Chat Reset

[PlanetMacro]

What problem or use case are you trying to solve?

A feature to reset all chat history in a current session would be good to have. In some projects initializing the environment takes a lot of time (installing all requirements, building the project, training models ect). In these projects its not efficient to start every task in a new session.

However executing all tasks in the same chat, the agent tends to repeat initial tasks like "install all requirements and build the project". It would therefore be better to have a chat reset feature, which keeps the environment while resetting the chat.

As an example: I use OpenHands to write automated math proofs in lean4. However initializing the environment can take a few hours for lean to build all dependencies.

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[paul-wade]

The conversation manager already has good separation between environment state and chat history, so we should be able to clear the event stream while preserving the runtime. The main question is where to put the reset button in the UI - maybe in the conversation controls next to delete? Happy to take this on if no one else is working on it.

[paul-wade]

It does feel like it would create some ambiguity though - it sort of confuses what a conversation is and what a runtime is. Users might not understand the distinction between clearing chat messages vs. clearing the entire session/environment. This could be important for the UX side.