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Sessions and tasks

Treat a session as a workbench for one job: your request, supporting materials, progress, and results stay together.

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Write a useful request

Include your goal, materials, constraints, and expected deliverable. No special syntax is needed.

Try this request
Compare these three supplier quotes.
Focus on total cost, delivery time, and support, not just the lowest price.
Use facts from the attachments and mark missing information as “Not provided”.
Deliver a comparison table and a short list of questions for the suppliers.

For complex work, ask for a plan and clarification before execution. This reduces rework and unnecessary usage.

Continue or start fresh

Continue the same session when revising a document or following up on the same project. Start a new one for an unrelated task, a different customer, or a clean starting point.

Do not assume a new session knows every earlier conversation. Save durable project rules and conclusions in a cloud-drive document and provide it when needed.

Understand progress

What you seeWhat it meansNext step
Thinking or using toolsWork is in progressFollow recent activity
Waiting for authorization or inputYour response is neededReview and complete the request
Retrying a model requestA temporary upstream failureWatch for the next status
Stopped or failedThis run did not finishAddress the reported cause before continuing
CompletedThis round has endedReview and save the result

Swipe sideways to see more of a wide table.

Elapsed time alone does not establish failure. Refreshing can help you see recent events, but it does not cancel a cloud task.

Stop, fork, or archive

Stop ends the current run. It does not undo files already written, messages already sent, or external changes already made.

Fork from here starts another session from a supported point. Its drive starts empty. Source files remain at their original locations and require the appropriate access permissions.

Archive closes out the session and destroys its work sandbox. Drive files remain. To resume the topic, use the option to continue in a new session.

Work with agent clones

An assistant can delegate suitable parts of a task to other available agents or its own clones, then combine the results. The collaboration view helps you follow the work.

Access depends on the current user's permissions and each calling agent's allowlist. Parallel work also consumes resources; ask for a clear division of responsibility and expected outputs.

At the end of a task, ask for completed items, unfinished items, file locations, and decisions still needed from you.