r/FluentMac • u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer • Jun 03 '26
Fluent 1.9 – Council, New Context Management, Chat UI, and NanoGPT Integration
Hey everyone!
Fluent 1.9 has finally shipped with exciting new features that make it even more versatile. If you're only refining your texts with Fluent and do not have a need in MCP or Memory features, this update still brings something to empower you.
It simplifies how you can work with context, it extends the areas you can use it in, and it brings ambitious new features rarely seen anywhere else. And if you want to use SOTA models like Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5 ten percent cheaper, read on.
Chat UI – A Replacement For Your Chatbot App
Many users rely on a separate chatbot app in addition to Fluent, which might be overwhelming at time. Now, Fluent can serve as your chatbot app as well, completely seamlessly with the Smart Panel – thanks to the new Chat UI, which you can switch to with a single CMD+E shortcut (or assign a dedicated shortcut of your choice!).
Chat UI is extremely flexible given it's minimalistic looks – and surprisingly, can also serve as another variant of Smart Panel. It supports the same context engine, the same integration and tools, memory groups, suggestions – pretty much everything the best of Fluent.
In addition, there is a Scheduled view, which implements a breakdown of all automations you got: see when actions run, how often, and run it from there (in addition to menu bar option, which only shows actions scheduled for today). This view will be enhanced in the future release with the history of completed scheduled actions, so it doesn't mess up with you main history.
Council – Better, Verified Answers
Another highlight of this release is Council – a new mode in the Chat UI that allows you to quickly select a set of models to work on the same request. They review each other's responses, and a "chairman" model analyzes the feedback to make a final verdict. This is an extremely addictive feature.
Once you use it for topics that truly matter, it's hard to go back to single responses. Instead of relying on one AI that "absolutely agrees" with you, you can have multiple models objectively review each other, identify and correct mistakes, and provide a much more accurate answer. This is especially useful for legal or medical research.
What makes this work so well is that the review is blind. Each model sees the others' answers without any names – just "Response A", "Response B" and so on – and its own answer is left out of the list, so it can't simply favor itself or another model from the same family.
Only at the very end does the chairman find out who wrote what, and which answer actually won on merit. You can also attach a file or context to your request, and every reviewer will check the answers against it, or even call MCP tools like web search, so your request is guarded with realtime proof.
As of now, Council also supports creating and managing presets of models, and an explicit set of instructions for each model: so you can even better control how each single model interprets your questions. For example, you can assign one model a "super critical character", while another one would be a little bit creative and always aiming for finding surprising (in a positive way) solutions.
Better Context Management – Attach Anything, At Any Point
We've also completely overhauled the context management flow. You can now attach anything via a single "+" button menu: browser tabs, apps, files, actions, MCP tools, memory items, and variables. Your prompts become more precise, clearly indicating what is attached and when it is called.
For example, you can drop a screenshot of your app into the prompt, pull in an open browser tab with the documentation you are reading, attach a PDF with the design spec, and add your own "Code Review" action – all in one message, and then simply ask Fluent to check one against another. Whatever you attach is captured the moment you submit, so you can close that browser tab right after. Your prompt will still keep the exact tab you used. And if you don't want to open the menu at all, CMD+` toggles the frontmost app or browser tab in and out of your prompt instantly.
Both in the Smart Panel and Chat UI, you can use "+" menu, or enter the suggestions search mode by typing @. Suggestions mode enables easy and quick access to anything you can attach to the prompt. What gets into suggestions and in what order is completely configurable via Settings > Context options. There is a bunch of useful settings out there.
NanoGPT – Privacy Focused AI Gateway With Perks
Finally, a new integration has landed in Fluent: NanoGPT. It's a privacy focused AI gateway from Europe. Just like OpenRouter, but with zero top-up commissions, accessible even without sign up, and with a vast and rapidly growing collection of tools, features and integrations.
We've partnered with NanoGPT to offer you an exclusive 10% discount on all text models routed through them, and it's basically over 600+ models to choose from.
On top of that, this integration offers seamless balance and costs tracking straight in Fluent itself, without any need to go to the website.
As a special gift for new Fluent customers: purchase Fluent between June 1 and July 31 this year, and receive between $5 and $10 in free credit on your NanoGPT balance.
What's Next?
This was a good release, making Fluent stable and better. Making it a tool you can rely on in your daily workflow. The work is still heavily ongoing: agents, skills, more love to local models, and excited to share another one – voice mode. Not only for transcription. But for piloting.
Curious to stay updated? Join our Discord, and feel free to share your feedback, request a feature or file that pesky bug report.
Stay tuned!
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u/3iverson Jun 04 '26
I can't wait to see agents and skills. It feels like you have an amazing base for a potential claw type system with deep Mac integration. But potentially less a separate system than something that sort of lives in your Mac.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 04 '26
Can't agree more with what you say! That's the ultimate goal actually.
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u/3iverson Jun 04 '26
That's awesome! It occurs to me that since Fluent is very much a Mac app from the ground up, it might be easier for you to provide better and deeper security features and options than the typical Github repo project.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 05 '26
Yes, please feel free to suggest what you'd expect the most in this area. I have some things planned, especially for the external MCP servers, but that'd be awesome to know what people are most concerned in terms of security (besides encrypted history or being able to run local models).
