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/export

Exports the current conversation as plain text.

/export opens a menu where you either copy the current conversation to the clipboard or save it as a plain text file. Messages and tool outputs are rendered as readable text — meant for a human to read, not as raw data or a structured format. If you pass a filename directly, e.g. /export session-notes.txt, the command skips the menu and writes straight to that file. Without an argument, you get the choice between clipboard and file. If you instead want to process the conversation programmatically, /export isn't the right tool according to the docs: for structured data for scripting, there are other paths, such as a non-interactive run with JSON output or accessing the session's locally stored transcript file.