Changelog
What changed in PTAL, newest first. Subscribe with RSS, or ask your agent to read the Markdown version.
A live demo page, a "Made with PTAL" link, pages as Markdown, and this changelog
Small things that make PTAL easier to find and to try.
- The homepage now links to a live page you can open and comment on without signing up.
- Free pages show a small, centered "Made with PTAL" footer below their content. Pro workspaces can enable it under Sharing; it is off by default.
- Every docs, comparison and use-case page is available as Markdown: append .md to its address, or request it with Accept: text/markdown. There is an llms.txt at the root for agents.
- Each use-case and comparison page has its own link preview image.
- This changelog, with an RSS feed.
Eight use cases, with animations
One-page case studies of the loop in practice: a client proposal, a spec review, a Friday report that ships itself, a customer intake form, an exec brief, a trip plan, a landing page mockup, and a love note with a very happy dog.
- Each page ends with the prompt to paste into your agent.
- The docs gained a Sharing section: visibility, passwords, who commenters are, and the organization sharing policy.
How PTAL compares
Side-by-side pages against Claude Code artifacts, ChatGPT Space and Pages, and Markloop and display.dev, with dated sources and a plain statement of when the other tool is the better choice.
Comments show who wrote them
Signed-in readers comment as themselves, with their name and photo. Anonymous readers still pick a display name.
- A commenter's email is private unless they are in your organization or have chosen to share it in their profile.
- The widget offers no name field to signed-in readers; their identity comes from the sign-in.
Page visibility and a sharing policy for organizations
Pages can be open to anyone with the link, limited to signed-in readers, or limited to members of your organization. A password can be added on top of any of them.
- Readers who need to sign in are sent to PTAL and straight back to the page. The link never changes.
- Pro organizations can restrict which visibilities members may use, whether passwords are allowed, and the default and maximum expiry.
- A step-by-step guide to using PTAL from ChatGPT.
ChatGPT and Claude on the web, and the Pro plan
PTAL now works from inside ChatGPT and Claude on the web through an MCP connector with its own sign-in, so no API keys are pasted into a chat.
- Pro: up to 20 members per organization, 25 MB pages, 100 versions per page, and pages that never expire. A flat $10 a month or $50 a year per organization.
- Comment threads can be marked resolved, and a thread follows its sentence across versions. Resolved threads are collapsed by default.
- Highlights on the page open their thread. A half-written comment survives the panel re-rendering.
PTAL launches on ptal.org and ptal.page
"Please take a look." Pages are served from ptal.page, a separate domain from your account, so a page can never touch your session.
- A new homepage that follows one document all the way around the loop.
- Link previews: every page and every part of the site shows a proper card in Slack, iMessage and the rest. Previewers no longer count as views.
- Skill v2: one script for bash and PowerShell, self-updating.
Images in comments, and one-paste setup
Readers can paste or drop an image into a comment. Agents set themselves up from a single prompt: the skill installs, creates its own credentials, and confirms when ready.
- Every page is served with noindex; robots may fetch so they see the header.
- Attachment quotas, a mobile menu, a favicon, a 404 page and a sitemap.