Live Session App, fully loaded.

This week’s release focused heavily on the Live Session App — making setup faster, exports more useful, transcripts more reliable, and the overall experience feel significantly more polished across web and native app surfaces.

You can now pair and set up the Live Session App in seconds, export transcripts and summaries anywhere, chat directly with captured actions, and use the app in light, dark, or auto theme modes.

Alongside the major updates, we also improved transcript quality, streamlined navigation, refined session summaries, and resolved a number of issues affecting session state, timestamps, and UI consistency.

What’s in this release

New

• Live Session App

• Pair and set up the Live Session App on first use

• Export transcripts, summaries, and chat threads

• Chat with captured actions

Improved

• Light, dark, and auto themes

• Speaker timestamps in live transcripts

• Full summaries for every session

• Project picker search and navigation

• Transcript echo cancellation

• Live Session App UI and native app polish

Fixed

• Chat activity duration no longer inflates across reloads

• Copy/download buttons now hide when sessions stop

• Stopped sessions no longer show as “Live”

• Session names and owner visibility

• Typography and interface alignment

Pair and set up the Live Session App on first use

Getting started with the Live Session App is now significantly faster and easier for first-time users.

The onboarding flow now guides users through pairing their device directly inside the app, with clearer prompts, inline instructions, and automatic pairing link generation if a code is lost.

Highlights

• Device pairing now starts directly from the welcome screen

• Pairing codes persist across browser tabs

• Inline helper text guides users through setup

• “Generate Link” instantly creates a new pairing link if needed

• First-time Live Session onboarding now explains the capture flow before a session starts

Export transcripts, summaries, and chat threads

Everything captured during a Live Session can now be exported and shared more easily.

Users can copy content directly to their clipboard, download it as a file, or move it into external tools and workflows without extra formatting work.

Highlights

• Export full diarized transcripts with speaker names and timestamps

• Export summaries, action items, and decisions

• Copy or download summaries as Markdown or plain text

• Export chat conversations with Chief about a session

• Copy action items into reusable to-do lists

Improvements

Light, dark, and auto themes

Chief now supports light mode, dark mode, and automatic system theme detection.

Speaker timestamps in live transcripts

Speaker sections now include timestamps so users can quickly jump to important moments in a conversation.

Full summaries for every session

Every completed session now automatically includes a generated summary without requiring an additional prompt.

Project picker improvements

Project switching is now faster and more reliable with improved search, retry handling, and smarter collapse behavior for previously selected projects.

Transcript echo cancellation

System audio echo is now filtered more effectively, improving transcript clarity and speaker reliability.

Live Session App and native app polish

A wide range of UI and usability improvements shipped across the Live Session App and native experience.

Included updates

• Live session breadcrumbs are now clickable

• Session UI scales correctly with zoom changes

• Live session icons are now consistent across surfaces

• Native app typography and spacing were refined

• Project context now persists through billing upgrade flows

• Download states now show progress while transcripts process

Fixes

Chat activity duration no longer inflates across reloads

Chat timestamps now correctly reflect the actual time since the last activity.

Copy/download buttons hide when sessions stop

Export controls now disappear correctly once a session has ended.

Stopped sessions no longer show as “Live”

Session state now updates immediately after capture stops.

Session names and owner visibility

Live Sessions now display the correct owner and generate clearer default session names.

Name alignment across web, app, and tools

Terminology for Live Sessions, transcripts, and capture flows is now consistent across the web app, native app, and tools.

Speaker identification reliability

Resolved issues that occasionally prevented speaker diarization from completing on some call types.

The headline for this stretch is a public API — teams and power users can now build on top of Chief directly. Alongside that, a round of fixes cleaned up some rough edges that had been trailing for a while.

What's in this release

New

• Public API with personal access tokens

• Copy button on raw text and markdown assets

• Download any file from its context menu

Improved

• Markdown spacing now matches Notion

• Navigation tabs reordered and retitled

• Labels and actions lists now paginate

Fixed

• Pasted-content pills survive copying across chats

• Keywords in pasted prompts stay as text, not pills

• Deleting a chat while a response is streaming now works

• Raw JSON no longer appears in the Chief interface

• Actions no longer fail when an item isn't found

• Files move correctly while processing is in progress

• Upload modal stays open on outside clicks

New

Public API with personal access tokens

Chief now exposes a public API. Generate a personal access token in your settings and start connecting Chief to your existing tools, automations, or custom integrations.

