Kadrotools

Changelog.

What shipped, by version. New entries land here each time a Kadro ADE build goes out through the in-app updater.

  1. v0.2.2Latest
    • Added project spaces and parked chats to the sidebar so related work stays grouped and idle conversations remain easy to resume.
    • Added reusable Squad presets and roster files, with project-over-global discovery and quick invocation from the command palette.
    • Expanded Squad orchestration with roster-resolved batch launches, role attribution, provider-limit snapshots, and headroom guidance before spawning agents.
    • Added squad preset and headroom tools to the CLI so agents can inspect and launch maintained team configurations directly.
    • Improved prompt continuity by preserving attachments, steering messages, typed drafts, and New-chat context across reopened or prefilled conversations.
    • Improved remote reliability with probed pairing inventory, persistent preset attribution, and automatic closure of interrupted turns after worker restarts.
    • Refined live chat progress, terminal completion state, split-terminal visibility, command-menu layout, and shared tooltip dismissal.
    • Made the release pipeline faster and safer with exact-source validation, self-hosted builds, deterministic artifacts, and promotion separated from building.
  2. v0.2.1
    • Added native Codex chat transport with live model discovery, provider-default access, accurate transcripts, and clearer usage-limit reporting.
    • Improved remote chat continuity so conversations, images, live agent activity, and session state survive reconnects more reliably.
    • Made parked remote chats release their worker adapter when idle, with quieter status presentation and automatic reconciliation after reconnecting.
    • Improved provider discovery by launching model probes through the login-shell environment and refreshing installed CLI availability more reliably.
    • Improved Squad status accuracy with clearer provider and model identity, stricter capability handling, and more reliable transport behavior.
    • Refined chat controls, goals, questions, model selection, browser context, and usage surfaces for clearer day-to-day agent work.
    • Added translucent window material and improved terminal color handling for a more consistent desktop appearance.
    • Improved stop behavior, queued follow-up handling, terminal rendering, and remote session cleanup across long-running conversations.
    • Reduced unnecessary runtime and test overhead by retiring superseded compatibility paths and unused application surfaces.
  3. v0.2.0
    • Added multi-column chat splits with drag-and-drop placement, persistent layouts, and column-aware navigation.
    • Added durable chat goals and turn plans so longer agent work stays visible and easier to follow.
    • Improved chat presentation with clearer semantic rows, compact completed work, unified file actions, and reliable scroll anchoring.
    • Added dormant workspace restoration with Resume, Start fresh, and Close controls for agent sessions that survive app restarts.
    • Improved connected-machine continuity with reconnect-safe chat state, trusted-device revocation, resumable terminals, and clearer route status.
    • Added guided SSH setup and safer Tailscale routing for connected machines.
    • Improved responsive controls across the top bar, composer, chat columns, and workspace dock for narrower windows.
    • Added the Parakeet Unified English dictation model and refined provider reasoning and usage controls.
    • Reduced CPU, memory, and graphics usage during long sessions while keeping large chats responsive.
    • Hardened remote connections, diagnostic data, delegated-agent attribution, dependencies, and release verification.
  4. v0.1.0
    • Rebuilt ADE around projects and structured agent chats, with terminals, files, changes, browser context, and worktrees available as focused project tools.
    • Introduced a unified project sidebar and Kanban view for following active, waiting, finished, settled, and archived chats without losing their history.
    • Expanded native chat support across installed coding agents with live model discovery, persistent session configuration, earlier-history loading, and clearer permission controls.
    • Redesigned Squads so delegated agents appear inside the parent chat, while terminal-launched agents remain attachable terminals with a live activity strip.
    • Added durable Squad batch controls for capability checks, coordinated launches, bounded waits, cancellation, recovery, local worktrees, and connected worker machines.
    • Removed the legacy Canvas and workspace creation surfaces so new work starts in the chat-first project experience.
    • Refined Settings for providers, Chat and Squad access, appearance, dictation, usage insights, and connected machines with clearer state and safer persistence.
    • Improved worktree finishing and recovery so interrupted cleanup is repairable and agent-created work is preserved instead of being deleted automatically.
    • Improved terminal rendering, resize behavior, pane titles, session attachment, browser layering, and dock recovery across the desktop app.
    • Hardened authentication, permissions, updater recovery, dependency safety, process cancellation, and state hydration throughout the app.
  5. v2.1.13
    • Introduced Kadro Companion, a chat-first assistant that keeps a live view of your projects, workspaces, and agent activity.
    • Added hands-free Companion controls: use your Globe/Fn key to talk to Companion, hear optional spoken replies, and send requests without opening a separate panel.
    • Made Companion faster and more useful with streamed replies, project-aware context, clearer action cards, workspace creation, pane controls, and worktree handoffs.
