Release notes

Local Hoist v0.0.34

May 9, 2026

Adds scoped in-conversation search, realtime assistant text-input tools, a built-in video prompting skill, and reliability polish for video and media workflows.

New

Added scoped search inside the active conversation, including match navigation, optional result filtering, and inline highlights across messages and tool calls.
Added OpenAI's GPT Realtime 2 model to the realtime model list.
Added realtime assistant tools for drafting, viewing, clearing, and sending the main chat input, making voice-driven handoffs to Gus more flexible.
Added a built-in video prompting skill with Seedance 2.0 examples and guidance for creating stronger video generation prompts.

Improved

New conversations now generate a title earlier in the conversation.
Opening or typing in conversation search, and resizing the message composer, now preserves the chat scroll position instead of causing unexpected jumps.
fal.ai video generation requests now use provider settings that better match Local Hoist's intended video output behavior.

Reliability

Long-running approved tools such as video generation now recover their executing state more cleanly after refreshes without recreating duplicate streaming placeholders.
Private media staging ownership checks hardened before signing or deleting staged media.