Delete history in "Ask DC AI"
The Ask DC AI assistant is appreciated. But how do I delete the chat history?
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At the moment, there is no option to clear the chat history in our Developer Community AI assistant. If this feature would be useful for you, I recommend submitting it on the Ideas Portal so it can be considered for future enhancements. Thank you!
I have submitted the request to the Ideas Portal as suggested; however, I urge you not to treat this as a standard feature request or an enhancement, as it directly involves significant legal and security implications. In 2025, the ability to delete chat history is a core requirement for data sovereignty, especially for a tool designed for developers who often handle proprietary code and internal system architectures. Relying on users to simply avoid entering sensitive information is an insufficient defense when even the inadvertent exposure of an API key or an environment variable becomes a permanent, unfixable security vulnerability without a purge mechanism.
From a regulatory standpoint, the absence of a deletion feature places the platform in direct conflict with modern data protection laws. Under the GDPR Right to Erasure and the California Delete Act, users have an enforceable legal right to withdraw their information and have it permanently removed from a company's records upon request. Since AI chat logs in 2025 are increasingly subject to subpoenas in intellectual property and copyright litigation, denying users the ability to manage their history creates unnecessary legal exposure for both the developers and the organization hosting the assistant.
Hello @Stella Ticker,
Thank you for submitting your idea on the Ideas Portal - it was implemented on December 25th:
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