DreamCoder v0.7.0

Changed

• Terminal settings (#173): the Settings page no longer has a Terminal tab. Use the terminal in the session's workspace panel; the Skills page's install button now opens plugin settings directly. The startup shell and, on Windows, the Bash path are under General. Both are saved in the sidecar's settings, and an existing Bash path is migrated automatically.
• Each session keeps its own permission mode (#149). The selector under the input shows and changes only that session's mode. Before, it showed and wrote one mode shared by every session, so switching one session changed what the others displayed and the mode every later session started in.
  • The mode is saved in the session's transcript, as Claude Code saves it, so a session resumes in its own mode after a restart. A session imported from Claude Code resumes in the mode it last ran in.
  • Switching a session that is not running is no longer dropped; it applies when the session next starts.
  • Turning Bypass permissions on or off in one session no longer makes it the default for new sessions.
  • When the CLI changes mode by itself, for example after you approve a plan, the selector follows. Before, the change was shown as "thinking".
  • Settings → Permissions now sets only the default for new sessions, which the selector marks with a "default" tag. A forked session starts in the mode of the session it came from.
  • "Default" is renamed "Manual". The Chinese interface uses the English mode names too.
• Scheduled tasks run in the permission mode chosen for them (#149). A new task starts with the default for new sessions, and the mode can be changed in the task.
• A session looks the same in every window (#150). The server now keeps each session's state in one place, and every desktop window and phone browser connected to the session sees the same mode, model, title, running status and permission requests.
  • A permission request answered on one device closes on the others, which say it was allowed or denied elsewhere. A second answer is ignored.
  • Messages typed on one device show up on the others, and refreshing during a reply no longer loses or duplicates history.
  • Switching the mode or model while a reply is running waits until the reply ends instead of restarting the CLI mid-reply. The permission selector shows the new mode at once, with a dot that means it takes effect after this reply finishes; switching back before then removes the dot. Opening a session no longer restarts it.
• Each session keeps its own model (#150). The model and effort are saved in the session's transcript, so they survive a restart and are the same on every device. A fork starts with the model of its source. A choice saved on this device by an earlier version moves to the session the first time it is opened.
• A session that moved into a worktree no longer splits into two files. Its title, mode and worktree survive /clear, and a rename is no longer undone when the CLI exits (#150).
• Agent team updates go only to the sessions of that team (#150).
• The worktree choice for a new session is in the branch menu (#150). "Run in a new worktree" is a switch at the bottom of the branch menu, and the branch button shows a fork icon when it is on. The separate worktree button is gone, so the controls under the input fit on one row, as they do in an existing session.
• Starting on another branch is refused when the current checkout has uncommitted changes (#150). Before, DreamCoder switched the branch and Git carried the changes over. Now the error appears next to the project controls, with a button to run in a new worktree instead.
• Groups of tool calls, such as "Read 3 files", are collapsed by default, also while they run. A group with a failed step stays collapsed and shows a red marker (#150).
• Thinking and tool calls between two pieces of reply text fold into one group (#170), so a short turn no longer pushes the answer far down the page. The summary counts thinking too, e.g. "ran 2 commands, read 1 file, thought 4 times", and the expanded group lists the steps in their original order. Thinking with no tool calls around it is still its own row.
• Faster desktop startup (#152, #161): KaTeX, Mermaid, the diff viewer, the Doctor panel, the Settings pages, the workspace panel and session search load the first time they are needed, which cuts the JavaScript loaded at startup by about half. Thanks @ibrahimmaq14.
• A provider holds any number of models, in order, and an optional fast model (#159). The first model is the main model. Settings → Providers can fetch the provider's model list and pick from it, and the generated settings JSON follows the list. Session titles use the fast model, or the session's model when there is none. Thanks @AIR-Xie.
  • Existing providers are migrated on first start, and the old file is kept as providers.json.bak-before-migration-*. Older versions cannot read the migrated file: restore that backup before downgrading.

Removed

• "Don't ask" is no longer offered as the default for new sessions; a session can still be in "Don't ask" when the CLI switches to it (#149).
• Unused design mockup pages and their mock data (#149).

Fixed

• Bundled file search (#106): desktop builds include ripgrep, so Glob and Grep work without a system installation. Source development prepares the same pinned binary automatically. Searches with the bundled binary ignore personal ripgrep configuration so it cannot silently exclude project files.
• Proxy (#148): when the ChatGPT sign-in path streams a non-streaming request and the upstream ends with response.failed or error, the caller now gets an api_error (HTTP 502) with the upstream message, instead of an empty end_turn reply. Thanks @pcbeingused333.
• Sidebar re-renders (#157, #158): the sidebar no longer re-renders on streamed text updates. Running indicators still follow session and tab status. Thanks @tedy69.
• Re-renders while a reply runs (#156, #165): the session page no longer re-renders every second during a reply. Only the elapsed time updates, and it now counts from when the server starts the turn. Thanks @princecherry9905.
• Fewer redraws while a reply streams (#153, #169): the input box, the status line, the permission dialog and the question card now redraw only when something they show changes, instead of on every streamed update of any session. Tool groups that have finished no longer redraw while the reply continues.
• Smoother streaming replies (#154, #171): a reply that is still streaming is no longer re-parsed and redrawn in full on every update. Finished paragraphs, lists, tables and code blocks are drawn once and stay in place; only the part still being written is redrawn. Text selected in the finished part stays selected while the reply continues. Code in a streaming reply uses the lighter highlighter and gets full highlighting when the reply ends, so code blocks no longer flicker. Following the bottom of the reply now scrolls at most once per frame.
• New sessions start on the active provider's main model. Before, activating a provider saved its main model in a hidden setting, and that saved value kept overriding the provider after its main model was edited (#150).
• The selected model card in the dark theme had light pink colors with text that was hard to read (#150).
• Saving a provider that the server rejects now shows the error in the form. Before, the Save button did nothing and the form gave no sign of why (#175).

Install

The installers are not code-signed yet.

• macOS (Apple Silicon): open the .dmg and drag DreamCoder to Applications. On first launch macOS blocks the app; open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. If macOS says the app is damaged, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DreamCoder.app and open it again.
• Windows x64: run the -setup.exe. If SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway.

Both installers are installed, launched and checked automatically in CI before release. Reports from real machines are welcome in issues.