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# Chat Mode

Chat is a simplified BonzAI Web conversation inside the side panel.

## Chat without a target

When no target is active, the target indicator says **None**. Ask any general question in the message box and press Enter.

## Chat about a target

1. Enable Overlay.
2. Hover a useful image or text region on the current page.
3. Click the centered **BonzAI+** capture button.
4. Return to Chat.
5. Ask what you want to know about this target.

An image target is displayed in Chat with a cover-style thumbnail so you can confirm what BonzAI+ sees.

## Clear the target

Use the target's remove action to return to free chat. Clearing a target does not clear the conversation.

## Clear messages

Use **Clear messages** to remove the current chat transcript. Markdown formatting is rendered in responses for headings, lists, emphasis, links, and code.

## When chat returns no answer

BonzAI+ retries or reports a clear failure instead of silently doing nothing. If a long conversation repeatedly fails:

* clear messages and restate the essential context;
* shorten the request;
* make sure the model status is ready;
* remove an unnecessarily large target;
* reopen the side panel if the browser suspended it.