dify - 💡(How to fix) Fix Add support for editing user messages and regenerating responses in Advanced Chat App API [1 participants]

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1. Is this request related to a challenge you're experiencing? Tell me about your story.

I am developing a custom UI and API integration around Dify Advanced Chat Apps because I require additional customization and access control capabilities beyond the out-of-box UI.

During implementation, I identified a limitation in the Advanced Chat App API: there is currently no supported way to edit previously sent user messages and regenerate assistant responses based on the updated input.

In practical usage, users often:

• correct typos,
• refine prompts,
• add missing context,
• adjust requests after reviewing the generated response.

At the moment, the only available approach is to send additional follow-up messages or restart the conversation. This can make conversations harder to manage and may increase duplicated context and token usage.

For custom chat frontends and API integrations built on top of Dify APIs, support for message editing and response regeneration would help provide a smoother conversational experience and simplify client-side implementation logic.

The expected workflow would be:

1. Update an existing user message.
2. Regenerate assistant responses starting from the edited message.
3. Preserve the conversation structure while replacing outdated downstream responses.

This functionality would significantly improve usability for custom chat interfaces and API-based integrations.

2. Additional context or comments

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