The collaboration push continues: after sharing and comments in v1.5.0, this release brings true simultaneous co-editing, a built-in team chat with an AI advisor, and a faster citation experience.
Real-time co-editing (Beta)
- Write together, live. Share a document with the new Editor role and you can both type in it at the same time — changes merge conflict-free (built on CRDTs).
- Live cursors and selections — see where your collaborators are and what they're highlighting, each in their own color.
- Presence — collaborator avatars sit beside the word count, with Active / Idle / Away status.
- It just works — formatting (font, citation style, spacing) is editor-settable and syncs to everyone; the session reconnects on its own if your network blips.
- Available on Fellow and Chair — only the document owner needs a paid plan. It turns on automatically when a doc has an Editor collaborator. How it works →
A built-in chat for collaborators
- Persistent chat on every shared document — history survives reloads, messages arrive instantly.
- Attach a source — type
@to reference a source from your library. It appears as a card your collaborators can Preview or Add to library, even if it was never in theirs. - Notifications — if you're off the document when someone messages, the bell lets you know (no inbox spam).
- Resizable, with date separators and a clean grouped layout.
Scholar AI joins the chat (Chair)
- Invite Scholar AI into the chat to review the shared draft and sources. It tells you what's strong, weak, or missing, and asks sharpening questions.
- It never writes the paper for you. Scholar AI critiques and guides but won't draft, rewrite, or polish your prose — your authorship stays genuinely yours.
- Optional Proactive mode chimes in with a brief note after a burst of edits. On-demand and cost-aware.
Faster, cleaner citations
- Adjacent citations merge automatically into one —
(Smith, 2024; Jones, 2025)for author-date,[1, 2]for numeric — and stay correct when you switch styles. - Narrative citations ("Cite narratively") now render as author-in-text —
Smith (2024).
A calmer editor
- Discovery Agents are now a panel inside the editor — add a finding to your library, or add it and drop a citation, without leaving the document.
- The review tools are grouped into two clear pillars: Integrity (citations, quotes, claims, proof-of-work) and Review (AI review + proofreading).
Fixes
- Citations and shared sources now resolve for collaborators, not just the owner.
- Comments sync for the Editor role; co-edited content stays current for export and AI even when the owner isn't present.
Real-time co-editing is in Beta — your work autosaves as you go; just avoid editing the same document in a separate, non-collaborative tab at the same time.