diff --git a/packages/app/src/runtime/i18n/en.ts b/packages/app/src/runtime/i18n/en.ts
index 1874157978a7..0b23f24c9196 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/runtime/i18n/en.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/runtime/i18n/en.ts
@@ -613,6 +613,11 @@ export const dict = {
   "home.sessions.group.yesterday": "Yesterday",
   "home.sessions.group.older": "Older",
   "home.providerTip": "Connect to 75+ providers to use other models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc",
+  "tips.browse.title": "Control your browser",
+  "tips.browse.description": "Let OpenCode work in your browser with the sites you’re already signed in to.",
+  "tips.browse.install": "Install",
+  "tips.search.title": "Find a past conversation",
+  "tips.search.description": "Search your sessions to pick up where you left off.",
   "home.workspaceTip": "Start next session in a new workspace to keep changes isolated",
 
   "session.tab.session": "Session",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/shell/notifications/coordinator.ts b/packages/app/src/shell/notifications/coordinator.ts
index 66d5494f20f0..a0960d56e548 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/shell/notifications/coordinator.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/shell/notifications/coordinator.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { onCleanup } from "solid-js"
+import { onCleanup, untrack } from "solid-js"
 import { Predicate } from "effect"
 import { INITIAL_FOCUS_LOCK_STATE, transitionFocusLock, type FocusLockEvent } from "./focus-lock-machine"
 
@@ -75,6 +75,44 @@ export function createNotificationCoordinator() {
   }
 
   return {
+    tip(show: () => () => void) {
+      const lifetime = new AbortController()
+
+      const closed = new Promise<void>((resolve) =>
+        lifetime.signal.addEventListener("abort", () => resolve(), { once: true }),
+      )
+
+      let hide: VoidFunction | undefined
+
+      const open = () => {
+        if (hide || lifetime.signal.aborted || !document.hasFocus() || document.hidden) return
+        hide = untrack(show)
+
+        return closed
+      }
+
+      const focus = () => {
+        if (!locks) return void open()
+        void locks
+          .request("opencode:tip", { ifAvailable: true }, (lock) => (lock ? open() : undefined))
+          .catch(() => undefined)
+      }
+
+      // Plain HTTP has no Web Locks. Only its focused window keeps a toast mounted.
+      const blur = () => {
+        if (locks) return
+        hide?.()
+        hide = undefined
+      }
+
+      window.addEventListener("focus", focus, { signal: lifetime.signal })
+      window.addEventListener("blur", blur, { signal: lifetime.signal })
+      onCleanup(() => {
+        lifetime.abort()
+        hide?.()
+      })
+      focus()
+    },
     sound<T>(eventID: string, run: () => Promise<T> | void) {
       return once("sound", eventID, run)
     },
diff --git a/packages/app/src/shell/shell.tsx b/packages/app/src/shell/shell.tsx
index 9aaad59e5f76..e421c3a96f95 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/shell/shell.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/shell/shell.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { prefersReducedMotion } from "@opencode/ui/motion"
 import { Titlebar } from "@/shell/titlebar/titlebar"
 import { usePlatform } from "@/runtime/platform/platform"
 import { ToastRegion } from "@/shell/notifications/toast"
+import { createTipToasts } from "@/tips/model"
 import { UploadToastHost } from "@/composer/attachments/uploads"
 import { useSettingsSurface } from "@/settings/surface"
 import { useSettings } from "@/settings/model"
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ export default function Layout(props: ParentProps) {
   const tabs = useTabs()
   const mobile = createMediaQuery("(max-width: 767px)")
 
