> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.telnyx.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# chat

```bash theme={null}
telnyx-acp chat
telnyx-acp chat support-agent --conversation alice
telnyx-acp chat --local
```

| Flag | Meaning |
| - | - |
| `--conversation <id>` | Continue this conversation. Without it, a fresh `session-<id>`, printed on the way in and out so that it can be resumed. |
| `--local` | Target the running `dev` instead of the deployed agent. |

`chat` keeps one conversation open in the terminal. Each line typed is one turn on it, the reply is printed, and the prompt comes back. Without a name, it talks to the project's agent, the running `dev`'s with `--local`. `/exit`, `/quit`, Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D leave, and on the way out `chat` prints the command that resumes the conversation. `/new` starts another. The conversation's memory profile is its own name, the `session-<id>`.

`chat` needs a terminal and takes no `--json`.