• Personal access tokens. Create and manage tokens tied to your account for secure, scoped access.

• Full OpenAPI documentation. The API ships documented and versioned.

Improvements

Markdown spacing now matches Notion

Output formatting follows Notion's spacing conventions. Content you copy from Chief lands cleanly in Notion without manual whitespace cleanup.

Labels and Actions lists now paginate

Long lists of labels and actions were getting cut off. Both now paginate so every item is reachable.

Copy button on raw text and markdown assets

A one-click copy button now appears on raw text and markdown asset views.

Download any file from its context menu

Every file in your workspace has a Download option in its right-click context menu.

Fixes

Pasted-content pills survive copying across chats

Pills added from pasted prompts were being dropped when a chat was copied to another context. They now transfer correctly.

Keywords in pasted prompts stay as text

Text pasted into a prompt was being automatically converted into keyword pills. Content you paste now stays exactly as written.

Deleting a chat while streaming now works

Attempting to delete a thread while Chief was still generating a response would silently fail. Deletion now works at any point.

Raw JSON no longer appears in the Chief interface

Tool call output was occasionally surfacing as raw JSON instead of being processed. It's now handled cleanly.

Actions no longer fail when an item isn't found

Chief was returning an error when attempting to look up an action that no longer exists. It now handles that case gracefully and continues.

Files move correctly while processing is in progress

Assets being relocated while still processing could end up in an inconsistent state. File movement now completes cleanly regardless of processing status.

Upload modal stays open on outside clicks

Clicking outside the upload modal was dismissing it before the upload completed. The modal now requires an explicit close action.

Run history, at a glance. This update is about reading and acting on your Action runs faster: Labels now show right in the run history list, the panel behaves the way you expect, and a handful of editor snags got smoothed out along the way.

What's in this release

Improved

• Run Now moves onto the Run History header

• The Run History panel closes on its own

• Edit an action straight from its card

• Scrolling the actions panel footer is more forgiving

• Project homepage cards line up on one row

Fixed

• Chat history times show in your local time zone

• Pasted links join the line you're typing on

• Backspace exits an empty list cleanly

• "Clear all" no longer overlaps the prompt bar icons

Run history is easier to scan and run

The run history list and your action cards picked up a round of polish that makes long histories quicker to read and act on.

• Labels in the run history list. Each run shows its labels inline, so you can scan many runs without opening each one. Rows show up to four labels, with a +N more toggle when there are more.

• Run Now on the header row. The Run Now button now sits on the Run History heading instead of a separate footer.

• The panel closes itself. Clicking outside the Run History panel, picking a run, or pressing Esc now dismisses it.

• Inline edit on action cards. An edit icon on each action card lets you jump straight into editing.

Improvements

Scrolling the actions panel footer is more forgiving

The footer of the actions panel now accepts scroll input across a wider area, so the list keeps scrolling even when your pointer drifts to the bottom edge.

Project homepage cards line up on one row

The project homepage cards — Memory, Library, Concepts, Billing, and Members — now fit on a single row on wide screens, and step down gracefully to three, two, or one column as the window narrows.

Fixes

Chat history times show in your local time zone

• Chat history rows were showing server time instead of yours, so a 5:30 AM chat could read as 10:30 AM. Times now render in your browser's local time zone.

Pasted links join the line you're typing on

• Pasting a URL into the prompt now merges it inline with your text instead of dropping it onto a new line.

Backspace exits an empty list cleanly

• Pressing Backspace at the start of an empty list item now lifts you back out to a normal paragraph, the way it should.

"Clear all" button no longer overlaps the prompt bar icons

• The Clear all control and the prompt bar's action icons stopped overlapping, so each stays tappable.

Chat Search now lets you search across indexed conversations using keywords, phrases, and chat titles, making it easier to revisit past work and bring previous context into new chats.

What’s new

Chat Search now allows you to:

• Search across indexed conversations

• Find both user prompts and assistant responses

• Search using keywords or partial words

• Open directly to the matching message in a chat

• Search chat titles

• @mention previous chats in a new conversation as context

How it works

Chat Search indexes conversations and allows you to query them using keyword-based matching.

