# Olly chat

The Olly chat is your primary interface for interacting with Olly. Ask questions in natural language, browse prompt templates, and explore structured artifacts — all within a single conversation view.

Olly applies a curated set of specialized skills to each request, the same pattern modern AI agents use to tackle complex tasks. The chat is tuned to handle anything from a quick lookup to a deep investigation, so you don't need to pick a mode before sending a prompt.

## Start a new chat

When you open a new chat, Olly greets you with a personalized home screen showing prompt template cards. Each card displays a title, a preview of the prompt, and a category tag (for example, Infrastructure, Incidents, APM). Use the arrow buttons to browse more templates, or type your own question in the input bar.

## Manage conversations

Every conversation with Olly is saved automatically. Select the chat title at the top of the page to open a dropdown with your recent chats. From there you can search for a chat or select one to continue where you left off.

Select **View all** at the bottom of the dropdown to open the full **Chats** page. From the Chats page you can search, browse, and manage all your conversations. Hover over a chat and select the menu to:

- **Rename**: Give the conversation a descriptive name so you can find it later.
- **Delete**: Remove a conversation you no longer need.

Use **Multi select** to rename or delete multiple conversations at once.

## Chat actions

The following actions are available on messages in the chat:

- **Share**: Share a conversation privately (only you can access the link) or with anyone on your team who has the link.
- **Edit a message**: Edit your message to Olly after you send it by selecting the edit icon next to it. Olly re-generates its response based on the updated message.
- **Copy**: Copy Olly's response to the clipboard.
- **Retry**: Re-generate Olly's response for a given message.
- **Feedback**: Rate Olly's response with a thumbs up or thumbs down to help improve answer quality.
- **Stop**: Select the stop button while Olly is generating a response to cancel it.

## Input bar features

The input bar at the bottom of the chat provides access to:

- [**Model selection**](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/olly/model-selection/index.md): Pick the AI model Olly uses for your prompts — GPT, Claude, or Gemini.
- [**GitHub repository**](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/olly/github/index.md): Select the **+** icon to connect a GitHub account and add a repository as code context. The selected repository appears as a blue badge below the chat input.
- [**File attachments**](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/olly/file-attachments/index.md): Upload files from your device to give Olly additional context for your prompt.
- [**Skills**](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/olly/skills/index.md): Type `/` in the prompt for an autocomplete picker of your skills, or select the **+** icon, then **Skills** to browse the same list. **Manage skills** opens the settings page.

## Artifacts

When Olly retrieves or generates structured data as part of a response, it displays the results as inline artifact previews within the chat message. Artifacts provide a richer view of the data than plain text.

Olly supports the following artifact types:

- **Logs**: A table of matching log entries.
- **Spans**: A Gantt view of the full trace containing the span.
- **Metrics**: A chart showing returned metric values and labels.
- **Charts**: Visualizations generated from query results (line, bar, pie, and other chart types).
- **Tables**: Structured tabular data with column toggling and export.
- **Code**: Syntax-highlighted code snippets.

Each artifact preview is collapsible. Select the expand icon on an artifact to open it in a full-size drawer for closer inspection. Artifacts are also accessible by URL, so you can link directly to a specific artifact from outside the chat.

## Next steps

Pick the AI model that best fits your task in [Model selection](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/olly/model-selection/index.md).