Chat

Chat interface

Chat with Bravo from the Chrome extension sidebar or the dashboard. You can choose which AI model handles a chat from the composer. See Choosing a model.

While Bravo works, it narrates its progress in the chat as it goes, with a small animated glyph beneath. A line beside the glyph names what Bravo is doing, such as Searching Gmail with the search terms, or the title of a page or email it just read. Side answers and finished parts of your request show as the reply while Bravo keeps working, and the progress updates disappear once the reply streams or Bravo finishes. Once Bravo has taken a few steps, a Skip button appears next to the status; click it and Bravo stops after its current step and answers with what it has so far. The chat follows the reply as it comes in until you scroll up or touch it; scroll back to the bottom or click the down arrow button to follow again. The progress shows wherever the chat is open, so switching chats or opening it in another tab picks up where Bravo is.

You can keep typing and send while it works: your message appears at the end of the chat with a dashed outline, Bravo stops after the step it is on, and your message goes out next so Bravo carries on with it in mind. Sending again adds to the waiting message. Press Up in an empty message box, or click Edit beside the message, to move it back into the box for editing, and Bravo keeps working until you send it again. Click Cancel beside it to discard it. To have Bravo stop right away and take your message without finishing the step, send it with Cmd+Enter on a computer (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux), or click Send now under the waiting message. To stop instead, click the stop button when the message box is empty, or press Esc. With a message waiting, the stop button returns it to the message box without sending, while Esc sends it right away.

Sidebar and dashboard chat

Sidebar chat is best when the current browser tab matters. Dashboard chat is best for standalone work and chat history, and it works on any device, including your phone, with no extension needed. When the extension is connected, the dashboard can also work with pages you already have open in Chrome. See Dashboard for starting, reopening, searching, renaming, deleting, and recovering chats.

From a sidebar conversation, open the ⋯ menu at the top and choose Open Bravo in a tab to continue in the dashboard. Holding ⌘ (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) while clicking the title or any chat in Chats opens it in the dashboard right away.

At the top of a sidebar chat, click the title to rename it. The ⋯ menu has Rename, Share, and Delete for the open chat, then Zoom, Open Bravo in a tab, Settings, What's new, Help, and Log out. To start a new chat, click New chat at the top, or press ⇧⌘O on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows and Linux. After you open another chat, the back arrow beside the title returns to the one you were on.

Chats at the top of the sidebar lists your chats by day, where you can reopen or search them without leaving the page. In a tab with no chat yet, the sidebar shows any of your chats related to the page you are on so you can pick up where you left off, or, when there are none, a few ways to start that send in one click.

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Formatting your message

Use bold and italic to give parts of your message emphasis: press Cmd+B or Cmd+I (Ctrl+B / Ctrl+I on Windows/Linux), or type **bold** or *italic*. Start a line with - or 1. for a list, and press Shift+Enter to start a new line without sending. Your sent message keeps the formatting.

Voice input

Click the microphone next to the send button, or press Cmd+Shift+D on macOS or Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows/Linux while typing, to talk instead of type. The first time, your browser asks permission to use your microphone. In the sidebar, Chrome can't ask, so the microphone sends you to Bravo's extension options to allow it once. While you talk, a timer and sound bars show that Bravo is listening.

When you are done, click the check mark or press Enter. Bravo writes out what you said and adds it to the end of whatever is already in the message box, so you can fix anything before you send it. Nothing is sent until you send it. To throw a recording away, press Esc or click the X.

A recording can be up to 10 minutes long. With 30 seconds left, a short tone plays and the timer turns amber. At 10 minutes, the recording stops on its own and Bravo writes it out.

Names and terms from the chat or topic you are in and from your memory, like the people you work with or your company's products, are passed along so they come back spelled right. Voice input uses a small number of credits, about 10 credits for an hour of talking, and needs credits left to work. Each recording is charged by its length as soon as it is written out, and shows in your usage history as a transcribe line with the transcription model, separate from the chat message you send afterwards. A recording made in an existing chat links to that chat.

Page awareness

In the sidebar, Bravo can use the browser tab you are viewing, so you can ask questions about a webpage, email, or document without leaving the page. With the extension installed, dashboard chats can also answer questions about pages you have open in Chrome. See Page and URL access for browser tab details.

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Asking about a selection

Highlighting text on any webpage shows a small Ask button next to the selection. Click it to open the sidebar with that text loaded as a quote above the message box, then type your question and it sends along with the quote attached. Right-clicking the selection and choosing Ask Bravo does the same, and works for text you selected with the keyboard or with the Ask button turned off.

The quote shows the page's favicon and title, and you can remove it with the ×. Anything you leave in the message box is kept as a draft for that browser tab, in the sidebar and the dashboard alike: your typed text, any attachments, and the quote. Navigate to other pages in the tab, close and reopen the sidebar, or refresh the dashboard, and the draft is undisturbed. Each chat keeps its own draft, so switch chats and the quote waits behind in the one it landed in. Come back and it's still there, ready to send, until you close the tab or the browser.

Turn it off by unchecking “Show an Ask button when you select text on a page” in the extension's options. See the options page in Getting started.

