Presets, history, and follow-ups

The War Room saves everything you run, so you rarely rebuild a council from scratch. This page covers three ways to reuse your work: save a table as a lineup you can seat again, reopen a past session to replay it, and ask a finished council a follow-up question. The War Room is available on the Pro plan and above and is rolling out in waves, so an eligible account may not see it yet.

Before you begin

Sign in to your account. The War Room runs inside the AI Console.
The War Room is available on the Pro plan and above. It is rolling out in waves, so an eligible account may still see a private-beta panel until it is switched on.
To save a lineup, seat a table in the configuration rail first. See The table and its seats.
To replay a session or ask a follow-up, run at least one council first. See Run your first council.

Steps

Reuse a council in three ways, described in the following sections.

Save and reuse a lineup

A lineup is a saved table: the seats and the format settings you configured, kept under a name. A lineup does not store the topic or a past debate, so you seat it against a fresh question each time. Presets are managed in a view titled Saved lineups and are also reachable from the rail.

Save the current table
In the rail or the Saved lineups view, select Save current lineup. The Save this lineup dialog captures the seats and settings currently in the rail. Enter a name (up to 80 characters) and confirm. A name already in use is rejected.
Seat a saved lineup
Open Saved lineups, find the lineup, and select Apply. The seats and format load back into the configuration rail, ready to start on a new topic.
Optional: rename or overwrite
Select Rename to change a lineup's name, or Overwrite with the current rail lineup to update a saved lineup to match what is in the rail now.
Optional: delete a lineup
Select Delete and confirm to remove a lineup permanently. Deleting a lineup does not touch any session you already ran.

Reopen a past council

Every session you run is saved to Past councils, your own private history. Reopen a session to replay it, seat its panel again, or hide one you no longer want to see.

Open Past councils
In the War Room header, select History. The Past councils view lists your sessions in a table with columns for Topic, Seats, Mode, Cost, Status, Date, and Actions. All seven columns show at every screen width; on a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways instead of dropping columns.
Find a session
Enter a topic in Search by topic, or filter by status: All, Complete, Running, Failed, or Cancelled. A count shows how many sessions match the current filter.
Open a replay
Select Open replay on a row to reopen that session read-only. The replay shows the full transcript, synthesis, and verdict exactly as they ran, with the live controls removed because the session is already finished.
Open the deep research report
Select Open deep research report on a completed session to open that session's Deep Research Report on its own. See The Deep Research Report.
Ask the same council a follow-up
Select Ask the same council a follow-up on a completed session to start a follow-up straight from history, without reopening the session first. See the follow-up section below.
Load a lineup into the rail
Select Load this lineup into the rail to seat that session's panel and settings back into the configuration rail, so you can run a fresh variant on a new topic.
Optional: archive a session
Select Archive and confirm to hide a session from the list. An archived session is kept, not deleted: its replay link and any follow-up lineage stay intact.

Ask the same council a follow-up

A follow-up puts a new question to the exact panel that just debated, without reseating the table. The platform convenes a new session that reuses the same seats, mode, and host, and links it to the one before it.

Open a finished session
Finish a session on screen, or open a completed one from Past councils. The follow-up composer, headed Ask the same council, sits under the verdict. A follow-up is offered only on a completed session.
Write the follow-up
In the composer, type your next question (up to 600 characters). A note confirms the run keeps the same seats, mode, and host as this session.
Send it to the same council
Select Ask the same council, or press Command and Enter (or Control and Enter). A new linked session starts with the same panel and settings.

Outputs

Saved lineup: a stored table of seats and format settings under your chosen name, listed with its seat count, its mode, and when it was last updated. Applying one loads that table back into the rail, ready to start on a new topic. A lineup never stores a topic or a past debate.
Replay: a read-only copy of a finished session, showing the transcript, the synthesis, and the verdict with no start control and no live spend readout. A replay is a snapshot of how the session ran and does not re-run.
Report: the report action on a completed session opens that session's Deep Research Report, the written research note the council produced. See The Deep Research Report.
Archive: a hide, not a delete. The session leaves your list, but its replay link and any follow-up lineage keep working.
Follow-up: a new session with the same seats, mode, and host, which appears in Past councils marked "follow-up" so you can trace the chain back to the session it continued.
Cost: the Cost column in Past councils shows each session's total in GNG credits. Saving, applying, replaying, searching, filtering, and archiving do not spend credits. A follow-up runs live and draws down credits like any session. For how a session is metered, see Spend cap and credits.

A reopened replay or a follow-up reproduces a council's verdict and synthesis, which are research support, not a recommendation.

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