Paste long text and drop files into a message
Long pastes become a text attachment Steward can read in full, and you can paste images or drag files onto the chat.
Paste long text
When you paste more than 12,000 characters (about five printed pages) into the message box, Steward attaches the text as a file instead of filling the box. The file is named after the time of the paste, for example pasted-text-20261009-141203.txt. A note under the message box shows the length and the file name. Type your question as usual and send.
Steward opens the attachment when it works on your message and can read all of it, in sections if it is very long. Shorter pastes go into the message box as before.
Steward treats attached text as information to work with, not as instructions. Write what you want done in your message.
Undo a long paste
Select Undo in the note to remove the attachment and put the text into the message box where you pasted it. If you changed the message in the meantime, the text is added at the end.
To paste long text straight into the message box, paste it as plain text with Ctrl+Shift+V (Cmd+Shift+V on a Mac). Steward always keeps a plain-text paste as message text.
Paste images
Copy a screenshot or an image and paste it into the message box. Steward attaches it with a name such as pasted-image-20261009-141203.png. When you copy a table from a spreadsheet or document, its text is pasted, not a picture of it.
Drag files onto the chat
Drag one or more files from your computer onto the chat. An outline with Drop files to attach shows that Steward is ready, and releasing the files attaches them to your draft. Folders are skipped, so drag the files inside them instead. Dragged text and links are not attached.
On phones and tablets, use the paperclip in the message composer to choose files.
Limits and interrupted uploads
- Each file can be up to 25 MB, whether you choose, paste or drop it. Larger and empty files are not attached, and a message names them.
- Contributors and managers can attach files. Viewers cannot.
- Attachments in an unsent draft are private to you. Sending the message shares them with the project.
- If you are offline or an upload fails, the attachment stays saved in this browser and uploads when the connection returns. You can also select Retry file upload. Sending waits until every upload has finished.
- If this browser cannot store the attachment, for example in some private windows, a long paste goes into the message box instead so that no text is lost.