Threadlines v0.3.4

Highlights

This release makes agent activity less noisy, recovers threads when their checkout folder is deleted, improves right-panel and sidebar behavior, and adds a cross-machine usage dashboard.

• Subagent work moves out of the chat and into the Agents panel — Subagent streaming no longer floods the inline chat. Running agents appear in the right-side Agents rail with live status and per-agent file-change counts, promoted background runs show as agents, and agent rows persist across reconnects so transcripts and stop controls stay available.
• Prevent leaked subagent output and settle orphaned agent rows — Subagent output no longer leaks into the main chat and rows that outlive their provider process are settled as interrupted when a session restarts, so long-running or crashed providers no longer leave forever-running rows.
• Recover deleted checkouts and avoid broken threads — If a thread's checkout folder is removed, Threadlines detects the missing worktree before starting work, records the issue, and offers to move the thread to the project root or recreate the worktree; drafts no longer inherit missing paths and the UI shows recovery actions when relevant.
• Cross-machine usage and clearer charts — Usage now aggregates provider transcripts from every connected machine into one price-equivalent dashboard, with a daily chart that aligns hover tracking to days and supports touch scrubbing, plus a sidebar meter for today's total.

Also improved

• Drag to reorder right-panel tabs and preserve per-thread panel state, so the right rail reflects the order you set and remembers which tab was open per thread.
• Pinned threads now keep their place in the live list and are not auto-filed under Done, so items you pin stay immediately reachable.
• Safer desktop startup and backend checks: the app refuses duplicate instances and re-verifies backend ports on restart to avoid attaching to unrelated or stale servers.
• Warn before quitting when sessions are active, so accidental quits are prevented when work is running.
• Pending user input requests expire when a turn is interrupted, preventing stray prompts from blocking the conversation after an interruption.
• Plugin and extension calls respect the selected machine scope, and the project picker shows projects across machines, so installs target the machine you picked.

Complete technical changes

What's Changed

• Surface unsent drafts in the sidebar by @badcuban in #131
• Stop stale async flows from closing a palette they do not own by @badcuban in #133
• Apply queued checkout switches on idle and announce them at pick time by @badcuban in #135
• Bump voidzero-dev/setup-vp from 1.15.0 to 1.17.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #136
• Bump the development-dependencies group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #138
• Bump the production-dependencies group across 1 directory with 8 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #137
• Usage: cross-machine token and cost dashboard by @badcuban in #134
• Write release copy for users, not developers by @badcuban in #139
• Line the usage chart hover up with the day it describes by @badcuban in #140
• Ship a Docker self-host image by @badcuban in #141
• Publish the self-host Docker image on stable releases by @badcuban in #142
• Label the Docker image with its source repository by @badcuban in #143
• Bring the README and origins doc up to the product's present by @badcuban in #144
• Tell the README about onboarding, phone access, and the usage dashboard by @badcuban in #145
• Add Claude local usage heatmap by @badcuban in #147
• Stabilize Windows terminal and pull request sidebar indicators by @badcuban in #148
• Improve loading skeletons and preserve active turn status by @badcuban in #149
• Add the agents panel: the turn's subagents and runs as a thread rail by @badcuban in #146
• Retry transient Electron release downloads by @badcuban in #150
• Run staged install before Electron packaging by @badcuban in #151
• Preserve native subagent model omissions by @badcuban in #155
• Refuse duplicate desktop instances and re-verify backend ports on restart by @badcuban in #152
• Polish panel tabs and release mentions by @badcuban in #154
• Add safe source control tool updates by @badcuban in #153
• Add verified cross-platform source control tool maintenance by @badcuban in #156
• Keep the turn activity tracker steady while subagents run by @badcuban in #157
• Promote background codex exec runs into subagent rows by @badcuban in #158
• Multi-machine project UX: remote assets, logical pickers, machine filter, unified selection styling by @badcuban in #159
• Recover threads whose checkout folder was deleted by @badcuban in #161
• Keep a subagent's work out of the inline feed and surface the Agents tab by @badcuban in #160
• Harden the subagent roster fold and close review gaps from #160 by @badcuban in #162
• Keep background commands out of the Agents tab entirely by @badcuban in #163
• Bump the development-dependencies group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #165
• chore(deps): bump provider SDKs and app dependencies to latest by @badcuban in #166

Direct changes

• 75e87245 Prevent subagent output leaking into chat
• e8dab201 Prevent blank space below active chats
• 5e9dd2a0 Live chat activity stays steady while a turn runs
• 0cd2ef2a Settle subagents when parent turn stops
• 3cb67185 Warn before quitting active sessions
• ade23d08 Terminal running icon survives commands started in a booting shell
• 67f056be Settle orphaned subagent rows when a provider session restarts
• bc630a59 Show live +/- line counts for subagent work
• 0d605e83 Plugins tab scopes to any connected machine
• 70301134 Pinned threads keep their place in the live list
• fa390b3a Drag to reorder the right sidebar tabs
• b4118414 Clarify turn scope in AGENTS.md
• e8d1f7a9 Expand AGENTS.md with Threadlines development guidance
• e8767222 Refresh Claude OAuth credentials and stream live edit stats
• 3bb82165 Improve right panel tabs and last-used model selection
• 210b9e20 Prevent desktop from attaching to unrelated servers
• 964299f0 Expire pending user input on turn interrupt
• 7ad21981 Keep Settings visible while returning from Usage
• 8054599a Cache repository tests and browser task runs
• e88b439e Improve web navigation and thread wrap-up state handling
• f658a57f Persist subagent state for agent activity panels
• 8ed97c61 Persist subagent state and improve agent activity panels
• 52c0f183 Move thread activity controls into the chat header
• bf09a209 Prefer local plugin catalogs over remote mirrors
• 33a55c32 Add shared desktop titlebars and improve usage chart interactions
• 2c9fd797 Remember source control state and collapse long Done lists
• 12172ee7 Make the project scope picker read as an input
• 65473f09 Show waiting state and elapsed time for background tasks

Full Changelog: v0.3.3...v0.3.4