Hub Chat

Jennefer Hub opens to a chat. Ask a question, or add a folder and let Jennefer read, summarize and compare the files in it, pull tables out of a report or draft a new file. Answers are signed Jennefer with the model that wrote them.

Start a chat#

• Choose New chat in the sidebar, press Ctrl N (on a Mac ⌘N), or choose New chat in the tray menu (the menu bar on a Mac).
• Type in the box and press Enter to send. Shift Enter adds a new line.
• The wand button, or Alt+E, rewrites your text before you send it. See Improve a prompt.
• While Jennefer works, a line above the box says what it is doing, for example Reading a file or Thinking. The stop button ends the answer.
• Under each answer, the line shows where the model ran and the tokens it used, with Copy and Ask again.
• Chats are listed in the sidebar by day. Rename a chat from its title at the top. Delete one with the trash icon and a second click on Delete?. Ctrl K searches your chats.

Model and effort for each chat#

The model and effort sit under the box. Each chat keeps its own choice, so picking a model in one chat does not change the others. A new chat starts with the last model you picked.

1. 1

   Open the model picker

   Choose the model under the box, or type /model. The picker shows where models run: This computer, Your API, Jennefer Models and Recent, with your current model below them.

2. 2

   Pick where the model runs

   Choose a card to see its models. A long list has a search field. Typing a letter on the cards searches every model.

3. 3

   Pick the model

   Choose a model. Make default next to the current model makes new chats start with it.

• This computer lists your downloaded models. They are free to use. See Models.
• Your API lists the models you saved with your own key, once your address is approved. See Your endpoint.
• Jennefer Models are opening later. The card says Opens soon, and until then your chats use this computer or your API.
• Recent shows the Hub default first, then the last 5 models you picked.
• Effort sets how hard the model thinks: Auto lets the model decide, then Off, Low, Medium, High, Extra high and Max. Some models do not have every level. /think sets it too. See Model and effort per app.

Folders and files#

• Choose Folder under the box, press Ctrl O or type /folder to add a folder. It shows as a chip, and × removes it from the chat.
• Jennefer reads only inside the folders you added. Every new file, change, move or delete asks you first.
• Drop files on the chat to use them. They are copied into the chat's own folder.
• /files lists the files in the chat's folders.
• Jennefer's own folders, such as .jennefer and your Jennefer folder, cannot be added.

File preview#

Open a file from an answer, from a folder chip or from the dropped files, and it opens in a panel next to the chat. Each file is a tab. Drag the panel's edge to make it wider, and press Esc to close it.

Every file has Open in app and Show in folder. For a file the Hub cannot show yet, use Open in app.

Artifacts#

When something is better seen than read, such as a chart, a diagram, a small page or a table to keep, Jennefer makes an artifact and opens it in the panel. Artifacts can be an HTML page, Markdown, an SVG graphic, a Mermaid diagram or a CSV table.

• Artifacts are kept in the chat's own folder. Each change keeps a new version, and the arrows switch between versions.
• Copy copies the content. Save to a folder saves it into one of the chat's folders, after you confirm.
• HTML pages run in a sandbox. They cannot reach your files, and they can load scripts, such as chart libraries, only from a few code sites. Open in your browser opens one outside the sandbox.

The browser tab#

Browser at the top of the chat (the globe) opens a browser tab in the panel. You can also type /browser with a link. You can browse yourself, and Jennefer can open the links you gave it, read the page, click and type.

• Jennefer opens only links you gave in the chat, or pages on the site that is already open. For anything else it asks you. It does not search the web.
• You type passwords, card numbers and codes yourself. Jennefer does not type them.
• Clicks that send, submit, pay, delete or download ask you first.
• To guide you through a step, Jennefer can point at a part of the page and tell you what to do.
• Page text is treated as data. Jennefer does not follow instructions written on a page.
• Open in your browser opens the page in your own browser.

On a Mac, press ⌘ Cmd instead of Ctrl for these shortcuts and the others on this page. Switching tabs stays ⌃ Control Tab.

Question forms#

When Jennefer needs a decision before it can do good work, it asks in a short form above the box instead of guessing. A form has up to four questions, each on its own tab, and Jennefer marks the answer it recommends.

• Questions can be one choice, several choices, yes or no, a short text, or a scale from 1 to 5.
• Choice questions always have Other… for your own answer.
• Press 1 to 9 to pick an option, Space to tick one in a several-choice question, Enter for the next question and to send, and Esc to skip a question.
• After you send, the form becomes a short You answered note in the chat.

Context and the session panel#

After the first answer, a ring at the top of the chat shows how full the model's context window was on the latest request, in percent. It turns amber from 70% and pink from 90%. Click it, or Session before the first answer, or type /session, to open the Session panel:

Each request sends the last 8 messages, each cut to 1,500 characters. /compact summarizes the chat so far, so Jennefer keeps it and sends less. Add what to keep, for example /compact keep the numbers. The chat then shows Earlier messages summarised.

Slash commands#

Type / in the box to see every command. Letters filter the list.

Where chats are kept#

• Hub Chat runs in the Hub on this computer. Its requests go through the Engine to the model you picked.
• Chats are saved on this computer only, in .jennefer\hub-chat, or in Data\hub-chat inside your Jennefer folder if you picked one. They are not synced.
• Each chat has its own folder for dropped files and artifacts.
• With a model on your API, your provider receives the messages and the file content Jennefer reads. See Privacy and security.

FAQ#