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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.

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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.

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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 once you’ve connected Google Calendar, Microsoft Calendar, or Apple Calendar — without one, 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.

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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.

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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.

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Chat vs the voice agent