Locust 0.837.0

Released October 27, 2026.

New

• Write from your phone while your computer is off. Paired from anywhere, your phone keeps the conversations it last saw and still shows them with your computer off, saying when it last saw them. A message you write then waits, sealed on Locust's relay so the relay cannot read it, for up to a week, and Locust sends it as your next message when your computer is back. Take back takes it off the relay, and twenty can wait at once. One written more than twelve hours before Locust is back, or whose conversation is gone, is not sent by itself: your phone shows it with Send now, Copy or Discard.
• What needs you reaches Discord, Slack or Telegram. Once a chat app is paired, turn on Tell me here when something needs me in its Settings. While you are away from the window, a card waiting on you, from any conversation, comes there with Allow once and Deny, and so do Scout's urgent finds and a teammate that hits its limit, by the same rules as your phone's alerts: merged, a few a day, and held in quiet hours. Always stays in Locust. Each card says what it asks to do and the first line of its file or command. The app's servers can read that, with anything shaped like a key taken out.
• Claude Code can ask before each action. Approve each action now runs on Claude Code teammates too: every file change, command and connector call waits on a card for Allow once, Always or Deny before it runs, as it already did on Codex, OpenCode and Copilot.
• Council review: three AIs check one change. Routines > Start from a template > Council review hands the changes in your folder not yet committed to three teammates, each proposed on a different AI where your team has one: the first reviews, the second reviews too and agrees or disagrees with each finding, and the third settles them, keeping what at least two would stand behind, and approves only if nothing must change. It changes no file. Who takes each step shows in the editor before you save it. After tstack's council.

Improved

• The message box is one row. As in Claude Code: the + left of where you type, and voice typing, Talk and send right of it. One line is half the height it was. A longer message still grows the box, and the buttons stay on its last line.

Fixed

• Codex's commands read as they run on Windows. An approval card and the Board showed the program's path with every backslash doubled. They now show it the way the shell gets it, and the rest of the command exactly as Codex sent it.
• A long command wraps at its spaces. On an approval card and the Board, a command too long for one line could break between a flag's dash and its name, so -Command read as - and Command. A flag now stays whole, and the command copies exactly as sent.

Download

Your computer	File
Windows 10 or 11	Locust-0.837.0-setup.exe
Ubuntu, Debian or Mint	Locust-0.837.0-linux-amd64.deb
Fedora or openSUSE	Locust-0.837.0-linux-x86_64.rpm
Any other Linux	Locust-0.837.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Or download it at locust.lol. After that, Locust tells you when a new version is out, and on Windows, Mac and the AppImage it installs it for you. The Windows and Mac builds are not signed by a publisher yet, so each asks once before it opens: what to press.

The SHA-256 sum of every file is in SHA256SUMS.txt.

There is no Mac build of 0.837.0: GitHub had no Mac build machine free for it. On a Mac, Locust stays on 0.836.0 and offers the next version that has one.

Full changelog: 0.836.0...0.837.0