OrbitPilot Conversations — Browse, Search, Continue, Delete

Your conversations are saved — and useful

Every chat with OrbitPilot is stored as a conversation thread. Threads do two things: you can reopen and continue them any time, and (when the "Chat History" source is enabled) OrbitPilot's memory learns from them — so it can recall what you discussed last week.

The History page

Open OrbitPilot → History (/orbitpilot/history/):

• Browse — newest conversations first, 10 per page, with a preview of how each one started.
• Search — the search box matches anything you or OrbitPilot said, across all your threads.
• Open & continue — opens the full thread with an ask box that continues it; OrbitPilot remembers the recent turns of that thread. You can also always start a brand-new conversation instead.
• Delete — removes a thread permanently. It also disappears from OrbitPilot's memory at the next build or refresh.

Follow-ups just work

After any answer, the "Ask a follow-up" box continues the same conversation automatically — including from the home-page chat widget, which keeps its own thread per visit.

For developers

Threads: OrbitPilotConversation/OrbitPilotMessage. The ask view resolves the thread as: explicit conversation_id (ownership enforced) → most recent (-updated_at, -pk) → create; a new_conversation=1 flag always starts fresh. Never use get_or_create(user, is_guest=False) — users legitimately hold multiple threads and it raises MultipleObjectsReturned (fixed 2026-07-24). History search is messages__content__icontains + distinct; the AI-facing side is the orbitpilot.chat_history source (_extract_chat_history).