May 22nd, 2026

New

Improved

Search across and reuse your past chat threads in Chief

Chat Search now lets you search across indexed conversations using keywords, phrases, and chat titles, making it easier to revisit past work and bring previous context into new chats.

What’s new

Chat Search now allows you to:

  • Search across indexed conversations

  • Find both user prompts and assistant responses

  • Search using keywords or partial words

  • Open directly to the matching message in a chat

  • Search chat titles

  • @mention previous chats in a new conversation as context

Learn more: Chat Search

How it works

Chat Search indexes conversations and allows you to query them using keyword-based matching.

Search covers:

  • User messages

  • Assistant responses

  • Chat titles

Results are ranked based on:

  • Keyword relevance

  • Recency (with a boost for newer conversations)

Search behavior

Chat Search uses token-based keyword matching with prefix support.

  • Each search term matches as a prefix

  • Multiple words must all appear somewhere in the chat

  • Search is case-insensitive and punctuation-insensitive

Chat Search does not support:

  • Fuzzy matching

  • Synonyms

  • Stemming

  • Exact phrase matching

Results

Each result is labeled based on what matched:

  • Assistant β†’ match found in an AI response

  • You β†’ match found in a user message

  • Title β†’ match found in the chat title

Clicking a result opens the chat directly to the matching message.

Access

Chat Search is available through the Search interface in Chief and works across indexed chats within your accessible Projects and organizations.