Chat UI Additional Features - Threads, Context & History

In collaboration with the #AI-UX Drupal Slack group, we’ve been working on immediate UX improvements for the AI Chat, with the current design direction being a left-hand panel that pushes the admin UI to the right. ( See issue #3531279 📌 Provide updated UI for AI Chatbot module Active )

As part of those discussions, we have identified future improvements that could significantly enhance the AI Chat UX:

1. Context-aware chat – ability to specify whether the AI should act on:

• The entire site
• The current page/node
• A specific field or UI element on the page
• ... likely more contexts needed ...

2. Multiple chat threads

• Switch between different conversations, each maintaining its own history.

3. Reverting chat history

• Ability to roll back a single chat 1 or more turns in the chat thread when the LLM output is not optimal
• Whatever actions the agent did should also be unapplied to Drupal

4. Persistence across navigation:

• Ensure chat remains active across screen refreshes or navigation between pages to allow multi-page workflows.

Cursor Example Recording

Cursor has similar requirements. I recorded a video of how they implemented these types of features.

Cursor Demo Video

Feedback Requested

• What (if any) of these features should we focus on?
• How do we think we can pass the context of "this page" to the chat similar to how it works in XB's AI chat?