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v0.17Agent · Messaging · Extension

Replies in your voice, one step at a time, and Grais remembers you

Update 0.17 drafts replies from messages you actually sent, lets you edit a draft in the chat before sending, learns your preferences from what you change, makes every draft advance the conversation by one move, and remembers who you are across conversations on the same platform.

What's new

  • Drafts written from your own messages: When Grais drafts a reply, it now looks at whole messages you actually sent to people on that platform and matches their length, structure, punctuation, greetings and sign-offs. Before, it worked from a summary of your style, such as "casual, direct, rarely uses emoji". Real examples carry the habits a summary cannot, so drafts need fewer corrections. This is automatic: Grais picks a few recent messages that fit the conversation and the platform, keeps only messages you sent yourself, and never uses one that contains an email address, phone number, link, or long number.
  • Edit in chat: Every reply draft now has two actions. Send posts it as before. Edit in chat places the draft in the message box of WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn, or Instagram without sending, so you can change it there and press send yourself. The side panel confirms where the text went. This action arrives with extension version 0.2.134, now rolling out on the Chrome Web Store.
  • Grais learns from what you change: When you edit a draft before sending it, Grais compares what it proposed with what you sent. Changes that repeat, such as dropping the greeting, keeping replies to one line, or ending without a question, become preferences for future drafts on that platform. A single edit never changes a preference on its own, and a draft you send unchanged counts as a confirmation.
  • Drafts that make one move: Reaching an outcome with someone takes several messages, and each one waits for a reply. Grais now works that way too. Before it drafts, it works out privately what you are trying to achieve in the conversation, where things stand, and the single next move that earns a reply, then drafts only that move with at most one question the other person can answer in one line. It keeps track of where the conversation is, so after they reply the next draft picks up from there instead of starting over. This works with or without a goal set, and the planning stays private: you see the draft, not the plan.
  • Sent text stays sent: When you have already sent a message, Grais treats it as settled. If you then ask for something that overlaps with it, the next draft covers only the new part and says what it left out, instead of repeating what the other person has already read.
  • Grais remembers you: At the end of a turn, Grais asks itself whether you said something about yourself that matters in other conversations: what you do, why you are on a platform right now, what you are looking for there, a boundary, a standing preference. If so, it keeps it, scoped to that platform when it is about how you show up there and to everywhere when it is true about you in general. A new conversation on the same platform starts with that knowledge, so you do not have to explain yourself again. Only your own messages count as a source; nothing a contact says about you is stored. Temporary situations carry an end date and lapse on their own, 30 days by default. Over time Grais reviews what it remembers, merges facts that say the same thing, retires situations that have passed or that you have since contradicted, and keeps a short summary per platform ready for new conversations.
  • See and correct what Grais remembers: Extension version 0.2.136, submitted to the Chrome Web Store, adds a What Grais remembers screen to Settings listing your memories under About you and per platform. Delete any entry, or switch it between permanent and temporary. Your decision sticks: Grais will not quietly bring a deleted memory back or make a permanent one temporary again. Until the store update reaches you, memory still works and is tidied as described above; the screen is the part that arrives with the update.
  • Tinder fixes: Grais captures the profile of a match before its first reply, and a message you send on Tinder is stored once instead of twice.

Why it matters

  • Drafts read like you wrote them, not like a description of how you write.
  • You can take a draft that is almost right into the chat and finish it there, instead of rewriting it in the side panel or copying it over.
  • Every edit teaches Grais something, so the drafts get closer to what you would send over time.
  • Conversations stop dying from one message that pitches, asks three things, and closes all at once.
  • You stop re-explaining who you are and why you are here every time you open a new chat on the same app.
  • What Grais knows about you is visible and under your control.

Try it out

  • Open a supported conversation and ask Grais for a reply, or type $draft in the message box.
  • Click Edit in chat on the draft, change it in the chat's message box, and send it from there.
  • Send a few replies this way. After a conversation has been quiet for a while, Grais reviews your edits and updates its preferences for that platform.
  • Open a conversation where you want something from the other person, with or without a goal set, and press Generate reply. The draft should make one move and ask one thing. Reply as the conversation goes on and watch the next draft continue from where it stood.
  • Tell Grais something about yourself in a chat, for example what you do or why you are on the app this week. A Remembered line confirms it was kept. Open a new conversation on the same platform and it already knows.
  • Once extension 0.2.136 reaches you, open Settings and choose What Grais remembers to review, delete, or re-date what it keeps.
  • New to Grais? Start with the getting-started guide.

Behind the scenes

  • The messages Grais uses as examples are chosen in the background after a conversation goes quiet, so drafting is no slower than before.
  • The inbox list keeps answering while Grais repairs its index in the background.
  • The Chrome Web Store version of the extension leaves out features that are still in development.
  • Memory is checked at the end of a turn, after your draft, so replies are no slower. Memory review runs in the background between conversations; a new fact you share reaches your next conversation right away, before the next review.
  • Anything that looks like a password, code, or key is never stored.