Changelog

The release that made Prose work for students on school accounts.

• Prose no longer asks you to sign in to Google. It reads the open document through the browser session you already have, which means no consent screen, no permission a school district has to approve, and nothing for you to click. Students on managed Google Workspace accounts could not use Prose before this, and now they can.
• Fact check. Prose flags claims in your essay that a reader would want a source for: dates, statistics attributed to an institution, quotations with no citation, and absolute claims. It tells you what to verify and deliberately never tells you the answer, because a confident wrong correction in a graded essay is worse than no correction.
• Prose asks for fewer permissions than it used to, and the ones it does ask for are each scoped to a single site.

• Narrowed the permission for our own API to one exact address rather than a wildcard.
• Fixed sign in failing for some people because the return address was fixed to one installation instead of being worked out at run time.

• Proofreading stopped marking real words as misspelled. Words like biodiversity, microplastics and doomscrolling were being flagged, which made the whole feature hard to trust.
• When Prose is not confident about a correction it now says so instead of suggesting something that looks authoritative and is wrong.

• An on and off switch, in the toolbar icon and in Settings. Turning Prose off leaves a small dot in the corner of the document so you can bring it back in one click.
• The AI risk warning now appears only when the risk is real. It was firing too often, and a warning that always fires is not a warning.

• Paste in your teacher's rubric and Prose grades the essay against that rubric instead of a generic one.
• A college application essay type, scored on voice and specificity rather than academic structure.

• Document types. An email, a research paper and a narrative are not judged by the same standard any more.
• Learning mode, which withholds rewrites completely. Prose tells you what is wrong and why, and you do the writing.

• Feedback cards can be dragged by their header, so a card can sit beside the sentence it is talking about instead of on top of it.

• Highlighting half a sentence now gets you a short, clear message instead of feedback on a fragment that was never going to be useful.