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The chat in the inspector is for a question. Agent mode is for a job. Press Cmd+Option+Shift+A, pick Agent under View > Mode, or click it in the toolbar, and the window’s three columns become the sessions on this connection, the conversation, and what that session proposed and ran. Nothing closes. The object browser and the editor tabs are where you left them, and Browse in the same place puts them back.

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The three columns

The choice is per connection, so one connection sits in Agent mode while another in the same window stays on a table. Drag either divider to resize; the widths are the ones the window already had.

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Writes wait for you

Agent mode holds the connection at Safe Mode Alert for as long as the mode is on, whatever level the connection itself is set to. Every INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE the assistant proposes waits on its card for Run or Reject. A connection already at Alert or stricter keeps its own level, and Read-Only stays read-only. Leaving Agent mode hands back the level you set, and nothing is written to the connection. Each card names the statement and the connection it will run against, and shows the database when the assistant named one. The full request is one click away under the tool name.
The floor is a habit, not a lock. It is one keystroke from off, so treat it as a reminder that a write is about to happen rather than as protection against one. What actually holds the assistant is the connection’s AI Policy and Safe Mode, which apply in both modes.
DROP, TRUNCATE and ALTER…DROP are unchanged: each one is confirmed on its own every time, and no standing grant covers the next.

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Sessions

A session belongs to one connection and holds one conversation. Switching to Agent mode opens the first. Click + at the foot of the sessions column to start another on the same connection. Clicking a row selects it; double-click or Open Session in its context menu switches the two columns to its right. Close Session ends one and keeps its transcript. Closing a window stops that connection’s sessions and keeps what they said. Open one again and it continues. Nothing is replayed: a statement that was waiting for an answer when the window closed was rejected by the stop, so the assistant is asked again rather than the call being re-issued. Sessions stay on this Mac. They are not part of iCloud sync.

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The result pane

Four views of one session, and a view with nothing in it says what would appear there. Results is the data grid, so sorting, column widths, selection and Cmd+C work the way they do in a query tab, and values use the Data Grid font. A query the session ran more than once has a picker above the rows.

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Starting from the welcome window

Right-click a connection in the welcome window and choose Open in Agent Mode. The connection opens with its window already in Agent mode, and a connection that is already open switches where it stands rather than opening a second time. The composer stays live while a connection is still being made, so a question typed during the connect is sent once the session can take it.