# Chats Chats are the heart of SecretMate. This is where you'll have conversations with your companions, get to know them, and build the kind of connection that feels real. Once you've opened a chat, you'll see your companion's greeting — just reply, and the conversation begins. ### Starting a Chat To start a chat, find a companion you want to talk to and select them. This will open a conversation with their greeting waiting for you — just reply, and you're in. Your conversations are saved automatically as you go, so you can come back anytime from the **Chats** option in the main menu. If you'd like a completely fresh start with the same companion — a clean slate from their greeting again — select the three dots in the top right of the chat and choose **Start a New Chat**. Your existing conversation will be saved, and you can find all your saved conversations with that companion under **Saved Chats** in the same menu. ### Continuing a Chat You can view a log of all your conversations on SecretMate by selecting **Chats** in the main menu. From here, you can pick up where you left off with any companion by pressing **Continue to Chat**. This view shows the most recent chat for each companion. To access older saved chats with a specific companion, you'll need to do that from within the conversation (more on saved chats below). ### Regenerating Messages Sometimes you'd like to see how your companion might have replied differently. Regenerating gives them another shot at responding to your last message. To regenerate, select the **Regenerate Response** icon in the options beneath the message. You can browse every variation of the response using the arrows on the far left of these options — whichever variation is selected when you reply will be saved as your companion's response. ### Continuing Messages If you'd like your companion to keep going with what they were saying without you replying first, select the **Continue Message** icon next to **Regenerate Response**. This prompts your companion to keep their thought going within the flow of the conversation. Try not to lean on this too often — generating too many messages in a row without your input can lead to repetitive responses. ### Editing Messages You can edit your companion's reply directly by selecting the three dots at the top right of the message and choosing **Edit Message**. This lets you fine-tune what they said — useful when you want to nudge a conversation in a specific direction or correct something that didn't quite land. ### Formatting Messages SecretMate supports rich text in your messages — headers, bold text, italics, highlights, and more. For a full list of the formatting options available and how to use them, [click here](https://claude.ai/chat/a8a82c22-78cc-4c7b-8836-29dba28a90e3). ### Conversation Images You can bring your conversations to life with images generated right from inside your chat. The image is created based on your companion's avatar and your most recent message in the conversation. Conversation Images are only available on subscription plans that include them. You can find full details on how they work and how to access them [here](https://claude.ai/chat/a8a82c22-78cc-4c7b-8836-29dba28a90e3). ### Changing Your Persona You can change how you appear in a conversation — your name, your avatar, and details about you — by switching your Persona. Select the three dots at the top right of the conversation and choose **Change Persona**. This takes you to the Persona selection screen, where you can pick any Persona you've previously created. Changing your Persona mid-conversation won't update references to your previous Persona's name in earlier messages or memories. You can learn more about creating and managing Personas [here](https://claude.ai/chat/a8a82c22-78cc-4c7b-8836-29dba28a90e3). ### Cloning Conversations You can clone any chat to continue it without changing the original — useful when you want to try a different direction without losing the conversation you're already in. To clone a chat, select the three dots at the top right of the conversation and choose **Clone Conversation**. You'll be asked to give the new chat a title and choose whether you want a full or partial copy. Your cloned conversation will be saved alongside your other chats with that companion. ### Star Ratings You can rate the quality of any message you receive using the star icon at the bottom of the response. Star ratings send feedback on the AI's response quality to the SecretMate team — this helps us understand how well the model is performing and where we can improve it. Star ratings don't affect your ongoing conversation in any way. If you get a particularly good or bad response, give it a rating. ### Reporting an Inappropriate Response If a message from a companion is inappropriate, offensive, or violates our [Community Guidelines](https://claude.ai/chat/a8a82c22-78cc-4c7b-8836-29dba28a90e3), you can report it. Select the three dots at the top right of the response and choose **Report Message**. You'll be asked to choose a reason from a list of common ones. If none of them fit, choose **Other** and you'll be prompted to explain. Reporting a message flags it for review by our moderation team and removes it from your conversation. You'll need to reply again to continue talking with your companion. ### Are my chats private? Yes. Your chats with companions are completely private — the messages you send and receive are never visible to the companion's creator or anyone else. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.secretmate.ai/product-guides/chats.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.