The chat agent is a conversation rather than a one-shot instruction. It opens in
an overlay above whatever you’re working in, keeps its history, and can act on
your notes.
Unlike the voice agent, it doesn’t type into the app you’re using — the
conversation stays in its own window.
Opening it
Set the Chat Agent Hotkey under Settings → Hotkeys under App.
The same key opens and closes the overlay.
Inside, you can type, or hold the input’s speak control to talk. The placeholder
tells you which key to press.
What it can do
The agent has tools it can use on your behalf, and it tells you which one it’s
running as it goes — “Searching notes…”, “Creating note…”, and so on.
Two of those are conditional. Web search needs you signed in to an
OpenWhispr account. Calendar appears only once you’ve connected Google
Calendar — without it the agent has no view of your schedule and will say so.
Note search runs against your synced notes when you’re signed in with cloud
backup on, and against the notes on your device otherwise. Either way it
searches your own notes only.
Conversations
Conversations are saved and you can pick one back up. New starts a fresh
one, which is worth doing when you change subject — a long conversation carries
its earlier context into every answer.
Any reply can be copied out with Copy to clipboard.
Choosing a model
Set it under Settings → Language Models under AI Models, on the
Chat tab. It’s independent of the voice agent’s model, so you can run a
larger model for conversation and a faster one for quick voice instructions.
System Prompt on the same tab sets custom standing instructions for the chat
agent.
Chat vs the voice agent
