Find, share, and export
Search inside a conversation, compact a long thread, share a website a bot is running, share a single run as a page, and export a conversation as Markdown.
Find in a conversation
Open Find
Press Ctrl+F (⌘F on Mac), or click the magnifying glass in the chat header. A Find in this conversation box appears.
Type what you're looking for
The box shows how many matches there are, like 2 of 5, or No results.
Move between matches
| Key | Goes to |
|---|---|
| Enter or ↓ | Next match |
| Shift+Enter or ↑ | Previous match |
The chat jumps to each match and highlights the message. Folded steps open by themselves if the match is inside one.
Close
Press Esc or click ×.
Find searches the messages and the bot's actions in the chat you're in. To search every bot, group chat, and message, press Ctrl+K (⌘K) for the command palette.
The Export menu
Click the Export conversation icon (share icon) in the chat header. It has three parts: Thread, Share, and Export conversation.
Compact a long thread
Long threads get slow and expensive, because the AI re-reads the whole conversation every time you send a message. Compacting has the bot write a short summary of the older part of the conversation, and work from that instead.
When to compact: when the usage chip in the chat header turns amber or red, and you want to keep going in the same thread (for example, because of the files on its computer).
- Make sure the bot isn't working.
- Open the Export conversation menu.
- Click Compact this thread. It shows Compacting…, then Compacted.
You keep the same thread, files, and computer, and your whole conversation stays on screen. The bot keeps the gist of what happened, but may forget small details from early on. If something important was said early, remind it.
A Thread compacted step appears in the chat. Click it to read the summary the bot now works from. (It's one of the bot's tool steps, so it's hidden if you've turned tool calls off or use Simple mode.) A bot can also compact a very long thread by itself, and the same step shows when it does.
Compact or new thread? If the next task is unrelated, a new thread is better. If it builds on this one, compact.
Share a website
When a bot runs a website on its computer, for example while building one, you can share it with anyone, even people without Machine.
- Open the Export conversation menu.
- Under Share, click Share the site on localhost:3000 (the number may be different). There's one for each website the bot ran in this thread.
- A public link is created and copied. Paste it wherever you like.
Existing links are listed underneath, with a button to copy each one again, and a trash button to turn the link off.
If the bot hasn't run a website yet, you'll see "Nothing to share yet".
Share or deploy?
A shared link shows the website only while it's running on the bot's computer, which makes it good for quick feedback. If the site stops, for example after the computer goes to sleep, the link won't show it until the bot starts it again. To put a site online for good, with its own address, deploy it.
Share one run as a page
To show someone how a bot did one particular job, share just that run.
- Find the line under the bot's reply, like Worked 2m 10s · 6 steps. It appears under the bot's latest reply when the turn did some work.
- Click Share.
- Save the web page it makes: an
.htmlfile named after the bot, likescout-replay.html.
The page shows what you asked, each step the bot took (with the screenshots it saw), and its answer. It's a single file: send it by email or chat, and anyone can open it in a browser, no account or link needed. It only includes what the bot showed in the chat.
Replay, next to Share, opens the bot's computer so you can watch the steps in the Live view.
Export a conversation
Under Export conversation:
- Copy as Markdown copies the whole conversation, ready to paste into a document, wiki, or email. You'll see Copied to clipboard!.
- Download as .md saves it as a file named after the thread and the date.
The export includes:
- every message, with who wrote it and when,
- the actions the bot took,
- the names of attachments,
- questions the bot asked.
Markdown is a simple text format that most notes apps, wikis, and editors can open, including Notion, Obsidian, and GitHub.