v0.14.1 — Named agents and a friendlier first run

First-five-minutes polish, straight from watching 0.14.0's fresh-machine debut.

• Your agents have names now. New tabs open as Morphy, Kernel, Cloud — drawn from a 500-name deck — instead of Agent 1, Agent 2. Prefer numbers? One toggle in Settings → Behavior, and anyone who'd already chosen numbering keeps it.
• The "can't reach Ollama" screen leads with the fix. On a machine without Ollama, the first option is now Install Ollama for me, not Change the Endpoint URL. The message explains what's happening in plain language ("Ollama isn't running on this computer — it may not be installed yet") instead of leading with a raw socket error.
• Honest cloud pricing guidance. ollama.com cloud models require an account with an active cloud subscription — without one, requests fail with 403 Forbidden, which used to surface as a raw error that looked like the app breaking. The requirement is now stated whenever you pick a cloud model, and a 403 gets a clear explanation card with the two real fixes: subscribe, or switch to a free local model.

Install

Download MandoCode.Desktop-v0.14.1-win-x64.zip below, extract the whole zip, run MandoCode.Desktop.exe. Self-contained — no .NET required; WebView2 is the one system dependency (preinstalled on Windows 11). Updating from 0.14.0: extract over your old folder or anywhere new — your settings and sessions live in ~/.mandocode and carry over.

Full details: CHANGELOG.md

v0.14.0 — MandoCode Desktop goes public

The first public release of MandoCode Desktop — a Windows desktop home for local AI coding. Run models on your own machine through Ollama (or free cloud models with an Ollama sign-in), with no API keys and nothing leaving your computer that you didn't send.

Highlights

• Multi-agent tabs. Every tab is an independent agent: its own model, its own conversation, its own settings. Run a local model and a cloud model side by side on the same project.
• Nothing gets lost. Conversations persist across restarts, closed sessions are searchable in an archive, and context snapshots let you carry a conversation's memory into a different model — or hand it to a fresh agent.
• Small local models are genuinely usable (engine 0.14.3). The context window rides on every request — it works with the Ollama desktop app, no restarts — conversations compact themselves before they overflow, and the window floor is sized so small models keep real working memory.
• Notes with an AI assistant, MCP server support (Claude-Desktop-compatible config), file @-tagging, diff approvals for every write, themes with custom chat backgrounds — and yes, a music player.

Install

1. Download MandoCode.Desktop-v0.14.0-win-x64.zip below
2. Extract the whole zip anywhere
3. Run MandoCode.Desktop.exe — first-run setup walks you through installing Ollama and picking a model

Self-contained: no .NET install required. The one system dependency is WebView2 (preinstalled on Windows 11 and most Windows 10 machines). The app checks for new releases and will let you know when an update is available.

Full details: CHANGELOG.md · Engine: MandoCode CLI 0.14.3