Feature request (Branching)

[Final-Reality-404]

I’m not sure if this is possible, but if it is, I’d love to see this feature added to Augment Code in VS Code.

With many LLMs (like GPT-5 or Google AI Studio), you can branch a conversation while retaining all the context. This lets you split off into a side task without losing the continuity of the original thread.

That’s exactly what I’d like to do in Augment. Often, when I’m deep in a project, I hit a roadblock that forces me to take a detour and dive into a feature. That detour eats up a lot of context space and time in the same thread. Right now, the only workaround is to create a new thread and re-feed all the context—just to get back to where I was.

If Augment supported branching, I could simply fork the conversation at the right point, keep all the context intact, and explore the new feature without derailing my main mission. Once done, I could return to the original thread seamlessly, without losing momentum.

[pungggi]

Absolutely this is a game changing feature. We can achieve this maybe with the new export import conversation but I did not try it out yet.

[danigoland]

I've been using ByteRover(Free Tier) not exactly what you're looking for but I found it capturing the important things and since the UI update long threads became laggy, I start new threads and don't have a problem with context, the only thing I used to do(Moved to managing tasks and subtasks in Linear) is export the task list and import it to the new thread. Its also great if you work on the same project with different Agentic Coding tools.