Msty Studio Changelog

Local Model tool calling and Prompt Library improvements

2025-07-22

Studio Desktop 2.0.0-alpha.8

Improvements

  • Tool calling for local models has been improved and is now more stable
  • Prompt Library Quick Prompts are now included for System and Project prompts
  • Quick Prompts now display recently added and used prompts for even easier access
  • Checking for version updates now displays a message if no updates are available
  • Search results now have keyboard navigation support - up/down arrows to navigate, enter to select
  • UX/UI improvements to search

Fixes

  • Fix issue adding LM Studio as a provider - ensure you enable CORS in LM Studio settings
  • Updates some out of the box tools - Postgres and Sqlite

Msty App to Msty Studio Desktop Data Migration

2025-07-18

Studio Desktop 2.0.0-alpha.7

New Features

  • Data migration from Msty App to Msty Studio Desktop is now available. Please see our Migration Guide for details.

Improvements

  • UI/UX for model selection dropdowns when adding models for online providers - more options now display in the view
  • Primary modals for Model Hub, Personas, Toolbox, etc can now be minimalized and will be remembered as a preference for that modal
  • Projects lists refreshes automatically when a project is removed
  • SearXNG endpoint now persists between sessions

Fixes

  • 'X' button inactive for some drawers
  • Ellipsis for split chats not working properly when there are 3+ split chats

Added App Info Settings

2025-07-14

Studio Desktop 2.0.0-alpha.6

New Features

Application Information is now available in Settings > General. From here, you can see what version of Msty Studio desktop you are running. You can also set Studio Desktop to auto-update as well as manually check for updates.

Additionally, you can locate data path, app logs, reset app settings, and more.

We've also brought 🎊 back to new app updates.

Improvements

  • Improved error messages for models that do not support tools or thinking

Multiple new fixes and improvements hitting Msty Studio

2025-07-11

We've released a new version of Msty Studio Desktop (v2.0.0-alpha.4) and Studio Web containing multiple new features, improvements, and fixes.

For desktop, the updates will install in the background.

New Features

ItemDesktopWeb
Thinking support for both remote and local providers is now available; note that the model must support thinking. Enable the Thinking purpose for a model to enable this feature. You can then set thinking effort; ie: low, medium, high thinking effort. Also, ensure you are running Local AI Services v0.9 or greater.✅✅
RTL (right-to-left) support✅*
Ability to clone chat and ancestors✅*
Enable or disable response links via Rendering Module✅*

Improvements

ItemDesktopWeb
Improved onboarding UI for smaller screens; there is now a scroll so users can scroll down to view additional options✅N/A
Improved onboarding experience when adding online models✅N/A
Improved UX for copying code blocks✅✅
Add GPT 4.1 support✅*

Fixes

ItemDesktopWeb
Blank screen when unhiding messages and when toggling between forge and chat modes.✅N/A
Fixed CORS related issues.✅N/A
Deleting conversations not working in some instances✅✅
RTD not working with Chinese characters✅✅
Not being able to click on the model config button in some instances✅*
Fixed typos in Settings section✅N/A
Fixed bookmarking chats✅*
Fixed code output parsing issues✅✅
Fixed UI issues with Hugging Face search results scroll✅*
Fixed Mac restoration issue from dock icon✅N/A

N/A - not applicable for the platform type

* Will be included in a future release

Announcing Msty Studio Desktop - now available in Alpha for Aurum subscribers

2025-06-30

Check out the full Announcement here.

Msty Studio is going to be unified across web and desktop.

If you are an Aurum subscriber, you can now download the Msty Studio Desktop app and start using it. Check out the Studio Desktop Docs for more details on how to install and use the app.

Real-Time Data (RTD) Enhancements

2025-06-26

New search providers for Real-Time Data (RTD) have been added to Msty Studio, including:

In addition to the new providers, we've also made some improvements to UX and Sidecar RTD results.

Msty Sidecar Beta Release and a few new enhancements

2025-06-23

Msty Sidecar Beta Release

Msty Sidecar is officially getting ready for a version 1.0 release. We have the beta version available, please check out this Discord message for install links.

New features and improvements in the Sidecar Beta include:

  • Update Local AI from within the app - no need for us to push new updates or do it manually
  • Added a .token file where you can add your own custom token under App Data folder
  • Improved onboarding experience
  • Improved tool dependencies discovering
  • Set setup window to always be on top during onboarding
  • Reduced installer size
  • Improved RTD results
  • Fixed a YouTube transcript reading issue

Let us know on Discord if you run into any issues or have any feedback.

