# Conversations

A conversation is a thread of prompts with its own memory. A bare prompt continues the sandbox's current conversation, even if you switch harness; `--new` starts another. Different conversations in one sandbox run in parallel; prompts in the same conversation run one at a time.

```sh
harebox new --name convo
harebox prompt current "echo a" --harness shell
harebox prompt current "echo b" --harness shell
harebox prompt current "echo c" --harness shell --new
harebox conversations current
```

| Event | Survives? |
|---|---|
| Sleep and wake | Yes: the harness process itself keeps running |
| Stop and resume | Yes: the harness's session is on the disk, and HareBox keeps its ID with the conversation |
| Fork | Yes: the fork gets its own copy of every conversation, with a new ID and `forked_from` set, and each branch continues separately |

A harness's session belongs to that harness. When a conversation switches from one harness to another, the new harness starts its own session in the same conversation.

Events are durable, so a dropped stream resumes from its cursor without loss.