v1.0.8

Sort your own projects

Every project now lands in Not Sorted and stays there until you say otherwise. Workbench used to guess Runnable for anything with a start command, which meant a fresh scan of a few hundred folders arrived pre-labelled with a status you never chose.

Experiment is now a real status too, so the Experiments shelf holds what you put there instead of "everything not shipped, in progress, broken or dead". Existing auto-assigned Runnable projects are moved to Not Sorted on first launch; anything you set by hand is untouched.

Fixes

• The contribution heatmap shaded each day against the single busiest day, so one heavy day flattened the whole grid into a single dull tone once enough repos were scanned. It now scales against the days that actually have commits.

v1.0.7

Screenshot tours

Hit Take a tour on a project and Claude Code or Codex opens in the built-in terminal, starts the app, works out which screens matter, and sends a shot of each one back through the new add_screenshot MCP tool. Shots appear on the project page as they land and in the AI Portfolio → Screenshots tab, and the agent reports when it is done.

Fixes

• Quick capture no longer says "Screenshot captured" when Chrome is missing, the project never started, or the page came back blank — it now tells you which one happened.

Also

• New In Progress shelf, and Experiments narrowed to genuinely unclassified projects.

Workbench 1.0.6

• Adds an In Progress status so projects you are actively building have a home of their own, available in the project status picker, the library filter and the bulk status menu.
• Keeps the bulk actions bar pinned to the top while you scroll a long library.
• Enables selection mode in grid view, not just list view.
• Adds bulk Archive and Unarchive for the current selection.
• Offers every status in the bulk status menu instead of only Runnable and Shipped.

Update from inside Workbench, or download the DMG below.

Workbench 1.0.5

Workbench 1.0.5

• Installs future signed updates directly inside Workbench.
• Adds existing-tag suggestions and bulk tag/status actions in project list view.
• Adds internal folder browsing and removes redundant project-card hover actions.
• Preserves project status during scans and resets project pages to the top.

One-time note: install 1.0.5 manually from the DMG; 1.0.4 does not contain the updater engine. Future releases can update in app.

Workbench 1.0.4

Organize and rediscover projects

• Add and remove tags directly on a project, see them on cards, and filter the library by tag
• A new Videos tab recursively discovers playable YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Voomly, and Loom links while skipping dependencies and build output
• Rescanning now removes catalog entries whose folders were deleted from a scanned root

Safer, faster media collecting

• Heart images directly in File Finder to add them to the persistent Media library
• Removing a media favorite now requires a second click within three seconds, with a red pulse as confirmation
• Media favorites continue to retain their filters, layout, column count, and page size between launches

Workspace polish

• Collapse the sidebar into a wider icon rail and see the installed version beneath the full wordmark
• Long project names and paths now fit cleanly in the delete dialog
• A redesigned macOS icon avoids the gray legacy-icon fallback on current macOS releases
• Workbench continues to check GitHub releases automatically and shows a sticky update button when a newer version is available

Signed, notarized, and stapled by Apple. Requires macOS 10.15 or later on Apple Silicon.

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Workbench 1.0.3

Auto updater

Workbench now automatically checks the public GitHub releases feed and keeps a sticky Update available button in the sidebar whenever a newer build is ready.

• Semantic version checks ignore invalid or older tags
• One click opens the latest signed release
• Update preferences stay out of the way when the app is current

Faster, cleaner Files

• Cached directory listings with filesystem-watch invalidation make repeat navigation much faster
• Favorite folders are saved and available from a quick-jump popup
• 007 Mode recursively gathers Markdown and PDF documents into a draggable dossier wall, skips hidden, gitignored and node_modules content, and renders tables, code blocks and polished document typography
• File dates moved into subtle hover tooltips, while the info panel is tighter and easier to scan

Better library and media views

• Persistent grid and visual-list layouts, item counts, project status filters and configurable columns up to eight
• Media filtering, sorting, pagination, fit-to-frame previews, hidden failed images and a saved grid-column count
• Paste a link directly into a project, use project favicons or local icons, and open every saved project link from one dialog
• Dot folders and Ruby gem caches are excluded from project discovery and cleaned from existing catalogs

More polish

• AI Portfolio adds screenshots, voice guidance, chat and generated portfolio output
• MCP servers can be hidden from Workbench without changing external agent configuration
• Refined Skills, MCP and plugin navigation plus a much subtler contribution-grid pulse

Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 10.15 or later, Apple Silicon.

Workbench 1.0.2

Workbench is now an MCP server

Turn it on in Settings and any coding agent can ask your catalog questions instead of guessing what you have built.

• Three read-only tools: search every project, pull one project's full detail, get library totals
• Runs as workbench mcp straight from the app binary and reads the catalog directly, so it answers whether or not Workbench is open
• One-click install into Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Cursor — it merges into each agent's own config rather than overwriting it, and already-installed agents are detected

Runs that fail now go somewhere

A project that will not start used to end in a toast. Now it hands off.

• Pick Claude Code or Codex and the built-in terminal opens with a prompt carrying the framework, the failure reason, the missing pieces and the last run output
• The agent works out how to run it and reports back a run command; Workbench saves it, re-checks whether dependencies landed, then runs and screenshots the project itself
• If it genuinely cannot run on this machine, you get a plain-language explanation of why and what you would need
• Chrome extensions, Godot, Tauri and WordPress projects now show How to run with real instructions instead of a doomed Run button

Plugins

• Sentry issues open a detail dialog with the exception, in-app stack frames, request and tags — plus Copy as prompt, which packages the whole thing for an agent
• GitHub repositories can be narrowed to specific authors, so you can watch just yourself, or just the people you review for
• Startup no longer reads the macOS Keychain, which is what made the password prompt reappear on every launch. Credential presence is tracked in the database; the Keychain is only touched when a token is actually used.

Also in this release

• Framework badges on a project are clickable and filter the library to that stack
• Real logos for Crush and Hermes Agent
• Softer checked state on the tech stack filter, so it stops shouting next to the framework logos

Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 10.15 or later, Apple Silicon.

Workbench 1.0.1

Timeline

A new section that merges folder creation dates with git history across every scanned project into one chronological view — every project you started and every commit you made, on a single spine.

• Alternating cards on a centre line with year and month markers, and gold dots for milestones like a project being created or its first commit
• Infinite scroll, 60 events per page, with the full history built once and cached so paging is instant
• A Play button that reveals your history in sequence at 1x, 2x or 4x, for timelines too long to scroll

Also in this release

• Real logos for every AI agent that publishes one — OpenAI, Codex, OpenClaw, Pi, Goose, Amp, Qwen, Ollama, Cline and more
• The file preview pane now expands to 60% and collapses back instead of hiding
• Project detail layout no longer leaves a gap under the action buttons, and tab panels are properly padded

Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 10.15 or later, Apple Silicon.

Workbench 1.0.0

A visual library of everything you have ever built.

Signed and notarized by Apple. Requires macOS 10.15 or later, Apple Silicon.

Download the DMG, drag Workbench to Applications, and open it. On first run it checks for the optional tools it uses — Chrome for screenshots, git for history, tmux for AI sessions, Node for JavaScript projects — and tells you what each one unlocks.

Scanning is read-only. Workbench never runs your project code until you approve the exact command.