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Session panel

Session panel

We've been working in the standard chat panel for most of this course. Now that we're moving into the planning chapter, let's look at the agent sessions view. That's this panel over here on the far right. It's a toggle. You can click on this button to hide it or to show it. When it's shown, you can see your active and past sessions, understand where they're running and manage how you start and organize new work. So I can see these are all local sessions. If I had any cloud or background agents, they would show up here as well. So clicking on a session, let's go down here and click on this web component one from four days ago. That loads it into the main chat panel where you can review the full conversation and continue where you left off with all prior context and history preserved. Frankly, I find this view more usable than the older ways like this one at the top here, showing all sessions, or going up here and choosing Show Chats. So I'll be using this one going forward. I haven't…

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