Chat

The chat window is Fluent's full-size chat: a regular window with all your conversations in a sidebar. Use it for long conversations, research and your scheduled actions; use the Smart Panel for quick work over other apps. Menus and Settings call it Chat UI.

Open It

⌘E switches between the chat window and the Smart Panel whenever either one is in front. In the toolbar, Switch to Smart Panel does the same, and Pin window keeps the window above other windows, even over apps in full screen.

While the chat window is open, even when hidden with ⌘H:

• the Smart Panel shortcut brings the chat window forward instead of opening the panel;
• an action you start with its own shortcut answers in the chat window, as a new chat, instead of in the Smart Panel.

Close the window with ⌘W, and the Smart Panel shortcut opens the panel again.

Sidebar

The sidebar starts with three rows:

• New chat (⌘N or ⌘T)
• Scheduled: your scheduled actions, see below
• Council: ask several models at once, see Council

Your chats follow: Pinned, then Today, Yesterday, This week, Last week and Earlier. Click a section's title to fold it. A long section ends with "There are N entries more": click it to show more.

A chat that's still answering shows a spinner. One that finished while you were elsewhere is shown in green until you open it.

Press ⌘F to search. Fluent looks through the chats' names and their text. When the window is too narrow for the sidebar, ⌘F brings it back.

A chat that's still answering can't be deleted.

Chat names. The model you chat with gives each chat a short name, and renames it if the topic changes; this takes a small extra request now and then. A name you give a chat is never changed, and a chat that started with an action keeps the action's name. Turn this off in Settings → History → Name chats automatically.

Ask

The prompt at the bottom works as in the Smart Panel:

• Click the model icon to pick a model, or type # to search one. Tab / ⇧Tab step through models.
• Type / for actions and @ for tabs, apps, tools and Memory, or click +.
• ⌘` attaches the app, or browser tab, you were in before.
• Drop files anywhere on the window.
• With dictation on, the microphone button dictates into the prompt. See Voice.

Return sends, and so does ⌘↩. ⇧Return starts a new line. Esc puts you back in the prompt, closing an open menu first.

For example, drop two price quotes (PDFs) on the window and ask "Compare these offers and draft a polite reply to the cheaper one".

Replies

Replies show tables, code cards and math as in the Smart Panel. Click a chip in one of your messages to reopen its tab, app or file.

Each reply has a row of buttons under it. The last reply's row is always shown; hover an earlier reply to see its row.

When a reply ran an action on another model, an arrow and that model's icon follow, with its own details.

Plans and tools. A request with several parts is planned: the reply starts with one line, the plan's name and how long it took, as in the picture at the top. Click that line to see every step and the tools it used. Each tool Fluent uses outside a plan shows as a badge of its own; click it for the details. More in Smart Panel.

Questions. When Fluent needs a choice from you, for example in a quiz, the reply ends with answer buttons. Click one, or click Type an answer… and write your own: it's sent as your next message.

Tool approvals. A tool set to Ask for Approval (Settings → Integrations) waits for you. Click Approve or Reject on its badge, or press ⌘A or ⌘R. When the chat window isn't in front, a notification offers Approve and Reject. Your decisions stay with the chat when you open it again.

Scheduled

Scheduled lists every action that runs on a schedule, grouped by its next run: Today, Tomorrow, Later and No upcoming run. Each row shows the schedule, such as "Daily 8:30", and when it runs next, or Running while it runs.

• Hover a row and click the play button on its icon to run the action now.
• Right-click a row for Run now, Cancel run while it runs, and Edit action. Clicking a row also opens the action for editing.
• Schedule More opens the Actions window, where you set schedules. See Actions.

Each run is saved as a chat in the sidebar, unless the action's Save to history is off, so you can open the result and ask a follow-up.

Chat Window And Smart Panel

Both use the same models, actions, integrations and Memory, and save to the same History.

A chat started in the Smart Panel is in the sidebar, and one from the chat window can be reopened in the Smart Panel with ⌘Y. Councils stay in the chat window.

The sidebar is your History. With Enable history off in Settings → History, new chats aren't saved, so they don't stay in the sidebar. Retention and cleanup are in History.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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