IndieGent 2.6.1
IndieGent 2.6.1
A quieter sidebar, two new settings, and a button that stopped pretending. 2.6.1 is a polish release: the sidebar loses the chrome it didn't need, IndieGent can open itself when you log in, full-auto sessions can run under Claude Code's Auto Mode instead of skipping permission checks, and "Draft them all" now does what it says.
The sidebar runs the full height of the window (#140)
The console now uses a full-height sidebar, like Finder and Mail: the divider between the rail and the stage runs from the very top edge of the window to the bottom, instead of stopping below an undivided title strip. The window title has gone with it — "IndieGent" was already right there in the sidebar header, so the titlebar was saying it twice.
Scrollbars stay out of the way (#138)
The projects list in the sidebar no longer sits behind a permanently visible scrollbar. Console scroll surfaces now genuinely use macOS overlay scrollers — the knob appears while you scroll and fades out afterwards — instead of falling back to the always-on kind, which is what any Mac with a mouse plugged in was getting. The list also gets back the few points of width the old permanent gutter was taking.
The Suggested row hides itself when there's nothing to decide (#137)
An empty Suggested queue is the ordinary state — scheduled runs propose at most three ideas each and dismissals are permanent — so the row was mostly a label with a blank badge, plus a band of empty space above PROJECTS. It now appears the moment a suggestion arrives and steps aside when the queue is clear. If you are looking at the Suggested screen, the row stays put until you leave it.
Launch at login (#143)
Settings has a Launch at login switch — off unless you turn it on. With it on, IndieGent opens when you log in, so scheduled runs fire and sessions are watched without you starting it first.
The switch reads the Mac rather than remembering its own answer, so it always agrees with System Settings › General › Login Items: change it there and the switch follows the moment you come back to IndieGent. If macOS is holding the login item pending your approval, the card says so and takes you straight to that pane.
Auto Mode for sessions that open in a terminal (#141)
Settings has a new Session permissions choice. A full-auto session can now launch into Claude Code's Auto Mode — a classifier reviews every action, waves through the safe ones and asks you about anything destructive — instead of skipping permission checks entirely.
It starts on Skip all permissions, which is exactly what sessions have always done, so nothing changes until you pick the other one. Sessions already running keep the mode they started with.
Background runs are the deliberate exception: they always skip every prompt, whichever option you choose. There is no terminal for Auto Mode to ask in, so a background run would sit on the question until it timed out.
"Draft them all" looks at GitHub again (#142)
Drafting a project summary from its README now re-reads the README at the moment you click, instead of trusting what the app decided earlier in the session. If three projects had no README when IndieGent last looked — and then your sessions merged one into each — "Draft them all" used to do nothing at all until you restarted the app. It now drafts them.
If a repo genuinely has no README, it says so and names the branch it checked ("No README found on pb-cutover"), rather than leaving you clicking a button that seems dead. And when a session ships work to a project, IndieGent stops believing that project has no README — sessions are how READMEs usually turn up.