Each chat has a browser of its own, shown above the conversation. An agent opens it when a task needs a web page, and you can open it yourself.
Opening a page or a file yourself
You never need to ask an agent to open something. Any of these opens it in the chat you're in, with the message box under it to ask about it:
- Type or paste an address (apple.com) or a file's path on its own in the message box. A row above the box offers Open; press Return. To send it as a message instead, press the Down Arrow, then Return, or press Escape and then Return.
- Type /google and your words in the message box to search Google in this chat’s browser.
- Use the Search widget on the home page: type an address or words and press Return, or click one of your Favorites or the sites you visit most. To hide it, Control-click it and choose Hide Widget.
- Press Command-K and type a few letters of a site you've been to, a Favorite, or a file's name. Files are found by Spotlight, on this Mac.
- Press Command-L for Open Website… (with a page showing, it selects the address to type over, as in Safari), or Command-O for Open File…. Both are in the Chat menu and the message box's + menu.
From the home page, the page or file starts a new chat. A file opened there sets the chat in the file’s folder, so an agent you ask about it works there.
Tabs and addresses
Click the tab that's showing to type an address or a search. A search goes to the search engine chosen on a new tab's page, Google unless you change it. As you type, pages you've been to and that search engine's suggestions are listed under the field; to stop sending what you type for suggestions, turn off Search Suggestions in Settings › Privacy. Press ⌘K to search everything in Outmake at once: chats, settings, models, connectors, skills, keys, files and the web. The + beside the tabs opens a New Tab. A tab's menu has Open Location…, Open in Default Browser, Copy Address, Close Tab and Close Browser. If a page can't be opened, the browser says why, with Try Again. A chat's Signed In pages come back after Outmake restarts.
Favorites, history and bookmarks
As you type an address, pages you've been to and your bookmarks are listed under it; use the arrow keys or click one, or press Return to go to what you typed. When the words start the address of a site you go to often, it's chosen already, so Return goes there. A new tab shows your Favorites and the sites you visit most. Add to Favorites is in a tab's menu, and Remove from Favorites in a favorite's.
Import from Browser…, in a tab's menu and the Chat menu, brings bookmarks and history from Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Aside and other browsers built on Chrome, read from their own files. For Safari, choose File › Export Browsing Data to File in Safari first, then choose that file. That import leaves passwords behind; Settings › Passwords › Import brings those. A Safari export can hold passwords unencrypted, so the import offers to move it to the Trash.
Only Signed In tabs add to history; Private tabs never do. History stays on this Mac, agents' commands can't read it, and no agent is given it. Clear History in a tab's menu removes it, with Undo.
Signed In and Private
A Signed In tab keeps your sign-ins between runs, in a store of Outmake's own, apart from Safari's. A Private tab keeps no cookies or history once it closes; only an update that restarts Outmake brings its page back, signed out. An agent uses Signed In unless the task must stay apart from your accounts, so a site you sign into for it stays signed in. A sign-in window a page opens, such as Sign in with Google, opens as a tab and closes itself when it's done. Point at a tab to see which it is.
In a Signed In tab, an agent's clicks and typing use your account. So the first time it clicks or types on a site there, it asks: Act as you on example.com? Allow lets it act on that site in that chat until you close the chat's browser. Reset Site Permissions in a tab's menu makes it ask again. A Private tab you've clicked or typed in asks the same way, since you may have signed in there. Reading a page never asks, and a chat at Full access never asks this: Full access is your yes to acting for you.
What always waits for your OK
Whatever a chat's access, a click that buys, sends a message, deletes or publishes waits for Allow Once, and so does a form that sends your name, address, phone or email. Outmake reads the button itself rather than trusting the agent's description of it. The question shows the button, the site and, where the page shows one, the total. Agents never type into password or card fields, and are never shown what's in them. With a login saved in Passwords, an agent can ask Outmake to fill it: in a chat with Full access a sign-in is filled without asking, and a card, or anything in another chat, waits for Touch ID or your Mac's password. With nothing saved, the agent hands you the page to fill in.
Passwords
Click into a sign-in field and your saved logins for that site appear under it; the arrow keys and Return choose one. The key in the browser's bar searches all of them. After a sign-in works, Outmake offers to save it. On a sign-up form the list offers Use Strong Password, which fills one made to the site's rules and saves the login. Passkeys aren't supported yet. Everything saved is in Settings › Passwords, with Lock After and Used Passwords, the list of every time an agent asked for one.
Taking over
Take Over gives you the page and the agent waits. Use it to sign in, answer a question the site asks, or do a step yourself, then press Hand Back. Agents are told to hand you the page when a site wants a password, a code or a check that you're human.
Downloads
Files a page downloads go to your Downloads folder, as Safari's do, and are never opened by Outmake.