BoltAI Release Notes

New

• New: GPT-5.3 Codex Spark support. Added GPT-5.3 Codex Spark and improved default model prioritization.
• New: Search plugin parity. Added first-class Perplexity and You.com search tool support.
• New: Sidebar toggle shortcut. Added a quick sidebar toggle command with Cmd+Option+S.
• New: Starter pack install flow. Improved onboarding with a clearer starter pack setup path.

Improved

• Improved: Parallel chat streaming stability. Isolated streaming state per chat session to prevent cross-session interference.
• Improved: Anthropic/Bedrock behavior. Better Claude thinking handling and cleaner Anthropic control behavior.
• Improved: Workflow palette behavior. Active-screen behavior now works correctly while preserving per-screen restore.
• Improved: Tool execution rendering. Provider-executed tool calls now render more consistently, including xAI code-execution outputs and fallback detail views.
• Improved: Provider error diagnostics. Error messages now include richer raw-response context and clearer guidance for deprecated xAI Live Search behavior.

Fixed

• Fixed: Voice recording/transcription UX. Polished compose recording overlay and transcription error presentation.
• Fixed: Low-res App Icon. Fixed the issue with the low-res default app icon.
• Fixed: Grok/xAI request reliability. Migrated xAI/Grok flows to the Responses tool path to avoid deprecated endpoint failures.
• Fixed: Settings sync edge cases. Hardened account/plugin settings sync with stricter canonical fetch checks, safer merge-upsert fallback paths, and duplicate-row intent preservation.
• Fixed: Sidebar multi-select move action. Context-menu move operations now correctly apply to the current multi-selection and disable invalid destinations.

Build 54

• New: Appearance controls. Added dedicated appearance settings so you can customize app icon style, sidebar presentation, and chat content width for a more personalized layout.

• New: Chats inside folders in the sidebar. You can now browse and navigate chats directly inside folders from the sidebar for faster project-based navigation.

• New: GPT-5.3 Codex support (Codex CLI Provider). Added support for the latest GPT-5.3 Codex model.

• New: Title generation controls. Added title generation settings and improved per-chat custom configuration behavior. Go to Settings > General to customize.

• New: Expanded import/export. Improved import and export reliability, with better support for ChatGPT imports and expanded coverage for Claude, Grok, Mistral, and BoltAI v2 data.

• Cloud sync improvements. Sync is now more reliable for large histories and after signing in from Settings.

• Cloud sync status clarity. Improved sync progress and error messaging so it is easier to understand what is happening.

• Navigation and responsiveness improvements. Smoother sidebar behavior, better chat-in-folder navigation, and reduced settings-related UI churn.

• Fixed: Edit/regenerate reload issue. Resolved a case where edit-regenerate could trigger unnecessary chat reloads.

• Fixed: Sync retry edge cases. Fixed several sync scenarios that could fail, stall, or require repeated retries.

• Fixed: Sync consistency edge cases. Resolved issues that could occasionally leave cloud sync in an inconsistent state.

New

• NEW: Moonshot AI provider support. Added Moonshot AI as a selectable provider.
• Codex tools, fixed. ChatGPT OAuth (Codex) now supports custom function tools (including MCP) with correct tool-call streaming and input/output handling.
• Codex tool-call safety. Prevents mismatched tool-call state when switching providers by dropping unsupported tool parts before requests.
• Remote MCP reconnects on launch. OAuth MCP servers now reconnect reliably at startup, with proper auth-mode persistence for custom connectors.
• OAuth token lookup improvements. Better matching and handling for MCP OAuth tokens to reduce unnecessary re-auth prompts.
• Enter-to-send preference. Added a composer option to send on Enter.
• Code fence inline detection fix. Improved inline detection for fenced code blocks.

New

Improved

• Gemini CLI web search. Added provider-native Google Search support with search indicators and source citations, so Gemini CLI results display grounded links in the UI.
• Codex web search compatibility. Added tool wiring and status indicators so Codex CLI web search shows up cleanly in chat output.
• Provider-aware tool UI. Tool selection now adapts to Gemini CLI (search-only) and clarifies Copilot tool availability.
• Improved math rendering. Better inline LaTeX handling for typical model output using single-dollar delimiters.

New

• New: Google Vertex AI. Configure service account JSON, project, and location to use Vertex models.
• New: Chat export/import. Export a chat to JSON or import it from the app menu.

Improved

• Improved: Tool history reliability. Anthropic server tools are sanitized to avoid malformed replay.
• Improved: Usage reporting. OpenAI‑compatible providers now surface usage metrics consistently.

Fixed

• Fixed: Gemini image follow‑ups. Thought signatures are preserved and images are normalized for multi‑turn use.
• Fixed: Native tool availability. Provider-native tools now show up correctly (including new Vertex tools), with tool selection remaining per-chat.

New

• New: Usage metrics & estimated cost. Messages now store usage details, with chat-level totals for quick tracking.
• New: Workflow ordering & usage stats. Sort workflows, track usage count, and see recent activity.
• New: Thinking controls for Anthropic, Google, and OpenRouter. Configure effort/level and budgets across account, folder, agent, and chat.
• New: Codex CLI improvements. GPT-5.2 Codex models added and verification is more flexible with clearer warnings.
• New: Workflow/agent/prompt duplication. Quickly duplicate items and start a New Chat (Copy Configuration) from the sidebar.
• New: Advanced message editor. Expanded editing tools for message content and structure.
• Improved: Attachments. Higher file size limit for licensed users with clearer limits and errors.
• Fixed: Custom base URL model fetch. Model list requests now honor custom base URLs during provider setup.
• Fixed: Context policy updates. Switching profiles now keeps context policy changes consistent.
• Fixed: Markdown list indentation. Lists render with correct spacing and nesting.
• Fixed: Web renderer stability. Prevented a crash when extracting message text for rendering.

Fixed

New

• New: Built-in Apple TTS support. Added Apple’s built-in text-to-speech voices to Voice settings.
• Fixed: Audio player window routing. Fixed the audio player opening in the wrong window.
• Fixed: Tools toggle stability. Prevented tools from auto-reverting or auto-enabling provider search when no tools are selected.
• Fixed: Agent tool list persistence. Fixed agent tool selections not saving reliably.
• Fixed: Gemini title generation. Fixed chats not auto-generating titles when using Gemini.
• Fixed: Think blocks in copy. Copying messages no longer includes `` blocks.

New

• New: More built-in models. Added new models for Codex CLI, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI (GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Gemini Pro 3.0).
• New: Extra High reasoning effort. Added support for xhigh reasoning effort.
• Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts being stolen. Fixed an issue where BoltAI could overwrite ⌘R and other system/app shortcuts.
• Fixed: Agent tools not applied in workflows. Fixed an issue where tools were not applied when using an AI Workflow + AI Agent with tools.
• Fixed: LLM parameters not saved. Fixed an issue where some LLM parameters might not be persisted.
• Fixed: ShotSolve screenshot state. Fixed an issue where ShotSolve could keep previous screenshots instead of clearing them.
• Fixed: Import hanging on macOS 26. Fixed an issue where import could hang on macOS 26.
• Fixed: Codex CLI auth refresh tokens. Sync refresh tokens back to the Codex CLI auth.json.
• Improved: Streaming proxy errors. Improved AI inference error handling in the streaming proxy.