Starting & Resuming a Session
Start a new session
Open Agent in the left navigation. The landing screen shows a message composer and your Recent Sessions below it. Type your request and send it to begin — the session is created the moment you send your first message.
When you start, Easel may briefly show "Waiting for a free desk" while it gets ready. If capacity is busy it retries for a few seconds, and you can cancel at any time.
If this is your first time, Easel runs a short guided tour to orient you before you start your own work.
Follow the agent's progress
As Easel works, the conversation streams in real time:
- Your message and the agent's written response, with inline citations and any charts it generates
- A live activity log — "Searching documents," "Fetching financial estimates," "Searching the web" — each with an elapsed timer
- Occasional context-compaction notices when the agent summarizes earlier steps to keep working on a long task
The composer accepts plain text. Press Enter to send, Shift + Enter for a new line, and Esc to cancel a turn that is running. A footer shows the session's context usage and run time. (This footer tracks the session's working memory — it is not your billing usage.)
Resume a past session
Every conversation is saved under Recent Sessions, where you can search, reopen, or delete them. Click a session to pick it back up — an active session reattaches in place, and a paused one resumes from its saved state.
Reopening a session is the only way to resume it; an old direct link to a closed session will start fresh instead, and prompt you to choose the session from Recent Sessions.
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Research, Documents & Market Data
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