> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://praison.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Start Chat • AI Agents Framework

> start_chat: API reference for start_chat

# start\_chat

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  <Badge color="blue">Async</Badge>
  <Badge color="teal">Function</Badge>
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> This function is defined in the [**chainlit\_ui**](../modules/chainlit_ui) module.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
async def start_chat() -> Any
```

### Returns

<ResponseField name="Returns" type="Any">
  The result of the operation.
</ResponseField>

## Uses

* `exists`
* `f.write`
* `send`
* `cl.ChatSettings`
* `TextInput`
* `Select`
* `abspath`
* `f.read`
* `cl.Message`
* `msg.send`

## Source

<Card title="View on GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai/praisonai/chainlit_ui.py#L77">
  `praisonai/chainlit_ui.py` at line 77
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## Related Documentation

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Chat Feature" icon="comments" href="/docs/features/chat" />

  <Card title="Conversation Stores" icon="database" href="/docs/databases/overview" />
</CardGroup>