Chat
Chat is the everyday entry point — pick an agent, send a message, read the reply. This overview maps the parts of the screen and points to the page that goes deeper on each.
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Chat is the everyday entry point to Tale. You open it, pick an agent (or none), type, and a reply streams back — citations, tool calls, and all. Most users spend more time here than in any other tab; everything else in Platform exists to feed Chat with something useful or to govern what it does.
Prefer to watch first? Episode 2 walks this whole surface in three minutes — grounding, model choice, Arena Mode, and the canvas, captions included.
The parts of the screen
The chat at the bottom carries the agent picker, the model picker (Auto lets Tale pick for you), and the message field. New chat in the sidebar starts a fresh chat; Show chats opens the history of every chat you can resume. The Canvas opens to the right of the thread when the agent produces something the inline view cannot hold — long code, a diagram, a structured document.
Pages in this section
Chat basics
What happens between hitting send and the reply landing — chat, model resolution, streaming, citations.
Attachments
Supported file types, where uploads land, when content gets indexed versus pasted verbatim.
Agents in chat
Picking agents, one-shot versus sticky, switching mid-thread, sub-agent calls.
Arena Mode
Side-by-side model comparison, and how verdicts roll into feedback analytics.
Voice mode
Speaking instead of typing — the STT and TTS handoffs and the privacy boundary.
Shared chats
Sharing a chat with the rest of the org, forking a shared chat into your own.
Starters and prompts
Agent conversation starters and the prompt library.
Canvas pane
When the Canvas opens, and what gets a Canvas versus inline rendering.
Where this fits
Chat is the surface every other Platform feature ultimately serves. Agents shape its replies, Knowledge feeds its citations, Approvals interrupt it for human checks, Conversations is a sibling inbox for contact channels rather than your own threads. The page worth bookmarking first is Chat basics — once you understand the chat-to-reply path, every other chat page reads as a variation on it.