    • Added Loops for recurring agent work, with a dedicated sidebar, a focused composer, live progress, persistent run transcripts, suggestions, and a Stop action that ends the whole agent process tree.
    • Added Squads so you can delegate work to other installed agent CLIs, follow each run directly in its pane, peek at progress, and stop a run when needed.
    • Expanded Companion and Squad support across installed providers, including Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, OpenCode, and Antigravity where available.
    • Improved agent coordination with clearer names, safer session attribution, better cancellation, and reliable cleanup when a run finishes.
    • Improved workspace restore so captured agent sessions are adopted more reliably and stay available through temporary access changes.
    • Reduced background work by pausing hidden idle surfaces and moving blocking runtime work off the main interaction path.
    • Hardened recurring-loop concurrency so duplicate triggers are skipped before they can start connector work.
  6. v2.1.12
    • Refreshed the ADE shell with cleaner top-bar controls, a floating workspace dock, quieter sidebar spacing, and stronger visual hierarchy across the app.
    • Updated themes with clearer surface depth, brighter text contrast, visible borders, and consistent selected, hover, and active states.
    • Redesigned Settings as a full-window view with tighter section navigation, consistent controls, and a richer Usage page for scanning activity.
    • Improved Canvas with a left-side tools rail, a compact camera corner, a minimap that starts closed, and clearer background controls.
    • Refined Canvas pane windows with cleaner titlebars, stronger resting depth, and smart transparency so focused or hovered panes stay fully readable.
    • Moved Files, Browser, and Skills into a unified tool panel experience so switching tools takes less space in Classic workspaces.
    • Improved Projects and worktrees in the sidebar with live status, click-to-focus or open behavior, and safer handling for multiple repositories.
    • Improved Teams setup and empty states so they align with the workspace creation flow and avoid visual interference from the app backdrop.
    • Restored Run on machine selection in the top bar for open workspaces, so new panes and splits can be routed to the right machine.
    • Fixed catalog CLI panes such as Antigravity so their provider identity, labels, icons, notifications, and restore state no longer collapse into Shell.
  7. v2.1.11
    • Introduced worker machines so agent sessions can run on Linux boxes, Macs, laptops, and VPSes over your Tailscale network.
    • Added Machines settings for pairing, health, inventory, and remote session controls.
    • Added a guided setup prompt and worker installer flow for agent-assisted machine onboarding.
    • Added Run on controls and workspace defaults so new panes can start on the right machine.
    • Improved remote panes so they can survive ADE restarts and worker restarts with reconnect banners, reattach, and session adoption.
    • Added remote file and clipboard image uploads so dropped files and pasted images reach the worker session.
    • Added repo-managed remote sessions with branch context, push-to-origin actions, and missing-origin warnings.
    • Improved terminal copy support in agent TUIs that use OSC 52 clipboard writes.
    • Fixed Fn push-to-talk so arrow keys no longer trigger dictation.
    • Separated development and production auth storage to avoid sign-out races while testing.
  8. v2.1.8
    • Fixed the Windows in-app browser so pages render reliably instead of opening to a blank surface.
    • Improved browser recovery on Windows with clearer navigation errors, safer reload handling, and automatic retries for failed loads.
    • Improved Teams on Windows so agents can boot through the native terminal bridge with more reliable startup and resize handling.
    • Improved Windows session restore so panes reopen the exact agent conversation they were running before restart.
    • Made the file sidebar faster on large directories and kept file commands responsive during entitlement sync.
    • Added Fn/Globe push-to-talk for dictation, improved microphone feedback, and reduced dictation model memory after switching or disabling models.
    • Improved workspace polish by clearing finished-agent notifications when visiting the workspace and keeping branch badges tied to the pane's live folder.
    • Added a product-specific ADE updater feed while preserving the existing update bridge for installed builds.
  9. v2.1.7
    • Refined Classic panes so resizing happens directly from pane edges, with cleaner gutters and less visual noise.
    • Improved Canvas chrome so top-bar controls, sidebar motion, and status areas stay aligned while switching modes or resizing the sidebar.
    • Improved browser ergonomics with a floating or docked browser surface, rounded native webview corners on macOS, and a cleaner empty-state omnibox.
    • Improved workspace restore so same-folder agent panes resume their own conversations instead of stealing or duplicating another pane's session.
    • Restored live native dictation feedback on macOS, improved microphone selection, and kept capture isolated from playback output.
    • Added Codex reset-credit visibility in provider usage so remaining capacity and expiry are easier to understand.
    • Reduced memory and resize overhead across terminals, team panes, Skills, Git history, diffs, files, Canvas backgrounds, and workspace restore snapshots.
    • Hardened production builds by removing release-accessible debug diagnostics and refreshing the dependency audit path.
  10. v2.1.6
    • Added a curated Canvas background gallery with on-demand downloads, thumbnail previews, and local caching for workspace videos.
