Pausing and stopping
You can pause the assistant at any moment, let it go on, or stop it. Nothing it already did is lost when it pauses or stops, and the steps it made one after another can be undone in one step.
Pause and resume
- Pause in the header of the Assistant tab, Pause the build on the strip over the canvas, Pause in the status bar, or Assistant ▸ Pause the assistant. The strip then says "The assistant is paused at step 3 of 8. Press Continue to go on or Stop to end the build; what is built stays."
- Resume (or Resume the build, Assistant ▸ Resume the assistant) lets it go on from where it stopped.
Stop
Stop (the round button that takes the place of Send while the assistant works, the status bar, the strip or Assistant ▸ Stop the assistant) ends the work: "Stops the run. Changes already applied stay in the graph." The conversation says "Stopped: 4 nodes, 3 links. What is done stays in the graph." An answer you stopped says "Stopped by you: the answer may be unfinished."
The pause at the step limit
Each action of the assistant is a step: reading the catalog, adding a node, drawing a link. After Steps per answer steps (60 by default, from 4 to 200, in Settings ▸ Assistant) it pauses by itself. An amber Pause point card says "The assistant used 60 steps and paused. This pause comes from the “Steps per answer” setting (Settings ▸ Assistant). Continue carries on; Stop ends the work. Changes already applied stay." Press Continue (the main button) or Stop. A text-to-image build takes about 16 steps. If you end the run from the status bar or the menu instead, the card says "Stopped. Changes already applied stay." and no longer offers Continue.
The pause after failures
After 3 failed attempts in a row it pauses too: "The assistant paused after 3 failed attempts in a row. Something keeps failing. Check the cards above, then Continue to let it try again in the same run, or Stop."
Undo a build
After it has stopped or finished, one Ctrl+Z undoes the steps it made one after another ("Undo: the assistant's consecutive steps (16)"). While it still builds: "The assistant is still building. Stop it to undo."