Chat

Chat (/chat) is the conversational surface for your coaching staff. Where practice plans, game briefs, and dev plans are structured artifacts, chat is the open-ended workspace — anything you'd ask an assistant coach in the office, you ask here.

Starting a conversation

The Chat page opens to a fresh prompt with a short greeting and four starter chips coaches commonly use:

• Plan tomorrow's practice focus
• Review our defensive strategy for Friday's game
• Help develop a player's shooting skills
• Weekly conditioning and load management check-in

Click a starter or type your own question into the input. Press Cmd+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows) to send.

How responses work

Behind the scenes, your message is routed by Coach Prime to the relevant specialists — offense, defense, player development, strength & conditioning — based on what you asked. Each specialist contributes; Coach Prime synthesizes and replies. Responses stream in token by token so you can read as the staff thinks.

You don't have to pick a specialist — the routing is automatic. If you want to influence it, say so in the message ("ask Coach Shield about…").

Mentioning players, plays, and drills

Type @ to open the entity mention dropdown. It fuzzy-searches across your roster, plays, drills, and other program entities — pick one to embed it in your message. The agents see the resolved entity (with all its data), not just the name, so referring to a player by mention is more useful than typing their name as plain text.

Slash commands (/) open a palette of common actions for quick access.

Conversations and history

Past conversations live in the sidebar, sorted by recency. Each item shows a preview and the time of the last message. Click any conversation to reopen it — agents have full context of the prior thread when you continue.

When to use chat vs. structured generation

• Use a generation flow (Practice / Game / Player Dev) when you want a finished, structured artifact you'll reuse, edit, and refer back to.
• Use chat for exploration, quick questions, draft thinking, "what would you do here?" — anything you don't need as a saved document.

Chat conversations are also useful as a scratch space before you generate something formal: hash out the idea with the staff, then run the generator with the focus areas the conversation surfaced.