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Sessions in Work

Questions, research and quick experiments pile up fast, and the session where you’re actually fixing something gets buried among them. The In work block keeps those sessions in one place in the sidebar. A session stays there until you say it’s done.

That’s the difference from Recent. Recent shows whatever changed in the last two days and moves on its own; a session you touched this morning out of curiosity is there, a fix you paused on Monday is gone. In work is the list of things you haven’t finished, however long ago you last opened them.

Where to find it

The In work block sits in the sidebar under Chats and above Recent (or the timeline, in Timeline mode). On the phone it’s in the same place in the sessions list.

A session in work moves there together with its subsessions. It doesn’t show up a second time in Recent, the timeline, its project or its folder. Mark it done and it goes back to where it was.

Track and finish a session by hand

  • Track: hover a session and press the eye, or choose Track as in work in the session menu.
  • Finish: hover a session in the block and press the check, or choose Mark done in the menu.

On the phone, swipe a session row to reach the same action, or use the session menu.

Any project session can be in work, including sessions in worktrees. Subsessions come along with their parent. Chats never do: they’re plain conversations, so they don’t get the eye.

Let Jev move sessions in for you

With a classification provider set up, you don’t have to track sessions yourself. Jev reads each message you send and moves the session into work when you:

  • ask for a change
  • report a bug
  • discuss a concrete change you’re about to make

Questions, explanations and research don’t count. Jev looks again when the agent finishes a turn, which catches the work that only becomes clear from the reply.

Jev only ever moves sessions in. Once you mark a session done, only a new request sent after that brings it back.

”This work looks done”

When a turn looks like the end of the work (you said thanks, asked for a commit, confirmed it works), Jev leaves a hint instead of closing anything:

  • a grey check on the session row in the sidebar
  • a strip above the composer: This work looks done. with a Mark done button

Press Mark done if Jev is right. If not, just keep going: the hint disappears with your next message.

Recap and next-message suggestion

After the agent finishes and the session stays quiet for a minute, OpenChamber can write two things with your Small Model (see Providers, Models & Agents):

  • Recap: a short reminder of what was done and where things stand, shown under the last reply and in the session’s tooltip in the sidebar
  • Suggestion: the next message you’d probably send, as a row at the top of the composer; click it to put the text in the composer, it never sends by itself

With Jev available, OpenChamber first asks it whether the turn needs them. A plain “thanks, that’s it” after real work still gets a recap, but a suggestion is skipped when nothing is left to do, and the Small Model isn’t called at all when neither is useful. Without Jev both are generated after every turn, as before.

Turn them on or off in Settings → Chat → Session Assistance.

Settings

Open Settings → Sessions → Sessions in work:

  • Show sessions in work: the block itself; turn it off and sessions stay where they always were
  • Move sessions into work automatically: the Jev part; turn it off to track only by hand

Both are on by default.

Where it works

The block and the manual track/done work everywhere, VS Code included. Moving sessions in automatically, the “looks done” hint and the Jev filter for recaps need the OpenChamber server, so they work in the desktop app, the web app and on your phone, but not in VS Code.