chat-on-steroids

Test build of main at 85f8e0140393, after 2.1.52. Not a release. Built for the platforms most installs use: Windows x64, macOS on Apple silicon and Linux x64.

• No release notes and no support. It can be broken.
• Issues and pull requests are accepted only for problems that also happen on the latest stable release.
• The app does not offer canary builds as updates. It offers the next stable release as usual.

2.1.50 Move chats between projects, and chats that keep going

You can now move a chat into another project by dragging it or from its menu, with Undo. Long chats keep going in more situations: when a step is not picked up, the app keeps trying, tells you, and lets you continue with one click. The browser extension now updates itself even while long chats run, and very long chats no longer slow the app down.

👉 After updating

• Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself. A chat that is still answering delays that by at most 30 minutes; a tool call or a message being sent still finishes first.

✨ New

• Move chats between projects. Drag a chat onto a project, or onto one of its groups, or use Move to project in the chat's menu. A notice says where it went and offers Undo. Chat lists also show Today, Yesterday and earlier date headings. The move happens only in the app; a chat linked to a ChatGPT Project stays where it is in ChatGPT.
• The new project's folder, said once. After you move a chat into a project, your next message there tells ChatGPT the project's folder once, so it works in the right place.
• Continue now and Try now. When a chat's quick tries run out, the app tells you, also on your phone if you set that up, and the chat's notice has Continue now or Try now to go on at once.
• Continue from the last summary. When ChatGPT stops serving a chat for good, the app can continue it in a new ChatGPT chat from its last summary, still as one chat in the app.

💪 Better

• Chats keep going. After its quick tries, the app no longer gives up on a step that nobody picked up. It keeps trying every 15 to 60 minutes and says why a step waits. An automatic Continue that waited too long is sent as an ordinary message.
• Fresh turns by default. When ChatGPT shows only Stop for a long time, the app stops and continues in a fresh turn. This was an experimental option and is now on for everyone; you can still turn it off in Settings.
• The extension updates during long runs. It used to wait until no chat was answering, which in busy setups could mean never.
• Big chats stay fast. In very long chats, the app no longer reads the whole history again and again. An automatic Continue that no longer fits the chat's last question is withdrawn instead of being offered for hours.
• Thorough Goal helpers get time. A Goal or Loop helper set to extra-high or Pro reasoning now gets up to 12 or 20 minutes for its next message instead of timing out after three.
• Workers in the right mode. A worker chat picks its own model before its wake-up message is typed.
• Compact chat lists. Rows in Projects and Chats are tighter, so more chats fit on screen, and the keyboard focus outline is fully visible again. Inbox cards stay as they were.
• Chat menus on short windows. A chat's menu that fit on neither side of its button showed a scrollbar for a few pixels. It now opens whole beside the button.
• Plugins, Skills and Pets say when their list could not be loaded, instead of "Loading…" for good.
• Layout polish: the + menu, text fields in Settings and the update card in every language.

🛠 Fixed

• Loop chats that stopped when the helper's message got too long. The helper was never told the length limit, so in long Loop chats its messages grew until one no longer fit, and every retry failed the same way. It is now told the limit, and after a message that was too long it is asked for a shorter one.
• The composer gear was missing on an empty message box. After a change on ChatGPT's side, the Chat On Steroids gear only appeared once you typed something. It is back on every composer.
• Recovery that stopped while a tab was stuck. A tab stuck in rendering mode could stop the app from recovering any chat. Recovery now goes on, and a chat that needs its tab shown gets it shown once.
• The app's own leftover text blocking messages. When an aut

2.1.49 Long chats that get through ChatGPT's limits, and message times

Long chats no longer stop when ChatGPT briefly limits a chat's history or the app is busy with other chats, and ChatGPT's own pop-ups no longer block your messages. You can also show the time of each message.

👉 After updating

• Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.

✨ New

• Message times. Settings → General → Show message times shows a small time above each message. Point at it for the full date. It is off unless you turn it on.

💪 Better

• The log says why a message waits. When a ChatGPT page holds a queued message back, the app log now says why: an answer or a tool still running, a covered message box, or a question the page can't read.
• A quieter log with Firefox. Firefox's add-on reconnects every half minute while idle. That is now one summary line an hour instead of two lines each time.
• The bundled OpenAI tunnel client is updated to v0.0.19.