    • Improved imported video backgrounds by normalizing them into a safer playback format before they become live Canvas media.
    • Improved live background playback so video decoders are released when switching clips and playback stays stable across app focus changes.
    • Reduced workspace and settings flashes by removing unnecessary backdrop surfaces behind opaque views and preloading view chunks after boot.
    • Smoothed Canvas pane focus, node selection, sidebar collapse, and Canvas chrome inset transitions so the workspace moves as one surface.
    • Refined the Workspaces and Teams sidebar selector with a resize-proof sliding indicator that stays aligned during sidebar changes.
    • Improved Canvas surface stability by lowering background repaint churn and releasing unused graphics resources after feature probes.
  11. v2.1.5
    • Added a Source Control hub with History, Issues, and Pull Requests in one workspace-level view.
    • Added a local commit history graph with commit selection, file summaries, and load-more browsing for larger repositories.
    • Added Git worktree orchestration so agent work can fork into a pane, Canvas frame, or separate workspace with a chosen provider.
    • Added safer worktree merge and remove flows with conflict previews, dirty-worktree protection, branch cleanup, and UI cleanup after removal.
    • Added worktree status across the sidebar, pane headers, Canvas frames, minimap, and finished-agent refresh paths.
    • Added Usage share-card export with a preview dialog, custom name and handle, KadroMark branding, PNG save, and clipboard copy.
    • Improved Canvas performance with smoother node dragging, lighter minimap updates, off-screen terminal rendering cleanup, and lower memory use in large workspaces.
    • Refined Canvas pane chrome with provider identity in frame headers, cleaner pane menus, Soft Glass frame edges, and full-screen panes that stay outside the camera transform.
    • Refreshed the ADE shell with an extensible navigation spine, Inter-based default typography, a composed empty-workspace state, and a configurable default layout mode.
    • Fixed strict-site browser Inspect overlays, sidebar toggle flicker, canvas black-out during native focus scrolling, zoomed terminal text selection, and stale entitlement checks that could block typing.
  12. v2.1.4
    • Improved workspace resume so same-folder agent panes reopen their own conversations instead of collapsing into one shared session.
    • Fixed resumed panes to look up the provider session through the live terminal transport, so restored workspaces reconnect to the session each pane actually started.
    • Added exact resume capture for more shell-launched agents, including Codex, Antigravity, opencode, Droid, Kimi, Hermes, and Pi.
    • Improved provider setup so ADE only installs session hooks for agent CLIs that are present on the machine.
    • Pruned stale session references on startup so old pane bindings do not accumulate over time.
    • Kept resume behavior conservative when an exact session cannot be proven, reducing wrong-session restores for busy multi-agent workspaces.
  13. v2.1.3
    • Added Select and Hand tools in Canvas so large workspaces are easier to navigate, pan, and inspect.
    • Added zoom-to-selection controls, frame navigation shortcuts, and better cursor-centered zoom behavior.
    • Moved the Canvas browser into the docked sidebar so browsing stays predictable instead of floating over the board.
    • Added global Canvas backgrounds and pane transparency controls that persist across launches.
    • Added finished-pane notifications, minimap badges, and cross-workspace jump actions for completed agent work.
    • Improved provider session restore so more agents reopen the exact conversation after workspace restore.
    • Added key capture for custom shortcuts, including mouse-button bindings and conflict detection.
    • Added a setting for pane links to open in either the in-app browser or the system browser.
    • Added Usage Insights streaks and improved usage display for lapsed activity days.
    • Refreshed desktop dependencies and release signing preparation ahead of the updater release path.
  14. v2.1.2
    • Added Windows in-app update support so Windows preview installs can move forward through the signed updater feed alongside macOS.
    • Improved workspace restore so shell-launched agents reopen as the right agent session instead of a bare shell.
    • Prevented same-folder native agent panes from resuming into the wrong or duplicated conversation.
    • Added live video backgrounds for Canvas, including import support, full-vibrancy rendering, smart pause behavior, and restore persistence.
    • Improved Canvas frame editing with free-form frame names, zoom-stable outlines, and external file drops that target the right pane.
    • Improved pane startup polish so boot masks identify the detected agent and clear more reliably during busy layouts.
    • Fixed the top-bar dictation control overlapping Git workspace controls on narrower windows.
    • Renamed two built-in themes to clearer palette names: Pine and Cobalt.
  15. v2.1.0
    • Added Git and GitHub workspace context with branch, status, commit, pull request, checks, and work-item surfaces inside ADE.
    • Added a richer Canvas workspace with backgrounds, frames, lasso selection, smarter pane placement, fit controls, and an optional minimap.
    • Added light mode, system appearance support, expanded built-in themes, and mode-aware terminal colors.
