Changelog
what we’ve been working on :)
Maintenance update with improved provider reply handling, sign-in focus recovery, and a smaller app download.
A new build is out. Notes for this release are on the way.
A new build is out. Notes for this release are on the way.
GitHub sign-in shrugs off a flaky connection.
Fixed
- The first step of signing in with GitHub could fail on a single DNS miss or a network change, even though the later steps already rode those out. Every step now retries the same way.
Windows finds its own updates.
Fixed
- Windows was checking for updates against the wrong version number, so it could miss a new release. It now compares the Amoeba version and offers the update when there is one.
Better
- Both the Windows installer and the portable ZIP are signed and timestamped.
Sign in with GitHub works behind proxies and VPNs on Mac.
Fixed
- On Mac, Amoeba now talks to the Brain through the system network stack, so proxy, VPN and managed certificate settings are honored. If GitHub sign-in hung on a corporate network, this is the fix.
Better
- Mac and Windows ship from the same build again: both platforms are on 0.1.23 together.
A fresh, signed Windows build.
New
- Windows is freshly built, signed and timestamped, and catches up with everything since 0.1.19. The Mac build is unchanged from 0.1.21.
Fixed
- An agent launched from a code comment now revives a collaboration room that had gone stale instead of failing to start.
Errors stay where they happened.
Better
- Images dropped into the composer show a preview.
- Reasoning from command-line agents is color-coded in rooms.
Fixed
- A composer error now stays with the session it came from instead of following you into the next one.
Agents think out loud, and the Mac installer looks like one.
New
- Agent thinking, tool calls and replies stream into the session room as they happen, instead of arriving all at once when the turn ends.
- The composer names the exact model that will run before you send.
- Prompts can be copied straight from the transcript.
Better
- The Mac disk image opens as a proper installer: the app on the left, Applications on the right, drag across.
- Every invite, to a session or a workspace, sends the onboarding email.
- Switching providers confirms itself with a toast, and the Sessions list shows every workspace you belong to.
Fixed
- Attention popups only appear when the window is in the background.
- A run that ended without a reply no longer ends silently.
Agents launch reliably, however many repositories you connect.
Fixed
- On Macs with several repositories connected, launching an agent could fail with a bare "request failed". The file watcher was holding one open file handle per watched file, and past ten thousand or so macOS refuses to start anything new.
Better
- The watcher now uses the platform's native recursive watching: one handle per repository instead of one per file, so big workspaces no longer eat the system's limits.
Updates on Mac now install themselves.
Fixed
- Clicking Update now stages the update, quits, installs and relaunches on its own. Before this, the staged update was thrown away while the app was closing.
- One catch: builds at 0.1.17 or older cannot apply this fix to themselves. Install this version once from the download, and every update after that is automatic.
Comment agents work where you asked for them.
Better
- An agent launched from a code comment now runs inline in your session, so you watch it work right where you asked.
Signed builds on both platforms.
New
- The Windows build is signed and timestamped, and the Mac build is notarized by Apple. Both platforms install with a normal double click, no security warnings to click through.
Your agents can tap you on the shoulder.
New
- Native system notifications when an agent finishes or needs your attention, so you can go do something else while it works.
Better
- Mac and Windows now ship from the same app source, so the two builds are the same product on the same day.
The native front door, with the scaffolding gone.
Better
- Amoeba opens straight into Mission Control and onboarding. The leftover code-editor startup path from earlier builds is removed.
- Agents start in Request permission mode: nothing runs on your machine without asking first.
Leave a comment on a line, get an agent that read the room.
New
- A Comment action appears at the edge of any hovered or highlighted code line.
- A saved comment can launch an agent that arrives already knowing the repository, the file, the exact lines, the surrounding code and what you wrote.
Claude and Codex collaborate from the first minute.
New
- A fresh workspace configures both Claude Code and Codex for shared-Brain coordination immediately, with the same collaboration instructions and the same tools.
Better
- Prompts now carry context for the selected session, including messages between agents scoped to the people in it.
The first signed Mac release.
New
- The Mac build is Developer ID signed, hardened and notarized by Apple. It opens with a normal double click for the first time.
- Native close, minimize and full-screen window controls behave like every other Mac app.