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title: "Chat"
description: "A developer starter for building your own AI chat app. It ships a working chat with saved conversations, sign-in, and one example action for the agent, ready to extend with your own screens and tools."
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# Chat

Chat is a developer starter for building your own agent. Create the app and you get a working conversation screen, saved chat history, and sign-in, with a single example action the agent can already use. It replaces the weeks of wiring a chat interface, conversation storage, and login onto a model by hand, so you start with a deployable app and spend your time on what your agent actually does.

Chat is not a finished product for a specific job. If you're not a developer, or you want something ready to use today, start with [Clips](/docs/template-clips) for screen recordings, [Slides](/docs/template-slides) for decks, or [Design](/docs/template-design) for interactive prototypes.

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### [Try it out now →](https://chat.agent-native.com)

See Chat live: start a real conversation with the agent, no setup required.

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## What you get

After you sign in, Chat opens on a Get started page with a message box. Ask anything and the agent answers in a full-page conversation. The rest of what's included is deliberately small.

- **A full-page chat.** Conversations take up the whole screen, with the message box centered until you send your first message.
- **A conversation list.** The sidebar lists your chats so you can start a new one, reopen an old one, rename it, pin it, or archive it.
- **A Get started page.** A short landing page with links to the guides for adding your first action and your first screen. You can edit it or replace it.
- **Sign-in and teams.** Login, signup, and organizations work from the start.
- **One example action.** The agent can already run a simple example, so you can see how an action works before writing your own.
- **Admin pages.** A database viewer and an observability dashboard are included, whether or not you ever open them.
- **Room for mini-apps.** Routes for small sandboxed tools called Extensions are included but switched off. A developer can switch them on.

Chat leaves out anything specific to a business: no ready-made data, dashboards, forms, or connections to outside services. You add those.

## Chat in a multi-app workspace

If you're running Chat alongside other apps under [Dispatch](/docs/template-dispatch), it can act as the front door to your workspace. A single conversation can reach into the apps around it instead of living on its own. See [Chat in a Multi-App Workspace](/docs/template-chat-integrations) for how the connection works.

## What's next

- [**Features**](/docs/template-chat-features) — conversations, the example action, teams, and admin pages, with steps for each
- [**Talk to the Agent**](/docs/template-chat-agent) — what the agent can see, and prompts to try
- [**Chat in a Multi-App Workspace**](/docs/template-chat-integrations) — connecting Chat to Dispatch and other apps
- [**Developer Guide**](/docs/template-chat-developers) — quick start, actions, the chat route, and adding your first feature
- [**Clips**](/docs/template-clips), [**Slides**](/docs/template-slides), and [**Design**](/docs/template-design) — finished apps for people who want to start using an agent without building one
- [**Templates**](/docs/cloneable-saas) — the Cloneable SaaS model, and every other template to start from
- [**Getting Started**](/docs/getting-started) — the framework fundamentals: actions, application state, and live sync
- [**Automation-First Apps**](/docs/pure-agent-apps) — agents with no browser screen, for jobs, queues, and scripts