# Mindview
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This feature is available only on the Professional Plan and above.
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## **Introduction**
The **Mindview** section provides visibility into the **prompt** that was sent to the model to generate your character’s response.\
It’s a powerful tool for:
* Understanding how your character processes context.
* Improving your **Character Description**, **Knowledge Bank**, and **Language Settings**.
* Troubleshooting unexpected or inconsistent responses.
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## **Accessing Mindview**
You can open the **Mindview** tab directly from the left navigation menu of the Convai Playground.
When first opening it, you’ll be asked to select a **conversation or interaction** from the **Memory** tab.\
Alternatively, you can start a new conversation — Mindview will automatically display the data for the **latest message**.
To access Mindview for a **previous interaction**:
1. Navigate to the **Memory** tab.
2. Expand the desired **session**.
3. Click the **Mindview icon** next to any message to open its corresponding prompt view.
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## Understanding the Mindview Interface
Once opened, you’ll see a structured view of how the model interpreted and responded to an input.
### **Header Information**
At the top of the screen, the following details are displayed:
* **Session ID** – Identifies which session the interaction belongs to.
* **Model Name** – Shows the LLM used to generate the response.
* **User Query** – Displays the exact message or query that initiated this prompt.
### **Main Prompt Section**
This is the core of Mindview. It shows the **entire chain of messages** (System, Assistant, and User) that formed the complete prompt sent to the model.
Each section provides insight into how the model understands the character’s context and instructions before producing a response.
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## What Influences the Main Prompt
The main prompt displayed in Mindview is dynamically constructed using multiple aspects of your character and session:
| Source | Description |
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| **Character Description** | Defines the character’s backstory and core context. Appears within `` ... `` tags. |
| **Language and Speech** | Includes the allowed languages and relevant speech configuration. |
| **Personality Traits** | Controls the conversational tone, emotion, and formality level of the character. |
| **Narrative Design** | Incorporates objectives or context from active Narrative Design sections into the user’s input. |
| **Knowledge Bank** | Adds relevant external knowledge to improve factual accuracy or domain-specific responses. |
| **Long-Term Memory** | Injects persistent information learned across sessions, when applicable. |
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## Use Cases
* Debug and refine how your **character’s prompt** is constructed.
* Identify missing or conflicting information within the character setup.
* Validate that the right **Knowledge Bank**, **Personality Traits**, and **Narrative Design** data are being included in responses.
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## Conclusion
The Mindview tab gives creators deep transparency into the inner workings of Convai’s character response generation.\
By analyzing prompts and understanding how context is layered, you can fine-tune your characters for **more consistent**, **accurate**, and **personality-aligned** interactions.
