Searching your history

Two pages give you two different ways in: Search federates a query across your project and your history, and the Conversations page carries its own filter language for digging through past dialogue.

Type a phrase, hit Enter. The query fans out to seven sources, each with its own toggle above the results:

  • Code — your project's codebase, as ARDS has it cloned.
  • Chat — your conversations, both your inputs and ARDS replies.
  • Expert — expert knowledge attached to your projects.
  • Docs — documentation sources.
  • Git — your repository's commit history.
  • CI — CI pipeline results.
  • Web — the public web.

Each result links back to the original record, and per-source pills above the list show how many results each source returned. Results come Ranked (one merged list) or Grouped (by source).

Show advanced filters adds a File filter (e.g. *.cs *.razor), a Branch, From / To date pickers, and Max per source.

AI Synthesis

Tick AI Synthesis before searching and ARDS writes an answer over the top of the results — a short synthesis with citations back to the individual sources it drew from. It costs one model call (it shows up on the Costs page as search_synthesis), so leave it off for quick lookups.

Filtering conversations

The search bar on the Conversations page is a different tool: a filter language over your conversation list. Switch it from Simple to Advanced and the bar accepts queries like:

  • title:"architecture review", body:refactor, id:a1b2 — text fields.
  • model:opus, status:active, tag:CI — attribute filters.
  • messages:>5, tokens:>10000 — numeric thresholds.
  • after:monday, after:yesterday, age:>24h — time.
  • is:pinned, is:archived — flags.
  • has:missions, has:tasks, missions.status:failed — relations.

Terms combine with spaces (AND), OR between alternatives, and a leading - negates: -status:completed. The ? button opens the full syntax reference with clickable examples; the query-builder button composes a query visually; and the bookmark button holds preset queries plus any you save with Save current query....

Intelligence dashboard

Intelligence is not a search-history view — it's a per-project knowledge page. Open a project and its Intelligence entry appears in the sidebar, with tabs:

  • Profile — what ARDS knows about the codebase: primary language, framework, build system, completeness.
  • Knowledge — the knowledge sources registered for the project, and discovery to find more.
  • Prisms — analysis passes over the project.
  • Governance — governance rules in force.
  • Alerts — things that need attention.

Use it when you want to see what ARDS understands about a project — not to look up something you said last week.

  • Coder logs — they're per-task, on the task page. Search doesn't index them.
  • External provider logs (Anthropic's, Synthetic's). Search doesn't reach those.

Privacy reminder

Search results are scoped to your tenant. There is no cross-tenant search, and there is no operator search of your tenant. (Operators can see system logs for debugging, but not the contents of your prompts or model outputs.)

If you want a record deleted — say you pasted a secret into a conversation by accident — open a support case and we'll wipe the specific record (we can do this on demand for v1; longer-term we'll add a self-service path).