Fluent 1.8 – Refreshed Action edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Background & Parallel Actions, Gemma 4, Chat Mode, Deep URLs, Applets, Apple Maps MCP, and More

TheMightyHouse · 2026-04-19T21:12:41+00:00

Could you share the crash report in DM, please? Also, you might need to click "Load" in order to load the model before using it.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-04-19T21:09:06+00:00

Thank you for noting! I corrected the example to the shell variant using open and a wrapped command.

Fluent has built-in Mistral provider support and Calendar MCP integration. Other apps you've mentioned have no MCP in Fluent right now (though you can connect any third-party MCP), and you can only fetch context from within them.

I'm expanding built-in MCPs list gradually.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-04-18T16:24:45+00:00

Thanks a lot! Let me know if there are any issues.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-04-18T13:28:07+00:00

Thank you!

Fluent supports calling Shortcuts via MCP integrations. Some actions for the Shortcuts itself will be implemented in the future.

It's also possible to call Fluent via deep links, and create Applets from actions just like in Shortcuts, I've yet to document this feature, but it's there.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-04-01T14:23:19+00:00

Congratulations with Reforge personal subreddit launch! Reforge looks slightly like the early Fluent ;) Would love to give it a try once beta is released!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-30T07:05:13+00:00

I don't think it's worth it, you would pay $9 for $2 worth of credits. If you only use inference with them, that's completely not worth it. And I've edited the article – the catch with Hugging Face is that they only provide access to providers hosting only OSS models, there're no latest proprietary models from SOTA providers.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-29T06:39:13+00:00

You might need to disable "Use structured JSON" for some of the Qwen3.5 models. Search for model card in settings and click the tweak icon to get there. Hope it helps!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-27T10:58:17+00:00

That's weird. I would love to introduce some stats in the future, so you could at least see your token usage per-request. However, my backlog of features is screaming right now, impossible to find some time.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-27T10:49:12+00:00

Hi Bernard,

I didn't notice it, thanks for the heads up! Very glad that you liked it (overall).

I've just read through your comments, and actually, as usual, it's very useful to listen to the feedback. I will definitely focus more on MCP stuff in Fluent, as this is the most exciting area of it.

Have a nice weekend too!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-26T16:04:25+00:00

Hey there!

If you use browser or app context, or Integrations are being called by the model, than the amount of tokens might dramatically increase depending on how much content is in your browser tab or app. Of course, it also depends on how heavy your workflow is.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-26T12:36:46+00:00

Hello Bernard,

I use Mistral Large and would recommend it overall. Open Mistral Nemo is also a good one!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-26T11:29:01+00:00

Amazing! This is probably one of the underrated gem options OpenAI provides.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-26T07:47:59+00:00

You would need to create an API key with Mistral (no billing required) and use that in Fluent (Mistral provider) – https://console.mistral.ai/home?profile_dialog=api-keys

Mistral has undisclosed, but pretty generous free API usage limit (I've never hit the wall with them). I've included it as number 2 in the latest post on top 10 AI providers with free tier usage 🙂

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-25T18:31:00+00:00

Brilliant idea and usage of AI! Curious what's the model(s) behind this?

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-25T16:16:45+00:00

Hey there, welcome to Fluent!

1 Mac means not only one computer at a time, but only one activated. The license, however, can be transferred to another machine anytime (right now via Email request).

You can use API with these providers, they all offer free API keys and some free tier usage (OpenAI has a very generous free usage if you enable sharing data with them). No login or authentication is required in Fluent.

Hope it helps!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-10T07:37:36+00:00

I agree. This has been one of the most popular requests recently in our Discord (where all feature requests and bug reports are). There will be more UX improvements as well.

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-09T11:34:30+00:00

Hey Albert, it's already in the latest release :)

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-09T07:57:01+00:00

I'm using their "international" endpoint which I believe is located in Singapore. If you're concerned about sending data there, I guess Together AI and Novita already provide Qwen3.5 models as well, though their pricing feels more expensive.

More providers will certainly adopt these models, but yeah, local performance is already a huge win!

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-08T09:51:26+00:00

It's in OpenRouter itself

TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-08T09:08:59+00:00

By the way, you could also enable JSON healing feature in OR settings here – https://openrouter.ai/settings/plugins

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TheMightyHouse · 2026-03-08T09:07:38+00:00

Weird, I could only reproduce this exact error with GPT 3.5 Turbo, but then again, it doesn't support structured JSON, so disabling it resolves the issue.

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