BaseHalf 0.5.0 - Connections in Your Files, Cards That Follow, AI Video Built In

BaseHalf 0.5.0 - Connections in Your Files, Cards That Follow, AI Video Built In

This release changes where BaseHalf keeps what it knows about your cards, and makes that follow your files wherever they go.

• Connections live in your files. Connecting two cards saves the connection with the card it points to. For a note, that is inside the note itself, so agents and other tools that read the note see it too. For PDFs, folders, and other files, BaseHalf keeps the list for you. Connections from earlier versions move into your files after you confirm.
• Cards follow their files. A card keeps its description, its place, and its connections when its file or folder is renamed or moved outside BaseHalf, by you or by an agent, also while BaseHalf is closed. Many files renamed at once are followed together. A file that was also rewritten for the most part starts as a new card.
• No more questions after a move. When a file or folder is moved or renamed, BaseHalf updates the upstream lists that name it by itself.
• Every card keeps its place. The card of a new file goes after the last card, no other card moves, and BaseHalf never puts a card on top of another one. Card positions stay on your computer and out of git, so moving a card no longer shows up as a change there. Descriptions and connections are shared through git as before.
• AI Video is built in. It works from the first start with nothing to install. The Plugins library is gone, and the sidebar is Files, Git, and Search.
• Executable nodes on the main canvas. File, Image, Video, Audio, PDF, and Presentation nodes go from an editable Draft through Attempts to one sealed Result file. Model-service connections are set up once, and API keys stay in encrypted credential storage.
• Editing on the canvas. Markdown cards can be edited in place, with a formatting toolbar, and cards can be resized.
• Agents. BaseHalf can install a skill for Claude Code, Codex, and other agents, so that they know where a card's description and connections are. It asks first, and adds the skill to the agents' own settings, not to your folder. Agents can rename and move files with their ordinary tools.
• Fewer interruptions. When BaseHalf cannot read something it saved for a canvas or a card, it keeps working with what it can read and keeps a copy of the rest. It never asks you to open or fix a file.

Your Files

• BaseHalf removes the files that earlier versions kept for itself and no longer uses, and offers to remove the sections it added to CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
• If you keep your notes in git: the removed files show up as deletions, and BaseHalf no longer edits .gitignore. Card positions that an earlier version committed stay in git until you remove them there.

New Installs

Download the DMG, drag BaseHalf into Applications, then run this once before first launch:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/BaseHalf.app

The app is not Apple-notarized yet. The update payload is protected by BaseHalf's signed update manifest and archive verification.