Starting & Resuming a Session

Start a new session

Click Ask Easel in the left navigation. The landing screen shows a composer — Ask Easel anything — with your Recent conversations below it. Type your request and send it; the session is created the moment you send your first message. Ctrl + Shift + E (⌘ ⇧ E on a Mac) starts one from anywhere in the app.

If this is your first time, Easel opens with 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 naming the current step — Planning the response, Using tools, Writing the response — 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. Use Add files to attach something mid-session and Reference a document (or press @) to point Easel at an item in your library.

A footer shows the session's context window usage and run time, alongside your monthly credits and remaining Easel sessions. Context-window usage is the session's working memory — not your billing usage; View all usage opens the usage settings.

Resume a past session

Every conversation is saved under Recent conversations, 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 conversations.

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