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Describe the solution you'd like?
Extend conversation forking so I can highlight text in an agent response, right-click, and choose Fork conversation with selection (or similar).
The action should:
- Open the fork in a new pane by default, consistent with Warp's existing conversation-fork behavior.
- Preserve the original conversation unchanged.
- Inherit the parent conversation's context up to the selected response.
- Attach or quote the highlighted text in the new fork's input/context so I can immediately ask a follow-up about that exact excerpt.
- Let me edit the prefilled input before sending.
- Work while an
askUserQuestion/clarification prompt is pending, so I can ask a side question about an option or wording without first answering or disrupting the original flow.
This could complement the existing /fork, /fork-from, response-block menu, and fork-footer actions rather than replace them. ChatGPT's desktop app has a similar branching workflow.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes an agent response contains a detail I want to investigate, but asking about it in the current conversation bloats or derails the context for the main task. The same issue occurs during a structured question flow: I may need clarification about the question itself before I can confidently answer it.
Today I can fork the broader conversation, but there is no direct, selection-scoped action that carries the exact excerpt into a side thread. Copying the text, manually creating a fork, and pasting it is unnecessary friction and makes the relationship between the side question and source output less clear.
Additional context
Related prior issue: #7887 introduced the broader conversation-forking request. This issue is specifically about initiating a fork from highlighted response text and seeding the new thread with that selection.
Suggested interaction:
- Highlight text in an agent response.
- Right-click and select Fork conversation with selection.
- Warp opens a side pane containing a fork of the conversation.
- The selected excerpt is attached to or prefilled in the input.
- Ask follow-up questions in the fork while the parent conversation remains exactly where it was.
Operating system (OS)
Cross-platform
How important is this feature to you?
4
Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:39cc6478-1249-4ee7-950b-c428edfeecd1
Ignore
Pre-submit Checks
Describe the solution you'd like?
Extend conversation forking so I can highlight text in an agent response, right-click, and choose Fork conversation with selection (or similar).
The action should:
askUserQuestion/clarification prompt is pending, so I can ask a side question about an option or wording without first answering or disrupting the original flow.This could complement the existing
/fork,/fork-from, response-block menu, and fork-footer actions rather than replace them. ChatGPT's desktop app has a similar branching workflow.Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes an agent response contains a detail I want to investigate, but asking about it in the current conversation bloats or derails the context for the main task. The same issue occurs during a structured question flow: I may need clarification about the question itself before I can confidently answer it.
Today I can fork the broader conversation, but there is no direct, selection-scoped action that carries the exact excerpt into a side thread. Copying the text, manually creating a fork, and pasting it is unnecessary friction and makes the relationship between the side question and source output less clear.
Additional context
Related prior issue: #7887 introduced the broader conversation-forking request. This issue is specifically about initiating a fork from highlighted response text and seeding the new thread with that selection.
Suggested interaction:
Operating system (OS)
Cross-platform
How important is this feature to you?
4
Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:39cc6478-1249-4ee7-950b-c428edfeecd1
Ignore