Clearing
Discarding the active conversational state and starting a new session without inherited history.
Illustrative conversation
- The agent keeps following an obsolete plan. Should I clear the conversation?
- A fresh session can help, but first save the current decisions and unfinished work in a handoff artifact.
Definition
Clearing starts a fresh working context instead of continuing from the active conversation or previous response. It can remove stale assumptions and conflicting instructions, but it also removes useful history unless the application deliberately carries it forward. Clearing conversation state does not itself delete repository files, external records, provider logs, or saved artifacts; those require separate operations.
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