https://storytell-development.ai/changelog What's new in Chief. https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-22 20260722-162920-cf0c5c73 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Turn Notion pages into live sessions

You can now launch a Chief live session straight from a Notion meeting page, with a one-click "Start live session" link on every row. Credit alerts now track this month's usage so they line up with your billing page, and a run of app-open crashes and phantom running-chat notifications are gone.

• "Start live session" link on Notion meeting pages
• Notion pickers now load for project members, not just the org owner
• Turns that spent their whole budget thinking no longer look empty
• Credit usage alerts now match the billing page figure
• Chief live-session turns no longer show up as running chats or notifications
• Fixed a crash when opening the app while chats were running]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-20 20260720-204926-545c091b Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Get notified when chats finish and credits run low

You now get an in-app inbox and email alerts when a background chat finishes or fails, plus billing warnings for payment failures, subscription changes, and credit-usage thresholds. Recent chats in the sidebar show how long ago each was active, you can search projects when setting up a Slack integration, and the live-session credit counter ramps instead of snapping. Chief also quits cleanly on Cmd+Q, and the macOS download nag disappears once your desktop app is paired.

• A bell with an unread badge now collects chat and billing notifications
• Recent chats in the sidebar now show how long ago each was active
• A search box now sits above the Slack integration project list
• Unfinished outputs no longer look like completed files
• Pressing the up arrow to recall a prompt now switches the button to Send
• Live-session credit counter now ramps instead of jumping from 10 to 2,429
• Cmd+Q now fully quits Chief instead of backgrounding it
• The macOS download banner and pop-up now hide once your desktop app is paired]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-16 20260716-165135-4948fd28 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Approve actions and pick your model

You can now confirm actions right inside a chat you started from an automation, instead of hitting a block that told you not to retry. Deep Intelligence sits where it belongs, nested under Automatic with its models one click away, and the "Put this session to work" card shows up the moment you pause a live session. Dry runs stream their answers as they run rather than appearing only once finished.

• Confirm cards now appear in chats started from an action
• Dry run answers now stream in as they run
• Deep Intelligence now nests under Automatic in the AI picker
• "Put this session to work" card now appears when you pause]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-15 20260715-235219-73c571dc Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Track threads and catch @mentions live

You can now open Slack-style threads across a project, mention teammates to pull them in, and watch a live inbox light up the moment someone tags you. The Live Sessions list loads with a proper skeleton, keeps its "Live" badge accurate while a session runs, and Chief can now create and manage your actions, labels, and assets behind a confirm card. Auto mode can reach Deep Intelligence on its own, and the model selector now names the models it runs.

• @mention teammates in a thread and get a live inbox alert
• Thread list with unread badges and read markers
• Chief can create actions, apply labels, and rename assets
• Auto mode now routes to Deep Intelligence on its own
• Rebuilt action editor with fixed schedule math
• "Live" badge stays visible while a session is ongoing
• Loading skeleton replaces the blank Live Sessions list
• AI Provider selector shows the models the router actually runs
• Live session auto-pauses when your Zoom call ends]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-13 20260713-093701-9c786ad8 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT See live to-do actions land as they happen

Your Live Session summary now fills in as people talk, so spoken to-dos and decisions show up within a conversational beat instead of waiting for the next full pass. Once you trigger a suggested action, the row tells you exactly where it stands, and a stray malformed tool response no longer kills the whole turn.

• Live summary points now appear within a conversational beat
• To-do action rows now show Starting, Working, or Failed as they run
• Malformed tool JSON from Anthropic no longer aborts the whole turn]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-10 20260710-194424-6d8467df Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Turn live sessions into shareable work

You can now highlight any transcript passage to copy it or start a grounded chat right beside the transcript, jump from a chat back to its exact source, and hand a finished session straight to a coding agent as ready-to-paste markdown. Transcripts stream in near real time, to-dos suggest actions like PRDs and slides with a reason for each, and recurring actions that fail three times now pause with a visible label instead of dying in silence.

