diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/index.html b/tools/server/public_simplechat/index.html
index c6f380eca2..658e2385a9 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/index.html
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/index.html
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@
                 <p> You need to have javascript enabled.</p>
             </div>
 
+            <div id="popover-edit" popover="auto">
+                <button id="popover-edit-del"> &#x274C; </button>
+                <button id="popover-edit-copy"> &#x1F4CB; </button>
+            </div>
+
             <div id="tool-div">
                 <hr>
                 <div class="sameline">
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
index 5ad0b61531..55e93f5d92 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
@@ -743,13 +743,16 @@ sliding window based drop off or even before they kick in, this can help in many
   * add open, transact, put and get. Use for chat session save and load
   * getKeys used to show Restore/Load button wrt chat sessions.
 
+* ChatMessage
+  * assign a globally unique (ie across sessions) id to each chat message instance.
+  * add support for deleting chat message based on its uniquie id in SimpleChat.
+  * add a popover div block in html, which contains the edit menu wrt chat messages
+
 
 #### ToDo
 
 Is the tool call promise land trap deep enough, need to think through and explore around this once later.
 
-Handle multimodal handshaking with ai models [WIP].
-
 Add fetch_rss and may be different document formats processing related tool calling, in turn through
 the simpleproxy.py if and where needed.
 
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
index 491b9272b0..40dbb582ce 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
@@ -92,6 +92,15 @@
     max-width: 20vmin;
     max-height: 20vmin;
 }
+#popover-edit {
+    position:absolute;
+    background-color: transparent;
+    padding: 0;
+    border-width: 0;
+}
+#popover-edit button {
+    padding: 0;
+}
 
 
 .gridx2 {
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
index 14403c18ab..4e1855e7c1 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
@@ -257,6 +257,16 @@ class NSChatMessage {
 
 class ChatMessageEx {
 
+    static uniqCounter = 0
+
+    /**
+     * Get a globally (ie across chat sessions) unique id wrt chat messages.
+     */
+    static getUniqId() {
+        this.uniqCounter += 1
+        return this.uniqCounter
+    }
+
     /**
      * Represent a Message in the Chat.
      * @param {NSChatMessage|undefined} nsChatMsg - will create a default NSChatMessage instance, if undefined
@@ -268,6 +278,7 @@ class ChatMessageEx {
         } else {
             this.ns = new NSChatMessage()
         }
+        this.uniqId = ChatMessageEx.getUniqId()
         this.trimmedContent = trimmedContent;
     }
 
@@ -651,6 +662,22 @@ class SimpleChat {
         return true;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Delete a chat message in place using chat message uniqId.
+     * @param {number} uniqId
+     */
+    delete(uniqId) {
+        let index = this.xchat.findIndex((msg)=>{
+            if (msg.uniqId == uniqId) {
+                return true
+            }
+            return false
+        })
+        if (index >= 0) {
+            this.xchat.splice(index, 1)
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Check if the last message in the chat history is a ToolTemp role based one.
      * If so, then
@@ -1000,6 +1027,7 @@ class MultiChatUI {
         this.elBtnTool = /** @type{HTMLButtonElement} */(document.getElementById("tool-btn"));
         this.elInToolName = /** @type{HTMLInputElement} */(document.getElementById("toolname-in"));
         this.elInToolArgs = /** @type{HTMLInputElement} */(document.getElementById("toolargs-in"));
+        this.elPopoverEdit = /** @type{HTMLElement} */(document.getElementById("popover-edit"));
 
         // Save any placeholder set by default like through html, to restore where needed
         this.elInUser.dataset.placeholder = this.elInUser.placeholder