v2.2.0

The biggest update since launch: Ask the forum is now an agent that researches step by step and shows its work.

Highlights

• Ask the forum, rebuilt as an agent. It decides what to do one step at a time (search the forum, list the latest topics, read a topic, check your saved summaries), and you can watch and open every step. The answer streams in with numbered [S#] sources linking to the topics it read.
• Follow-up questions under an answer continue the same research on the same forum.
• Picks up where it left off. A run is saved after every step and resumes after a browser restart, or after you log in or allow forum access.
• Live model list. After you enter an API key (or a local server address), the setup card and Settings show the models your provider offers today and pre-select a recommended one. Your saved model is never changed; Settings warns if the provider has retired it.
• Hide the in-page button: Settings → Forum access → Show the DiscourseCopilot button on forum pages.
• Undo for deletes: deleting a saved summary or answer can be undone for 8 seconds (Undo, or Ctrl/⌘+Z).

Changed

• Settings → Ask the forum now sets the agent's budget: Quick (6 steps, 3 topics read), Balanced (15 / 8), Thorough (25 / 14) or Custom. Earlier custom limits are converted automatically.
• Summaries and chat say so when only part of a long topic was read.
• Reset all settings asks for confirmation on the page instead of a browser pop-up.
• New default models for every provider. Anthropic now defaults to Claude Sonnet 5, because Haiku 4.5 retires after October 15.

Fixed

• A deleted Ask the forum answer could reappear as an empty panel.

Under the hood

Upgraded to AI SDK 7, Vite 8 and marked 18; the code is split into smaller modules with an import-layering test; new automated UI tests (light and dark) and Biome linting run in CI.

Note: very small local models may struggle to follow the agent's step format. Summaries and chat work fine with them.

Install

• Chrome Web Store (recommended): Add DiscourseCopilot to Chrome. Store updates appear only after Google's review, which can take from a few hours to several days.
• From this release: download the zip below, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked. Disable the store copy first if you have it, so the two don't conflict.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md · compare v2.1.1...v2.2.0