Tethered 1.2.1

Release Change Log:

1.2.1

• AI task sessions: Connect local AI tools to Tethered through a bundled MCP integration and activate saved task profiles while they work.
• Integration setup: Added setup links, configuration copying, and integration exports for Codex, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, LM Studio, and other compatible clients.
• Task profiles: Configure temporary power modes, keep-awake behavior, and finite or unlimited task durations.
• Caffeinate integration: Use saved Caffeinate presets during tasks, including their individual assertion durations.
• Background activity controls: Deprioritize selected apps or other background apps, or temporarily suspend eligible apps—including apps above a configurable memory threshold.
• Task exceptions: Protect selected applications, the frontmost app, and the AI client’s process tree from background activity policies.
• Session recovery: Added restoration of temporary process changes when sessions end, expire, or lose their client, plus recovery of abandoned sessions on launch.
• Task safeguards: Configure warnings for repeated failures, repeated calls or output, matching phrases, inactivity, lack of reported progress, excessive runtime, and sustained memory pressure.
• Safeguard actions: Notify the user or request that a cooperating AI client pause or cancel its work.
• Task monitoring: Added session status, memory-pressure reporting, safeguard warnings, and controls to acknowledge warnings or clear sessions.
• Manual cache purge: Added a separate disk-cache purge action requiring confirmation and administrator authorization.
• Companion messages: Replaced message-file hooks with optional task-session event messages through Companion.
• Menu colors: Customize the master toggle, slider accents, individual slider icons, and power-mode and Top Up buttons.
• Menu images: Add transparent PNG backgrounds and custom control images, with individual opacity controls. Custom images replace the corresponding default artwork and color fills.
• Image optimization: Imported PNGs are compressed and resized to suit their destination while preserving transparency.
• Appearance editor: Added compact controls and a full-height menu preview with three sample energy-impact rows, plus Done, Cancel, Reset, and Default actions.
• Appearance persistence: Include menu customization in settings profiles, shared profile transfers, and cloud backups.
• macOS Tahoe controls: Adopt native pickers that size to their selected text, improve control alignment, and center the log date picker. Earlier macOS versions retain the legacy picker styling.
• Profile sharing: Improved submission previews with captures of the saved profile’s settings, shortcuts, menu appearance, and device identity, without applying that profile to the live app.
• Profile management: Include task profiles in backups and transfers, add clearer import choices and summaries, and apply alert-helper changes without requiring an app restart.
• Settings search: Expanded coverage and fixed navigation to matching settings, including a crash involving shared search destinations.
• Power and charging reliability: Consolidated charging-policy decisions, refreshed High Power support detection on launch, and added brightness readback with a retry when an adjustment leaves brightness unchanged.
• Confirmation alerts: Power-mode confirmation alerts now originate from keyboard shortcuts.
• Account and Raycast improvements: Improved account-photo synchronization and retries, Raycast error reporting, and refresh actions for empty lists.
• Installer compatibility: Explicitly declared Apple silicon and Intel support in the package installer.
• Localization: Expanded and updated translations across all 11 supported translated languages for task sessions, safeguards, profile sharing, and menu customization.
• Interface refinements: Improved task-editor layout, multiline fields, picker hover behavior, control spacing, and slider presentation; copyright years now update automatically.

Sparkle.zip files are used by Tethered’s built-in updater; they are not needed for a manual installation.

Local MCP installation

tethered-0.2.6.mcpb is the current optional local MCP client bundle (metadata and documentation update). It requires Tethered 1.2.0 or later installed and running on the same Mac, Task sessions enabled, and Pro access. It does not install or host the Tethered app. Client plugin installation instructions.

Use saved task profiles during local builds, tests, or data-processing jobs to request a power mode, keep the Mac awake, and deprioritize or suspend eligible background apps. Process actions can activate throughout the task or at warning/critical memory pressure. Ending or expiring the session releases its temporary controls and resumes apps Tethered suspended. Users configure profiles and exceptions in Tethered.