Chat with nod

Chat is where you give nod work, answer its questions and get the results.

nod keeps one ongoing conversation with you. The desktop app, the web app, Telegram and WhatsApp all add to that same conversation, so nod remembers what you said in any of them.

nod follows your conversation language, including questions, confirmations and connection instructions. Only your own messages set it, never your email or other data, and before you've written anything, such as at the start of setup, nod writes in English. You can request another language at any point. Asking for an email or document in a different language applies to that output; a short acknowledgement keeps the conversation's language. Region, date format and time zone are separate preferences.

Send a message

Type in the message box and press Enter. Press Shift+Enter for a new line.

Attach files. Select Attach files, paste an image or drop files on the box. Each file stays inside the composer while it uploads. Select it to open the same file viewer used for sent attachments, or retry or remove a failed upload. Each file can be 90 MB or smaller. nod gets a copy in its workspace. It sees PNG, JPEG and WebP images directly, up to 3.75 MB each and 16 MB per message, unless the model you chose can't read images.
Reply to a message. Hover over a message and select its arrow, or right-click inside the bubble, then select Reply or Copy. On touch screens, use the visible arrow. The time appears in the bottom-right corner of each bubble.

Keep talking while nod works

You don't have to wait. The message box stays open while nod works. For work that takes more than a few seconds, nod says in one line what it will do, works without narrating, then answers. If you'd otherwise hear nothing for a while (half a minute in nod web, a few minutes in chat apps), it sends one short line on what it found and what's next. A file nod shares is attached to its next answer, or sent on its own when none follows.

Reply to a task's message to continue that task. A message without a reply target goes to the main chat. If it clearly changes an existing task, nod sends your message to that task. If the target is unclear, nod asks which task you mean.

nod does work it can finish now in the main chat, even when it takes several steps, such as reading your inbox and drafting replies. Work that has to outlive its answer gets a saved task session: it waits on someone or something, runs for a long stretch, or runs alongside other jobs. You can discuss other work while a task runs. Updates may wait for the current step to finish. Different tasks can continue in parallel. See Track tasks.

Answer nod's questions

When a task needs a decision, an approval or your help in its browser, it asks and waits. Reply to its question to continue the session that asked. Other tasks can keep working. For actions that need a yes or no, see Approvals.

nod doesn't ask for passwords or card numbers in chat. It uses a saved login or a private form instead. See Vault.

Stop nod

To stop nod, select Stop next to the send button.

The main Stop control ends active work, cancels queued messages and open questions, and closes all open tasks. To stop only one task, open its preview and select Stop. Your schedules stay configured. Stop can't undo something that already happened, such as an email that was already sent.

When a run stops on an error, nod tells you what failed, in the main chat or as a reply to the affected task, with the error's own details, such as low credits or a rejected key with your model provider. Its next turn knows what went wrong. If nod restarts during a run, that run fails and nod posts an interruption notice. nod never repeats failed or interrupted work on its own. Saved tasks and waiting questions survive a restart.

If nod may have sent or changed something, verify the result yourself or ask nod to inspect it before continuing. Don't make a new attempt while the result is unclear.

Choose the model

Open the Settings page, then Models to choose the model nod uses from your connected providers. See Models.

Desktop shortcuts

In the desktop app, hold Command on a Mac or Ctrl on Windows and Linux to show shortcut hints. Use that key with 1–5 for Chat, Tasks, Apps, Channels and Trust; B expands or collapses the sidebar, and comma opens Settings. Web browsers keep their own shortcuts.

React to messages

To react to one of nod's replies, hover over the bubble and select its reaction icon. Pick a quick reaction, or choose More emoji to search and scroll through the full picker. On touch screens, the reaction icon is always visible. Your reaction appears at the bottom of the bubble. Select it to remove it. nod takes a reaction as feedback on that reply, never as an answer to a question or an approval.

nod sometimes reacts to your messages too, such as ✅ when you say yes to something it offered or ❤️ when you thank it. It reacts only now and then, and a reaction never replaces its reply.

Open links in replies

Hover over a link in one of nod's replies, or focus it with the keyboard, to see its full address. Select the address to open the page, or press Enter on the focused link. Press Escape to dismiss the address.

Under a reply, nod lists the linked pages that publish a preview image, one row per page, in the order the links appear. Each row shows the link text, the page title when the page has one, and the full address as written in the reply. Hovering or focusing a link highlights its row, and hovering or focusing a row highlights its link. Rows appear as their images load. The first five rows show; select Show more for the rest. Links to pages without a preview image get no row, and links nod recognises as sign-in, Vault or payment pages are never previewed.

When a video page offers a player, such as YouTube or Vimeo, select the play button on its row to watch it in the chat. Your browser doesn't load the player until you select play.

nod's server reads the start of each linked page and its image, so your browser doesn't contact the site until you open or play it. Telegram and WhatsApp show their own previews.

Replies go back where you wrote

nod answers each request in the app you sent it from. A message from Telegram gets its reply on Telegram. Everything also appears in the chat in nod's own app. See Telegram and WhatsApp.

Send feedback

Select Send feedback at the top of the chat, choose Bug or issue, Idea or Other, and describe what happened. Feedback goes to the nod team at n8n.

After first-time setup, a short invitation points to Send feedback. Dismiss it with its close button or press Escape while the invitation or feedback button is focused; it stays dismissed on that device.

By default it includes a diagnostic report of your recent chat, actions and their results. Select Review to see the report, or clear Include diagnostic report before you send.

Start with an empty chat

nod has no button for a new conversation in normal use. When you run nod from source in development mode (pnpm dev), Clear messages at the top of the chat starts an empty chat and stops its running tasks.

Starts fresh	Stays
The chat you see and nod's working context	Your earlier messages, stored but no longer shown
The workspace folder	Memory, connected apps and Vault
The browser, with its temporary downloads	Saved browser sessions
Running and queued work, which is cancelled	Task history and schedules