which way new conversations start, and below the message box you can switch any conversation between Ask first and Auto-accept.

Voice#

Prefer to talk? See Voice input.