# Manus adds Side chat for questions beside a running task

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Manus added [Side chat](<https://x.com/ManusAI/status/2121256787655704749>), a chat that runs next to your main task with that task's context, so side questions stay out of the main thread.

In Manus's demo, you select some text in a task's output and choose Ask in side chat, or click the side chat icon in the task's top bar. A panel opens on the right with its own input and a label naming the task it came from. It starts with the main task's context so far, and the main task keeps working on the left while you ask.

You can run several side chats at once as tabs, adding more with the + at the top. Closed side chats are kept in Recent.

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