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Chat

Chat is how you interact with Stilla. Ask questions, give instructions, upload files, and collaborate with your team — all in one conversation.

AI chat

Stilla processes text, images, audio, video, and PDF files natively. You can:

  • Ask questions about your projects, issues, or codebase
  • Upload screenshots or documents for analysis
  • Request actions like creating issues, sending messages, or writing code
  • Get summaries of meetings, PRs, or Slack threads

Stilla doesn't just use what's in the conversation — it actively searches across all your connected tools to find relevant context and give accurate, current answers.

Shared chat

Everyone in a shared chat sees the same context, the same responses, and the same change proposals. This eliminates the "I asked AI about this separately" problem.

Multiple team members can:

  • Provide additional context the AI needs
  • Ask follow-up questions
  • Review and act on change proposals together
  • Collaborate with AI in real time

Shared chat turns Stilla from a personal tool into a team coordination layer.

Private chat

For anything you'd rather keep to yourself, create a private canvas or a private chat. There's also an "Ask" mode for asking questions without modifying the canvas or creating change proposals (useful for looking things up during meetings without others seeing, or just finding answers on your own).

Chat surfaces

Use Stilla chat from multiple surfaces:

  • Stilla desktop app (macOS): Full-featured with canvas editing, change proposals, and meeting transcription. Download here.
  • Stilla web app: Access from any browser at app.stilla.ai. Full chat and canvas support.
  • Slack: Mention @Stilla in any connected channel to ask questions or request actions. See Slack integration.
  • GitHub: Mention @Stilla in issues and PRs. See GitHub integration.
  • Linear: Mention @Stilla in issues. See Linear integration.
  • Discord: Mention @Stilla in any connected channel to ask questions, or request actions

Canvas integration

Chat lives alongside canvases. From the chat sidebar, Stilla can:

  • Write content directly to the canvas
  • Create change proposals for external systems
  • Reference previous conversations and decisions
  • Process uploaded files and surface relevant information

The chat and canvas work together — chat is for conversation and instructions, the canvas is for persistent, editable output.