+  createTipToasts()
+
   const [state, setState] = createStore<{
     tabsWidth: number
     tabsMount: HTMLElement | undefined
diff --git a/packages/app/src/tips/model.ts b/packages/app/src/tips/model.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cff17993c694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/app/src/tips/model.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+import { showToast, toaster } from "@opencode/ui/toast"
+import { Schema } from "effect"
+import { createEffect, createMemo, createSignal, onCleanup } from "solid-js"
+import { useLanguage } from "@/runtime/i18n/language"
+import { Persistence } from "@/runtime/persistence/schema"
+import { Persist, persisted } from "@/runtime/persistence/storage"
+import { usePlatform } from "@/runtime/platform/platform"
+import { ServerConnection, useServers } from "@/runtime/server/registry"
+import { useGlobal } from "@/runtime/server/runtime"
+import { useCommand } from "@/shell/commands/command"
+import { selectTip, TIP_INTERVAL_MS, type Tip } from "./queue"
+
+const STARTUP_DELAY = 2 * 60 * 1000
+
+const History = Persistence.struct({
+  current: Schema.String,
+  shownAt: Schema.Finite,
+  dismissed: Persistence.array(Schema.String),
+  dismissedAt: Schema.Finite,
+})
+
+export function createTipToasts() {
+  const global = useGlobal()
+  const servers = useServers()
+  const language = useLanguage()
+  const platform = usePlatform()
+  const command = useCommand()
+
+  const server = createMemo(() => {
+    const conn = servers.visible.find(servers.current) ?? servers.visible[0]
+
+    return conn && global.serverCtx(ServerConnection.key(conn))
+  })
+
+  const location = () => server()?.data.location
+  const [awake, setAwake] = createSignal(false)
+  const startup = setTimeout(() => setAwake(true), STARTUP_DELAY)
+  onCleanup(() => clearTimeout(startup))
+  createEffect(() => {
+    const ctx = server()
+
+    if (!awake() || ctx?.sdk.connection.status() !== "connected") return
+    const location = ctx.data.location
+    void location
+      .syncInfo()
+      .then(() => location.mcp.server.sync())
+      .catch(() => undefined)
+  })
+
+  const tips: Tip[] = [
+    {
+      id: "browse",
+      title: "tips.browse.title",
+      description: "tips.browse.description",
+      when: () =>
+        !location()
+          ?.mcp.server.list()
+          ?.some((item) => item.name === "browse"),
+      action: {
+        label: "tips.browse.install",
+        run: () => platform.openExternal("https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mfnicocicmmlkpjnaffgihfjhdgjkdjg"),
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      id: "session-search",
+      title: "tips.search.title",
+      description: "tips.search.description",
+      action: { label: "command.session.search", run: () => command.trigger("sessions.search") },
+    },
+  ]
+
+  const [history, setHistory, , loaded] = persisted({ ...Persist.global("tips.queue"), sync: true }, History, {
+    current: "",
+    shownAt: 0,
+    dismissed: [],
+    dismissedAt: 0,
+  })
+
+  const [tick, setTick] = createSignal(0)
+
+  const selected = createMemo(() => {
+    if (!awake() || !loaded() || !location()?.mcp.server.list()) return
+    tick()
+    const now = Date.now()
+
+    const times = [
+      Math.max(history.shownAt, history.dismissedAt) + TIP_INTERVAL_MS,
+      ...tips.flatMap((tip) => [tip.start ?? 0, tip.end ?? 0]),
+    ]
+
+    const next = Math.min(...times.filter((time) => time > now))
+
+    if (Number.isFinite(next)) {
+      const timer = setTimeout(() => setTick((n) => n + 1), Math.min(next - now, 2 ** 31 - 1))
+      onCleanup(() => clearTimeout(timer))
+    }
+
+    return selectTip(tips, history, now)
+  })
+
+  createEffect(() => {
+    const tip = selected()
+
+    if (!tip) return
+
+    const handled = () =>
+      setHistory({ current: "", dismissed: [...history.dismissed, tip.id], dismissedAt: Date.now() })
+
+    global.notifications.tip(() => {
+      if (history.current !== tip.id) setHistory({ current: tip.id, shownAt: Date.now() })
+      const action = tip.action
+
+      const id = showToast({
+        persistent: true,
+        title: language.t(tip.title),
+        description: language.t(tip.description),
+        onDismiss: handled,
+        actions: action && [
+          {
+            label: language.t(action.label),
+            onClick: () => {
+              handled()
