Changelog

A new look in the Mac app, the dashboard and iOS. Your device shows online only once it is. Download this version once by hand. Later versions install on their own.

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New

• A new look. Every page, dialog and menu is redrawn, in light and dark.
• Threads in chat. Reply in a thread without breaking the main conversation.
• Type @ to mention an agent, task or file. Links show as pills you can open.
• Voice input. Speak a message in the Mac app or on iOS instead of typing it.
• Workspace goals. Set them in Settings, and every agent reads them when it starts work.
• Agents remember. Each agent keeps memories and a day log in its Memory tab.
• A new menu bar icon shows live status, with a native menu and your account.

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Changed

• Runs and task activity open in a side panel, next to the chat.
• Setup brings your Mac online before it imports, and connects Claude at the last step.

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Fixed

• The Mac app updates itself again. Older versions could download an update but not install it.
• Your device shows online only after it connects, and it starts again when you reopen the app.
• Continue setup picks up where you left off instead of starting over.
• An open question stays under Needs you in the inbox until you answer it.
• Tools you pick during setup now connect instead of leading nowhere.
• Messages you send to a cloud run mid-run always arrive. About half used to get lost.

Setup ends in a chat with Chief, your first agent. Also fixed: paying in the Mac app, starting your device, and importing from your Mac.

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New

• A new setup flow. One screen at a time: your workspace, your tools, your first agent, then a chat.
• Chief is your first agent. Setup opens a chat with Chief, ready to help set up your workspace.
• Pick a folder with the Mac folder picker instead of typing its path.
• Choose each item to import. Tick skills, plugins, MCP servers and hooks one by one.
• Your Mac shows up by its own name, so two Macs are easy to tell apart.

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Changed

• The inbox shows only what needs you. Conversations show their unread count.
• One MCP list. The Integrations page is gone, and its servers live in the MCP list.
• Agent settings show every rule. Instructions open in one editor, with token counts per item and in total.
• Tasks and chats open faster. They paint from the row you clicked.

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Fixed

• Paying in the Mac app no longer signs you out. Checkout opens in your browser, and the app moves on once you pay.
• Your device starts when the Mac app opens and from the tray’s Start.
• Import says when your device is stopped and offers to start it.
• A folder macOS blocks shows an error with Try again, instead of looking empty.
• Chat replies no longer show internal log lines.
• Setup no longer loops back on every launch after an error.

The CLI now updates itself, and the Mac app installs updates once you step away. Also new: @mentions for people, a searchable model picker and repo folders on your device.

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New

• The CLI updates itself. It checks for a new version before each command.
• Updates install when you step away. The Mac app restarts into a waiting update once no window has focus.
• Mention a person. An @mention of a teammate lands in their inbox, and they can reply from there.
• Pick the repo each device folder holds. A run for that repo starts in its folder.
• Search the model picker by name, price or context size.
• Answer from the CLI. Answer questions, decide approvals and accept or reject learnings without the dashboard.
• Edit your profile. Settings shows your handle, role and description.

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Changed

• Accepting a learning creates a task for the agent that wrote it.
• Fewer toasts. Only real notifications pop up, and a failed run shows once.

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Fixed

• Quitting the Mac app no longer stops your device, so runs keep going.
• Your tokens no longer reach agent commands run on your device.
• Missed routines fire. A schedule that slipped runs as soon as it can.
• In-app links open in place instead of reloading the whole page.

The Mac app is now built for Apple Silicon only, and the CLI installs again on macOS. Also new: a terminal in the side panel, file history and plugin marketplaces.

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New

• A terminal in the side panel. The Mac app opens a terminal tab next to your work.
• File history. Every version of a file is kept, and the viewer lists them.
• Plugin marketplaces. Install a plugin by name, or paste a GitHub link to install skills.
• Search covers conversations and agents, and it finds results by meaning.
• Routines start on GitHub events. Trigger one when a pull request merges, or when its checks pass (CLI).
• Task watchers. See who watches a task, and add or remove watchers from the task page.
• The browser keeps you signed in across every tab an agent opens.

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Changed

• Apple Silicon only. The Mac app and CLI no longer run on Intel Macs.
• A new toast. Swipe it away, and repeat messages merge into one.
• The iOS app has a new design for the inbox, chat, runs, agents and settings.

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Fixed

• The CLI installer works on macOS again. macOS no longer blocks the downloaded binary.
• Image uploads in chat work, and a failed send keeps your text.
• Menus and toasts no longer blank the browser page in the Mac app.
• A run that crashes on your Mac resumes once the Mac reconnects.
• Cancelling a run stops it on your Mac, not just in the dashboard.

