- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy. In Firefox the add-on of this release is numbered 2.1.43.1; it is the same build.
- See what a sub-agent does. Open a sub-agent in the Sub-agents panel and its Activity comes first: its task, every action with its result, and the files it changed. Its conversation is one tab…
- Pick the sidebar layout from a picture. Settings → Appearance → Sidebar layout shows the real Projects and Inbox sidebars side by side. Click one, or use the arrow keys.
- Meet Whip. A cheeky new pet that cracks its whip so the work goes faster. It doesn't, but it tries.
- Compact & Resume during long answers. An automatic Compact & Resume steps in again while ChatGPT is still working, also in a chat's first answer, and tries again as soon as the page is readable…
- Goal and Loop keep long turns going. Like other chats, a Goal or Loop chat that has worked a long time continues in a fresh turn right after a tool result, without a second Goal or Loop message.
Chat ON Steroids by totec448-spec
Cross-platform local MCP capabilities for ChatGPT with Chrome integration, Goal, Compact & Resume, and durable multi-agent workflows.
Agent orchestration and team workspaces
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 14, 2026Open source · MITFree to start
Recently added on Oct 14, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#15 in Orchestration
Gid Score 34 / 100 · #125 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
Gaining stars
about +48 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 2.1.43, yesterday
Community
5,052 GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:33 UTC. Date of each number
What Chat ON Steroids does
It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | totec448-spec |
|---|---|
| First released | August 2026 |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 36 |
Pricing
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 14, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Closest alternativeSymphony · all alternatives
What's new in Chat ON Steroids: October 2026 so far
October brought major stability improvements and workflow enhancements to Chat ON Steroids. The month focused on fixing long-running chats, adding collaborative features, and expanding platform support.
Action needed: Connector terminology changed to match ChatGPT: Core, Desktop and Plugins are now called plugins.
- Edit and branch your messages: click the pencil to revise earlier messages and continue the chat from there, or branch to a new chat to explore different directions.
- Search chats and settings: find any chat by title or content, or search settings to jump straight to what you need.
- SSH project folders: connect to remote servers and work with projects stored on them.
- Firefox support: run ChatGPT in the app's own window using Mozilla Firefox as an alternative to Chrome.
21 releases this month · summarised from the official release notes · all months
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Chat ON Steroids news
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Chat ON Steroids 2.1.43 released
Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy. In Firefox the add-on of this release is numbered 2.1.43.1; it is the same build.; See what a sub-agent does. Open a sub-agent in the Sub-agents panel and its Activity comes first: its…
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Chat ON Steroids 2.1.42 released
Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.; Bring back your earlier messages. In an empty message box, press Up to bring back the last message you sent in this chat, and again for the one before. Down goes forward again, and…
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10 agents added to AgentGid
Octop, Corsair, OpenSandbox, Trail-Code, Chat ON Steroids, holaOS, Trueforge, EverOS, dsh-TUI, FrontierAgent
What changed: recent Chat ON Steroids releases
43 stable releases in the last 90 days · Monthly summary · Full changelog
- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.
- Bring back your earlier messages. In an empty message box, press Up to bring back the last message you sent in this chat, and again for the one before. Down goes forward again, and past the newest…
- Answers read calmly. While ChatGPT writes, the answer shows whole paragraphs and fades each new one in, instead of jumping and reflowing with every word.
- Long work keeps going. When a turn has run long, Chat On Steroids continues it in a fresh turn right after a tool result. That result is no longer lost and no command runs twice, in a new chat as…
- Sub-agents on slower computers. The browser extension does far less work while sub-agents run, so their chats no longer wait on it.
- Compact & Resume says why it waits. When an automatic Compact & Resume can't ask ChatGPT for the summary yet, the chat says so instead of "asking ChatGPT", and the app log records the reason.
Earlier releases
- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.
- Edit your earlier messages. Click the pencil (Edit message) on any message you sent, change it and send: the chat continues from your edited message, just like editing in ChatGPT. The composer…
- Branch in new chat. Answers have a Branch in new chat button (the branch icon next to Copy). It opens a new chat for your next message. Send it, and ChatGPT carries the conversation up to that…
- Inbox sidebar (optional, Settings → Appearance → Sidebar layout). Lists all your chats together across projects, active chats first. Projects stays the default.
- Merge conflicts in Review. Files with merge conflicts get their own group at the top of the Review panel, marked as conflicts instead of looking like ordinary changes.
- Sub-agents start every time. On a busy or slow computer, a worker used to be given up while its chat was actually starting, and then worked on without the main chat knowing. Now a worker that…
- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.
- Projects on a server (SSH). Click + next to Projects, choose Folder on a server (SSH)…, and enter the server (for example me@server or a Host from your ~/.ssh/config) and the folder. The app…
- Skills and files anywhere in the composer. / offers your installed Skills and @ the files and folders of the chat's project at any point in a message, not only at the start. App commands such as…
- Prefer Plugins on app-sent messages (Settings → General, off by default). Ordinary messages the app sends mention your Chat On Steroids Plugins app instead of Core. Goal, Loop, sub-agents and…
- Local control API: a message can choose its model and thinking level (GET /v1/models lists them).
- Adding a connector in ChatGPT. On accounts where ChatGPT uses its newest connector protocol, adding a Chat On Steroids connector failed with "424 / Method not found". It works now; existing…
- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.
- Fresh turns for long work. In 2.1.38 the automatic continue often couldn't be sent. While ChatGPT is thinking or running a tool, it often shows only Stop and no Send, so the continue appeared in…
- No chats in incognito windows. If the extension is allowed in incognito and an incognito window was in front, a chat the app opened (for example a sub-agent's) landed there. ChatGPT is signed out…
- Settings stay when a value is unknown. If a setting holds a choice this version doesn't know, for example after going back from a newer version, only that choice returns to its default instead of…
- A fuller diagnostics report (Activity → Diagnostics report). Besides versions, connection and the log, it now also shows
- how the app is installed and whether it can update itself;
- Nothing to do. The browser extension updates itself once no chat is busy.
- If CoS asks you to refresh its plugins in ChatGPT, do so (or let Automatic plugin refresh do it): Core has a new usage tool.
- Firefox. Choose Mozilla Firefox as the ChatGPT browser in Setup or Settings → Agents & automation → Browser & history. The add-on is signed by Mozilla, installs with one click from Setup and…
- Fresh turns for long work. Turns that ran longer than about 35 minutes almost always broke (lost stream, "Message delivery timed out"), while stopping and continuing never did. Once a turn has run…
- Answer approval cards from the app. When ChatGPT asks whether a plugin may run a tool, the waiting row in the app shows the card's own words with Deny and Allow once. One click answers exactly…
- Update all. Settings → Activity shows the app, the browser extension and each plugin with its status, and one Update all button brings everything up to date. Restarting for an update asks first,…
Chat ON Steroids popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 5,052 stars, 1,658 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.1.43, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 29 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: chat-on-steroids.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community29
Attention—
Momentum74
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Chat ON Steroids FAQ
How much does Chat ON Steroids cost?
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Chat ON Steroids open source?
Yes. Chat ON Steroids is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Chat ON Steroids?
The GitHub repository has 5,052 stars, 1,658 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.1.43, published Oct 20, 2026; there were 29 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Chat ON Steroids?
The latest stable release we track is 2.1.43, published on Oct 20, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Chat ON Steroids?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are Symphony, Paperclip, Orca, Ruflo.
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GitHub: totec448-spec/chat-on-steroids. See data sources for how each one is collected.
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