Search your work

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Matching-passage navigation and the CLIO Search assistant need CLIO v0.9.5 or later. If your app looks different, check features and versions.

Open Search in the sidebar or press Ctrl+K (⌘K on macOS). Type a name or paste a sentence from a conversation. Matching text is highlighted, and session matches appear before files.

Session names, message passages and file paths show where your words matched. The message result also names its workspace and offers Open matching passage. Click to enlarge.

Return to a matching passage

Paste the sentence you remember. Matching messages shows the relevant passage rather than the beginning of a long answer. Choose the result to open that conversation at the matching message and highlight its text. CLIO reveals the containing segment when it was collapsed.

The excerpt is centered on the pasted phrase, including when the stored answer uses Markdown emphasis. Opening it carries the message, part and search text to the conversation. Click to enlarge.

After opening the result, the conversation scrolls to the matching sentence. The highlight stays on the source text so you can read the surrounding answer. Click to enlarge.

Ordinary search looks through retained messages and session names on the connected CLIO service. Workspace files matches paths in the workspace you are viewing. Use CLIO Search when you want an answer from file contents or help finding work across the service’s other registered workspaces.

Ask CLIO Search

1. Open Search and press Tab, or choose Ask Agent.
2. Enter an ordinary question, such as “Where did we discuss the reviewer handoff?” Press Enter to submit it.
3. Read the answer and open its source citations. A message citation returns to its passage. A file citation opens the correct workspace’s source panel at the referenced line, with matching text highlighted.
4. Ask a follow-up in the same search box. Press Escape to return to ordinary search; press it again to close the menu.

CLIO Search uses a separate read-only conversation. Its source links navigate to the original work; the search exchange is not added to the conversation behind the menu. Click to enlarge.

Choose its model in Settings → Fleet → CLIO Search. Without an override it inherits the current conversation’s model, then the service default. Entering Tab mode alone does not start a model request: submission starts the search.

The dedicated clio-search agent can read registered conversations and workspace text files. It cannot edit them, run shell commands, or search another CLIO service. Closing search deletes its temporary conversation.

File-content scans and source reads are bounded. The assistant should describe unreadable sources, shortened excerpts and incomplete scans when they affect an answer. A source that was not found in a limited scan is not proof that it does not exist. For a complete file view, choose that file in the source panel.

For session-scoped recall and context summaries, see What CLIO remembers.