0.5.0 made lessons actually do things. 0.6.0 is about agents that do things together — and about the work you make becoming something you can hand to someone else. Plus two fixes that don't sound exciting until they bite you: your bookmarks now really follow you between computers, and an interactive page remembers what you did on it.
Agents that work as a team
Until now an agent in Chervil was a soloist: one persona, applied to one request. Real work usually wants a relay.
0.6.0 adds agent pipelines. In Agents → 🧩 Agent pipelines, you chain two or more of your agents into an ordered team, give the team a task, and hit Run. Each agent runs in turn and builds on the previous one's output — then the final agent composes the page from everything the team produced. You watch each stage's thinking land in the chat as it goes, so it's a relay you can see, not a black box.
The classic shape is research → draft → critique: a researcher gathers and organizes, a writer turns that into a draft, a critic pokes holes and tightens it — and the page you end up with is better than any single pass. Make your specialists once (Sprig can distill one from a session for you), then compose them like Lego.
Share a page — and let someone else remix it
You built a Microsoft Sentinel cost calculator. A colleague says "this is great, but it needs a retention slider." Before, that was a request you had to fulfill. Now they can just do it themselves.
Every composed page can now travel:
- Export to a portable
.chervilfile from the Export menu. Send it to anyone; they open History → Import page and it lands in their Chervil as a fresh tab they can change and extend with Sprig. (Only the page travels — its HTML, the question that made it, and its sources — not your chat.) - Or publish it to the web and the published page carries a small ✦ Open in Chervil button. Any Chervil user who opens that link can pull the page straight into their own app to remix it. Don't have Chervil? The page quietly offers a "Not using Chervil? Get it to import this page" link instead.
A page you make stops being a dead end and becomes a starting point.
Your bookmarks really sync now
Chervil's free folder-sync rides your existing OneDrive / Google Drive / Dropbox. The catch: those services can't merge a file two machines both edited — they quietly fork the loser into a …-LAPTOP-XYZ.json copy the app never read. So a bookmark you saved on the laptop could simply never show up on the desktop.
0.6.0 fixes it properly: Chervil now reconciles those conflict copies on launch and whenever you switch back to the window, merges the on-disk state into every save, and carries deletion tombstones so a bookmark you remove stays removed instead of resurrecting. Bookmarks, history, Spaces, agents — they actually converge across your machines now, for free.
Interactive pages remember what you did
Composed pages run in a tight security sandbox — which, it turned out, also meant their own localStorage silently did nothing. So a checklist that proudly said "saved in browser" forgot every check the moment you closed it.
Now Chervil persists that state for you, safely, keyed to the page — and the key travels with bookmarks and history. Check a box, close the page, reopen it from a bookmark, and your checks are still there. (It rides folder-sync too, so your progress follows you between computers.)
A little more polish
- The History panel grew up. It now opens as a centered card over a soft blurred backdrop — consistent with every other panel — and its entries are proper cards with a hover lift and a reveal accent.
- The hide/show-sidebar button stopped impersonating Back/Forward. It's a panel glyph now, tinted in Chervil's accent, so it reads as what it is.
And under the hood: RFC 0011, a plan for making real sites embedded in Chervil behave exactly like they do in Chrome — without turning Chervil into yet another browser. More on that soon.
Get it
Chervil is free, open source, and bring-your-own-AI. Download for Windows, star it on GitHub, or come say hi on Discord. Hosting & sharing live in Chervil Pro — $8/mo; the app, local creation, and export stay free.