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Limits and quirks
Every limit in one place, and the quirks worth knowing: long chats, what Gluon can't read or do, time zones, and limits per feature.
Long chats
Section titled “Long chats”Gluon keeps a chat’s whole history, but a model can only read so much at once. When a chat grows long, Gluon first shortens the output of older tool steps, then summarizes older messages, keeping the most recent ones word for word. Before summarizing, your Gluon saves lasting facts about you from what you typed, if memory is on.
- The summary keeps decisions, findings, names and pending work, but details from early in a very long chat can be lost. Start a new chat for a new topic, and ask Gluon to recall an old one when needed.
- Large files and many images fill the space fastest. Ask Gluon to look at big batches of images a few at a time.
Things Gluon can’t do
Section titled “Things Gluon can’t do”- Scanned PDFs: there’s no OCR, so a scanned page without a text layer can only be looked at as an image.
- Just Bash is simulated: no internet, Python, Node, git or installing packages. Gluon uses the paid Linux workspace for those, in private chats only.
- Web reading doesn’t run JavaScript or sign in; use rendering or the browser.
- The browser can’t upload or download files, run its own scripts or export your sign-ins.
- Email only goes to your allowed addresses, and Gluon’s address only receives from them.
- Delegated tasks can’t ask you questions or hand you the browser.
- Groups: your Gluon uses the group’s calendar, files, workspace and inbox there, not your private ones, and has no browser or Linux workspace.
- Repeats more often than daily, or several times a day in one item, aren’t supported.
Time zones
Section titled “Time zones”Gluon uses the time zone your device reports when you open the app. Until it knows, it asks before scheduling. If times look wrong, open Gluon on the device whose time zone you want, or tell Gluon your time zone.
A reply that stops
Section titled “A reply that stops”A model that sends nothing for 10 minutes is stopped, and the chat shows the failure; send your message again. Long replies that keep streaming are never cut off.
Limits by feature
Section titled “Limits by feature”| Feature | Limit |
|---|---|
| Images in a message | 8 images, 8 MB in total |
| Queued messages | 10 |
| Custom agents | 5, plus your Gluon |
| Agent instructions | 4,000 characters |
| Facts | 300 characters each, 4,000 in total |
| Groups | 100 members; messages up to 4,000 characters; 30 messages a minute per member |
| Group invitations | Expire after 7 days |
| Calendar listing | 60 days at a time |
| Drive file | 25 MiB; 1 GiB per person and per group |
| Files Gluon sees directly | Images up to 3 MiB; PDFs up to 10 MiB and 100 pages |
| Temporary links | 1 minute to 7 days; 30 at once; 8 MiB per file |
| Just Bash workspace | 256 MiB, 16 MiB per file, 50,000 files and folders |
| Linux workspace | 256 MiB, 20,000 files and folders; half a CPU and 4 GiB of memory |
| Incoming email | 10 MiB and 50 attachments each; 1 GiB per inbox |
| Sending email | 11 recipients, 30 sends a day; approvals expire after 24 hours |
| Allowed email addresses | Your sign-in address plus 10 |
| Browser | 3 at once, 20 profiles, 50 sites per profile |
| Waits and callbacks | 1 minute to 7 days, 10 open at once |
| Artifacts | 100 builds a day, 2 at a time; 5 MiB personal and 20 MiB shared data |
| Artifact AI | $1 a day per person |
| Web page reading | 5 MiB per download |