A new look on every screen, and one command installs the CLI. Also new: paid plans, channels with threads, and a wiki that learns from your agents.

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New

• Install the CLI in one command. One line on macOS and Linux. No npm, no admin password.
• Plans and billing. Settings → Billing shows your plan, your trial and your invoices.
• Channels and threads. Reply to a message and the replies leave the main stream.
• The wiki learns from your agents. Approve a short list of findings and the pages update.
• One search covers pages, files and tasks, so an agent finds an answer you already have.
• Workflows are yours to edit. A step runs your own command and branches on the result.
• Per-task overrides. Pin the model, the effort or the machine for a single task.
• Settings history. See who changed an agent or workspace setting, and when.
• Connect a subscription instead of an API key. Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

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Changed

• Labels are gone, and agent settings are one page instead of a maze of screens.
• A new look on every screen. One design across the dashboard and the Mac app.
• The dashboard is much faster, and a cloud run starts sooner.

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Fixed

• Connecting a Mac is steadier, and a failed attempt says what went wrong.
• A busy provider slows a run down instead of killing it.
• A task keeps the model you chose after its first run.

The app updates itself from here on. Install this one by hand once. The next release downloads quietly and installs when you quit.

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New

• Watch and steer a run from a card, in the task timeline and on your phone.
• A workflow step can run your test suite on your own Mac and branch on the result.
• pinework watch tails everything happening in the workspace.
• Give a repository a setup script, so a cloud run starts from a prepared checkout.
• Delete a conversation from the dashboard, the CLI or the API.
• The task timeline shows what shipped — branches, commits and pull requests.

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Changed

• Chat is grouped the way the rooms work, on the web and on iOS.
• A busy provider slows you down instead of stopping you.
• Agent heartbeats and agent pause are gone. Use an automation to check in on a schedule.
• Some CLI flags that did nothing are now rejected instead of quietly ignored.

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Fixed

• Typing pinework in a terminal runs the CLI, not the desktop app.
• A run that ended in a provider error reports failure, with a named reason.
• Turns are unlimited by default. The ceiling exists only when you set one.
• run create no longer throws away --model, --effort and --env.
• Answering an agent’s question on iOS works.

Talk to agents like a team, and bring a second provider. Direct messages, channels and threads, plus ChatGPT and Codex subscriptions alongside Claude.

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New

• Direct messages and channels. In a channel, @-mention the agent you want.
• Replies thread, and an agent answering in a thread reads only that thread.
• Connect a ChatGPT or Codex subscription and run Codex agents on your own plan.
• Connect Cursor and OpenCode keys directly.
• Steer a run mid-turn. Type while an agent is working and it takes the input.
• A task knows its pull request, so you can see what the work changed.
• Pick a task’s repository and base branch.

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Changed

• A rate limit no longer kills the work. The run finishes on your next credential.
• Cloud runs survive a deploy instead of being written off.
• iOS caught up: pull to refresh, editable tasks and wiki, faster chats.

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Fixed

• A rate-limited run names its replacement instead of reading as a crash.
• comment list reaches page 2.
• A long command no longer makes a run look dead.
• A Claude subscription runs only on Claude Code, and an OpenAI one only on Codex.

The Mac app is a third of its old size — 335 MB, down from about 1.0 GB. Install this one by hand: it cannot update itself.

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New

• The background helper has a name and an icon instead of showing up as node.

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Changed

• A much smaller app. Dropping the bundled browser took about 724 MB out.
• Opening a chat is one trip, not two, and a revisit paints from cache.
• Far fewer approval prompts for routine work.
• Workflows show their settings on the page, and you answer a parked question there.

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Fixed

• The browser tab shows the page instead of a blank pane.
• Workspace links move you inside the window instead of reloading the app.
• The folder browser, transcript paging and folder picker work again.
• The CLI names the person a run is waiting on.
• Thinking time does not spend your budget. The clock pauses while you decide.
• Only workspace admins can change workspace permissions.
• A path you deny is denied to search and the shell too, not just to file reads.

Runs stop dying in the middle of work. The window itself is unchanged. Install this on every Mac you run agents from, because that is where the fixes land.

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New

• Agents open pull requests. Each commit is authored as the agent that made it.
• A run records where it ran, so a result traces back to a machine.

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Changed

• Answers arrive as they are written, a word at a time.
• A run waiting on you says so, everywhere runs are listed.
• Cloud runs start with less busywork, and get more processor.
• Your run history lives in Pinework, readable even when the machine is off.

