> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Chat

> Start operator conversations, set autonomy, and reuse a warm sandbox across turns.

Chat is a bundled app. It ships with Druks. It is not an optional package.

Open **Chat** in the dashboard rail. Each conversation belongs to the signed-in
operator. Other accounts cannot read it.

## Start a conversation

1. Open **Chat → Conversations**.
2. Choose **New**.
3. Enter the first message. A title is optional. An empty title is filled from
   the first user line after the first assistant reply.
4. Choose **Start**.

That start creates the thread and one Talk run. Later lines answer the parked
turn. **Send** appends your line and continues. **Stop** ends Talk and reaps
the sandbox. Stop does not write a message.

## Autonomy

Each conversation has a mode. A change applies on the next agent call.

| Mode                  | Tools                                                                                                                                               |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **propose** (default) | Read tools only. Mutating tools do not run. The agent proposes the action in the thread. You commit it in the real dashboard.                       |
| **confirm**           | The live catalog is visible. Mutating tools stash the call. After the turn, a confirm gate asks you to approve or reject before the next user line. |
| **full**              | Tools run immediately as your account.                                                                                                              |

Set the mode on the conversation. The next Talk call reads the live row.

Chat uses the same `/mcp` catalog as an external agent. It is not a second
catalog and it does not replace [Connect your agent](connect-your-agent.md).
The sandbox talks inward to this appliance as you, through a call-scoped token
that dies with the agent call.

## Idle window

Talk parks each turn with `hold_sandbox` of 15 minutes. The park itself still
lasts days. The hold only clips the Drukbox lease so the warm VM stays up for
a short idle window.

Send inside that window and Talk reuses the same host. It does not provision
a new one. After the clipped lease ends, the next line provisions a cold host
and still works.

**Stop** reaps the host. A worker crash still frees the VM when the Drukbox
lease lapses. `review()` and any park without `hold_sandbox` still delete the
host at once.

`druks doctor` reports that Chat is bundled. It also probes `/mcp` when sandbox
execution is on. Set `urls.endpoint` so a sandbox can reach this appliance.
A Docker sandbox rewrites a loopback dashboard URL to
`host.docker.internal`. See
[public URLs](configuration.md#public-urls-and-access-control).