Improvements and Fixes

  • Added ability to exclude project context in the system prompt, this is now an opt-in feature
  • Allow importing tool config that follows the same format of Tool Configuration in Msty
  • Fixed an issue with think tag

Advanced Tool Calls and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Models

2025-06-17

New Features

  • Advanced Tool Calls - tool call usage now displays inline in the conversation, allowing you to see the tool call and its response. You can also select View Tool Usage to drill into tool calls from any conversation.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models are now available for use in Msty Studio

Fixes

  • Latest tool call overwrite the previous
  • Attachment tab not correctly displaying uploaded files
  • Tooltips not hiding automatically in some instances

House Keeping

2025-06-05

Fixes

  • System prompt takes the full height of the view
  • Local models displaying true/false for purpose tags instead of the purpose's label
  • Personas overflow menu does not always align with ellipsis
  • Active download tooltip arrow doesn't properly align
  • Selecting a persona during a conversation scrolls window back to top
  • uv => uvx
  • Split chats being created when exiting vapor mode
  • Cannot delete multiple conversations using the floating UI

Auto Responder Persona and Context Isolation

2025-06-02

New Features

The new Auto Responder Persona watches the conversation you are having with a model and responds to the conversation according to your directions for the persona.

With Auto Responder, you can setup a:

  • Fact Checker Persona that fact-checks the conversation
  • Deeper research Persona that looks further into a statement being made by a model
  • Devil's advocate Persona that argues the counterpoints
  • And more!

Also new and related to Auto Responder is the ability to isolate any message from the conversation's context without removing the message. This allows you to really dial in on specific LLM responses in the conversation thread.

Check out the Auto Responder Docs to learn more.

Watch the Youtube demo of Auto Responder and Context Isolation to see it all in action.

Improvements and Fixes

  • Set the context message count for a Persona
  • Moved scrollbar to the edge when split widths are not full width
  • Fixed streaming message indicator not being displayed next to the title

Image Generation and Prompts Library

2025-05-30

New Features

  • Generate images using supported models such as Gemini Flash and GPT Image. Check out our Image Generation Docs for more details.
  • Prompts Library lets you create, organize, and manage prompts that you can use throughout Misty
  • Hide messages from conversations without taking them out of the context history

New Gemini and Anthropic models plus UI/UX improvements

2025-05-28

Improvements

  • Added new Gemini and Anthropic models
  • Updated Model Matchmaker
  • Improved UX for Live Context
  • Made some additional UI/UX tweaks

Environment Variables and Shiftcuts

2025-05-09

New Features

  • Environment variables are now available in Msty Studio. You can manage variables for multiple environments and quickly switch between them.
  • Shiftcut mode - hit shift twice quickly followed by one of the following keys to activate shortcuts for that specific task
    • t - create a new tab
    • n - create a new conversation
    • 1 - toggle sidebar
    • e - show Quick Select Environment Variable picker

Azure OpenAI Integration

2025-05-07

New Features

Msty Studio now supports integration with Azure OpenAI. Check out the link to the docs for a setup guide that takes you through setting up both in Azure and in Msty.

Backup and restore

2025-05-06

Improvements

Msty Studio now prompts for backups every 24 hours. You can change the frequency in the settings section.

Also, you can now export backups and restore them from the settings section.

Context shields in Turnstile

2025-05-02

New Features

You can now add context shields to your Turnstile conversations - with or without a summary.

You can use --cs-- and --css-- shortcodes to add context shields to your Turnstile conversations.

Improvements

Left rail icon tweaks.

Fixes

  • Broken scroll when editing raw markdown
  • Can't add, continue, or repeate shortcodes in Turnstile
  • Tooltips that didn't want to close

Qwen3 models available for local download

2025-04-28

New Features

  • Qwen3 models now available
  • Preserve vapor chat

Bug swatting

2025-04-27

New Features

Hide a model's provider from model selection list

Fixes

  • Fixed a few issues with Provider Options
  • Cannot export params preset if no params is set even if advanced and/ or provider options set
  • Open Router doesn't recognize Msty Studio
  • Sidecar can't connect if the url contains a path such as https://example.com/sidecar - this is useful for those running Tailscale

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview and advanced options and configs

2025-04-25

New Features

  • Provider Options as an advanced config to pass a provider specific options such as thinking budget, reasoning effort, etc - these are for advanced use cases
  • Pass thinkingBudget and reasoningEffort as a model params without worrying about provider options
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview now available
  • 2 new model params presets

Ability to delete multiple conversations

2025-04-22

New Features

Ability to delete multiple conversations within a folder (use Shift or meta/win key for selecting multiple)

Improvements

Turnstile QoL improvements:

  • Show model being used
  • Open panel by default
  • Use starred model by default

Fixes

  • License key doesn't need to be activated in the app first
  • Model purpose tag showing true instead of purpose value

o3 and o4-mini support

2025-04-16

New Features

  • ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini support now available

SearXNG support and UX improvements

2025-04-15

New Features

  • Support for SearXNG search engine
  • Re-name models to be more intuitive for you
  • Assign categories to models for easy recognition
  • Edit conversation titles

Search Grounding, GPT 4.1, and Bug Fixes

2025-04-14

New Features

  • Search Grounding support for Gemini and Perplexity models
  • Show sources for search grounding supported models
  • Params preset for search grounding
  • Support for the new GPT 4.1 models

Fixes

  • Python being falsely flagged as being not-detected
  • System prompt input box height