August 24, 2026

Update: GitHub Sync, ORCID Linking, and Bring-Your-Own-Key

Sync a project with a GitHub repository, link your ORCID iD with author-mismatch detection, bring your own API key for the AI assistant, ask the assistant to read your other projects or OCR an image into LaTeX, AI-generated citation summaries, optional source auto-formatting, and smoother animations throughout the editor.

This build's headline is GitHub sync: link a project to a GitHub repository and either push it as a one-way backup or keep it synced both ways. Alongside that, ORCID linking flags when the name or affiliation in your document doesn't match your ORCID record, and you can now bring your own API key to run the AI assistant on your own account and model instead of TeXposit's.

Change notes for update build 260824

  • GitHub sync (beta): Connect TeXposit to GitHub and link any project to a repository — one-way push as a backup, or two-way sync with an existing repo. You can also import an existing GitHub repository directly as a new project. A push never force-overwrites a diverged remote; you'll be told to resolve it by hand instead.
  • ORCID identity linking: Paste an ORCID iD into your document and TeXposit highlights it, shows the linked public profile on hover, and flags it if the name, email, or affiliation you wrote nearby doesn't match what's on record.
  • Bring your own API key: Connect your own OpenRouter API key and model to run the AI assistant's heavier requests on your own account, with usage and estimated cost shown in Settings.
  • The AI assistant can now read your other projects, with your permission: Ask it to pull something from another project and it will ask you to approve access first, one time, before it looks at anything outside the current one.
  • The AI assistant can now read images: Point it at a photo of a whiteboard, a scanned figure, or any image in your project and it will transcribe the text and turn any formulas into LaTeX.
  • Smarter citation search and AI summaries: Searching your bibliography now matches across title, authors, year, and abstract together, not just one field at a time. Every reference can show its abstract or a short AI-generated summary drawn from the paper's own text, TeXposit can find and download an open-access PDF for a reference automatically, and you can now organize your bibliography into folders.
  • Optional automatic formatting: Turn it on and TeXposit tidies whitespace, indentation, and (optionally) sentence-per-line formatting each time you compile. Off by default, and tracked separately from your own edits in the provenance report.
  • LaTeX package verification: Packages referenced with \usepackage are now checked directly, with a hover card showing the package description and version, and a warning if the package can't be found.
  • Figure and reference highlighting: \includegraphics and \ref/\cref-style references are now highlighted in the editor, with a hover preview of the image, figure, or section they point to, and a warning if the reference is broken.
  • More precise click-to-source: Clicking a word in the PDF now jumps to that word in your source, not just the line it's on.
  • Finer provenance controls: You can now hide edit attribution and/or AI-chat correlation from a generated provenance report independently, while keeping full version history intact behind the scenes.
  • Resizable sidebars: The file tree and AI assistant panels can now be dragged wider or narrower, and TeXposit remembers your layout.
  • Rebindable keyboard shortcuts: Every editor shortcut, including ones built into the code editor and the file tree, now lives in one place and can be rebound from Settings.
  • Sentence Focus mode: Dims every sentence except the one you're currently writing.
  • Smoother animations: Toasts, dropdown menus, and the file-tree context menu now animate in and out instead of popping.
  • Provenance seal history: You can now see the full history of timestamp seals placed on a document's provenance report, not just the most recent one.
  • More concise AI replies: The assistant's default responses are shorter and more to the point, and it no longer keeps retrying an edit after you've rejected it.
  • Fixed a silent bibliography bug: Certain documents using biblatex/biber could compile successfully but silently show raw citation keys instead of a formatted bibliography. This is now fixed.
  • Fixed a local sync bug: Syncing a local folder could silently overwrite an edit you were actively making in the browser. Local sync now respects an open editor session.