> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.octoparse.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Chats and tasks in AI Assistant

> A chat is where you describe the data; a task is the scraper you keep. Learn which chats AI Assistant keeps, where your tasks go, and how to go back to a chat.

In AI Assistant, a chat and a task are two different things:

* A **chat** is where you describe the data, check what AI Assistant understood, and pick a way to get it.
* A **task** is what you keep: a scraper saved to your account that you can run again, change, and export data from.

Only chats that build a Browser Use or Cloud Agent task are kept. Other chats aren't saved after you leave them.

## What's kept for each route

| What you pick in the chat | Is the chat kept? | Where the task goes |
| - | - | - |
| [Browser Use](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/browser-use.md) | Yes, with the task | Your task list, as soon as the build starts |
| [Cloud Agent](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/cloud-agent.md) | Yes, with the task | Your task list, as soon as the build starts |
| [Auto-detect](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/auto-detect.md) | No | Your account, when Auto-detect finds the data |
| A [template](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/templates.md) | No | You set up and run it on the template's page or in Octoparse Desktop |
| Nothing yet | No | No task is created |

> [!TIP]
>
> Before you leave a chat that isn't kept, open the template or the Auto-detect task you want. To come back to the same request later, copy it first.

## Go back to a chat

For a Browser Use or Cloud Agent task, select **Resume Chat** in the task's menu to reopen the chat that built it. To change only the inputs of a Cloud Agent task, such as keywords or URLs, you don't need the chat: use **Edit input** instead. See [Manage AI tasks](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/manage-ai-tasks.md).

## Start a new chat

Start a new chat for each site or data source, and when a chat reaches its message limit. Your tasks aren't affected: they stay in your task list. See [One site per chat](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/describe-your-data.md#one-site-per-chat).

## Related pages

> [card] [Manage AI tasks](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/manage-ai-tasks.md)
>
> Run, change, schedule, and export tasks built with AI Assistant.

> [card] [Unfinished tasks](https://www.octoparse.com/docs/en/ai-assistant/manage-ai-tasks.md#unfinished-tasks)
>
> What to do when a build was stopped or failed.


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