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Fixed

• Runs no longer die mid-work because a renewal ran late.
• The background helper can no longer pin your Mac at 94% processor.
• A run that arrives while your Mac is full waits its turn instead of dying.
• A deploy no longer freezes an approval already on screen.
• A finished turn always shows the agent’s answer.
• A cancelled run stops reporting $0.00. Unmeasured now reads as unmeasured.
• A repository whose default branch is master can be cloned.
• 230 archived transcripts became readable again.

Pinework has a browser. Open a real web page beside the conversation, point at anything on it, and the agent hears what you pointed at.

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New

• A browser in the right panel — live pages, clicking, typing, history and tabs.
• Point at a thing on the page and a description of it drops into the message box.
• Connect GitHub, and cloud agents use git and gh on your repositories.
• Choose which notifications you get, per kind and per channel.
• Set how much an agent has to ask before it acts.
• pinework models list shows every model you can pick.

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Changed

• Approval cards show the command or file, not just the name of the tool.
• This download is about 480 MB, up from 114 MB. The browser ships inside the app.

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Fixed

• Approving from your iPhone works instead of spinning forever.
• “Always allow” now means always. It used to forget after one session.
• A run that worked is recorded as working.
• Cloud runs start again. Every one was failing with a server error.
• The Files panel stops emptying itself the moment a turn finishes.
• Deleting a wiki page frees its name.
• Only a person can answer an approval. The CLI commands that bypassed you are gone.

Pinework now tells you when it needs you — real Mac and iPhone notifications, approval cards where the work stopped, and a badge that counts what is actually waiting.

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New

• Your Mac notifies you when a run finishes or fails while you are elsewhere.
• Your iPhone gets the notification too.
• An agent can ask you a question and get an answer back.
• A cloud run works on your repository. Pick it, and the run starts from a clone.
• pinework works in your terminal. Installing the app puts it on your PATH.
• A new workspace starts with three agents — a planner, a builder and a reviewer.

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Changed

• The side panel is usable. Close a tab, copy a path, and keep your place.
• The agent page names the model a run will actually use.

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Fixed

• Moving between screens no longer reloads the app.
• “Mark all read” visibly marks everything read.
• A chat finishes its turn without you navigating away and back.
• A failed run says why it failed.
• A message you type mid-run stays in the conversation.
• A second workspace no longer breaks the dashboard.

A remote chat shows both sides. Drive one Mac from another and your own messages appear as you send them.

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New

• You can see what you said when you drive one of your Macs from another device.
• Long conversations are reachable. Older messages load as you scroll back.

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Changed

• Remote control is much lighter on the servers behind it, so it holds up under load.

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Fixed

• Your Macs are yours alone. Only the person who enrolled a machine can see or control it.
• Your iPhone stays signed in. A rule written for always-on machines was signing it out.

Pinework goes multi-device. Turn on remote access for a Mac and control it from another Mac or from your iPhone.

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New

• Remote control your Macs. Read live transcripts and start, stop and steer runs anywhere.
• Pinework on your iPhone. A full controller for any Mac you have enabled.
• Chats stream as they happen, with approvals answered inline.
• Your local coding sessions appear in the Chats list, grouped by machine and folder.
• A library for plugins, skills, hooks and rules, switchable per workspace or per agent.
• Attach files to a chat, and search every file in the workspace.
• Use your own Claude subscription for cloud runs.
• An agent can wait for you for up to 24 hours. Approvals collect in one Inbox.

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Changed

• Cloud runs are open to everyone, and a run resumes where its last turn stopped.
• See what a run cost, cache reads and writes included.

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Fixed

• A dropped connection no longer takes your running agents down with it.
• Runs go to the machine you chose, not whichever one happens to be online.
• The model you picked is the model that runs.
• Approvals and questions on the task page load again. They had failed for two months.
• Correction: a run on your Mac stores its transcript in Pinework’s cloud. v2026.7.7 said otherwise.

pinework login lands in your Mac keychain for real, so the desktop app picks up the sign-in you already did on the command line.

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New

• Pick a folder on your Mac for agent work, instead of a vague “local” choice.

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Changed

• Settings → Import uses the same walkthrough as first-run onboarding.

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Fixed

• pinework login writes your login keychain reliably, and repairs a broken search list.
• A token with a $ in it is stored exactly as you typed it.

Sign in once on the CLI and the desktop app picks it up, instead of asking you again.

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New

• First-run is the real entry after you create a workspace.
• Choose which import groups to apply before the wizard applies them.
• iOS opens your workspace without a loading gate.

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Fixed

• The desktop app imports your CLI sign-in rather than asking for a second one.

The desktop app and the CLI stop fighting over your sign-in, and the shared keychain entry stops asking for your password on every read.