    • Added a session-owned terminal host foundation so panes can move, resize, restore, and reconnect more reliably.
    • Added Files review mode with commit history and diff workflows for reviewing agent work without leaving the workspace.
    • Improved pane startup and resize polish with first-output boot masks, smoother layout transitions, and stronger focus recovery.
    • Improved provider usage limits with better Codex and Claude recovery, passive session reads, live reset labels, and more stable status chips.
    • Improved local dictation setup, diagnostics, model storage paths, and privacy-preserving local transcription behavior.
    • Cleaned up high-risk app-visible errors across terminal, browser, GitHub, provider, files, Teams, billing, dictation, and restore surfaces.
    • Added an unsigned Windows preview installer alongside the notarized macOS build, with Windows signing and auto-update planned for a later release.
  16. v2.0.0
    • Added Canvas mode for spatial agent work with live panes, context nodes, pan, zoom, drag, and resize.
    • Added a Canvas browser node and improved browser controls with search, suggestions, persistent history, profile controls, and clearer errors.
    • Added workspace restore after app close, including session capture, resume choices, and safer cleanup for empty or forgotten workspaces.
    • Added local usage insights for agent activity across providers, with importer diagnostics, charts, coverage controls, and safer refresh behavior.
    • Added a configurable default agent for new workspaces and stronger fallback behavior when a selected provider is unavailable.
    • Added workspace finish notifications so background agent completions are easier to notice and clear.
    • Improved terminal resize behavior so scroll position stays stable while panes change size.
    • Grouped Browser, Files, and Skills into a cleaner Tools menu and polished the Classic and Canvas mode switcher.
    • Improved local dictation setup with stronger model verification while keeping embedded local transcription as the default path.
    • Hardened provider usage displays and background handoff reliability for Codex and Claude.
  17. v1.6.0
    • Added the Runtimes workspace for Hermes and OpenClaw profiles.
    • Added streaming chat for Hermes runtime sessions.
    • Redesigned runtime status, logs, jobs, models, and settings into a chat-first workbench.
    • Improved runtime refresh, profile controls, keyboard navigation, and collapsed status states.
    • Added local voice dictation with push-to-talk recording and local transcription.
    • Added live dictation insertion into focused panes while recording.
    • Added dictation setup, repair, enablement, model readiness, and usage stats.
    • Fixed local dictation getting stuck while finishing recordings.
    • Improved workspace startup, provider availability, and protected-folder handling.
    • Hardened runtime streaming and local dictation handling without exposing implementation details.
  18. v1.5.0
    • Added a workspace file sidebar with file browsing, quick open, editing, and diffs.
    • Added a Skills sidebar for searching, dragging, and pasting reusable prompts into panes.
    • Added browser design inspect mode with selected-element feedback, screenshots, and agent handoff.
    • Expanded provider detection with custom CLI providers, inventory status, and clearer usage windows.
    • Redesigned Session Mix and the provider picker so agent choices are easier to compare.
    • Improved pane headers, inline rename, drop overlays, and live resize behavior.
    • Added pane handoff for sending terminal context to a background agent.
    • Hardened auth, handoff files, provider refreshes, shell paths, and skill scans.
  19. v0.4.3
    • Improved background performance so Kadro ADE stays light when not in the foreground.
    • Sped up terminal rendering and stopped wasted work on idle terminal panes.
    • Restyled tooltips to match the rest of the app and removed duplicates that just repeated visible labels.
    • Moved the update notification into the sidebar so it no longer covers the active terminal pane.
  20. v0.4.1
    • Added inline workspace rename in the sidebar with caret-only editing.
    • Added a recents ordering toggle to the sidebar.
    • Improved sidebar navigation performance.
    • Unified lifecycle dots across cards, status bar, and sidebar with clearer per-theme color separation.
    • Hardened launch security surfaces and respected Claude permission defaults.
    • Switched the Playwright MCP to bundled Chromium by default.
    • Polished pane header icons, search borders, menu hover states, and destructive button colors.
  21. v0.4.0
    • Replaced the top bar with a resizable sidebar — workspace toggles, lifecycle dots, and quick section switching.
    • Added a desktop window-chrome strip with integrated traffic lights and a wider drag region.
    • Reworked Settings as a dedicated page.
    • Redesigned the theme system around ink-led differentiation.
    • Restyled pane headers as glass chips with a focus glow.
    • Detected three more agent CLIs — opencode, Cursor Agent, and GitHub Copilot.
    • Bundled Inter and JetBrains Mono Variable, refined the type scale, and tightened chrome spacing.
    • Unified buttons, inputs, dialogs, the command palette, and wizards on shadcn/ui for a consistent visual language.
    • Made the status bar shrink-aware and replaced the mission title with icon-swap actions.
    • Restored the command-palette shortcut and polished pane motion.

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