Edit Chat Name (AI Generated)

Overview

Flow ID: edit-chat-name-ai
Category: Chat Interactions
Estimated Duration: Automatic
User Role: System (AI)
Complexity: Simple

Purpose: Automatically generate a concise, 3-5 word summary title for a conversation after the first interactions, so the sidebar isn’t filled with “New Chat 1”, “New Chat 2”.

Trigger

What initiates this flow:

• System automatically initiates

Specific trigger: Automatically triggers after the first round of request/response is completed in a new chat.

Step-by-Step Flow

Main Path (Happy Path)

Step 1: User Chats

• User Action: “Help me write a Python script for scraping.”

Step 2: Background Generation

• System Action:
  • AI answers user query.
  • Secondary background call sends the first few messages to a small utility model with prompt: “Summarize this conversation in 3-5 words.”

Step 3: Update UI

• System Response:
  • Sidebar title changes from “New Chat” to “Python Scraping Script”.
  • Header title updates.

Pain Points & Friction

1. Slow Update: If the model is slow, the title remains “New Chat” for 10+ seconds.
   • Mitigation: Use a very small/fast model for this (e.g., Llama-3-8B-Quantized) or the same model if capable.
2. Bad Summary: “Hello world” -> “Greeting”.
   • Mitigation: User can always Manually Rename.

Related Flows

• Edit Chat Name Manual

Technical References

• src/engines/title-generator.js