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Chat Features Overview

Open WebUI provides a comprehensive set of chat features designed to enhance your interactions with AI models. This page provides an overview of the key chat capabilities, with links to dedicated pages for more detailed information.

Core Chat Features​

  • 📁 Folders & Projects: Transform folders into powerful project workspaces with custom system prompts and attached knowledge bases.

  • 🔗 URL Parameters: Configure chat sessions through URL parameters, enabling quick setup of models, tools, and other features.

  • ⚙️ Chat Parameters: Control system prompts and advanced parameters at different levels (per-chat, per-account, or per-model).

  • ✨ Autocomplete: AI-powered text prediction that helps you write prompts faster using a task model.

  • 🗨️ Chat Sharing: Share conversations locally or via the Open WebUI Community platform with controllable privacy settings.

  • 🔍 History & Search: Navigate and search your previous conversations, or allow models to search them autonomously via native tools.

  • 🕒 Temporal Awareness: How models understand time and date, including native tools for precise time calculations.

  • 🧠 Reasoning & Thinking Models: Specialized support for models that generate internal chains of thought using thinking tags.