Before filing
Closest existing issue
#104 (Undo (Ctrl+Z) does not work in the chat composer) is about text before sending. Nothing found on editing after sending.
Is this new, or an improvement?
New capability
The problem, in your terms
I send a message, realise straight away I left something out, and stop the agent mid-turn. Stopping is my signal that I want to change what I asked, but there's no way to change it. The message is final the moment it lands, so I have to correct myself in a follow-up and leave the wrong version sitting in the history and in the model's context.
What you do today
Either send a follow-up correction and accept that the wrong message stays in context, or use Fork from this message on the last good message and retype. Forking works well, but it costs me an entire new chat every time I fix a typo.
What you'd like to see
Edit one of my own sent messages and re-run from there, replacing the original rather than appending a correction.
One thing that might be relevant: an edit button appears to be half-built already. MessageBubbleActions.tsx renders a pencil action for user messages, gated on an onEditMessage handler, and in 0.6.2 nothing in the chat view ever supplies that handler — the only caller that does is a design-system preview page, with a no-op. So the button exists but can never render. I don't know whether that's abandoned or in progress, but it seemed worth mentioning.
Why this belongs in Berd itself
Editing a sent message means changing session state and re-running the turn. That's Berd's own chat surface, so nothing outside can reach it.
Non-goals
- Only my own messages, not the agent's.
- Not asking to edit while a turn is still running. Stopping first is fine.
- Not asking to keep the old version as history or a diff. Overwriting is fine.
- Not asking to change how forking works today.
Berd version
0.6.2
Operating system
macOS (Apple Silicon)
Filed via gh (an agent helped investigate and draft; I reviewed before posting). Laid out with the feature-request form's fields since the API path doesn't render the form.
Before filing
Closest existing issue
#104 (Undo (Ctrl+Z) does not work in the chat composer) is about text before sending. Nothing found on editing after sending.
Is this new, or an improvement?
New capability
The problem, in your terms
I send a message, realise straight away I left something out, and stop the agent mid-turn. Stopping is my signal that I want to change what I asked, but there's no way to change it. The message is final the moment it lands, so I have to correct myself in a follow-up and leave the wrong version sitting in the history and in the model's context.
What you do today
Either send a follow-up correction and accept that the wrong message stays in context, or use Fork from this message on the last good message and retype. Forking works well, but it costs me an entire new chat every time I fix a typo.
What you'd like to see
Edit one of my own sent messages and re-run from there, replacing the original rather than appending a correction.
One thing that might be relevant: an edit button appears to be half-built already.
MessageBubbleActions.tsxrenders a pencil action for user messages, gated on anonEditMessagehandler, and in 0.6.2 nothing in the chat view ever supplies that handler — the only caller that does is a design-system preview page, with a no-op. So the button exists but can never render. I don't know whether that's abandoned or in progress, but it seemed worth mentioning.Why this belongs in Berd itself
Editing a sent message means changing session state and re-running the turn. That's Berd's own chat surface, so nothing outside can reach it.
Non-goals
Berd version
0.6.2
Operating system
macOS (Apple Silicon)
Filed via
gh(an agent helped investigate and draft; I reviewed before posting). Laid out with the feature-request form's fields since the API path doesn't render the form.