[Feedback]: Add ability to edit previous prompts in chat history

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
shell
Domain
desktop, frontend

Research direction

The issue names only the Chat and composer product area; no files, tests, or entry points are provided. Start by locating the chat-history message and composer components, then trace how submitting a prompt creates assistant responses. Done means a prior user message can be edited and resubmitted with the thread regenerated from that point.

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Description

enhancement
What problem are you trying to solve?

Cursor and other AI IDEs let you click/edit a previous prompt in the conversation history and re-run from there. Command Code's chat doesn't support this — to re-run a past prompt you can only copy it manually.

What would improve it?

It would be a big UX improvement to let users edit any prior message inline, then submit the whole thread from that point (regenerating the assistant response from the edited message).

What do you do today?

Just keep sending the edits in next prompts.

Product area

Chat and composer

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
80
Forks
2
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