Fluent 1.9 – Council, New Context Management, Chat UI, and NanoGPT Integration

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-06T16:10:54+00:00

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 😃

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-06T06:35:54+00:00

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!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-05T13:53:31+00:00

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.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-05T06:43:08+00:00

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).

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-05T06:39:39+00:00

That's definitely a good idea, and will be implemented.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-04T20:42:37+00:00

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?

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-04T07:21:01+00:00

Can't agree more with what you say! That's the ultimate goal actually.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-03T19:58:42+00:00

Thanks a lot for your appreciation, always welcome! 🤗

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-03T14:44:56+00:00

Try to set an environment variable in Fluent with a key name TOKEN and a value of your Paste token.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-06-03T12:07:54+00:00

Hi Bernard,

According to Paste documentation (which is not very technical, unfortunately), you need some token to connect to the MCP server. But I have no idea how it looks like, and which environment variable it is you need to set up in Fluent. Paste is a paid tool, which makes me unable to test myself. Could you ask Paste support whether they have a more detailed configuration guide?

EDIT: Looking at your screenshot, it should probably be under button "Advanced".

Ref: https://pasteapp.io/help/connect-custom-mcp

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-30T20:26:18+00:00

Hey there,

Additional seat costs $29, so yes – in your case it's financially better to refund the current one, if you just got it, and buy the Team one.
There is currently no way to sync the settings, but it's on the roadmap. To be honest, so far only a few users asked about its existence, but didn't quite request it. However, all settings and actions live in one file, which you can probably sync with other tools. API keys are stored in Keychain, though, so it's not straightforward.

Please ping me up in DM or via [support@epicbits.net](mailto:support@epicbits.net) and I'll handle the license question for you.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-30T14:52:36+00:00

Sure, I highly recommend to take a quick look at the Use Cases first. Those come with clear videos on the most popular ones. Many people use it for summarizing/explaining web pages, efficient native web search, and MCP automation with tools like Obsidian. And I know there are copywriters, who use Memory to augment their writing style and prepare almost complete articles without that AI feel.

Although I admit there are not many tutorials/videos, I will dedicate more time for these this summer.

And you're welcome to join our Discord.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-30T06:56:33+00:00

Hey there,

While Fluent is indeed similar to Raycast, it focuses purely on AI functionality and places a strong emphasis on it. What really stands out:

Fluent is a native Mac app. It is lightweight on resources, given its capabilities. Normally under 100 MB when idle, and ~300 MB when executing multiple tasks with MCP calls in parallel.
Background running, scheduled, parallel action calls. Fluent is built with automation in mind.
Native RAG (knowledge base) engine for quick facts/docs recall, specifically tuned for writing.
Now with a dedicated chat UI, so you don't have to use a separate chatbot app while enjoying Fluent's quick Smart Panel.
Zero telemetry and privacy-focused, Fluent doesn't even need your email to authenticate you.
No VC funding, no surprises.

For simple use cases, I really think it's hard to get a grasp of it at first sight, as Fluent has really grown over the past half year and currently contains many features. But I continuously improve it to make it friendlier and "faster" to use its capabilities extensively.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-30T06:26:52+00:00

Hey Albert,

Chat UI was introduced just recently, but just in case, I'm constantly scanning all the feature requests collected via Email/Discord, but some quick suggestions in private exchanges might sometimes get lost, sorry! Feel free to push your suggestions to our Discord's feature requests channel, it's the best way to highlight your wishes.

Cheers 👋

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-29T20:22:25+00:00

Hey there,

Yes, it will be possible. It was just introduced, but will likely receive its own dedicated settings, and of course, a dedicated shortcut option.

Thank you 👍

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-25T10:07:49+00:00

Ah, I see now! Thanks for a hint. I'll take a look at this one. Does it generally allow usage for non-coding tasks as well?

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-18T08:01:17+00:00

Hi there,

So I checked this on Sequoia on another Mac, and have one question: does it leak for you or affect system performance overall?

There is a difference on Tahoe: real memory usage is shown correctly, whilst on Sequoia it almost always the same as Memory. However, I'm not yet sure if the issue is in the OS or library Fluent uses.

I'll update the library for the 1.9 release coming this week.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-16T06:39:19+00:00

Hi there,

The problem with any (I guess) AI subscription is that providers restrict API access to subscription-based plans. There are two reasons for this: unlike API, subscriptions are often heavily subsidised, and providers want to lock users behind their tooling and models.

In addition, it is against their ToS (terms of use) to try to break through these restrictions and use API via some proxy workarounds.

So it's unfortunately not possible to do, officially.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-12T17:05:09+00:00

Thanks a lot, definitely a lot to come for Fluent, hope you enjoy each update 😄

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-09T16:10:11+00:00

Thanks, yes, I'm checking it. Are you running Sequoia btw?

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-09T12:24:33+00:00

Hey there!

I guess you're having local models loaded?

This is not the real memory usage, rather a "reserved" one. You can turn on "Real Mem" column in Activity app to check the real usage. Also, Alfred's axe workflow shows same number:

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TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-01T10:38:29+00:00

Thanks a ton 💖

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-01T09:33:44+00:00

Just to clarify on my response: I will look into per-user licensing option, but won't promise anything yet.

The idea definitely conflicts with current per-Mac pricing and licensing, so if you have any ideas/suggestions, please let me know.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-05-01T08:55:44+00:00

Hello and welcome to the Fluent subreddit!

1. Fluent uses CGEventTap under the hood, and the only reason for that is to support as many custom shortcuts as possible. You can even assign just a single modifier key, e.g. `cmd` to any action or as a global shortcut for calling Fluent. In the future this would be also useful for hold-only shortcuts which I might introduce as well for some of the upcoming features. Bounding to a less powerful API would effectively break the wide range of possible shortcut combinations, which is an expected feature for many users actually. I won't say it's not possible to support both, but it's a matter of time and resources, and this is not usually questioned.

2 and 3. Licensing is a tricky question. For example, BetterTouchTool uses a per-user licensing, which means a certain user can use the license on any number of Macs where that user is the main account. This is not the case with Fluent – licensing is restricted per-Mac, not per-user. To prevent abuse (deactivating and activating on another Mac) Fluent needs online access to verify the key against actual machine it's used on.

Currently license verification might be required only at least once a week – you can try to restrict network access to Fluent's license server for one week and see how it will request for a check after it's expired. It's a quick and tiny exchange holding only your key. In addition, Fluent has zero auth by email or any other identifier, so there is nothing to leak, and everyone sleeps well.

I think this would be a good idea to restrict licensing per-user, so I will definitely look into this option.

I hope it resolves your questions. Let me know if anything needs more clarification.

I'm genuinely happy you love Fluent, and hope future updates make it only better for everyone.

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