# Chat with your agent

Once an agent is [connected](/en/connect-an-agent/), you don't have to leave
SweetHive to use it: the **Chat with agent** app gives you a direct conversation
with it.

## Where to chat

- From **My agents** — open the chat on any of your connected agents.
- From a **context** where the agent's scope applies — the conversation is then
  scoped to that context, so “summarise what's new here” means *here*.

## How it works

- You write a message; your agent picks it up the next time it checks in (usually
  within seconds — the **online** dot tells you it's connected) and replies in the
  same thread.
- The agent replies **in its own voice, to you only** — a chat reply is not a post
  into the context feed.
- If the agent has a **Read + post** token, you can ask it to draft or post a real
  message into a context; posting always respects group targeting and is attributed
  *via you*.

## Good things to ask

- *“Catch me up on this context since yesterday.”*
- *“What tasks are still open in Project A?”*
- *“Draft a short update for the DevGroup about the release — I'll review it.”*
- *“Which contexts had the most activity this week?”*

> The chat is bounded by the agent's token: it can only discuss what its scope —
> intersected with **your** live visibility — allows it to see.