• Highlight a transcript passage to copy it or start a chat
• Click a highlight chat's header to jump back to its transcript source
• Post-session card docks bottom-left when a Live Session ends
• Live Session transcript now updates within a second or two
• To-do actions add PRD, task, slides, and Notion, each with a reason
• Diagnostics report now sends instead of silently failing
• Pasted plain text keeps section headings on their own lines
• Recurring actions now pause with a reason after three failures
• Large single-paragraph pastes now collapse into a pill
• Presentation toolbar collapses to icons in a narrow side panel]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-09 20260709-210126-daacc1c2 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Edit live summary bullets in place

You can now reword a to-do, decision, or point in a live session by clicking the pencil on any bullet, and your wording sticks even as the model keeps reorganizing the summary. Agents also reach your connected Slack, Notion, Gmail, and calendar directly, so an ask like "what did the team decide in Slack" pulls from the real source instead of guessing from uploaded documents.

• A pencil on each live summary bullet now opens inline editing
• Agents now search connected Slack, Notion, Gmail, and calendar directly]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-09 20260709-201446-70bdf688 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Start live sessions without picking a project

You can now hit start on a live session right away, no setup screen in the way. The project selection modal is gone, and you add session context from the summary panel whenever you like, even after the session has begun. If you host across multiple projects, a short countdown lets you switch the project before capture kicks in.

• Live sessions now start without the project selection modal
• Session context field now lives in the summary panel
• Prompt bar no longer shifts down when an improved prompt appears]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-08 20260708-212112-2fbe5784 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mention Live Sessions in any chat

You can now pull a Live Session straight into a chat by typing @ and picking it, and connect Chief to other AI tools through the hosted MCP server at mcp.chief.bot. Live Session transcripts read the way they should too: text is selectable, Cmd+A grabs the active panel, and remote speakers show as "Them" instead of "Speaker 1". Recent Chats also stay put when you open Settings, and the reworked Notion setup steps match Notion's current Connections screen.

• @-mention a Live Session in the chat composer
• Hosted MCP server at mcp.chief.bot
• Live Session transcript and summary text now selectable, with Cmd+A per panel
• Live Session transcripts label remote speakers "Them" on the web
• Recent Chats stay in the sidebar when you open Settings
• Processing banner opens the chat in its own project
• Chat activity river and citations show readable labels, not raw keys
• Notion setup steps rebuilt for the new Connections flow
• Long Live Sessions no longer corrupt audio past ~12 hours]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-07 20260707-142159-f299179f Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deleted Notion pages now disappear from Chief

Pages you delete in Notion now get cleared from Chief even when a deletion webhook goes missing, so stale content stops lingering in your workspace. A new daily prune reconcile walks each Notion deployment to drop out-of-scope pages, and the hourly backstop sync leaves recently synced deployments alone.

• Notion pages deleted with a missed webhook now get removed on a daily prune
• Hourly Notion backstop now skips deployments synced within the last 4 hours]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-06 20260706-170023-dd124869 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Manage all your jobs from one screen

You get a single jobs dashboard that shows every job by type, lets you filter and kill stuck jobs, and reads live meetings as a nested outline of topics and points instead of a flat list. Removing a Notion, Slack, or Google integration no longer throws a 404, and deleted projects show up clearly instead of breaking the picker.

• The jobs dashboard now merges ingestion and lets you kill a running job
• Live summaries now nest supporting detail under the point it belongs to
• Removing a Notion, Slack, or Google integration no longer returns a 404
• Copied summaries no longer show empty section headings]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-05 20260705-191335-ff892dff Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Notion sync finishes instead of stalling

Your Notion imports now complete even when a workspace links back on itself or Notion throttles the connection. Sync jobs that once sat in processing forever will finish or retry cleanly, so your pages land without you re-running the import.

• Notion sync no longer loops forever on pages that link back to themselves
• Notion sync jobs stuck when Notion rate limits now retry later instead of sleeping forever]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-04 20260704-231147-04fc6d71 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keep Notion syncing through key changes

You can rotate your Notion integration key from the integration card without breaking a beat, and Chief verifies the new key against Notion before it takes over and queues a full re-sync. If a secret gets revoked, sync pauses instead of retrying forever, and an amber Reconnect warning shows you exactly how to restore it, with a prune reconcile catching the edits and deletions you missed during the outage. Pages with an unsupported block type, like an AI block, now sync the rest of the page instead of failing outright.

