Chats

A chat is a private conversation between you and one of your agents: your own Gluon, or a custom agent. Nobody else can see it. Chats keep every message until you delete them.

Starting a chat

• New in the chat list starts a new chat. Its arrow opens a menu with New chat, New group and New agent.
• Home starts a new chat with your Gluon. The chat is saved when you send the first message.
• Select an agent under Your agents in the chat list to start a chat with it. A chat’s agent is fixed when the chat starts.
• ⌘⇧O (Ctrl+Shift+O) starts a new chat from anywhere.

You can attach up to eight images, 8 MB in total, to a message: PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF. Large photos are shrunk on your device to 2048 pixels on their longest side before they’re sent, so the limit counts the smaller copy; small images and animations are sent as they are. A message with images shows in the chat as soon as you send it, marked Sending… until its images are stored. If an image can’t be stored, for example because your storage is full, the message goes back into the message box with its images and the reason.

Chat titles

A new chat is titled with your first message. When Gluon finishes its first reply, it gives the chat a short title about what you are talking about, and your chat list and the chat’s header show it at once. A small, low-cost model writes it, and it counts in your usage like any other model call. Once the chat has a title like this, later replies don’t change it. If it can’t be written, the chat keeps its title and Gluon tries again after the next reply.

To rename a chat, choose Rename in its row’s menu in the chat list, or ask your Gluon. A title you set is never replaced: if you rename a chat before the first reply finishes, Gluon doesn’t write one.

Dictation

You can speak a message instead of typing it, in a private chat, on Home before the chat starts, and in a group:

1. Select Dictate, the microphone beside Send. The first time, your browser asks to use your microphone.
2. Speak. A timer and a waveform show that the microphone hears you. Recording stops by itself after 2 minutes and turns what you said into text.
3. Select Done dictating, the tick the microphone turned into, or press Enter when you’re done. Select Cancel dictation (the bin) or press Esc to throw the recording away.

You can also press and hold the microphone, speak, and let go to finish, as with a voice note. While holding, slide left to throw the recording away instead.

The words go into the message box where your cursor was, or in place of the text you’d selected, with spaces added where they would touch a word. Nothing is sent: read or edit them, then send them like anything you typed. Attached images stay, @ mentions still work in a group, and unsent words stay in your draft. Gluon works out which language you speak; there’s nothing to choose.

Gluon only turns your recording into text: it never stores the recording or sends it with your message. Leaving the chat, switching apps or locking your phone while recording throws it away and turns the microphone off.

Dictation is free. If it doesn’t work:

• Couldn’t hear that: the recording held no speech Gluon could make out. Dismiss it and try again. A recording under half a second or with only silence is ignored.
• Retry: if your connection drops or dictation is unavailable, Gluon keeps the recording, so Retry sends it again without you repeating it. Discard throws it away.
• You’re dictating too often: you reached the dictation limit of 20 recordings a minute, 120 an hour and 500 a day. The note says when to try again; each recording sent, a retry included, counts.
• Gluon can’t use your microphone: your browser blocked it. Allow microphone access for Gluon’s site in your browser’s settings, then try again.

Browsers that can’t record show no microphone.

What the chat list shows

Each row shows the chat’s title and its latest message as plain text, without formatting marks such as ** or #. Unread replies are counted. Instead of the latest message, a row shows what the chat needs, most urgent first:

Status	Means
Approval	A tool call waits for you to approve or deny it
Question	Gluon asked you a question and waits for your answer
Working	Gluon is replying
Failed	The last reply ended in an error; send again to retry

Search the list by title, or press ⌘K to search chats, groups, agents, pages and settings together.

Sending while Gluon works

You don’t have to wait for a reply to finish:

• Queue: a message you send while Gluon is replying waits above the message box, and goes when the current reply ends. Up to 10 messages can wait. You can edit a waiting message with the pencil or remove it with the trash button.
• Steer: choose Steer on a waiting message, or press ⌘↵ (Ctrl+Enter) instead of Enter, to send it right away. Gluon finishes the tools it is running, then reads your message before continuing.
• Stop: stops the reply and any running tools. Messages you had queued are held; each shows Send so you can decide whether it still goes.

While Gluon waits for an approval or an answer from you, queued messages wait too.

Questions, plans and cards

Gluon can show more than text:

• Questions: Gluon may ask you a question with choices. Pick one, type your own answer or Skip. Sending a new message instead also moves on.
• Plans: for longer work, Gluon shows a checklist of its steps and ticks them off.
• Cards: an answer can be a card: steps, a comparison of two to four options, facts, a chart, a timeline, or a small interactive component. A chart’s values sit behind Show all N values under it.
• Tool steps: each tool Gluon uses appears as a compact row you can open to see its input and result. Once a reply finishes, its steps fold away.

Done and Snooze

Keep the chat list tidy without deleting anything:

• Mark done moves a chat into the Done section at the bottom of the list.
• Snooze hides it until a time you choose: in 1 hour, in 3 hours, this evening (6 PM), tomorrow (9 AM) or a custom time up to a year ahead. When it wakes, the chat returns and you get a “Snoozed: