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A new conversation starts empty. The agent keeps context inside the current chat. To look up earlier work, use Search Past Tasks. It lives under Abilities and is on by default.

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What the agent remembers

  • Everything in this chat, until the context window fills up
  • Files and notes in the sandbox for this conversation
  • Earlier chats don’t load automatically. Search Past Tasks can retrieve relevant history

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Search past conversations

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Check that Search Past Tasks is on

Open the agent. On the Agent tab of the panel on the right, scroll to Abilities and find Search Past Tasks. It should read ON. If it reads OFF, click the ⋮ menu at the end of its row, choose Enabled, then click Save at the top of the panel.
Abilities section of the agent panel with the Search Past Tasks row reading ON and its ⋮ menu open, showing Status: Enabled (checked) and Disabled
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Ask about earlier work

In a new chat, ask the agent to find a prior chat, decision, or file, for example “What did we decide about the Q3 launch last week?”
The agent pulls relevant snippets. It doesn’t dump every old chat into context.

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Other ways to carry knowledge forward

Keep Search Past Tasks on and put the repeatable process in a skill. Don’t paste long history into every new chat.

Agent skills

Reusable knowledge packs

Agents

Chat, abilities, and self-improve