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Claudette keeps your conversation history in memory for each chat view. As a session grows, that history is resent with every new question, which increases token costs. You can clear the history to reduce costs, export a conversation to a JSON file, and import it later to continue where you left off.

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Clearing chat history

Run Claudette: Clear Chat History from the command palette or Tools > Claudette > Clear Chat History. Clearing history resets the in-memory conversation for the active chat. Claude no longer receives previous messages when you ask your next question. The messages already rendered in the chat view are not deleted—they remain visible so you can scroll back and read them. When to use this: Clear history when a conversation has grown long and you want to ask a new question without the overhead of resending the full history. It is also useful when you want to change the topic and avoid Claude being influenced by earlier context.

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Exporting a conversation

Run Claudette: Export Chat History to save the current conversation to a JSON file. Claudette reads the conversation from the currently active view in the window and opens a save dialog. Choose a location and filename — the default is chat_history.json. The exported file contains the full conversation in the following format: 
{
  "messages": [
    { "role": "user", "content": "Your question here" },
    { "role": "assistant", "content": "Claude's response here" }
  ]
}
The export captures the conversation messages (roles and content). It does not include context files you added to the chat, your settings, or any model selection.

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Importing a conversation

Run Claudette: Import Chat History to load a previously exported JSON file. Claudette opens a file picker filtered to .json files. After you select a file, the conversation is validated, and its messages are rendered into a new chat view. The conversation history is restored so you can continue asking questions where you left off. If the file contains messages that don’t match the expected format (missing role or content fields, or an unrecognised role), those messages are silently skipped. At least one valid message is required to proceed with the import.

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