v0.6.0

0.6.0 — 2026-09-18

Two things this release is about: the app now draws its first session card in seconds
rather than minutes, and installing it on macOS is a single line you paste into a
terminal. Opening codex-trace against a large sessions directory used to mean staring at
a blank window while every file was read; that work now happens in the background, behind
a progress bar, and survives you quitting early. Sessions spawned by another session are
also drawn underneath their orchestrator instead of scattered through the list.

Added

• A one-line macOS installer
  (7025c91). One paste
  downloads the latest release and puts Codex Trace.app in /Applications, ready to
  open from Spotlight:

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PixelPaw-Labs/codex-trace/main/script/install-macos.sh | bash

  No clone, no Rust toolchain, and no xattr -cr. The app is unsigned, and macOS only
  quarantines what a browser downloaded, so fetching it with curl sidesteps Gatekeeper
  entirely. Apple Silicon only, and it detects a Rosetta shell rather than wrongly
  concluding there is no build for your machine. CODEXTRACE_VERSION pins a release and
  CODEXTRACE_INSTALL_DIR picks a different destination.

• Session indexing runs in the background
  (92d3cb8). The startup
  scan moved onto its own thread, so the window opens immediately and fills in as files
  are read. A progress bar reports bytes as well as files, updating from inside the read
  of a single file — one rollout in a real directory is 22GB, and reporting only between
  files left the bar frozen on it for minutes. The walk takes the newest day first, so the
  sessions you opened the app for arrive in the first seconds, holds itself to roughly a
  fifth of a core so it does not compete with the UI, and saves every ten seconds, so
  quitting early no longer throws the whole scan away.

• Subagent sessions nest under the session that spawned them
  (92d3cb8). A session
  started by another session is now drawn underneath it in the sidebar, recursively.
  Neither end of that link is trustworthy alone — multi-agent v2 answers spawn_agent
  with a task path and no agent id, so an orchestrator's own rollout never names what it
  started, while older sessions only carry spawned_worker_ids — so both are read. A
  child whose orchestrator cannot be found stays at the top level rather than
  disappearing.

Fixed

• spawn_agent calls no longer show up as failures
  (92d3cb8). The status
  check only recognised the older {"agent_id": ...} reply, so every multi-agent v2 spawn
  was marked failed even though it had worked. Both reply shapes are now understood.

Changed

• macOS releases ship a .app.tar.gz and no .dmg
  (7025c91). A
  browser-downloaded .dmg of an unsigned app is quarantined and refuses to open without
  xattr -cr, which made it the worse of the two artifacts to publish. If you previously
  grabbed the .dmg from the releases page, use the installer above, or download the
  tarball and unpack it into /Applications yourself. Linux and Windows artifacts are
  unchanged.