[Karrot_Kream]

So do you have gptel configured to ask Claude to respond in org-mode? Do you then use elisp to write the chat into a VCS-controlled dir? Do you use org-mode to record the conversation between LLM and user?

Curious because I've been thinking of writing a chat mode based on gptel to more closely mimic the behavior of Claude Desktop. I find the vanilla gptel experience to be pretty bleh but I know it's meant to be extensible and not necessarily a user-facing experience.

[swannodette]

Yes. gptel supports two output modes out of the box, markdown (meh), and org-mode. I make an org-mode heading with my question, then I press `C-c <enter>`. Claude will use the area bellow the heading for its answer. It will make sub-headings, code blocks, lists, tables, etc. If I have another question then I make a new top level org-mode heading.

I started doing this because I got fed-up with Claude Desktop for my StackOverflow style programming questions - and then stumbled upon using it to configure Emacs.