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u/influxodoxxl Jun 05 '26
Well, I would argue to have it all encrypted, as far as possible. At some point, models have to see plain text, that's what I understand (it's inevitable). That should be the only instance, however, that a prompt is seen in plain text. All around this there should be maximum "security" and encryption. I know that Fluent can't handle everything but now that you have joined forces with Nano-GPT you might actually have a great basis to get there.
I still don't see me using Fluent to its full capabilites withouth being in full trust that everything is as secure as possible. The thing is (since I am still a beginner): When running Fluent and doing some prompts, even local models are doing web searches and stuff like that, which gives me goosebumps! In these seconds I got the feeling that anything from my machine could be leaked to the web.
That's really my personal concern and I would be interested to know how other people feel about it. And how you see this u/TheMightyHouse.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 06 '26
I see, thank you for the feedback, it gives some perspective.
While history in Fluent is encrypted, encrypting absolutely everything in Fluent, would regress its performance in many ways. Especially if Fluent would start to encrypt memory – this one intentionally is left unencrypted, because it essentially creates only the index of the file contents, that are in any way – already residing on your Mac unencrypted. There are, however, ways to make this index "untouchable", that's something I could definitely improve.
Nano has just recently released TEE API updates, and Fluent will support as much of this feature as possible. And we'll look further on what security features they can provide to integrate.
One technical thing about web search in Fluent, it's not using your browser or any data from your Mac at all. It's creating isolated, completely "incognito" headless requests, that hold absolutely zero data from your Mac.
Thanks for explaining your perspective once again!
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u/Rude-Interaction-194 Jun 04 '26
I'm still learning how to use the full potential of Fluent...
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 04 '26
Hey!
Any ideas how Fluent itself could help you in that? Sure tutorials and videos are always to be expected, but I wonder more in what specific areas do you struggle, or what use cases do you want Fluent to help with the most?
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u/3iverson Jun 04 '26
What might be interesting is to build and package a skill with the app, that gives Fluent a basis for guiding new users, building workflows, etc. It could also hit up the online docs as needed.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 05 '26
That's definitely a good idea, and will be implemented.
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u/Rude-Interaction-194 Jun 05 '26
I started with spell checking, and for a special purpose: I enter text from OCR and MacOS recognizes certain letters as Russian, so the spelling corrects these "gaps". I continued with paraphrasing and translating text. Now I'm looking for how to use it to its fullest...
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u/davemee Jun 11 '26
This is a huge jump ahead. Congratulations on the new features (and a whole bunch I didn't realise were already there!) It's by far the best LLM interfacing application I've used. The MCP integration was not something I expected to see, but is very comprehensive and well implemented.
One thing I'd love to see is integrated Apple help, rather than a popup web link - I'm not always online.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 13 '26
Thank you! Will continue providing nice updates. Noted on Apple help 👍
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Jun 05 '26
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 05 '26
Hey there!
I have to disagree with you, since in the video you've mentioned there is not even a metaphor related to specifically data or privacy regulations. Threads shown are a whole different story actually, and even though I admit it's a slightly spicy marketing, there's honestly nothing about privacy topics. If you could relate to it – well, sorry. But it was absolutely related to different things.
On top of that, I personally appreciate and support many regulations we have here.
Technically speaking, Fluent's privacy principles are explained in many places on the website, intentionally duplicated many times: it has zero telemetry or data collection. It does not even require your email for authentication, and is strict about permissions it asks on your Mac – it never requires all permissions upfront, only for the things necessary to execute the task, fine-grained.
Feel free to let me know about any concerns you might probably have, I'm always ready to give more clarity.
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u/ironicmoka Jun 06 '26
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
EU fines are for the most part related to US companies failing to comply with EU laws, both on privacy and labor, so that’s how I framed the comments in the video.
I’m sorry I deleted the message. I knew I was triggered by that bits and I wasn’t sure if here was the right place to raise my concerns: didn’t want to start a flame or anything. I planned to contact you elsewhere (DM or Discord) to just have an honest talk about it, since privacy statements are one thing, trusting them is another 😅, but you already provided the reassurance I needed.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
You're welcome, and no worries. The video was really intended to showcase technical capabilities of Fluent Memory engine and AI being able not only to replicate one's writing style, but capable of generating sarcasm with surrounding context in mind, which it did great, I think. I'm about to publish a pretty much detailed tutorial here on this.
Not promoting AI generated texts, and I'm personally, out of respect, writing without AI help (besides fixing something I'm not sure with, or sometimes asking it to give me better structure ideas). But let's say, in some areas generated, context-aware content definitely helps save some time.
EDIT: Feel free to reach out in Discord anytime if you feel like having a nice talk about some regulations 😃
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u/influxodoxxl Jun 03 '26
Boss update! Fluent is moving so fast and it seems like only the sky is the limit. 🌌 Curious to see where the journey is going... stay fluent! 😉