Search covers:

• User messages

• Assistant responses

• Chat titles

Results are ranked based on:

• Keyword relevance

• Recency (with a boost for newer conversations)

Search behavior

Chat Search uses token-based keyword matching with prefix support.

• Each search term matches as a prefix

• Multiple words must all appear somewhere in the chat

• Search is case-insensitive and punctuation-insensitive

Chat Search does not support:

• Fuzzy matching

• Synonyms

• Stemming

• Exact phrase matching

Results

Each result is labeled based on what matched:

• Assistant → match found in an AI response

• You → match found in a user message

• Title → match found in the chat title

Clicking a result opens the chat directly to the matching message.

Access

Chat Search is available through the Search interface in Chief and works across indexed chats within your accessible Projects and organizations.

Two important things this release: a new billing system for Project owners, and a workspace-shell tune-up for everyone. Owners can now decide whose credits get drawn against for a Project's usage. Around that, the left sidebar listens to your drag, the chats list compacts when you want to scan more at once, and panel close controls finally land in the same place every time.

What's in this release

New

• Decide who pays for a Project's usage

• Drag the left sidebar to whatever width fits

• Pick how dense your chats list feels

Improved

• Close controls now land in the same place every time

• Invitations show up without a refresh

Fixed

• Secret Link, Email, and Domain invite buttons now actually invite

• The actions list no longer flickers when you hover near its edge

• The Run history pill stops covering the Share button

• Collaborators and readers can see the actions they're allowed to

Decide who pays for a Project's usage

Each Project now has a billing mode that controls whose credits fund the work inside it — useful when one organization is running the Project but another is footing the bill. Set it from the Project's new Billing page, and switch context from the command palette whenever you need to.

• Organization pays. The org that owns the Project covers all usage across every member. This is the new default for newly created Projects.

• Each member pays for their own. Every member draws from their own plan as they go — the way billing worked before.

• Pick a specific payer. Designate any org you belong to as the payer for everything that happens in the Project, regardless of who's running the work.

Want help getting this set up? Email us at support@chief.bot and we'll walk you through it

The workspace shell gets a tune-up

A bundle of layout polish around the navbar, side panels, and chats list — all aimed at giving you more control over how the workspace fits your screen.

• Drag the left navbar to any width up to 40% of your viewport. Double-click the resize handle to snap back to default. Your width persists across reloads.

• Compact / Detailed toggle on the chats toolbar. Compact tightens row padding and hides the audit metadata; Detailed keeps everything visible. Your pick sticks across sessions.

• Close controls anchor to the left edge across the app — side panels, Activity timeline, operation cards. Page-provided actions like Chat move to the right. The redundant Back button in the side panel header is gone, and so is the green checkmark on finished operations (the title already says they're done).

Improvements

Invitations show up without a refresh

When someone invites you to a Project, the new Project now appears in your list automatically — no reload, no logging out and back in. The list streams updates over the live connection.

Fixes

Secret Link, Email, and Domain invite buttons now actually invite

The three invitation entry points were rendering but not wired up. Clicking any of them now opens the right flow.

The actions list no longer flickers when you hover near its edge

Hovering at the right edge of an action row used to oscillate the reveal animation, looping the row open and shut. Hover is steady now, in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

The Run history pill stops covering the Share button

When the main content column got narrow, the Run history pill could overlap the Share button in the chat thread header. The sticky header now reserves space for the pill whenever it's visible.

Collaborators and readers can see the actions they're allowed to

A permissions refactor briefly hid actions from collaborators and readers. They show up again, scoped to what each role is allowed to do.

Nothing gets thrown away

Three small stories add up to a release about not losing your work:

• Saved Prompts now layer onto whatever's already in the prompt bar (instead of clobbering it)

• Files that hit a credit limit can be retried in place (no more delete-and-re-upload), and

• The upload modal hangs around through real work before tidying itself up.

What's in this release

New

• One-click access to Saved Prompts from the prompt bar

• Try Again for files that ran out of credits

Improved

• Saved Prompts append to the prompt bar instead of overwriting

• Upload status modal stays visible through real work

• Insufficient-credits files behave sensibly in the scope picker

• Chats default to showing everyone's work, not just yours

Fixed

• Markdown formatting now survives .doc export

• "1 file" reads correctly when one file is in scope

Saved Prompts — renamed, faster, and stop overwriting your draft

What used to be called the Prompt Library is now Saved Prompts throughout the chat and sidebar — clearer wording for the workflow most of you actually do. The bigger change is what happens when you drop one in.

