InkBotDocs

Chatting with a bot

Messages, attachments, steering a running reply, editing, pins, replies, charts and search.

Sending

Type in the message box and press Enter (Shift + Enter for a new line). Attach images, PDFs or text files by dropping them on the chat or with the paperclip. Use @name to bring another bot in. With dictation on, press Ctrl + Shift + Space to talk instead of typing.

Following a reply

While a bot works you see:

  • Thinking, for models that reason, as a summary you can open.
  • Steps: each tool it uses (reading a file, running a command, opening a page) with what came back. Open the Working section to see them all.
  • Cards that need you: approvals, questions, drafted skills.
  • The context meter: how full the model's context window is. Older messages are condensed into a running summary as it fills.

Under a finished reply you see its model, tokens, speed and cost (where the provider reports it), and a Changes card if it created, edited or deleted files.

Messages while it's working

Messages you send during a reply wait above the message box and go out in order. Steer now gives one to the running reply instead: bots on API models read it before their next step, and agent apps (Claude Code, Grok Build) stop and answer it first. Stop ends the reply.

Editing the conversation

  • Edit one of your messages: everything after it is removed and the bot answers again.
  • Regenerate a reply, or Delete a single message.
  • Reply to a bot's message: the bot sees which message you mean, with a short excerpt.
  • Pin a reply: pinned messages are listed in the chat and always kept in what the model sees, however long the chat gets.

Charts and cards in replies

Bots can draw charts (bar, stacked bar, line, pie and scatter) with a legend, tooltips, a Table view and Copy CSV. With Blotter or Quill connected, tickets and docs pages they mention show as live cards that open the ticket or page.

Ctrl + K searches every chat on every host and jumps to the message.

Notifications

When a bot finishes, or needs an approval or an answer, in a chat you're not looking at, Windows shows a notification. Choose which in Settings → Notifications.