# Multi-Message Conversations

There are various ways to interact with the Chat API. We covered interacting with Chat directly in the [Chat API companion doc](/guides/text-generation-chat-api), here we'll discuss having a multi-message conversation with the Chat endpoint.

### Use the Previous Messages to Continue a Conversation

By specifying the `chat_history` parameter, we can provide our model with context that it can use in its replies.

## Related pages

- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cohere](../index.md)
- [Cohere API](./cohere-api-index.md)
- [Cohere Labs](./cohere-labs-index.md)
- [Cohere Platform](./cohere-platform-index.md)
- [Cookbooks](./cookbooks-index.md)
- [Deployment Options](./deployment-options-index.md)
- [Embeddings (Vectors, Search, Retrieval)](./embeddings-vectors-search-retrieval-index.md)
- [Get Started](./get-started-index.md)
- [Going to Production](./going-to-production-index.md)

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