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Working with files

Attach files with the plus button, drag-and-drop, or paste files and images directly into the message box. Long pasted text is attached as a text file so Bravo can work with it as a document. Folders can be dragged onto the sidebar and are automatically zipped for upload. You can send a file on its own, without typing anything.

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Each file can be up to 50 MB, and a conversation can have up to 1,000 files. Once a file is attached, ask Bravo to summarize it, answer questions, compare it with another file, extract data, or turn it into a new downloadable file.

• Summarize a PDF, Word document, spreadsheet, CSV, image, video, audio recording, or archive.
• Compare multiple files and pull out differences, action items, dates, or totals.
• Create a downloadable Word document, PowerPoint deck, CSV, spreadsheet, or ZIP.
• Redline a Word document you uploaded. Suggested edits come back as real tracked changes you accept or reject one by one in Word.
• Convert a document, presentation, or diagram to a downloadable PDF, or an older spreadsheet or Numbers file to Excel.

Bravo works best with PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, CSVs, text or Markdown files, saved emails (.eml), images, videos, audio recordings, and ZIP/GZ archives. That includes older Office versions, OpenDocument formats, Apple iWork, and Visio diagrams. Bravo also reads the comments and tracked changes in Word documents (.doc and .docx, with who wrote each one and when, which text each one refers to, any replies, and whether a comment is resolved), the notes attached to spreadsheet cells, and the speaker notes in presentations (.ppt, .pptx, .odp, and .key), where hidden slides are labeled as hidden. With a video or an audio recording (.mov, .mp4, .m4a, .mp3, and the other common phone and browser formats), Bravo describes what is shown and what is said, or writes out a full transcript if you ask for one. With a PDF, Bravo can merge several files into one, split one apart, and fill in form fields. Folders containing these files can be dragged in too.

Files from connected apps work similarly. If Gmail, Outlook Mail, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox is connected, Bravo can read attachments and files you have access to. Those integrations are read-only: Bravo can analyze the original, and if you ask for changes it will return a separate downloadable file instead of editing the source.

If you want a file back, name the output format, for example make this a CSV, create a Word doc, make a spreadsheet, build a PowerPoint deck, or give me a downloadable PDF.

If an upload fails, remove it or retry the upload. Common causes include files over the size limit, invalid filenames, or too many files in the conversation.

Images

Bravo can inspect images and answer questions about what they show. It can also help with image edits. Bravo can also create images and infographics from a description or the page you're viewing. For exact edits, ask for precise transformations such as cropping, resizing, rotating, adding a border or overlay, recoloring, or converting formats. For changes to the image itself, describe what you want, such as a different object, background, or style. If you want a particular size, a file format, a transparent background for logos and overlays, or extra detail in the result, say that in the request.

Interactive apps

Ask Bravo for an interactive view of your data, such as a table you can sort and filter, a timeline you can click through, or a small dashboard, and it builds an app right into its reply. Apps work in the dashboard and in the sidebar. Shared chats show a short note in place of the app.

• An app shows the data Bravo built it with and doesn't refresh on its own. To see newer data or a different layout, ask for a change, and Bravo builds an updated version in its next reply. Earlier replies keep their own version.
• Links inside an app don't open, so Bravo puts any sources in the reply around it.
• Apps follow your light or dark theme.

Sources

When Bravo uses webpages, files, emails, calendar events, Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox files, or past chats to answer, it cites them: small source icons appear next to the claims they support, and a source count appears with the buttons under the reply. Hover a citation to preview the source, or click it to open the original item and check where the answer came from: a past chat opens at the cited message, and a file from another chat opens the conversation where it was attached or created; a file cited in the chat you're viewing downloads directly.

Clicking a source that's a webpage, or any web link in a reply, opens it in its own tab, jumping to that tab if it's already open or opening a new one, with the sidebar there showing the same chat.

Sources are most useful when Bravo summarizes, compares, or answers from information outside the current chat. For important decisions, open the sources and verify the details yourself.

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Quick replies

When a concrete choice helps you continue, including choosing a suggested next step, Bravo may show clickable quick replies at the end of a message. Pick one option, choose several when offered, or add your own answer when the choice allows it. Clicking a quick reply sends that choice as your next message, the same as if you had typed it. You can also ignore the buttons and type a reply.

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In some cases, Bravo also includes an Other option. Select it to type a custom answer below the choices, then send that text as your reply.

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Cancelled or errored replies

If you stop a reply, any text it had written stays in the chat with a line under it reading You stopped the reply. Bravo keeps the work it had done, so your next message can build on it. On the latest reply, click Continue to have Bravo pick up where it stopped, or Edit message to change what you asked. When a reply ends early on its own, the same line says why, such as Cut short by the time limit, followed by what you can do. Continue picks up where the reply stopped, Retry answers your original request from the beginning, and Try another model opens your message for editing so you can pick a different model. If a message never reaches Bravo, your text and any attachments come back to the composer so you can send them again. If Bravo can't take a message at all, it stays in the chat as a greyed-out bubble, and the line under it says the model declined the request.