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New

• First-run can import the setup already on your Mac.
• Edited messages keep their history.
• Link to any task, run, agent, project, file or wiki page from anywhere in Pinework.
• Wiki pages appear in ⌘K, tagged with their tier.
• Agents write wiki pages directly with pinework wiki create, update, delete, list.
• Wiki on iOS. Browse a page, read its history, and search from the app.

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Changed

• Re-importing documents skips every page that has not changed.

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Fixed

• No more repeated keychain password prompts.
• Checking which coding tools are ready stops hanging and leaving processes behind.
• Approving a waiting run keeps its prompt, its tools and its folder.
• Notifications show up while the app is open.
• Codex runs now start instead of sitting queued forever.
• Runs no longer die when you have more than one Mac connected.
• The CLI rejects a flag it does not know instead of ignoring it.
• A terminal you open from Pinework no longer inherits its environment variables.

The desktop app opens again. v2026.7.13 shipped without the settings it needed, so it spun on a loading screen forever.

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New

• Agents read the company wiki when they work on a chat or a task.

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Changed

• The web app no longer carries the code that can reach your machine.

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Fixed

• The desktop app no longer hangs on a loading spinner. A build missing its settings now fails.

The desktop app runs entirely on your own machine. Its whole interface ships inside the app, so it starts faster and depends on nobody else to draw a screen.

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New

• The interface ships inside the app, instead of loading from the web on every launch.
• A company wiki. Write pages, read every revision, search by keyword and by meaning.
• Automations. Put a prompt on a schedule and run it against a chat or a task.
• Imported sessions have their own place in the sidebar.
• Your Cursor settings sync per Mac, alongside the tools already covered.

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Changed

• The app paints immediately instead of waiting on a first request.
• A reworked file panel with breadcrumbs, a tree you can hide, and a resizable viewer.
• Imported Claude Code and Codex sessions get real names from the folder they ran in.

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Fixed

• Macs no longer get stuck on “Connecting”.
• No more false rate-limit warnings, and a finished answer stops disappearing.
• Honest costs and token counts, cache reads and writes included.
• Reasoning renders in its own foldable block.
• Live updates keep flowing instead of dying until the servers restart.
• Comments show who actually wrote them, not “Someone”.
• No more repeated macOS password prompts.

Your Mac’s sessions and settings sync on their own, and Codex becomes a coding tool you can run under the same controls as the rest.

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New

• Sessions and settings sync automatically, per Mac.
• Session history from Cursor and OpenCode, read-only, labels and timings only.
• Codex is supported, with the same access, plan and approval controls as the others.

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Fixed

• Cancelling a run works, and actually stops the agent.

Run models on the subscriptions already on your Mac — Claude, Cursor and OpenCode, with no API key needed.

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New

• Run a model through a subscription you are already signed into.
• Pick a model for Cursor — Claude, GPT, Gemini or Composer.
• Subscription usage you can read, labelled plainly as not billed.

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Changed

• Tasks use your subscriptions too, not only the chats you start yourself.
• Much faster startup. A run starts in seconds instead of minutes.

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Fixed

• Pinework reconnects to your Mac on its own, and re-checks which tools are installed.
• Long replies keep streaming instead of dropping after about a minute.

Opening the app from the Dock finds your coding tools.

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Fixed

• The app reads your login shell’s PATH, so it finds the tools you installed.

See your models, pick how each one runs, and set how much an agent may do alone.

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New

• A rebuilt model picker, one row per model, grouped by provider.
• Autonomy modes. Plan, ask before changes, full access, or the agent’s own setting.
• A speed control, shown only where the provider genuinely supports it.

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Changed

• A chat stays on the tool it started on, across turns and resumes.
• A run with nowhere to go fails loudly, with a reason, instead of vanishing.

Installing the desktop app is all you need to run agents on your Mac.

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New

• The piece that runs your agents ships inside the app. No separate download.

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Fixed

• The desktop app stays connected to the server.
• Adding a folder works on every Mac.
• Archived tasks open from their links.

A public changelog, a native menu bar, and a file browser for every run.

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New

• A public /changelog page — the one you are reading — with no sign-in needed.
• A native menu bar with reload, zoom, and a cache clear that does not sign you out.
• Browse a run’s working folder in a tree, and read any file in the app.
• Readable JSON in the transcript and file viewers.
• Choose whether session labels sync to the cloud, per Mac. Off until you turn it on.
• A usage page, plus a reworked profile and settings area.

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Changed

• Long chat transcripts are faster to scan.

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Fixed

• Closing the window no longer loses it. The dock or tray icon brings it back.
• Task links open the right task.
• A link to a deleted task shows a clear message, and a way back.
• Your Claude and OpenCode subscription sign-ins stay on your Mac.
• A run no longer picks up the host machine’s own Claude settings.