• Quick-access icon in the prompt bar. A new notebook icon at the top-right of the chat input opens Saved Prompts directly — no more digging through the plus menu.

• Insert appends, not overwrites. Pull a saved prompt into a bar you've already started typing in and it merges onto what's there instead of wiping your draft. An empty bar still inserts cleanly.

• Focus jumps to the right place. After inserting, focus and scroll land on the first template variable of the prompt you just added — not somewhere off-screen.

Try Again for files that ran out of credits

If a file fails to process because your account ran out of credits, you no longer have to delete and re-upload after topping up. A Try Again button now sits next to the Insufficient credits pill — click it, the file re-queues, and you see live feedback as it goes.

• Both surfaces. The Try Again button appears on the library card and the asset detail panel.

• Live status. Spinner while requeuing, green Queued on success, red Retry failed with the server error in the tooltip if something else goes wrong.

• Scope picker handles it cleanly. Rows for insufficient-credits files are no longer selectable in the scope picker, but the same Try Again button lives right inside the row so you can recover the file without leaving the picker.

Improvements

Upload status modal stays visible through real work

The upload modal used to auto-minimize on a flat 10-second timer regardless of whether your files had actually finished. Now it stays open while uploads are running and gracefully steps out of the way once the batch is fully ready — minimizes after about a second and a half, dismisses a couple of seconds after that. Minimizing manually still cancels the auto-dismiss sequence, so you can keep the pill on screen if you want it.

Chats default to showing everyone's work, not just yours

The author filter on the Chats page now defaults to All instead of Mine, and the segmented control is reordered to put All first. The sidebar's Recent Chats section drops the mine-only filter entirely and is relabeled simply Recent Chats. Invitees to a shared project no longer land on an empty list.

Fixes

Markdown formatting now survives .doc export

Downloading a chat to .doc was running everything through a plain-text stripper before wrapping it in paragraphs — headings, lists, emphasis, code, and tables all disappeared. The export now walks the same content structure the chat does and emits semantic HTML, so Word renders the file with the same formatting you see on screen. PDF export was untouched and still works the same.

"1 file" reads correctly when one file is in scope

The collapsed scope summary in the prompt bar was rendering "1 files" — it now switches to the singular form when exactly one file is attached.

This update is about keeping you in flow: browse past action runs without leaving chat, see your library files rendered the way they were meant to look, and unstick the ones that got hung up along the way.

What's in this release

New

• Browse action runs without leaving the thread

• Library files preview the way they're meant to look

Improved

• See and unstick files in flight

• One click out of fullscreen

• Removing an Expert mention leaves a clean sentence

Fixed

• The text-selection menu yields when you scroll past it

• Pasted text expands without phantom whitespace

• Newly uploaded files are searchable right away

• @mentioning a file no longer wipes your prompt

Browse action runs without leaving the thread

A new Run history drawer slides in on the right whenever you're inside an action's execution context, listing recent runs so you can hop between them without breaking out of chat.

• Trigger sits in the top-right. Toggle it from the corner; your last open/closed state sticks across reloads.

Library files preview the way they're meant to look

Markdown files in your library now render as Markdown — both in card thumbnails and in the side-panel preview — instead of an unformatted text blob.

• Toggle between formatted and raw. New View as Markdown and View as Plain Text tabs let you flip between rendered and source, with full keyboard navigation.

• Plain-text files get the same treatment. .txt files preview through the same renderer, with the raw source one tab away.

Improvements

See and unstick files in processing

The processing-wait modal now lists every upload with its current status and a delete action.

• Files stuck in upload or processing for over 3 hours surface a Cancel action in the scope picker.

• Failed files surface a Remove action — no more waiting on backend retries.

One click out of full screen

The presentation overlay now shows a close (X) in the top-right; the redundant Full Screen toggle is gone from the bottom toolbar. Esc still works.

Removing an Expert mention leaves a clean sentence

When you remove an Expert from an improved prompt, the surrounding "Use … to" wrapper goes with it, and the surviving verb is capitalized — so you get "Extract the key concepts…" instead of "Use to extract…".

Fixes

The text-selection menu yields when you scroll past it

"Do more with this text" now hides when the highlight scrolls out of the chat viewport and re-anchors when you scroll back. Your selection is preserved across the trip.