🛠 Fixed

• Long chats that ChatGPT limits. In a very long chat, ChatGPT sometimes says it "temporarily limited access to this conversation history". The app then reloaded the chat to recover, and every reload loaded the whole history again, so the limit went on and the chat stopped until you sent a message yourself. The app now waits longer each time ChatGPT limits the same chat (2, 4, 8, then 15 minutes) and does not reload it while it waits. Your queued message is sent once the limit is over.
• Recovery that gave up on an open chat. During busy runs with sub-agents, the app could decide that a chat had "no page" and stop recovering it, although its ChatGPT tab was open and asking. It now keeps recovering a chat while its page asks, and the log says why a recovery step had to wait.
• ChatGPT's pop-ups no longer block messages. When ChatGPT showed an announcement over the page (for example about new plans), a new chat could not start, a model could not be chosen, and Compact & Resume gave up. The app now closes such an announcement before it uses the page. It never closes a dialog you are typing in, and the log says which one it closed.
• Only your own chats use your mouse and keyboard. With one ChatGPT account on two computers, ChatGPT can send a chat's tool call to the other computer's app. A chat from the other computer could then take a screenshot of this one and move its pointer. Desktop control now runs only for a chat this app can name. If you really need it for calls it cannot name, Settings → Workspace → Permissions, under Control mouse and keyboard, has a separate switch, off by default.
• Files in German ChatGPT. With ChatGPT in German, an attached file was never recognized as uploaded, so the message waited until "upload not confirmed". It is now recognized in every language.

Thank you

To @scuan2 for finding why recovery gave up on open chats during busy runs, and to @diegogarciarojo for the report on attachments that never sent.

2.1.48 A reviewer for Goal steps, a theme that follows your system, and a question before the mouse and keyboard

Goal can have a second chat check each step's file changes. The theme can follow your computer's light or dark mode, and the app can ask before a chat uses your mouse and keyboard. Ages read in days, weeks, months and years, tool rows speak your language, and sending recovers by itself in more situations.

👉 After updating

• Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy, now also while a message waits in the queue.

✨ New

• Goal step reviewer. Settings → Agents & automation → Review each Goal step's changes. While Goal runs, a reviewer worker reads what each step changed with the edit tools, and its findings go into the next step's message. A finding that starts with "BLOCKING:" pauses Goal and tells you why. It needs Sub-agents turned on, uses more of your ChatGPT usage, and is off by default.
• Same as system theme. Settings → Appearance → Theme → Same as system follows your Mac's or Windows' light or dark mode, also when it switches while the app is open.
• Ask before using the mouse and keyboard. On Home, under the permission to control the mouse and keyboard: Off (the default), Ask while I'm using the computer, or Always ask. A small question in the screen's corner asks before a step takes your mouse or keyboard, and never takes the focus; Go ahead lets that chat go on for up to 2 minutes, until you use the mouse or keyboard yourself. The same question also waits in the app's window, so you can answer it by keyboard.
• ⌘K finds actions and settings. While you type in ⌘K / Ctrl+K, a few matching actions (New chat, Find in chat, Terminal, Review …) and settings show under the chats.
• Jump between your messages. Alt+↑ and Alt+↓ (⌥ on Mac) go to your previous and next message in a chat.

💪 Better

• Ages read naturally. The chat list says "2w", "3mo" or "1y" instead of "389h ago", in your language. Worker run times, background processes, tunnel uptime and countdowns follow the same rule: "3d 4h" or "2:05:30", never hundreds of hours or minutes.
• Diagnostics reports say more about "Activity not attributed": where ChatGPT's page showed a request the app could not match.
• Tool rows in your language. "Read", "Edited", "Ran", counts and times in a chat's tool rows are shown in your language, also in older chats.
• Dropping files outlines the message box while you drag, and says the files will be attached.

🛠 Fixed

• Sending into an existing chat works again when ChatGPT's model menu lists every model of your account. It used to fail with "model unconfirmed".
• Adding a folder creates its ChatGPT Project again on ChatGPT's new Projects page.
• The browser extension's self-update no longer waits forever behind a message that only waits in the queue.
• A message you send just as you close the chat's tab is sent instead of expiring.
• A chat tab that opened while you were offline recovers by itself once you're back online, instead of every message to that chat expiring.
• The Quote button no longer covers the Copy and Download buttons under a short answer.
• Goal and Loop with providers that don't support JSON schemas (such as DeepSeek) work: the app falls back to a format the provider accepts instead of retrying the same refused request.
• A chat that recovered by itself is no longer reloaded again by a late report about its old, failed turn.
• Diagnostics reports no longer garble ordinary words such as "worker" when a project or chat has a short name like "Work".
• Workers in their own Git worktrees start from a linked checkout whose repository is in another approved folder, and come back after a restart.
• Goal no longer waits for good after a step whose progress note ChatGPT showed only once the step had finished.
• Ctrl+K / ⌘K no longer opens chat search on top of another open wind