Feature request: Make it clear how to compact or start a new chat with an agent

[kalepail]

What problem does this solve?

When a conversation with an agent gets long, there is no clear or discoverable way to:

1. Compact the conversation — reduce context window usage by summarizing/archiving earlier messages while keeping the active session going.
2. Start a new chat with the same agent — begin a fresh conversation with the same agent without the prior context.

These actions (if they exist) are not obvious in the chat UI. A user encountering a long conversation or wanting a clean slate has to guess or dig through documentation to figure out how.

What would you like to see?

• A visible "New chat" or "Start new conversation" action in the chat UI that creates a fresh conversation with the current agent.
• A visible "Compact" or "Summarize context" action that compresses the conversation history while preserving continuity.
• Both actions should be discoverable — either as buttons in the chat header, options in a chat menu, or clearly documented in the onboarding/welcome flow.
• If compaction is automatic, it should be transparent: show the user that it happened and let them access the archived portion if needed.

Anything else?

This was observed during onboarding — after a long multi-turn session, it was unclear whether starting fresh required killing the process, using a command, or if there was a UI affordance. The GSV manual mentions conversation compaction and archives but does not make it clear how a user triggers these from the chat interface.

[ka-wah]

Hey Kale! It's true that these two things are quite vaguely indicated, we're working on it right now, so hopefully soon. Will keep you updated here. Thanks for taking the time to create the issue (+ others), very appreciated :)