v0.1.0 — first public alpha

Chervil is an agentic, conversational web browser. Instead of ten blue links, you talk to Sprig — which searches the live web and composes a single, self-contained, image-rich page built for your exact question. When you actually want a real site, Sprig opens it live.

⚠️ Build-in-public alpha. Run from source — no packaged installer yet. Many features are implemented but not fully verified on every platform.

Highlights

• 📄 Composed pages grounded in live web search, with sources shown
• 🔬 Deep Dive — long, cited reports with disinformation vetting
• ✓ Trust layer — one-click Verify + a "show your work" sources panel
• ♻️ Living pages & 🗂️ Spaces — pages that stay fresh; workspaces that synthesize
• 🤖 Agentic web actions with hard safety gates
• ⌨️ Quick-ask global hotkey + tray · ⏰ Scheduled agents (can run "as" an agent)
• 👤 Agent files — importable personas (starters in /agents)
• 🎬 Video summaries (YouTube captions, or Gemini-native) · ⤓ Export anywhere (PDF/PPTX/DOCX/XLSX/image/GIF)
• 🧩 Bring your own AI — Claude, Grok, Gemini, Azure AI Foundry, local Ollama

Get started

git clone https://github.com/chervil-ai/chervil.git
cd chervil && npm install && npm start

Add a provider key in Settings ⚙ (encrypted at rest), or use local Ollama.

Full list in the CHANGELOG · website: getchervil.com