+              action.run()
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      })
+
+      return () => toaster.dismiss(id)
+    })
+  })
+}
diff --git a/packages/app/src/tips/queue.test.ts b/packages/app/src/tips/queue.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4ecf1e52785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/app/src/tips/queue.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test"
+import { selectTip, type Tip } from "./queue"
+
+const fresh = { current: "", shownAt: 0, dismissed: [], dismissedAt: 0 }
+
+const first: Tip = { id: "first", title: "tips.browse.title", description: "tips.browse.description" }
+
+const second: Tip = { ...first, id: "second" }
+
+const tips = [first, second]
+
+const hours = 60 * 60 * 1000
+
+test("first eligible tip wins until it is handled or stops being eligible", () => {
+  expect(selectTip(tips, fresh, 1)).toBe(first)
+  expect(selectTip([{ ...first, when: () => false }, second], fresh, 1)).toBe(second)
+  expect(selectTip(tips, { ...fresh, current: second.id, shownAt: 1 }, 24 * hours)).toBe(second)
+})
+
+test("handling starts a full day's wait and permanently skips that id", () => {
+  const handled = { ...fresh, dismissedAt: hours, dismissed: [first.id] }
+  expect(selectTip(tips, handled, 25 * hours - 1)).toBeUndefined()
+  expect(selectTip(tips, handled, 25 * hours)).toBe(second)
+  expect(selectTip([first], handled, 365 * 24 * hours)).toBeUndefined()
+})
+
+test("promo starts inclusively, expires even while shown, and cannot immediately yield to another tip", () => {
+  const promo = { ...first, start: hours, end: hours + 1 }
+  expect(selectTip([promo], fresh, hours - 1)).toBeUndefined()
+  expect(selectTip([promo], fresh, hours)).toBe(promo)
+  const shown = { ...fresh, current: promo.id, shownAt: hours }
+  expect(selectTip([promo, second], shown, hours + 1)).toBeUndefined()
+  expect(selectTip([promo, second], shown, 25 * hours)).toBe(second)
+})
diff --git a/packages/app/src/tips/queue.ts b/packages/app/src/tips/queue.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85b781f0c550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/app/src/tips/queue.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import type { useLanguage } from "@/runtime/i18n/language"
+
+export const TIP_INTERVAL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
+
+type Text = Parameters<ReturnType<typeof useLanguage>["t"]>[0]
+
+export type Tip = {
+  id: string
+  title: Text
+  description: Text
+  action?: { label: Text; run: () => void }
+  when?: () => boolean
+  start?: number
+  end?: number
+}
+
+export type TipHistory = {
+  current: string
+  shownAt: number
+  dismissed: readonly string[]
+  dismissedAt: number
+}
+
+/** Array order is priority. Dates are epoch milliseconds; the end is exclusive. */
+export function selectTip(tips: readonly Tip[], history: TipHistory, now: number) {
+  const eligible = (tip: Tip) =>
+    !history.dismissed.includes(tip.id) &&
+    (tip.start === undefined || tip.start <= now) &&
+    (tip.end === undefined || now < tip.end) &&
+    (tip.when?.() ?? true)
+
+  const current = tips.find((tip) => tip.id === history.current && eligible(tip))
+
+  if (current) return current
+
+  const last = Math.max(history.shownAt, history.dismissedAt)
+
+  if (last && now < last + TIP_INTERVAL_MS) return
+
+  return tips.find(eligible)
+}
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/feedback/toast/toast.tsx b/packages/ui/src/feedback/toast/toast.tsx
index 0136ab3faff9..1731107fe2fe 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/feedback/toast/toast.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/feedback/toast/toast.tsx
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ export interface ToastAction {
 }
 
 export interface ToastOptions {
+  /** Called when the user closes or swipes away the toast. */
+  onDismiss?: () => void
   title?: string
   description?: string
   /** An element, or a render function the toast calls under its own owner, for icons created from imperative code. */
@@ -254,7 +256,11 @@ function publishToast(id: number, options: ToastOptions) {
     className: `toast-v2 toast-v2--${options.variant ?? "default"}`,
     testId: `toast-v2-${id}`,
     unstyled: true,
-    onDismiss: release,
+    onDismiss: () => {
+      const current = selectToastOptions(registry, id)
+      release()
+      current?.onDismiss?.()
+    },
     onAutoClose: release,
   })
 }