Newest first. Each entry says what you can do now — not what we moved around underneath.
Two rules for this page. Nothing appears here until it is live for everyone, so a change we have finished but not shipped stays off the list. And repairs are named as repairs — if something was quietly not working, the entry says so.
You no longer have to wait for us to add an app you use. Open Apps, pick it from the directory, and paste in a key from that app — your details are encrypted and never shown to the assistant. Apps that need no sign-in at all can be added in one step, and an app that isn't open for sign-in yet says exactly that instead of failing quietly.
Search is now a panel you summon when you want it, rather than a box taking up room forever. The list beside your conversation groups by how recently you used it, so six chats about the same thing are no longer six identical rows.
Settings opens as its own sectioned space instead of one long scrolling page, and the line under the message box now reports what the current run is actually doing instead of repeating the same sentence every time.
Each finished reply carries the amount charged, how long it took, and the engine choice you made — with the itemization one hover away. It used to lead with a figure that measured our machinery rather than your work. A reply that cost nothing shows no receipt rather than a decorative zero.
Work running in the background had quietly lost most of its abilities: it could read, but not produce. It now has the same abilities as a live conversation, so a handed-off job returns finished documents and files rather than a description of them.
Every built-in add-on is ready from the first message — web research, reading pages in a browser, pulling text out of a PDF, Word documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, visual design, generative art, code files, reports and website building. The panel is now for narrowing what a single run may touch, not for turning abilities on.
The page for a handed-off job now opens on what you asked for, with the steps folded away. Beside it sits the receipt — the real amount, and how much of the limit you set it used — plus the files to download.
From there you can share a read-only link to the run, or turn the job back into a conversation. If you stop it, the page tells you plainly that what was already spent stays spent.
Image generation now actually runs. And when it is unavailable, you get a picture built by other means with that said out loud — a hand-built layout is never passed off as a generated image.
A long message, or one with a file attached, used to be sent off to run in the background without asking. It never does that now: work only leaves for the background when you hand it off on purpose.
What it may use, when it should check with you, whether to show you the plan first, and the spend limit — these used to reset every time you reopened a conversation. They now belong to the conversation and are still there when you come back.
The check-with-me control has three honest settings: before anything leaves the app, before sending or publishing only, or not at all — in which case it runs within the spend limit you set.
A screenshot from your clipboard, or a file dragged out of a folder, now lands in the message box directly — no menu. Up to five files at a time, five megabytes each: documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, PDFs, images, text. Anything it can't read is refused in one plain sentence.
Four choices named for what they mean: Auto picks for each request, Fast is the cheapest acceptable answer, Smart balances quality with a long memory, Max reasons deepest. Under them you can open the full list of every engine we can actually serve and choose one outright, sorted by recommended, cheapest or longest memory.
A tier carries no fixed price on purpose — what a run costs depends on the tier you chose and how much work it took, and it shows up on the receipt.
Every add-on in the list has real work behind it, not a switch that looks meaningful: turning any file into clean text, pulling text out of a PDF, reading and writing Word documents, spreadsheets and slide decks, producing a downloadable design, and generating procedural artwork. If an ability isn't real yet, it isn't in the list.
When a decision is genuinely yours — which of these three flights, overwrite or add to the end, which account you meant — it stops and asks as a real question with real options, rather than picking one and hoping.
Waiting costs nothing. A paused run is holding still, not working, and there is no deadline on your answer: it stays parked until you come back or you call it off.
Under Assistants there is now Things you taught it: a format you like, a checklist you follow, the way you want a weekly summary laid out. Teach it once and reuse it in any conversation. What you teach stays yours — it is never mixed into anyone else's account.