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Getting started

What chud is, how to try it without an account, and where everything lives.

chud is a general-purpose AI assistant. It is for writing, planning, arguing, drafting, debugging and thinking out loud — and for studying, which is the deepest thing it does rather than the only thing it does. One application, several surfaces: a chat, a study workspace, a research tool, an image generator, and a few places to keep work.

Trying it without an account#

The route /try is guest mode. There is no sign-in. Ask up to 4 questions free, no account. chud keeps your guest chat only in this browser. Each message is still sent to the model provider to get an answer.

• A guest session ends after 4 assistant replies. After that the composer is replaced by a sign-up prompt; the conversation above it stays readable.
• A guest message is capped at 2,000 characters. Signed in, a message is capped at 12,000.
• The 4-reply session cap is not the only limit. The server can also decline a guest turn with a daily cap, and that number is set and enforced server-side rather than in the page — so the honest answer is that guest mode has a daily ceiling as well, not just a per-session one.
• If you create an account from that screen, the guest transcript is imported into a real chat in your history and you land inside it.

Signing in and first run#

Signing in from the landing page takes you to /m/chat. On a first run you pass through onboarding at /m/onboard, which collects a profile and the classes you are taking. That profile is what personalisation later reads from — you can change all of it afterwards in Settings.

The surfaces#

Everything inside the product lives under /m. The drawer only lists destinations your plan includes, so this table is the full map rather than what you will personally see.

Finding these docs from inside the app#

These pages used to be linked from the marketing footer and nowhere else, which meant a signed-in user could not reach them at all. There are now real routes in, and the ones that matter are the contextual ones — a limit or an error links to the page that explains that limit or that error, rather than dropping you at the front door of a manual.

• Settings, under Help and about — on desktop and on the mobile Settings screen.
• The account menu behind the chud wordmark, above Get help.
• The You tab, in the settings list.
• Cmd K / Ctrl K — search for docs, or for tokens and limits to land on Plans and credits directly.
• The report-a-problem form, which asks you to check here first because most tickets are questions these pages already answer.
• Run out of tokens and the sheet links to Top-ups. Hit a plan gate and it links to the page for that feature. Attach a file that is rejected and the error links to the supported-file list.

Keyboard#

Cmd K / Ctrl K

Opens the command palette anywhere in the app. On these pages it opens the docs search instead.

/

Also opens docs search, when the focus is not already in a text field.

Arrow keys, Enter, Escape

Move through results, open one, dismiss.

Installing it#

chud ships a web app manifest and a service worker, so a browser that supports installation can add it to a home screen or dock and open it without browser chrome. There is no published App Store or Play Store listing.

Written from the code that implements it. Verify against src/App.jsx, src/pages/m/TryChat.jsx, src/lib/m/navItems.js.