How to Prepare a Chat Checkpoint for a New Chat

Prepare for New Chat creates a local continuation package and prompt from the Responses you select. You remain responsible for reviewing and manually carrying that context into the next chat.

Choose only the context worth carrying

A new chat rarely needs every historical turn. Select the Responses that contain the durable decisions, requirements, constraints, evidence, or next steps needed to continue. Keep enough context to avoid re-discovery, but do not assume omitted context will be known in the new chat.

Create the continuation package

The current Continue ZIP contains the raw capture, a Checkpoint in Markdown and JSON, the selected Response files, and continuation files in Markdown and text. The generated continuation prompt tells the next assistant to use the preserved context, avoid assuming missing context, identify uncertainty, and ask only questions required to proceed.

The handoff is manual

The package manifest explicitly records automatic_send as false. Chat Checkpoint does not automatically send the conversation or continuation prompt to an AI service in the verified current implementation. Review the prompt, then copy or upload only what you choose. If you want to turn preserved work into an editable working document, continue with Using Chat Checkpoint with Mycelgrid Workspace.

When to stop

If the current conversation is still working well and you do not need a new context boundary, a new-chat handoff may add unnecessary overhead. Use it when continuity, clarity, or conversation length makes a deliberate checkpoint useful.