A room is a chat conversation with more than one person in it. Everyone in a room shares one
thread: the same history, the same analyses, and Orion’s answers as they stream in. Rooms are how
a team investigates a question together instead of pasting results back and forth.Everything on Basics & Navigation still applies. A room is a normal
conversation that happens to have more than one participant.
Send a copy. The link is read only. The recipient reads the history, then continues it as
their own separate conversation. You never see what they do next.
Start a room. Everyone stays in the same conversation. All participants post into it, see
each other’s messages, and watch Orion work live.
Send a copy to hand work off. Start a room to do the work together.Rooms cannot be copied. Once a conversation has more than one participant, the copy link is no
longer offered, because forking a room would hand one person a private duplicate of everyone
else’s messages.
The + sits in the Rooms header of the chat history sidebar.
Illustrative. Demo data.
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Stage the people you want
Search by name or email. Each person you select moves up to the invite list. Nothing exists
yet at this point, so you can still remove anyone or cancel.
Illustrative. Demo data.
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Select Create room
Orion creates the room and opens it for you.
The Start a room button on the chat home screen opens the same dialog.
Any solo chat becomes a room the moment you add someone to it.
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Open the conversation
Go to the chat you want to work on together.
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Select Share in the top bar
On a solo chat the control is labeled Share.
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Add the teammate under Work on it together
Search by name or email and select them.
They join this conversation, not a copy of it, and they see everything already in it from the
beginning. Once the conversation is a room, the same control is labeled People and shows the
participants’ avatars.
Adding someone exposes the whole transcript to them, including anything discussed before they
joined. The dialog warns you before you add.
The chat history sidebar splits into two sections, Rooms and Chats. Room rows carry a stack
of participant avatars, so you can tell at a glance who is in each one. Five rooms show by default,
and Show all expands the rest.
In a room, Orion does not answer every message. You address it with @orion.Type @ in the chat input and pick Orion from the menu, or type @orion directly. The mention
renders as a chip in the sent message. Clicking a suggested follow-up or a recommendation inside a
room addresses Orion for you.Orion is the only participant you can address this way. The rest of the @ menu references content,
such as a metric or a wiki page, not people. To get a teammate’s attention, write their name as
ordinary text.
Rooms have two response modes. Change them in the People dialog, under How Orion responds:
Mode
What Orion does
When mentioned (default)
Replies only when you @orion.
Listening
Replies when a message looks meant for it, and whenever you @orion.
A new room starts in When mentioned, including a solo chat you have just added someone to. In
either mode, @orion always gets a reply.Any participant can change the mode, and the change applies to everyone in the room. Viewers are
the exception: a Viewer can change it only in a room they own.Solo chats work differently: Orion replies to every message, and the setting is not offered.Each change is recorded in the room’s timeline, so the transcript shows a notice like
“Priya set Orion to listening” at the point it happened.
Rooms add a Reply action to messages. Select the reply arrow on a message, and it appears as a
quote card above the chat input. The card stays on your message after you send it, so a busy room
still reads in order.You cannot reply to your own message, or to a message that is still streaming.
Typing indicators. Avatars appear above the chat input while a teammate is typing, and while
Orion is working on a turn.
Everyone watches the same answer. Participants see Orion’s response, including notebook cells,
as it is generated, not after it finishes.
Streams survive a reload. If your connection drops or you refresh mid-answer, you rejoin the
stream in progress. Opening a room while a turn is already running catches you up on it.
Rooms show light activity notices inline in the transcript:
“You started this room”
“Priya added Marcus”
“Marcus left this room”
“Priya set Orion to reply only when mentioned”
A run of similar notices collapses into one line, such as “You added Dana plus 9 others”,
with the full list on hover. Inviting ten people costs one line, not ten.