• Notion sync now pauses and shows a Reconnect warning when your secret is revoked
• An "Update secret" action lets owners rotate the Notion integration key
• A single unsupported block no longer fails the whole Notion page sync]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-04 20260704-121358-0547120c Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mention what you need in a keystroke

You now find the Expert Voice or spreadsheet you reach for most without scrolling, thanks to a redesigned @mention picker with a "Frequently used" section, file-type icons, and matches that rank to the top. Approved and rejected action cards for Notion, Slack, calendar and email stay pinned above the timeline as a compact receipt so their Approve and Reject controls stay in reach, and Live Session results open at the top of a long answer instead of the bottom. Under the hood, new Claude, GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash models join the picker, live transcription rides through half-open connections without stalling, transcript timestamps track the session timer, and Notion sync waits out sustained rate limits instead of failing partway.

• The @mention picker now surfaces a "Frequently used" section and ranks matches to the top
• Approved and rejected action cards now stay pinned at the top of a message
• New Claude, GPT-5.5 and Gemini models are now selectable, with plan-aware research routing
• Live Session results now open scrolled to the top instead of the bottom
• Live transcription no longer stalls mid-session after a half-open connection
• Transcript timestamps no longer double or drift away from the session timer
• Notion sync jobs now wait out sustained rate limits instead of failing partway]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-07-02 20260702-170544-d3e77b03 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run a Live Session with more control

You can pause and resume a Live Session from the header without burning credits, jump back into any session with a chief:// deep link, and trust the live roster to show who's present and which device is hosting. Summaries now read "you" and "they" instead of "Speaker 1", open on the All tab, and stop regenerating once a session ends, while a "Chat" badge marks the items you've already turned into a thread. Notion is now an org-level integration your agent can search, read, and edit as markdown, and the agent only sees tools for integrations you've actually connected.

• Action cards now list recent runs in grid view
• A "Chat" badge marks summary items that already have a chat
• Summary bullets now read "you"/"they" instead of "Speaker 1"
• A live roster tracks who is present in a Live Session
• Transcript and result modals no longer snap to the bottom when you scroll up
• Notion is now an org-level integration with live chat tools
• @-mention picker now loads a Notion page even before it's indexed
• The agent no longer sees integration tools when they aren't connected
• Notion tools now read and edit a page as markdown
• To-dos now offer several context-aware action buttons
• New Live Sessions now open on the All summary tab
• Project picker dropdown stays attached when the app is zoomed
• Copy files to multiple projects at once from the copy dialog
• Remove a chat card from the Live Session view
• Sub-agent files now appear in the Created Files card
• Activity river no longer collapses when you download a generated file
• Abandoned Live Sessions no longer show a stale "live" badge
• Pause and resume a Live Session from the Chief header
• Open Chief straight to a session with a chief:// deep link
• Session summary no longer regenerates after a Live Session ends]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-30 20260630-163201-2d48a60a Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run meetings with a calmer desktop app

Live sessions now open with just Transcript and Summary, the Chats panel appears the moment you start a chat from a highlight or summary point, and stray blank panels no longer push your work off to the side. Chief also keeps running in the menu bar after Cmd+Q so passive meeting detection stays on, and you can schedule a session straight from a Google Calendar event that links back to your notes.

• Live sessions now open with only Transcript and Summary panels, not Chats
• Chats panel now opens automatically when you start a chat from a transcript highlight or summary point
• Chat cards in the Chats panel now scroll their own content and truncate long titles to one line
• Blank panel no longer appears on the right and indents Transcript and Summary
• Drag the transcript chat box by its header to move it off the transcript
• Shift-click and Cmd-click to select multiple live-summary rows and set them aside at once
• Restoring one live-summary item no longer reshuffles other set-aside items
• Live Session project picker now shows filtered results in an outlined dropdown
• "Draft this to-do" is now a solid filled button below the chat input
• Deleting a project now requires typing the project name to confirm
• "Connect Chief to Channels" accordion appears after connecting Slack
• Returning users no longer see a false "you don't have access" screen after Google sign-in
• Returning users who log out now get a "Sign In" button instead of "Sign Up"
• Copy now sits before Share in the text selection menu
• Magic Link sign-in button now carries a tooltip explaining it beats passwords
• Uploading a Google Workspace JSON key no longer blanks the page on small screens
• A confirmation modal now appears after you click "Download for macOS"
• Chief now keeps running in the menu bar after you quit
• Live sessions can be scheduled from a Google Calendar event and linked back to it]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-26 20260626-231548-f0293161 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Create projects from the picker

You can now spin up a new project straight from the project selector in the desktop app, without breaking your flow to go elsewhere. New projects land in your home organization and get selected the moment they're created, and the picker opens its list right away and stays open even when it's empty. We also fixed the "Listening for the conversation to start…" placeholder, so highlight and chat now wait until a session has real transcript instead of firing on an empty message.

