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[FEATURE]: Conversation outline / prompt navigation for long chats #40826
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Describe the enhancement you want to request
Feature request: Conversation outline / prompt navigation for long chats
Summary
When working with an AI coding agent for a long session (debugging, refactoring, architecture discussion, documentation, etc.), it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate back to previous questions or topics.
I would love to have a Conversation Outline (or Prompt Navigation) panel similar to ChatGPT’s conversation outline.
Problem
In long conversations, I often ask dozens of questions such as:
- API design
- debugging
- architecture decisions
- Git operations
- deployment
- performance optimization
Scrolling through hundreds of messages to find a previous question is inefficient.
Proposed solution
Add a collapsible sidebar that automatically generates a list of user prompts/topics and allows one-click navigation to that point in the conversation.
For example:
- API design
- Fix build error
- Git rebase question
- Performance optimization
- Database migration
- Deployment issue
Clicking an item should immediately jump to the corresponding message.
Why this matters
For coding agents, conversations are often much longer than normal chat sessions. This feature would provide:
- faster navigation
- better context management
- easier revisiting of previous decisions
- improved productivity during long debugging sessions
I believe this would significantly improve the usability of long-running coding sessions and agent workflows.
Activity
github-actions commentedon Aug 6, 2026
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Please review those issues and consider adding your thoughts there instead.
wdxdd commentedon Aug 8, 2026
+1 from a real user hitting this exact pain point.
I frequently run very long single-session debugging sessions in the desktop app (50+ rounds of back-and-forth). Scrolling is the only way to locate an earlier question, which is genuinely painful and wastes time.
What I'd specifically like to see:
This mirrors the behavior I had in another coding agent's desktop client and it makes long sessions dramatically more usable. Thanks for considering it!
github-actions commentedon Oct 9, 2026
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