Context

Context is the information Fluent attaches from what you are working on right now.

That can be the active browser tab, several selected browser tabs, the frontmost app window, manually selected apps, or the current text selection. Good context usually improves the result more than a longer prompt.

What It Is

Fluent can attach:

• The active browser tab
• Several selected browser tabs
• The active app
• Several selected apps
• Selected text

You can attach this automatically, choose it manually from the Smart Panel, or combine both approaches.

Context is separate from files and separate from Memory. Files are manual attachments. Memory is long-term reusable knowledge. Context is the current working surface.

Choose

Open the context selector from the Smart Panel to search browser tabs and apps and attach exactly what you want.

Use this when automatic context is not enough. Typical cases:

• Compare several tabs
• Write in one app while using reference tabs from the browser
• Keep one app and one browser tab attached at the same time

Use Clear to remove the current selection. Use Done to keep it attached.

Browser

Browser context uses the current page title, URL, and page content. If you select several tabs, Fluent can use them together instead of only the active tab.

This is useful for:

• Summaries
• Comparisons
• Research
• Turning several tabs into one brief

Supported browsers include Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Chromium, Helium, and Comet.

For richer browser context and browser automation, browser scripting must be allowed:

• Safari: Settings → Advanced → Show features for web developers
• Safari: Settings → Developer → Allow JavaScript from Apple Events
• Chrome-style browsers: View → Developer → Allow JavaScript from Apple Events

The Show browser tabs context in apps setting is useful if you work in another app while keeping research tabs open in the browser.

Apps

App context uses the focused window of the current app, or any app you attach manually from the context selector.

In Apple apps such as Mail, Notes, Messages, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and Finder, Fluent can often extract richer context. In other apps, Fluent uses what macOS Accessibility exposes from the focused window.

If app context is empty, check Accessibility permission first.

Automatic

Enable Automatically attach active tab if Fluent should follow the current browser tab.

Enable Automatically attach active app if Fluent should follow the frontmost app.

Enable Lock automatically attached context if Fluent should keep that context fixed after the Smart Panel opens. This prevents the attached source from changing while you switch windows during the task.

Selected Text Only

If Use selected text only is enabled, Fluent ignores app and browser context whenever text is selected.

Use this for editing actions such as:

• Grammar fixes
• Translation
• Rewrites
• Short in-place transformations

Turn it off when Fluent should consider the full page or app around the selection.

Settings

Open Settings → Context to configure:

• App context
• Browser context
• Automatic attachment for apps and tabs
• Locking of automatically attached context
• Browser tab visibility while working in other apps
• Selected-text-only behavior

Recommended starting points:

• For text editing: enable selected-text-only behavior
• For research: enable browser context and manual tab selection
• For mixed app and browser work: enable browser tabs in apps