# Starting a New Chat

Each chat in Qolaba is an isolated conversation thread tied to your current workspace. Starting a new chat gives you a clean context, a fresh message thread, and no influence from previous conversations.

#### Creating a New Chat

1. Open your **Workspace** from the left navigation panel
2. Select **Chatbot**
3. Click **New Chat** in the top right
4. Enter your first prompt and send

A new conversation thread is created automatically, saved to your workspace history, and begins consuming credits from your first message.

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#### How Conversation Context Works

Every chat maintains its own **context window** — a memory of everything said within that thread, including your prompts, AI responses, follow-up instructions, and any files attached during the session.

This allows the AI to:

* Build on earlier instructions without you repeating them
* Refine outputs progressively across multiple turns
* Handle complex, multi-step tasks within a single conversation

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Context is chat-specific. Starting a new chat resets conversational memory entirely. AI has no memory of previous chat sessions.
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#### When to Start a New Chat

Start a new chat when you are:

* Switching to a different topic or task
* Working on a new client or project
* Deliberately isolating results from a previous session

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**Best practice:** One chat per objective. It keeps your history clean, your outputs traceable, and your context uncontaminated.
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#### Resetting Context

The cleanest way to reset context is to **start a new chat**. This ensures the AI has no memory of earlier instructions, files, or outputs — giving you a reliable baseline for experimentation or benchmarking.

Carrying over unintended context can cause the AI to reference outdated instructions, produce inconsistent comparisons, or generate outputs biased by earlier constraints.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.qolaba.ai/chatbot/starting-a-new-chat.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.