Context and control
Agentic Chat gives the model context through explicit attachments and vault tools. Vault tools accept only vault-relative paths. The plugin rejects .. and absolute paths, and ignored paths report as not found.
Context attachments
The active note is attached as a removable chip. You can add note, heading, block, folder, drag-and-drop, and selected-text attachments.
The ignore list always wins. Ignored notes are invisible to the agent and are skipped by auto-attachment.
Root standing-instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and GEMINI.md) are also skipped by auto-attachment. They are implicit context whenever present, so they do not need a removable active-note chip.
Working directories
Working directories limit which folders the agent can use without extra approval. Use /add-dir <folder> to grant a vault folder and /dirs to list or revoke grants.
In Safe mode:
- reads and writes inside granted folders can run according to the configured approval policy
- touching anything outside the granted folders asks first, including reads
- denied tools remain denied
- ignored paths remain invisible
Approval gates
Read-only vault tools run without approval. Mutating tools can be configured globally or per tool as:
| Policy | Behavior |
|---|---|
| allow | Run without asking. |
| ask | Show arguments and a diff before running. |
| deny | Block the tool. |
YOLO auto-approves most mutating tools until you switch back. Recursive folder deletes still ask, and per-tool deny still wins.
Plan mode
/plan is sticky and read-only. It blocks writes, edits, renames, deletes, frontmatter changes, and subagent writes until you click the Plan badge or run /config.
Compaction
Long sessions compact automatically before they overflow the configured context window. Run /compact [instructions] to summarize older turns immediately. Anything after the command is passed as guidance for what the summary should preserve.
Compaction summaries preserve artifact references for large tool outputs, so you can reopen exact source snapshots with read_artifact or search_artifact after older turns are summarized away.