Overview

Chat Search helps you quickly find information from previous conversations without having to manually open old chats.

Once chats are indexed, you can:

• Search across past 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

Chat search works across indexed chats within your accessible Projects and organizations.

How Chat Search Works

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

Search checks:

• User messages

• Assistant responses

• Chat titles

Results are ranked using a combination of:

• Keyword relevance

• Recency

More relevant matches appear higher in results, while newer conversations receive an additional ranking boost.

Accessing Chat Search

Chat Search is available through the Search interface in Chief.

You can enter keywords, topics, prompts, or phrases into the search bar to retrieve matching conversations.

Search Matching Behavior

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

Prefix Matching

Each search term matches as a prefix.

Example: bud

Can match:

• budget

• budgeting

• buddy

This helps surface variations of a word without requiring exact matches.

Multi-Word Searches

When searching multiple words, all words must appear somewhere in the conversation.

Example: quarterly budget

Matches chats containing both:

• quarterly

• budget

The words do not need to appear beside each other and can appear in any order.

Case & Punctuation Handling

Search is:

• Case-insensitive

• Punctuation-insensitive

Example:

• Lakers

• lakers

• LAKERS

All return the same results.

What Search Does Not Support

Chat Search currently does not support:

• Fuzzy matching

• Synonyms

• Stemming

• Exact phrase matching

Example: running

Will not match:

• ran

• runs

If broader matching is needed, shorter roots may help.

Example: run

Can match:

• run

• running

• runner

• runs

Understanding Search Results

Each result includes a label describing what matched.

Assistant Results

Assistant results indicate the matching content came from an AI-generated response.

The result preview displays:

• A snippet of the assistant response

• Highlighted matching terms

Example: A user asks about the Lakers. The assistant generates a response discussing the Lakers. Searching for “Lakers” returns the assistant message.

User Results

User results indicate the matching content came from a user prompt or message.

The result preview displays:

• A snippet of the user message

• Highlighted matching terms

Example: Searching for Lakers OKC game may return the original user prompt discussing the game.

Title Results

Title results indicate the chat title matched the search query.

Title results only appear when no individual messages inside the conversation also matched. This prevents duplicate search entries for the same chat.

Opening Search Results

Selecting a result opens the conversation directly to the matching message.

This allows you to:

• Revisit previous conversations quickly

• Continue earlier workflows

• Recover prompts and outputs

• Navigate directly to relevant context

Using Chats as Context

Chat Search also supports bringing previous conversations into a new chat.

You can:

1. Search for a previous conversation

2. Select matching chats

3. @mention them into prompts

This allows Chief to reference earlier conversations while generating responses.

Search Ranking

Search results are ranked using both relevance and recency.

Ranking considers:

• Strength of keyword matches

• Frequency of matching terms

• How recently the conversation occurred

Recent conversations receive additional ranking weight.

Permissions & Access

You can only search chats they have permission to access.

Search results are scoped to:

• Accessible Projects

• Available organizations

• Indexed conversations within those environments