AI chatSessions in the workspace?

[safisa]

Question

Hi,
Can I specify the location where chat sessions are saved? For instance, if I want to store them in the workspace for version control purposes?

Thanks

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[ndoschek]

Hi @safisa, currently, this is not possible.
There is a preference ai-features.chat.sessionStorageScope (workspace | global, default workspace), but "workspace" only means sessions are scoped per workspace. They are still stored outside the workspace directory, under <configDir>/workspace-metadata/<workspaceUuid>/chatSessions, so they cannot be version-controlled currently.

Some history:

• feat: implement chat session persistence #16486 introduced chat session persistence (global storage only).
• Store persistent chat sessions in the workspace by default #16847 added the sessionStorageScope preference with configurable paths. The default workspace path was .theia/chatSessions inside the workspace root, which is what you are looking for.
• Remove the seeding of workspace chat history from global history #16933 simplified the UX and removed the configurable paths, moving workspace-scoped storage to a new WorkspaceMetadataStorageService that stores outside the workspace directory. This was done to avoid issues like zombie chats reappearing after a git clean and unexpected seeding from the global history.

So storing chat sessions inside the workspace for version control is not currently supported out of the box. If this is something you need, it would be worth opening a feature request.