Manage conversations
Work with existing GovTribe AI conversations, resize and preview the conversation sidebar, jump between prompts with the conversation navigator, Tune preferences, review inputs and outputs, use message actions, share, export, and branch work.
Click GovTribe AI, or open GovTribe AI and choose an existing conversation.
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Open an existing conversation
Existing conversations appear in the GovTribe AI timeline. Conversations assigned to a project also appear under that project in the sidebar. Open a conversation to review the prompt history, AI responses, linked inputs, generated outputs, and message-level actions.
Use the conversation sidebar
On a computer, drag the sidebar's right edge to make the conversation list narrower or wider. GovTribe remembers the width in this browser and restores it when you reopen the sidebar. With keyboard focus on the resize handle, use Left Arrow or Right Arrow to resize in smaller steps, or Home and End to select the minimum or maximum width. The sidebar keeps its fixed mobile layout on smaller screens.
Conversation rows keep the timeline compact by showing the name, response time, and last-updated date without the longer description. Pause over a conversation name, or move keyboard focus to it, to see its full name, model, reasoning level, last-updated date and time, Credits used, and complete description. Long names move horizontally once so you can read the hidden text without moving the date or other row details. The preview is informational and closes when you leave the row, scroll, resize, open a conversation menu, or start dragging the conversation.
Credit details and the description load when the preview opens. GovTribe shows Not available when either detail is unavailable and Couldn't load when the request fails; open the preview again to retry a failed request.
Manage work across conversations with GovTribe AI
Ask GovTribe AI to start separate conversations when you want independent workstreams for different parts of a larger task. For example, one conversation can research the buyer while another reviews incumbent and recompete evidence. GovTribe AI can return each conversation ID, check whether it is still working, wait briefly for it to finish, continue or stop it, and group related conversations in a project.
Use plain-language roles in the starting prompt, such as “Act as the incumbent researcher.” These labels guide the new conversation but do not create a permanent parent, child, manager, or worker relationship. Each conversation remains an independent item in your GovTribe AI timeline.
When Full Conversation Recall is enabled, GovTribe AI can read the visible user and assistant messages from another owned conversation. Without recall, it can still check that conversation's name, project, model and reasoning settings, credit usage, and working status, but it cannot read the other transcript.
When GovTribe AI explicitly sends a message from one owned conversation to another, the destination displays Sent from another GovTribe AI thread. If the source is still available to you, selecting the label opens that source conversation. Copies preserve the authorized link, while public shares and unavailable sources keep only the attribution label.
Waiting is bounded
GovTribe AI can wait for another conversation only while it is still writing the current response, for up to ten minutes, and then include that conversation's result. Sending a new message ends the wait. Starting another conversation never makes an idle conversation resume automatically later. Ask GovTribe AI to check the other conversation when you want an updated status or result, or use an automation to read and message known owned conversations later; that starts or steers the destination and is not a callback or durable join.
Deleting a project removes the project and unassigns its conversations; it does not delete those conversations. Deleting a conversation is a separate action, and GovTribe AI stops active work before removing it.
Use conversation controls
Conversation-level controls appear around the thread or in the conversation action menu, depending on the conversation status and your access.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Inputs and outputs | Opens the linked record, automation, prompt attachments, and files GovTribe AI created during the conversation. The compact stacked-files control shows the total number of available items. |
| Edit | Opens the edit drawer. Owners can update the conversation name, description, and tags, and review owner, created-date, and credit usage details when available. |
| Share | Opens the share drawer. Owners can create a share link, copy it, remove it, and open the shared conversation view. |
| Prepares the conversation for printing and opens the browser print window so you can save or print the thread. | |
| Delete | Opens a confirmation dialog before deleting the conversation. |
Change Tune preferences
Use the sliders-shaped Tune GovTribe AI control in the composer. Open Intelligence to change the model or reasoning level, or Response length to choose Low, Medium, or High. Your latest selections are global preferences for the next ordinary message you send in this conversation and every other conversation. Reset to GovTribe defaults restores GPT-5.6 Sol and Medium reasoning without changing Response length.
Tune also opens Custom Instructions and Memory & context without leaving the conversation. See Choose generation settings for GovCon task guidance for Sol, Terra, and Luna.
If GovTribe AI is already responding, you can still save a change. The response already in progress keeps the settings it started with. Retries, reconnects, and recovery for that in-progress turn keep its original settings too.
Review inputs and outputs
Use the stacked-files control beside the conversation to open Inputs and outputs. On wide screens, it expands as a dock beside the transcript. On medium screens, it opens as a popover. On phones, it opens as a bottom drawer.
Inputs can include:
- The GovTribe record responsible for the conversation, such as an opportunity, award, vendor, or agency.
