Use Chat for a direct conversation with Claude Code or Codex, without workflow steps or approval gates.
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Illustrative task, shown in the full workspace.
Start a Chat
Choose + › Chat, pick your project and describe what you need. Conversation and Terminal show the same session, and the terminal fills the window. Return to the same task to keep its history. The agent's menu in the header has Interrupt, Stop session and Resume session.
To continue a session you started outside QualityLayer, choose it under Or resume a session in Claude Code (or Codex) below the card. It opens as a Chat.
Questions and tasks
Supported questions appear above the composer. Pick a numbered choice or type your answer. When the agent reports a task list, open Tasks to see its progress.
Outside Codex sessions are read-only here; answer in Codex's terminal.
Add what you need
Ask your agent to save a plan, make artifacts, build in slices, run checks or request an independent review. Saved plans open in the Reader; artifacts open in their viewer. Your agent runs the checks and shows their results.
Convert to task
Choose Convert to task in the header, then Feature or Bugfix. Plan with QualityLayer is the default and continues in Discuss, with the conversation and saved work as context.
Choose Saved plan to start at Plan from a plan this Chat saved, then Start at the Plan. The original is kept unchanged; review its execution agreement before the Outline and build. Discuss and Research are marked Not run. Both choices keep the same task and agent conversation.
You approve the workflow Plan before later implementation. Let active slice helpers finish or stop them first.
Chat does not support team sharing.