• Create a project directly from the project picker
• "Listening…" placeholder can no longer be highlighted or chatted before a session starts]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-26 20260626-185459-82b458b6 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Talk about any live transcript passage

Highlight a passage in the live transcript and a chat bubble opens right there, with Chief answering from the meeting brief and running transcript while your highlights stay marked for easy jump-back. The ListenBar shows a live You-vs-Them talk-time split in gold and blue, the session summary builds in real time with one-tap develop actions, and Chief stops the session on its own when the call ends. Live Sessions gains a card-grid toggle, chat threads open at the latest message, and revoked pairings now surface a clear notice over the welcome screen.

• A You-vs-Them talk-time bar now grows in the recording strip
• Highlight a live transcript passage and chat about it in Chief
• Chief now stops the live session automatically when the call ends
• A revoked-pairing notice now appears over the Chief welcome screen
• Live Sessions page now has a card-grid view toggle
• The live session summary now builds in real time with one-tap develop actions
• Expanded Skill and Expert Voice views now have a Back button
• Slack credential field renamed to "Bot User OAuth Token"
• The "start a live session?" prompt no longer fires over onboarding
• Chat threads now open at the latest message instead of jumping to the top
• Exa web search and page fetch now retry transient failures
• Chief's meeting extraction now reliably returns structured insights, not free text
• Live sessions now track invited and joined members with roles
• A step-by-step modal now guides you to unblock notifications]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-24 20260624-193034-e0c6f96b Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Paste files and search across everything

You can now paste a screenshot or file straight into the prompt bar and it attaches like any other upload, no drag-and-drop needed. Search finds files by name and description alongside your chats, with filters for type, owner, and status, and streamed answers stop cutting off mid-response so you no longer refresh to see the full text. Integration setup for Google Workspace and Slack walks through numbered steps with direct links and one-click copy buttons for scopes and the Slack app manifest.

• Google Workspace and Slack setup now walk through numbered steps with copy buttons
• Organization settings menu now opens from any project for org owners
• An "MCP & CLI" link now sits in the account settings popover
• Paste images and files directly into the prompt bar
• Search page now finds files by name and description alongside chats
• Chat visibility pill now always shows in the thread header
• A formatting toolbar now sits above the action prompt editor
• Chat answers no longer appear cut off mid-stream until you refresh
• Created Files card now stands out in chat answers, with fixed dark-mode row hover
• Integration result cards now use the full available width
• First-run onboarding now plays an interactive demo session
• Pairing screen now links to chief.bot/settings/devices for your code
• Live session hosts now publish events for other participants to follow
• Chats and follow-ups now keep working after a session stops
• AirPods and other Bluetooth mics no longer break transcription]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-22 20260622-174108-c31b2fa1 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Draft replies and forwards in Gmail

You can now draft a reply or forward that stays with the original email instead of starting from scratch. Replies thread under the original conversation and forwards carry the quoted message over, with the subject filled in as "Re:" or "Fwd:" when you leave it blank. If the message you're replying to is gone, Chief tells you "That message no longer exists" rather than failing quietly.

• Draft a forward or reply that threads under the original email]]> https://storytell-development.ai/changelog#2026-06-22 20260622-140934-b5592aa0 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open recent chats without the spinner

You click a recent chat and the thread renders right away, no loading spinner while it fetches. Chief warms your top recent chats on browser idle and revalidates content in the background, so revisiting a conversation feels instant. Live-session transcripts now label speakers as "You" and "Them" instead of leaking a guest placeholder email, valid email addresses no longer blank out your profile, and the device pairing modal lines up cleanly with its button flush and the terms checkbox centered.

• Recent chats now open instantly without a loading spinner
• Live-session transcript now labels speakers "You" and "Them"
• Valid email addresses no longer blank out your profile
• Device pairing modal button no longer floats below an empty gap
• Terms agreement checkbox on the welcome screen now sits centered]]>