Never Lose a Generation: Inside Koha's Prompt History Panel

Every prompt and generation lands in the side panel, ready to bring back with a single click.

One of the most annoying things about working with AI creative tools is losing track of what you made. You go deep into a session, generate something great, keep iterating, and then you can’t find it.

We built the Koha prompt history panel to fix exactly that. Every prompt and generation is saved automatically in the side panel. Click any past entry and your media comes back instantly — no searching, no re-generating, no frustration.

Why creative sessions lose work

AI generation is a loop. You type a prompt, see the result, refine the wording, branch off in a different direction, and on a good day you’ll do that thirty or forty times in a single sitting. Somewhere in the middle of that run you make the thing you actually want — and then you keep going, because that’s how iteration works.

Most chat-style tools only ever show you the latest output, not the bestone. Forty prompts later, the great frame from earlier in the session is buried somewhere in a scrollback you can’t skim visually. Either you stop trusting your memory and start screenshotting everything, or you give up and re-generate, hoping the model lands in the same place twice.

How the prompt history panel works

The panel sits beside the canvas and quietly records the whole session as you work.

• Auto-saved by default: every prompt and every generation gets logged the moment it lands. Nothing to enable, nothing to remember.
• Visual previews, not text logs: the panel shows thumbnails of the actual media so you can scan with your eyes, not by re-reading prompts.
• One click restores: click any past entry and the image, video, or 3D model snaps straight back into the canvas, ready to keep editing.
• Same model across mediums: images, video, and 3D all share the same history surface, so the rules don’t change when you switch what you’re making.

A quick walkthrough of the side panel: scroll back through a session and bring an earlier generation straight onto the canvas.

Why it matters when you iterate

The best version of a generation is rarely the last one. It’s usually two or three prompts back, before you tried “what if it were more cinematic” and accidentally lost the thing that was working. Without a history panel, your only option is to re-generate from a remembered prompt — which is slow, eats credits, and isn’t deterministic. The same prompt will not always give you the same image.

With the history panel, going back is free and exact. You don’t reconstruct the moment, you just open it.

One workspace, one memory

What makes this work is that the history isn’t a separate tab or a downloads folder somewhere. It sits right next to the editor and the review tools, so jumping back into a generation from an hour ago drops you straight into the same canvas you were already working in — with pins, edits, and reference images intact.

Iteration is the whole job. Koha is built so the work you did on the way to the answer doesn’t disappear behind the answer.