CatGo v1.4.14

CatGo 1.4.14

CatGo 1.4.14 is the completed cross-platform reliability release for CatBot,
Campaigns, scientific workflows, large trajectories, and the integrated
terminal. It supersedes the unpublished 1.4.10–1.4.13 drafts and includes a
Windows UTF-8 correction found by the packaged-runtime release smoke test.

Highlights

• Installed CatBot is complete on Windows, macOS, and Linux — Claude,
  Codex, and Gemini discovery, attachments, voice, Skills, CatGo MCP tools,
  structures, workflows, and Campaigns are exercised from packaged backends.
• Windows Campaigns are fast and Unicode-safe — frozen actions execute in
  the existing backend process, and every Campaign Markdown read/write uses
  UTF-8 instead of the Windows cp1252 locale.
• Surface workflows are scientifically complete — the clean slab is
  relaxed before adsorbate branches, while exact frozen atoms propagate through
  slab optimization, adsorbate optimization, and frequency calculations.
• Large trajectories and terminals stay usable — bounded frame caches
  reduce memory pressure, and terminal reflow keeps CJK text and the final
  column visible beside the scrollbar.
• Release assets are version-bound — desktop packages, mobile builds,
  sidecars, VSIX, HPC bundles, legal files, signatures, and mirror metadata are
  validated against the exact tag before publication.

Fixed

Windows CatBot and Campaigns

• Fixed packaged Campaign actions timing out after recursively relaunching the
  PyInstaller one-file backend. Frozen dispatch now runs in-process without
  blocking asynchronous REST or MCP requests.
• Fixed Campaign creation failing on Windows with UnicodeEncodeError when a
  generated Markdown file contained characters such as →, ₂, or CJK text.
  Campaign scaffolding, status, analysis, literature, report, and VASP sanity
  text I/O now specifies UTF-8 explicitly.
• Added a regression test that rejects Campaign scaffolding code which falls
  back to the operating-system locale codec.
• Fixed GUI-launched desktop apps failing to find user-installed Claude, Codex,
  or Gemini CLIs because Windows and macOS launchers supplied a reduced PATH.
• Fixed Windows local terminals selecting the wrong shell or losing their
  working directory across runtime transitions.

CatBot integration

• Preserved each user's Codex Skills and MCP configuration while registering
  CatGo desktop tools in an independent namespace.
• Added live Codex model discovery so the CatBot label follows the installed
  CLI instead of displaying a stale hard-coded model version.
• Fixed images, PDFs, text documents, and general attachments appearing in the
  composer without reaching Claude, Codex, Gemini, or backend-relay requests.
• Fixed the first microphone request racing the native voice router and getting
  stuck on an unavailable browser fallback.
• Routed structure, workflow, Campaign, and export operations through the active
  CatGo runtime connection instead of fixed localhost ports.
• Preserved structures when pop-out chat or viewer windows are closed and later
  reopened.

Workflows and surface science

• Added safe bulk selection and deletion for project and workflow lists, with
  durable success and failure feedback.
• Derived workflow state from task evidence so CHECK, PAUSED, FAILED,
  REMOTE_ERROR, RUNNING, and completed workflows are not mislabeled.
• Added clean-slab geometry optimization before adsorbate branches generated by
  CatBot.
• Persisted manually selected frozen atoms and slab-generated constraints into
  downstream geometry optimization and adsorbate-only frequency inputs.
• Fixed slab and geometry-optimization previews displaying different frozen
  layers for the same structure.

Networking, trajectories, and terminal rendering

• Prevented Materials Project, OPTIMADE, and PubChem requests from inheriting
  agent-only SOCKS proxy settings while retaining ordinary backend proxy
  support.
• Improved OPTIMADE provider recovery and error reporting.
• Synchronized typed trajectory positions with topology and bond snapshots in
  Large System Performance Mode, bounded decoded frame caches, and avoided
  retaining an unbounded bond-object graph.
• Reserved terminal columns beside the scrollbar and reflowed active full-screen
  applications when the font changes, preventing clipped CJK characters.

Packaging and verification

• Windows, Linux, and macOS frozen backends run end-to-end CatBot smoke tests,
  including Provider discovery, all bundled core Skills, CatGo MCP tools,
  structure and pane access, workflows, and real Campaign creation.
• Compiled Agent Bridge tests cover Claude, Codex, and Gemini sessions,
  attachments, permissions, failures, and stream completion.
• VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX publication waits for exact-version Linux,
  macOS, and Windows sidecars plus SHA-256 metadata on the public mirror.
• Linux packaging selects an ABI-compatible conda C++ runtime and validates all
  collected CXXABI and GLIBCXX requirements.

Upgrade notes

• No project, workflow database, structure-file, trajectory, or Campaign
  migration is required.
• Existing Codex Skills and MCP configuration are retained. CatGo's desktop MCP
  entry is isolated automatically.
• Workflow deletion remains disabled for genuinely executing tasks and remote
  jobs whose identity is unresolved.
• Review generated slab constraints and calculation inputs before HPC submit;
  scientific structure and submit safety gates remain enabled.
• Reattach a file before a restored-chat follow-up that must reread its bytes;
  restored history keeps attachment metadata, not the original file payload.

Downloads

• Windows x86-64 — .msi or -setup.exe
• macOS Apple Silicon — Developer-ID signed .dmg
• Linux x86-64 — .deb or .rpm
• Android — CatGo-v*-android-universal.apk
• iOS — TestFlight beta
• VS Code / Cursor / VSCodium / Theia — .vsix
• Headless/HPC — platform sidecars and catgo-hpc-bundle.tar.gz

License and citation

CatGo 1.4.14 distributions use AGPL-3.0-or-later.

If CatGo contributes to your work, please include this acknowledgement and the
preferred citation:

This work used CatGo (https://app.catgo-ucsd.org).

Please cite DOI
10.1039/D6DD00273K.
This request is not an additional condition of the AGPL license. Third-party
materials retain their own terms. Historical AGPL grants remain in effect.

See the
CHANGELOG
for the complete release history.