# Specialists can read your other conversations for context

> A specialist can now look up what you've discussed with your other specialists, reading only your own chats, so you don't have to repeat yourself.

Oct 8, 2026. Topics: Specialists, Agents. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-10-08-read-other-conversations

You shouldn't have to repeat yourself to every specialist. Since October 8, a specialist can check what you've been discussing elsewhere: if you worked out a plan with your Chief of Staff on Monday, the specialist that carries it out on Tuesday can read that conversation instead of asking you again.

### How it works

- **Two tools.** One lists your conversations across every specialist, newest first, optionally narrowed to one specialist or filtered by title. The other loads up to 25 of them into the specialist's workspace.
- **Read on disk, not in context.** Loaded conversations are written as files the specialist can search, so a long thread doesn't flood the model's context.
- **Your chats only.** A specialist reads only the conversations of the person it's talking to, and only in runs that belong to that person, never in a background run acting for someone else.
- **Clean transcripts.** Loaded conversations include only what you and the specialist said, each line labeled with its real speaker and time, without tool calls or hidden reasoning.
- **Reference, never instructions.** Old conversations are marked as reference material, so text quoted in an earlier chat is never treated as a new instruction.

Pairs with [New task](/changelog/2026-10-08-new-task-routing), which routes each new request to the right specialist.