The Chervil blog

Building the agentic, conversational web browser in public.

Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, in a white disco suit dancing under disco balls on a neon dance floor, ringed by glowing icons for the new 0.11.0 features — print, downloads, mute, reader view, picture-in-picture, bookmarks, zoom, privacy, and a 'Make Default' button.
·4 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.11.0: the everyday-browser essentials

The furniture that lets Chervil be your only browser — zoom, downloads, printing, reader view, a bookmarks bar with folders, ad & tracker blocking, private tabs, multiple windows, picture-in-picture, address-bar suggestions — and Chervil can now be your default browser. None of it dilutes the AI-first thesis.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy green mascot, sitting at a desk chatting with a smiling person at a computer — speech bubbles reading “SHIPPING SOON!” and “WOW!”, holographic code windows, gears, a cloud, checkmarks, and sparkles floating around a modern office — Chervil 0.10.0.
·2 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.10.0: Chat that searches

Chat mode now searches the live web on its own — with sources under every answer — and Chervil finally has a full documentation site, linked right from inside the app.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy green mascot, striking a pose on a pink “SPRIG” star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame outside the Chinese Theatre — palm trees, a red carpet, and photographers in the background — Chervil 0.9.0.
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.9.0: Share the spotlight

One-tap share and rich link previews, community star ratings across the store, chat that talks about the page you just composed, an in-app update check — plus audio and pronunciation fixes.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy green mascot, at a support desk holding a tablet with a customer-request checklist, surrounded by HELP, SUPPORT, an approved ticket, and sparkles — Chervil 0.8.0.
·2 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.8.0: You're at the controls

A toolbar you arrange yourself, embedded-site logins that finally work, agent teams that adapt, Spaces that hold your files, a page-style switch — and the Agent store, now inside the app.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy green mascot, grinning and pushing a shopping cart full of 'Prompt Fuel' cans down a neon-lit aisle under a glowing 'Agent Store' sign — Chervil 0.7.0.
·2 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.7.0: Publish your agents — and the Agent store

Agents are now a publishable type: share one to your profile and anyone can import it in a click. Plus a community Agent store and Share gallery — submit your best agents and pages, browse by category, all vetted and human-approved.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy green mascot, dashing forward in a blur of speed lines with circuit-board patterns glowing through its leaves, surrounded by green checkmarks and sparkles — Chervil 0.6.0.
·4 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.6.0: Agents that work as a team

Chain agents into a pipeline that hands off and builds on itself, share any page for someone else to remix, and two quiet fixes that matter — bookmarks that really sync, and interactive pages that remember what you did.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, reading a glowing circuit-board book while walking a neon tightrope between futuristic city towers, under a starry sky. Title: Chervil 0.5.0 — Lessons that actually do things.
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.5.0: Lessons that actually do things

Interactive applet widgets — real dropdowns, simulators, and live output — now compose right in your lessons and stay interactive on the pages you publish to the web. Plus a fluent polish pass across the whole app.

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Sprig, Chervil's glowing leafy mascot, beaming as it holds a password card with a padlock and dots, surrounded by green checkmarks, a cloud-gear, and a chat bubble. Title: Chervil 0.4.0 — Your passwords, and pages that come alive.
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.4.0: Your passwords, and pages that come alive

A built-in, encrypted password manager; hosted pages whose applets go live and that refresh themselves in the cloud (Pro); auto hero images; a plain chat mode; and a fistful of everyday-browser polish.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, in a green FIFA jersey kicking a soccer ball across a stadium pitch.
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.3.1: Sprig starts doing things

Agentic actions arrive — Sprig can plan and act on real websites under a deterministic control layer that decides what it's allowed to do. Plus find-in-page, reopen closed tab, form autofill, and a fix so large attached files actually get read.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, relaxing in an armchair reading a newspaper titled “Tech Sprouts Daily — AI Blooming!”
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil 0.3.0: the everyday-browser release

A big one. Chervil grows a universal omnibox, real browser table stakes — bookmarks, history, downloads, in-site back/forward — a Stop button, tabbed Settings, and a creator platform that now publishes blogs. Plus the design for agentic actions.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, holding two glowing circuit-patterned puzzle pieces — features clicking together.
·4 min read·Rod Trent

Publish anything, sync everywhere, and a browser that knows your machine

Chervil 0.2.0 is a platform release: publish any page (or a whole Space) to the web, sync your sessions across computers through your own cloud folder, feed Sprig your local files, ask it about your actual machine, and tame heavy tab sessions.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, presenting a set of glowing interactive pages with the words “Chervil — the web comes to you.”
·3 min read·Rod Trent

Quizzes, public profiles, analytics, and real-world actions

A big batch just landed: Chervil now builds graded quizzes as well as lessons, gives you a public profile to share everything you've made, shows authors a per-card drop-off funnel, and turns maps and phone numbers into one-tap actions.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, waving beside voice waveforms next to the words “Hey Sprig — just say the word.”
·1 min read·Rod Trent

"Hey Sprig" now works the moment you install

The on-device wake word is no longer something you train yourself — Chervil v0.1.4 ships a 'Hey Sprig' model built in, and it's the default. Just say the word.

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·1 min read·Rod Trent

Hey Sprig: a hands-free wake word that stays on your machine

Chervil now listens for a wake word entirely on-device — free, open-source, and no API key. Say the word and the quick-ask bar pops up to take your request.

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Sprig, Chervil's leafy mascot, beside a laptop showing a Chervil-composed page
·4 min read·Rod Trent

Chervil: potential use cases for the agentic, conversational web browser

From instant research and scheduled agents to travel planning and power-user agent fleets — compelling ways to put an on-device agentic browser to work.

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·2 min read·Rod Trent

Introducing Chervil: the web comes to you

Chervil replaces the browse-and-skim loop with a conversation. You talk to Sprig, and the open web composes itself into a single, living, cited page built for your exact question.

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