# Find, rename, and delete assistant chats

> Your AI assistant conversations are saved per room: click the chat title in the assistant header to open an earlier chat, click + (New chat) to start fresh, and use ••• to rename or delete a chat.

Category: AI and integrations
Web page: https://www.pactto.com/help/assistant-chat-history
All guides: https://www.pactto.com/help.md

## Where your chats are

The assistant saves each conversation as a chat. Chats belong to you and to the room: you see only your own chats, and only the ones from the room you are in. Other people in the room cannot see them.

When you come back to a room, or reload the page, the assistant opens the last chat you had open there.

## Start a new chat

In the assistant header, click **+** (**New chat**) next to the chat title. The panel clears, and your previous chat stays in the list. The button is greyed out while the current chat is empty.

A new chat is called **New chat** until you send a first message. Pactto then gives it a title from the conversation, at no credit cost.

## Open an earlier chat

1. In the assistant header, click the chat title (or **New chat**) with the arrow next to it.
2. The list shows your chats in this room, grouped under **Today**, **Yesterday**, **Previous 7 days**, and **Older**. The open chat is marked.
3. Click a chat to open it. Click **Load more** at the bottom to see older ones.

An opened chat comes back with its answers, generated images (with **Add to room**), answered questions, and app results.

## Rename or delete a chat

1. Open the chat list and hover over a chat (on a touch screen the button is always visible).
2. Click **•••** (**Chat options**).
3. Choose:
   - **Rename**: type a new title (up to 80 characters) and press **Enter**. **Esc** cancels. A title you set is never replaced by an automatic one.
   - **Delete**: confirm with **Delete** in **Delete chat?**. The chat is deleted for good and cannot be restored. Deleting the open chat starts a new one.

Deleting a chat does not remove anything the assistant already added to the canvas.

## If something goes wrong

- **No chats in this room yet. Your conversations show up here.**: you have not used the assistant in this room yet.
- **Couldn't load chats.**: click **Try again**.
- **You don't have access to this room's chats.**: you no longer have access to the room.
- **This chat is full. New messages won't be saved.**: a chat can hold about 4 MB. Click **New chat** in the message to keep going in a fresh chat.

## Related guides

- [Use the AI assistant in a room](https://www.pactto.com/help/ai-assistant.md): Click the AI Assistant button (sparkle icon, bottom right of the room), then type, dictate, or pick a skill with /; the assistant answers from the room's content, asks follow-up questions when it needs to, and can create docs, images, notes, comments, and more on the canvas.
- [Use skills in the AI assistant](https://www.pactto.com/help/assistant-skills.md): Type / in the assistant or click Skills to run a saved instruction such as /doc, /image, or /moodboard; open Manage skills to create your own skills, edit the built-in ones for yourself, or share a skill with the room.
- [Connect apps to the AI assistant](https://www.pactto.com/help/connect-apps-to-assistant.md): In the assistant, click + and then Connect your apps (or Manage apps), pick an app such as Linear or add a custom MCP server, and click Connect; the assistant can then read from the app and asks you before it writes anything.