Conversations, sessions, and turns

Everything in Lowkey happens in a conversation — a chat thread with a history you can leave and come back to. Each one is called a session, and knowing how they run, pause, and get organized makes the workspace easier to live in.

Sessions and turns

A session has its own history, and the agent remembers what was said earlier in it. A project can hold many sessions — one per topic or task — and the chat list down the side shows them all.

Each time you send a message and an agent works on it, that’s a turn: you send something → the agent thinks, maybe uses tools, and replies. A session is just a series of turns. While a turn runs you’ll see the agent working; when it’s done, it’s your move again.

Stopping a turn

If an agent is heading down the wrong path, you don’t have to wait it out. Hit Stop and the turn halts where it is — then you can clarify and send again. Stop is always there while a turn runs, so you’re never stuck watching.

Nudging a stalled turn

Now and then a turn goes quiet — a long step, or work that genuinely got stuck. When Lowkey notices no output for a while, the turn turns amber and reads “no output — may be stuck,” and a Nudge button appears. Nudge gives the turn a push to pick back up; if it recovers, it leaves a small “Stalled · resumed” marker. If it’s still stuck, Lowkey offers to nudge again or stop — the call stays yours.

Picking up where you left off

A session does no work between turns — nothing runs in the background until you send the next message. So when you reopen a conversation you haven’t touched in a while, Lowkey shows a short recap at the bottom of the thread to remind you where things stood.

How the chat list organizes itself

Your conversations sort into three sections: Important (the ones you want front and center), Active (your live, in-progress threads, where most things start), and Completed (finished threads, kept for reference).

To move a conversation, drag it into another section — or select a few and choose Move to. A Completed conversation auto-archives 7 days after it lands there; its row shows the countdown (“Auto-archives in 5 days”) so nothing disappears on you by surprise.

Renaming, archiving, and restoring

Right-click (or use the ⋯ menu) on any conversation to Rename it. To put one away, drag it onto the archive zone or use Move to → Archived — archived chats go to cold storage behind Show archived chats at the bottom of the list. Nothing is deleted: to bring one back, just move it into a section again. (Delete, also in that menu, is the permanent one, and it asks you to confirm.)

Branching a conversation

Sometimes a conversation spawns a side task — an agent kicks off a separate piece of work that shows up linked to your thread. You can follow that branch on its own and come back, which keeps a big task from cluttering the main one.