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Applies to v3.6.1Reviewed 2026-04-20

Group chats

Achiral AI is a privacy-first collaborative AI platform for businesses, built on enterprise-grade, self-hosted, compliance-ready infrastructure. A group chat is a conversation with two or more humans, with or without one or more assistants participating. This page explains how group chats behave, who can see what, and how to manage participants.

Where to find it​

You start a group chat from the Assemble Team panel in your workspace, or by clicking Message on a row in the Team Directory. Once it's started, the conversation lives in your chat panel under Conversations in the workspace left navigation.

What it does​

  • Lets you bring multiple humans and one or more assistants into the same conversation.
  • Marks the person who started the conversation with a Creator badge (Crown icon).
  • Treats assistants as Observers by convention: they listen, and they only reply when @mentioned by name.
  • Shows the count at the top of the participants panel: "3 members · 2 observers."
  • Gives the Creator tools to add or remove participants at any time.

Members vs. Observers​

Every participant in a group chat is either a Member (human) or an Observer (assistant).

  • Members are the humans in the conversation — you and your teammates. Every member can read every message and can reply.
  • Observers are assistants — Chiro, your EA, or a teammate's EA. They read the conversation and respond only when explicitly mentioned with @{name} (for example, @Casey or @Chiro). This keeps group chats from becoming a wall of assistant chatter.

The Creator of a conversation can add and remove both members and observers. Non-creators can participate but can't add or remove others.

How to use it​

Start a group chat​

  1. Open the workspace. With no active conversation, click multiple tiles in Assemble Team — pick people, their EAs, or both. A green checkmark appears on each selection.
  2. Optionally include Chiro as an observer by clicking the standalone Chiro tile.
  3. Type your first message in the chat panel and send. The conversation opens with everyone in the room. Your row shows a Crown icon because you created it.

Add a participant to an existing group chat​

  1. With the conversation open, open the Participants panel (top-right of the chat).
  2. Click Add in the Members section or use the Assemble Team panel and click any new tile.
  3. The new participant joins immediately and everyone sees them appear in real time.

Only the Creator sees the Add button. If you didn't start the conversation, ask the Creator to add the person.

Mention an assistant​

In any group chat, type @ to see a list of observers you can mention. Pick the assistant's name.

@Casey summarize the last 10 messages in this thread.

Without the mention, assistants stay silent — this is intentional. It keeps group chats readable and prevents assistants from talking over each other.

Remove a participant​

  1. Creator only. Hover over a participant's row in the Participants panel.
  2. Click the red Remove icon that appears on hover.
  3. The participant stops receiving new messages. Their prior messages remain visible.

Leave a conversation​

If a group chat has at least three members (so the conversation can continue without you), a Leave Conversation button appears at the bottom of the Participants panel. Click it to remove yourself from the chat. You won't see new messages, and the remaining members see that you left.

You can't leave a two-person conversation — that would end the chat for the other person. Close it or ask the other person to start a fresh one instead.

What to expect​

  • Real-time updates. When someone joins, leaves, or sends a message, every participant sees it instantly.
  • Assistant silence by default. Observers reply only when @mentioned. This is the most important mental-model change from consumer AI.
  • Creator powers. Only the person who started the conversation can add or remove participants, unless your admin extends this to other roles.
  • Private EAs stay private. If you drop your own EA into a group chat, that EA participates in that conversation only. It doesn't spill your private 1:1 conversations with it into the group.
  • Observer privacy. Observers (assistants) read the conversation while present. If you remove an observer, it stops reading new messages.

Common questions​

Can I have multiple assistants in one group chat?

Yes. You can have Chiro, your EA, and a teammate's EA all in the same chat as observers. Mention whichever one you want a response from.

Does my EA learn from group chat content?

Your EA learns from conversations it's part of, including group chats. Content it reads in a group chat can inform its private responses to you later. If you don't want that, start a new conversation without your EA.

Can two EAs talk to each other?

If both are present as observers, you can mention one, and its response is visible to the other. But assistants don't spontaneously address one another — mentions are always human-initiated.

What happens if the Creator leaves?

The conversation continues. The Creator badge remains on the original creator's historical messages, but they're no longer in the Members list.

Reviewed 2026-04-20 for Achiral AI v3.6.1.