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Getting started

What Chervil is, how to install it, and how to ask Sprig for your first page.

Chervil is an agentic browser for Windows. Instead of hunting through search results and tabs, you tell Sprig — Chervil's leafy guide — what you want, and Sprig composes a complete, purpose-built page to answer it: a comparison, a plan, a dashboard, a lesson, a live mini-app. When a request needs the real web, Sprig searches it; when it needs to do something, Sprig takes action.

Install

  1. Download the latest installer from the Releases page (Chervil-Setup-X.Y.Z.exe).
  2. Run it. Chervil installs for the current user — no admin rights needed.
  3. Launch Chervil from the Start menu.

Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt on first run because the installer isn't yet signed by a widely-recognized certificate. Choose More info → Run anyway to continue.

Add a provider

Sprig is powered by an AI model, so the first thing to do is connect one under Settings → Provider. Chervil works with Claude, Grok, Gemini, OpenAI, Azure, and local models via Ollama. See Providers & API keys for the details and which ones can search the live web.

Your first page

Type what you want into the prompt and press Enter. Try:

  • "Compare the top 3 note-taking apps for me in a table."
  • "Plan a 3-day trip to Lisbon with a map for each day."
  • "Teach me how a transformer works, with a quiz at the end."

Sprig composes a page in response. From there you can keep the conversation going — ask for changes ("make it darker", "add a budget column") and Sprig refines the page in place.

Where to go next