A little while ago, publishing in Chervil meant one thing: lessons and quizzes. Building in public means the gaps are visible, and that was a real one — you could compose a gorgeous interactive page in the app, but the only way to share it was to export a file. Today's release closes that gap and four others. Chervil 0.2.0 is the point where the app stops being just a page-builder and starts being a small platform around the pages you make.
Here's everything that landed.
Publish anything — not just lessons
The headline: 🌐 Publish to web now works for any composed page. Ask Sprig for a live world-clock, a mortgage calculator, a unit converter, a dashboard — anything it composes into a self-contained interactive page — and you can send it straight to a getchervil.com/p/… link that opens on any phone or browser. The clock keeps ticking; the calculator keeps calculating.
And it scales up: there's a 🌐 Publish button on a whole Space now. One click publishes every page you've collected in that Space and builds a tidy index page linking them all together — a shareable mini-site of your research, generated for you.
Under the hood, published pages are served in a locked-down sandbox, so a page's own scripts run but can't touch anything they shouldn't. Publishing stays a Chervil Pro feature — it's hosting we pay for — but everything you build locally is still free.
Your sessions, on every computer
If you run Chervil on more than one machine, Sync between computers is for you — and it's free. Point Chervil's data at a folder your cloud client already syncs — OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox — and your tabs, history, Spaces, and agents ride that sync to your other machines. Set the same folder on each computer and your session simply follows you.
It's deliberately honest about the edges: your API keys stay encrypted on each machine (you enter them once per computer, never synced to the cloud), and if you run two machines at once it's last-writer-wins. If the synced folder is offline, Chervil quietly falls back to local so nothing breaks. True multi-device account sync — with merge and encrypted key sync — is the Pro path down the road, but the folder version covers the common case today, for nothing.
Bring your own files
Chervil could already take a file you dropped into a question. Now you can point it at whole data folders — local, or those same synced OneDrive/Google Drive folders — and pull files from them into a query without re-uploading every time. A 📁 button sits right next to the composer. It's the free, local on-ramp to a bigger idea: cloud-synced, indexed data sources that Sprig retrieves from automatically. (That's designed and on the roadmap.)
A browser that actually knows your machine
This one surprised me how useful it is. Ask Sprig "check my computer," "how much RAM and disk do I have," "what Windows version am I on," or even "when did Windows Update last run" — and instead of a generic web answer, it builds a real dashboard from your actual machine: CPU, memory, disk, GPU, uptime, Windows edition and build, update history, the works.
The important part is the boundary. This is strictly read-only — a fixed set of safe system queries Sprig is allowed to run. It can report on your computer; it can't change a setting or run a command. Letting an agent do things to your OS is a real feature too, but it's one that deserves explicit, per-action confirmation — so it's coming later, carefully, not bundled in here.
Tabs that don't fall apart
Power sessions pile up tabs. Two fixes: a Ctrl+K tab switcher — a command palette to jump to any tab by typing part of its title — and pinned tabs that stick to the front, shrink down, and survive "close others / close all." Small things; big difference once you've got fifteen tabs going.
A sharper browser extension
The Ask Sprig extension grew up. Right-click a page, a selection, or a link and you get a proper menu: Summarize, Key points, Explain simply, or open a link straight in Chervil. There's a one-tap summarize in the popup and an Alt+Shift+S hotkey for the current page.
Still free, still yours
The pattern hasn't changed: making is free, hosting is Pro. Composing pages, building lessons and quizzes, data folders, computer info, sync via your own cloud folder, the extension — all free, all local, all on your own AI keys. The shareable getchervil.com links and the public profile that collects them are the part that runs on our servers, and that's what Chervil Pro pays for.
Download Chervil 0.2.0, compose something interactive, and publish it — I'd love to see what you make.
More soon. We're just getting going.