Chat & Agent
The Chat Panel
The chat panel is where you talk to the agent. Describe a task in plain language and LakshX plans, edits files, and runs commands across your repo — showing every change as it goes.
Composing a message
Type what you want in the composer and send. You can enrich a prompt several ways:
- @-mention files — start typing
@to autocomplete a path and pin it into context. - Attach the current file — add the file you’re looking at with one click.
- Drag & drop — drop files straight onto the composer to attach them.
- Slash commands — type
/for built-in and custom commands (see below).
Steering a run
As the agent works, tool calls and its thinking stream live into the transcript, so you can watch exactly what it’s doing. If it heads the wrong way, hit Stop and send a correction — you don’t have to wait for it to finish.
Modes decide how much it can do
Slash commands at a glance
Type / to open the command popover. For example, to flip the agent into read-only planning mode:
/plan# Switch to Review mode — research first, produce a planSee the full list, plus how to write your own, on the Slash Commands page.
Every change is reversible
LakshX checkpoints your files before it edits them. Each response carries a Files changed card with per-file Undo, and you can rewind the whole conversation to any earlier message. Nothing the agent does is one-way.
Multiple agents in parallel
For research-heavy work the agent can fan out subtasks to parallel subagents and stream their progress back into the chat — reads are parallelized while writes stay serialized on the main thread for safety.