Pasted text expands without phantom whitespace

Collapsing pasted content into the prompt editor no longer leaves stray top or bottom blank lines, and numbered lists keep their numbering instead of resetting.

Newly uploaded files are searchable right away

Assets that just finished uploading now participate in LLM search instead of waiting for a later state.

@mentioning a file no longer wipes your prompt

Selecting a file from the @-mention picker used to feel like a brief page reload and clear what you'd typed. The prompt editor now holds its place when you pick a file.

Take what Chief makes for you

The thread this stretch is what happens after Chief gives you something — reports, sub-agent outputs, action results, pasted prompts. Each one now has a clearer path out of Chief: into your library, your clipboard, or whichever file format your next step needs.

Anything Chief makes, you can take with you

If Chief made it, you can grab it.

• Sub-agent reports get the same export controls as final answers.

  • Activity timeline: Edit, Download PDF, Add to Knowledge Base,

  • Summary and collaboration outputs: Copy + Download menu, with rich text on the clipboard.

  • Tables in those exports go cleanly to CSV or XLS.

  • Same actions appear in the side panel when you open a sub-agent doc.

• Side-panel reports download in the format you need. PDF, Markdown, plain text, DOC — and CSV / XLS when the report contains tables.

• Action outputs save straight to your library. Persisted as library assets with their execution metadata attached.

• Pasted text lands in your library — with a custom title. Rename inline and save from the same dialog, no detour required.

• One-click copy on every prompt. Skills, Personas, and Actions get a hover-revealed copy button on edit and view surfaces.

• Bare URLs in Chief's responses are clickable. No https:// prefix needed — they open in a new tab.

• No more collapsible markdown toggles in answers. Responses render as plain semantic headings, easy to read and copy.

Improvements

Library

• A new Compact view. Three-way View control — Expanded, Normal, Compact — collapses each row to a single line.

• Toolbar lines up again. Delete, Labels, Copy, Move, Deselect now sit on one row; segmented controls match button heights.

• Single-file chat stays single-file. Clicking Chat from an upload-progress toast scopes the chat to just that file.

• File pages show processing status. Queued, uploading, processing, indexing, or ready — without bouncing back to the library.

• Labels sort by who actually made them. "Created by you," "Created by Chief," and "Mine" now distinguish hand-made labels from auto-generated ones.

• Browsable blog with label pills. Click a label on a post to browse all posts under it.

Slides & side panel

• Arrow keys flip slides. ← and → advance and rewind anywhere a presentation is mounted; Space and Esc stay scoped to fullscreen.

• "Open in main view" is back. A diagonal-arrow button on the side-panel header promotes content into the main view.

Settings

• Cookie preferences live in Settings. A new "Open cookie manager" entry in Settings → General opens the consent drawer directly.

Fixes

Email & notifications

• Action emails arrive once, not three times. Removed the retry loop that was firing them every two minutes.

• Forwarded unsubscribe links can't be abused. Submitting unsubscribe now requires the recipient's email; one-click from native mail clients still works.

Files & sharing

• Re-uploaded files become visible to Chief again. Stale asset IDs from deleted versions get dropped from chat scope on load.

• Spreadsheet counts and warnings stop double-counting.

  • The prompt bar and sent-message header count each file once across scope and @mentions.

  • The "spreadsheet + entire library" warning clears the moment you exclude a file.

  • Adding spreadsheets through the picker after excluding a file actually commits.

• Action-created secret share links show up in the share UI. No more digging through email to recover them.

• Newly-made labels show their files immediately. No more empty "Contains 0 Files" right after tagging.

Drafts & prompts

• Prompts survive network drops and credit refills.

  • Drafts persist across submit failures.

  • Offline submits auto-retry when you come back online.

  • Refilling credits mid-thread returns you to that thread, not the homepage.

• Launchpad templates stop following you between chats. They no longer save into the project's draft slot.

UI polish

• Activity timeline expands reliably on Chrome / Windows. First click on the grayscale spectator strip works.

• Presentation slides don't collapse after a theme change. Switching themes no longer flattens the slide area to zero height.

• Expert Voice Edit and Copy stay visible on long prompts. They stick to the top of the card while you scroll.

• Action forms tell you what's missing. Submit with empty required fields scrolls the first invalid field into view and focuses it.