Chat
Chat is the interactive way to use a Helios agent. It has the same computer, tools, and integrations a workflow does.
Chat
Chat is the interactive way to work with an agent. You give it a task, watch it work, and steer it as it goes. It is the same agent runtime that workflows use — the same sandbox, the same integrations, the same database and MCP access.
Chat is where you figure out how a task should be done. Once it works, save the instructions as a workflow and put the agent on it permanently.
Files
Upload files to a chat and the agent finds them in its sandbox under ~/workspace/uploads/. The
agent is told the path of each file you attach, so you can refer to them naturally — "reconcile the
CSV I just uploaded against the payments table."
Uploads live in the chat's persistent workspace, so they survive across messages and across sandbox restarts. Deleting the chat deletes them.
Pinned resources
Pin a GitHub repository to a chat and the agent gets authenticated access to it — Helios injects a short-lived, repository-scoped token at the network layer, so the agent can clone and work in the repo without ever seeing a credential. Pinning also disambiguates: when you say "the repo", the agent knows which one.
Forking
Fork a chat to branch off from where it is. The fork copies the full message history and the chat's workspace files, so the new agent starts with everything the original had. Use it to try a different approach without losing the path you were on.
Sharing a transcript
Share a chat to get a public link to its transcript.
- You choose the cutoff message. Everything up to and including it is visible; everything after it is withheld — so you can keep working in the chat without extending what you shared.
- The link exposes only the chat's title and those messages. It does not expose your workspace files, your integrations, or the agent's sandbox.
- Anyone with the link can read it. There is no sign-in check. Treat a share link as public.
- Unshare at any time to revoke the link.
Re-sharing an already-shared chat updates the cutoff, keeping the same link.
Chat and workflows
| Chat | Workflow | |
|---|---|---|
| Started by | You, interactively | A trigger |
| Instructions | Each message | A saved prompt |
| Workspace | Per chat | Per workflow, shared by all its runs |
| Output | The conversation | A recorded run |
Both bill the same way — see pricing.
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