Copying text

Short snippets meant to be reused on their own, such as a search query or email subject, are underlined. Click or tap one to copy just that text. Longer drafts appear in a bordered block with their own copy button. When you ask Bravo to rewrite, tighten, or fix text you gave it, the new version appears in one of these blocks. Turn on Show changes to see what Bravo changed.

Message footer buttons

Every reply from Bravo has a row of buttons just below it, with the time of the reply at the right end. The latest reply always shows its row; on earlier replies, hover over the reply to see it, or tap the reply on a touch screen.

• Copy: copies the reply (with formatting) to your clipboard so you can paste it into another app.
• Sources: shows how many sources the reply used, like “3 sources”, and appears only when it used any. Click it to see the list and open any source. See Sources for more.
• More (⋯): opens a menu with Share this reply, New chat from here, and Report a problem, which opens a short “What went wrong?” box so you can tell us a reply was bad. Notes go straight to the team. See Reporting bugs for other ways to reach us. At the bottom, the menu shows which AI model answered and how many credits the reply used. See Choosing a model for more. Hold Option on Mac, or Alt on Windows/Linux, while clicking More to see technical information about the response.

Editing a message

Hover over any message you sent to see a Copy button and an Edit button beside it. On a touch screen, tap the message to show them. You can edit in the sidebar or the dashboard, even while Bravo is working on a reply: editing stops that reply first, and a message waiting to send goes back into the message box.

Edit puts your message back in the composer. Change the text, add or remove files, or pick a different model, then send. Press Escape or click Cancel to stop editing. Bravo still sees the same page your original message asked about.

Sending replaces that message and everything after it with your edit and a new reply. Any files Bravo made or changed after the original message go back to how they were, so the new reply starts from the same place.

Nothing is lost. Click Edited under the message to see each version and when you sent it. Pick one to read the chat as it was then, and click Back to current to keep chatting. Earlier versions are read only. Sharing the chat shares only the current version.

Duplicating a chat

In the dashboard, open a chat's ⋯ menu and choose Duplicate to make a full copy of it, with its files and earlier versions of edited messages. The copy opens as “Copy of” plus the chat's title. Hold Command (Ctrl on Windows) while clicking to open it in a new tab.

To copy only part of a chat, open the More (⋯) menu under any of Bravo's replies and choose New chat from here, in the dashboard or the sidebar. In the sidebar, Command-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) opens the copy in the dashboard. The copy ends at that reply and leaves out everything after it. The copy ends with a Duplicated from line naming the original chat, which links back to it.

The copy is a separate chat. Changing or deleting either one leaves the other alone. While Bravo is working on a reply, New chat from here still works on the finished replies; Duplicate waits for the reply to finish.

Sharing a chat

Choose Share from the ⋯ menu beside a conversation's title in the dashboard, or from the ⋯ menu at the top of the Chrome extension sidebar. Bravo copies a link and confirms with “Share link copied.” Hold Command (Ctrl on Windows) or Shift while clicking Share to also open the link in a new tab. To share a single reply, open the More (⋯) menu under it and choose Share this reply. Anyone with a link can read what it shares, with no Bravo account needed.

A reply link shows just that reply, when it was answered, the model that answered it, and your name. It does not show the chat title or your question. The rest of this section describes a link to a whole chat.

The shared page is a frozen copy. It never picks up new messages. It shows:

• The chat title, either the one Bravo wrote or the name you gave it when renaming a chat.
• Your name, as shown on your account.
• The date you shared it.
• The date and time of the first message of each day, in your timezone as of when you shared.
• The model that answered the last message in the chat.
• The conversation up to the moment you shared it. If you stopped a reply or it failed, your question still shows but the unfinished answer does not.
• The titles of the sources Bravo cited. That includes private email subject lines, calendar event names, and the names of private Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox files. Emails also show who sent them, by name or by email address when there is no name, and the date they were sent. Calendar events show their date and time, and earlier chats show their date. Web sources link to the page, and Drive and OneDrive files link to the file, which opens only for people who already have access to it. Everything else is a title only and does not link anywhere.
• Files you uploaded to the chat, and files and images Bravo made for you. Images appear on the page. Other files can be downloaded. Files over 25 MB show their name only.
• When you asked about a page, a link to that page and any text you selected on it.

It does not show:

• Messages you send after sharing.
• Email bodies. Only the subject and sender appear, along with whatever Bravo said about the email in the chat.
• Calendar event descriptions. Only the event name and its date and time appear.
• Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox file contents. Only the file name appears.
• The contents of anything else Bravo read from a connected app. Only its title appears.
• Your email address.
• Which model answered earlier messages, or what the chat cost.
• Sources Bravo looked at but did not cite.
• Anything else from your account, like your memory, Topics, or other chats.

Sharing the same chat again after new messages creates a second link that includes them. Sharing again with nothing new copies the link you already have.

Your links are listed under Shared links in Your Data settings, with the chat title and when you shared it, and you can open or delete each one there. Deleting a link stops it from working within about a minute. For a few seconds after you delete a link, an Undo button appears, and undo brings the same link back. After that, see Recovering a deleted item.