Message types
Current as of 20 Feb 2026
- 🤖 Greeting message
- This is a greeting from the AI that you receive when you first log in. Prior to this, the AI had been given a system prompt.
- User message
- User queries are flushed against the right-hand side and are orange colored. Here you can prompt the agent to do things, re-run, or confirm instructions. Abuse it like you would your bioinformaticians.
- 🤖 Tool call
- The agent sends an instruction to a tool. The contents of the instructions (if any) are inside the code block. Tool calls have the
- 🛠️ Tool result
- The tool responds with the result. The type of result depends on the tool called. It can be a code block, a document, or a graph with links to download.
- 🤖 AI answer
- This is the final message from the agent. When this message appears, the user is able to continue prompting.
- System message
- This is injected into the conversation when the user operates the command buttons e.g., Usage cost, Erase memory, Repair AI. System messages have a transparent background color and are not part of the conversation history. The AI is not aware of these messages.
⁉️ Exceptions
- This occurs when the agent responds with a message that is unexpected. Typically the error is "context length exceeded", or "unparsed tool message". Refer to troubleshooting.
