Inline Edition in Alter

Select, edit, comment, and run Actions directly on any text, no more rounds of back-and-forth.

Samuel ROY, Olivier Legris

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Inline Edition in Alter

Hey everyone,

This week we're changing how you refine what the AI writes.

Inline Edition is here: select any part of a text and act on it directly — edit it, comment on it, or run an Action — without going back into the chat.

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How it works

  1. Interact in Alter in the Hub or QuickHub.
  2. Select the part you want to change , a small menu appears with multiple options or click on ... to see your inline Alter Action
Selecting text in Quick hub or the Hub displays the Inline Editor

Custom Actions in the editor
Any Alter Action can now run directly on a selection. Enable it once in the Tools Manager and it's available everywhere you select text in Alter.

Any Alter Action can be shown in the Inline Editor

Why it matters
Working with AI output used to be binary: accept the answer, or restart a conversation to say what to change. Inline Edition removes that round trip. You treat output like a working document — select, edit, comment — the same way you would a draft written by a human. Crystal clear, even for people who don't live in the AI world.

Cheers,
Sam & Olivier

Full Changelog

New Features & Enhancements

  • Inline Actions: Comment and edit text selections directly and without the need to multiply conversation turns.
  • Markdown documents: Added Mermaid diagram and LaTeX rendering, including adaptive Mermaid styling and inline single-dollar LaTeX.
  • Provider catalogues: Refreshed ChatGPT models from the live account catalogue and added live Grok model discovery.
  • Dictation: Added a global shortcut for dictation, with Escape as the default shortcut to cancel dictation.

Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Tools: Fixed Pipedream tool collisions.
  • Conversations and search: Fixed a crash on conversation search.
  • Speech and transcription: Preserved partial results, improved failure recovery and diagnostics, extended transcription and diarization limits to twenty minutes, and resolved timing and audio-buffer issues.
  • Transcript metadata: Ensured selected custom models are used for title and summary generation, with more consistent request logging.
  • Hub and marketplace: Fixed a crash when navigating the Action Marketplace.
  • Apps and context capture: Improved discovered application metadata, coalesced AppSense captures, and bounded context startup work.
  • Notch: Fixed action input handling and improved the clear controls on the left.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed some shortcut handling.

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