- The related automation when the conversation came from a visible GovTribe AI automation.
- Files you attached to prompts. Saved attachments link to their authorized download.
Outputs lists files GovTribe AI created during the conversation. A ready filename is the download link. Each output also shows Ready or Processing status and how recently it was created.
Prompt attachments are saved as User files and remain separate from AI-created outputs. Sections with no items are omitted. If the conversation has no available inputs or outputs, the control is hidden. If GovTribe cannot refresh the list, use Retry; previously loaded items remain available.
Edit conversation details
Owners can open Edit to update the conversation name, description, and tags. Use these fields to make important threads easier to find later, especially when a conversation supports a pursuit, proposal, agency research effort, or recurring workflow.
The edit drawer also shows ownership and created-date details so you can confirm where the conversation came from. When GovTribe has usage data for the conversation, Details shows Credits used so you can see how many credits that conversation has consumed. For account-wide usage, see Credits.
Share a conversation
Owners can use Share to create and manage a share link. The share drawer supports these actions:
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Create Link | Creates a share URL for the conversation. |
| Copy Link | Copies the share URL to your clipboard. |
| Remove Link | Turns off the existing share link. |
| Open shared conversation | Opens the shared conversation view so you can inspect what the link shows. |
Before sending a link externally, open the shared conversation view once to confirm what recipients will see.
Use message actions
Individual prompts and AI responses include message-level actions when they are available. On a computer with a mouse or trackpad, the actions stay out of the way until you hover over the message or move keyboard focus into its action row. On touch devices, use the persistent ellipsis button to show or hide the actions.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Feedback | Sends thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback on an AI response. Negative feedback can include optional written feedback. |
| Copy | Copies a prompt or response to your clipboard. GovTribe tries to preserve rich response formatting when the browser supports it. |
| Regenerate | Requests a new response for the same point in the conversation. |
| Branch from here | Starts a separate conversation from that response so you can explore a different line of work while keeping the original thread unchanged. |
| Follow-up action | Sends or prepares a suggested next prompt generated from the response context. |
| Work details | Expands or collapses available reasoning details, tool calls, and work summaries. |
Branching is useful when one response suggests multiple research paths. Keep the original thread intact, then branch from the response that should become a new line of work.
Control the conversation while GovTribe AI responds
After you send a new prompt, GovTribe places that message near the top of the transcript and follows the response as it grows. This keeps the new work readable without forcing the latest line against the bottom edge of the page.
Scrolling up, paging through the transcript, selecting text, using transcript links, or navigating to another result pauses automatic following. GovTribe keeps your reading position stable while more text, images, work details, or files arrive, and completion does not move you away from what you are reading.
When you are away from the live edge, Back to bottom appears as a down arrow beside the composer. Select it to return to the latest response and resume following. If you scroll up again, following pauses and the control returns. GovTribe also restores a meaningful position for each conversation when you reopen it in the same browser, unless a message link or search result sends you to a specific place.
Jump to an earlier prompt
Longer conversations on a wide screen include a conversation navigator so you can return to an earlier prompt without scrolling through the whole transcript. It appears once a conversation has at least four of your prompts, and it is not shown on narrow screens or phones.
A slim rail of markers sits in the space to the left of the transcript. Each marker represents one of your prompts together with its response, and the marker for the part you are reading is longer and darker. Pause over a marker, or move keyboard focus to it, to preview the start of that prompt, the start of the response, and its position in the conversation, shown as a count such as 10/18. Select a marker with a click, Enter, or Space to jump to that prompt. Jumping pauses automatic following, and the new position becomes your saved reading position for that conversation. Prompts that failed, are still being answered, or are waiting to be sent show a short status instead of a response preview.
The animated Dot Matrix beside the composer shows that GovTribe AI is active without adding another visible status label. Assistive technology still receives concise updates such as waiting, thinking, searching, responding, done, stopped, or error.
Understand response details
GovTribe AI responses can include supporting source links, generated files, follow-up actions, and work details. Work details can show reasoning summaries, tool calls, or other execution details when they are available for that response.
Use these details to understand how the response was produced, then verify important facts against the underlying GovTribe records before acting on the output.
Related articles
- Create a conversation: Start new chats and use composer controls.
- Reuse prior GovTribe AI work: Continue prior research, reuse generated files, and use earlier context intentionally.
- GovTribe AI memories: Review and manage reusable AI memory that can affect future conversations.
- Tune GovTribe AI: Manage global Intelligence and Response length preferences, custom instructions, memory, recall, and GovTribe data access.
- Automations: Understand conversations created by automations.
- Pursuits: Track opportunities your team is evaluating after AI research.
Manage connected tools
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Reuse prior GovTribe AI work
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