Curio — Changelog

Updates to Curio, your website's hungry little helper. 🦛

Questions? Reach us through the widget on curio.whitneys.co.

2026-06-06

✨ New

• A new home: getcurio.chat. Curio has its own domain now. Already running the widget from curio.whitneys.co? It keeps working — nothing to change.
• Unlimited domains, one assistant. Add as many sites as you want on any plan — each answers only from its own content, and your free monthly allowance is a single pool shared across all of them.
• Your own instructions. A new Your instructions box in the dashboard lets you give the assistant house rules — tone of voice, things to always do, things to never say, how to handle pricing or escalations. They apply across both the Info and 🛟 Support tabs.
• Info & Support tabs. Every assistant now has two modes over one shared knowledge base: Info for topic questions and 🛟 Support for troubleshooting and step-by-step help. Turn either off if you only want one.
• Smart contact links. When a visitor asks how to get in touch, the assistant now points them straight to your Contact, Support, Help, or FAQ pages as clickable links.
• Conversation transcripts by email. Have a copy of each finished chat emailed to you — now including the page the visitor was on and their IP for context. As always, Curio never stores conversations; transcripts are relayed and forgotten.

💅 Improved

• More accurate citations. The "Related pages" list now shows only the pages an answer actually drew on — no more unrelated links.
• Jump to the exact section. Citations deep-link to the specific heading on your page, not just the top.
• Reliable everywhere. The widget now loads dependably on sites with strict security policies or custom script loaders.
• Your custom launcher, every time. Uploaded chat-button icons now display consistently across browsers.
• Graceful pause + a heads-up. If a bot ever runs through its free answers *and* credits, it shows a friendly "back soon" message you can customize — and we email you to top up, so it never just sits there silently.

🐛 Fixed

• Transcript emails now send reliably from all of your verified domains (previously some setups silently didn't deliver).
• No more duplicate transcript emails after a single conversation.
• Fixed cases where a custom chat icon could fall back to the default Hugo.

🔒 Security & privacy

• Hardened across the board. We strengthened abuse protection, request validation, and login safeguards against common web attacks.
• Stronger sign-in. Magic-link logins are now tied to the browser and network that requested them — while still tolerating routine browser updates and mobile carrier IP changes, so legitimate logins keep working.
• Smaller, safer footprint. The dashboard is now a single hosted login (we retired the embeddable-iframe option), reducing complexity and attack surface.
• Reaffirmed: Curio answers only from your content, isolated per domain, and never stores conversations.

Curio runs on a generous monthly free allowance, then prepaid credits — no surprises. The widget stays keyless: one <script> tag, no API keys in your pages.