0.8.7

0.8.7 — 2026-10-21
Chrome without native Browser API setup: use Google Chrome and agents immediately. The chat’s + and browser menus also offer native tabs where available, with an action to enable the API and instructions to quit and reopen the editor.
Chrome tab fixes: opening Chrome attaches the requested new tab instead of an existing page. Sharing, screenshots, element picks, annotations and video recording now handle Chrome tabs without relying on native browser events.
Codex terminal handover waits for release: if another Codex conversation is still working, the chat stays open. Retry Continue in terminal after that work finishes.
Clearer README: separate native browser and Chrome columns, updated installation options, and a shorter video recording guide.

0.8.6 — 2026-10-21
Google Chrome for the browser tools: every assistant on the MCP server can drive Chrome over its own DevTools connection, with no Chrome extension. The globe button asks where to open a page, and the status bar menu opens Chrome for Claude Code, Codex or Gemini with a ready prompt.
Moving a chat to the terminal keeps the browser: the terminal's Claude Code or Codex gets the browser tools and starts on the tab the chat was working on, Chrome included.
History by period: filter past chats by today, yesterday, this week, this month or last month.
"Prompt is too long" during auto-compacting is retried: the message goes again after Claude Code compacts, instead of stopping with the error.

0.8.5 — 2026-10-21
Claude Ultracode, separate from effort: a round star checkbox beside the slider turns automatic workflows on or off without changing reasoning effort. Each chat keeps its own choice across reloads and moves; new tabs inherit the last explicitly chosen state. Available for supported Claude models; requires Claude Code 2.1.284 or later.
Chats stay visible in the collapsed sidebar: compact 36 px tiles keep a number and coloured border, show a spinner, waiting, completion or error indicator, and display running agent counts in a corner badge. Hover for the title and status, right-click for chat actions, or double-click to expand and rename.
Effort without layout jumps: only the fixed-width slider is shown. An immediate tooltip highlights the current effort in bold and in the thumb's colour. Colours progress from silver grey through sky blue to pale violet, with yellow or orange for exceptional levels.
A cleaner folder footer: the current workspace folder has no Current label, external folders use Ext, and GitHub working copies use Git. Folder and Git refresh buttons have refined spacing.

0.8.4 — 2026-10-21
Wide-screen chat: from 1000 px, the conversation, composer and footer share a centered 672 px content column. Tabs become a scrollable sidebar that can be collapsed or moved left or right; both choices survive a reload.
Attachment references restart for each message: new drafts start at @1, while existing references stay stable when attachments are removed or refreshed. Returning queued messages to the draft updates their references together with the text.
Automatic recovery from temporary service errors: once a Claude or Codex turn has stopped, the chat tries to continue the same conversation after 5, 15 and 60 seconds, up to three attempts. Stop, a new message or closing the chat cancels the wait.
Clearer tab activity: a centered orbit spinner with a pulsing dot replaces the low-sitting star; it stays still under reduced motion. Switching tabs animates their widths together.
Reusable panel numbers: new chat panels take the lowest available number from #2; the sidebar remains #1 and restored panels keep their numbers.

0.8.3 — 2026-10-21
Publish, Push and Pull in the Branches window: one row for the current branch shows how far it is ahead or behind, and goes through VS Code's Git extension, so your GitHub sign-in answers for https remotes. Never forced; a pull only fast-forwards; a push to the default branch or while agents work asks first. A pull request button opens GitHub's compare page.
Chat tools for the agents: chat_state, chat_usage and chat_agents report the chat's tabs, plan limits and running agents; the chat's own agents can keep the computer awake, pause or resume their tab's queue, and stop one of their agents. The controls are a new Chat control approval category, Ask by default. A paused queue shows Resume above it.
New chats from the status bar: the AI Browser menu opens a chat here, in a new tab or in a new window.
Gemini shows which model Auto chose beside "Worked for …", and tells a used-up model quota apart from a rate limit, a full context window from a turn limit, and explains its sign-in, settings and folder-trust exits.

0.8.2 — 2026-10-20
Chats across tabs and windows: open chats in the sidebar, editor tabs or separate windows, and view several at once across screens. The top + offers a location; the tab-strip + adds a neighbouring chat.
Move live chats: right-click a chat tab to move it between open views, or from the sidebar into a new tab or window, keeping its session, draft and attachments. Empty source panels close after a move. Drag tabs to reorder them.
Restore and find your chats: chat tabs return after restarting VS Code. Panels have stable names such as AI Browser #2; history finds a conversation already open elsewhere and offers to move it back to the sidebar instead of opening a duplicate.
More precise file icons: ordinary prose that matches a theme's special file names no longer receives file icons.

And a lot before.