Vodou v0.6.26 Alpha
Ask for something complicated and Vodou now shows you the plan before it runs — the actual steps, what happens in parallel, and where it will need to stop and ask you a question. You can run it once, edit it, save it as a skill, or schedule it. And when a plan turns out to be a wrong guess about what you meant, there is a button that throws it away and just answers you.
Plans you can see before they run
Type a sentence — "research three competitors and put the summary in a doc" — and you get a plan card: the steps in order, the ones that run together, and the points where it will pause. Nothing executes until you say so.
- Runs can stop and ask. A plan pauses on a real question — an approval, a choice, a missing detail — and waits instead of guessing. The question follows you: the console, the browser panel, or a chat channel. Answering it resumes the run.
- "Just answer it" — the way out when the plan misread you.
- A finished run leaves a trace you can search. Phases of one job group into a single run rather than four, and the Skill Console now shows each skill's own run history.
- [Save + schedule] turns a plan you liked into a skill that runs on its own.
Also in this release
- Memory and the brain are one thing. The memory graph moved into the console as a single Memory section — one process, one place, instead of a second window on another port.
- The browser panel can save the page you are looking at, through the same form and endpoint as everything else — and it now says honestly whether the brain link is connected, rather than reporting "no" when it means "don't know".
- One rules file per AI host, from one source. The file each coding agent reads — Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, Codex — is generated from a single manual, with a guard that stops them drifting apart.
- The browser page tools ship. The Bridge extension's page tools are now a bundled server, so skills and the brain can read and act on the page you are on. It was built during this cycle and, until now, was in no release anyone could install.
Fixed
- A background job that finishes after the reply now reports back. When Vodou said "I'll report the exit code when it lands", nothing was left running to do it. Long jobs now post their result into the conversation themselves — and Vodou no longer promises a follow-up it cannot keep.
- A plan sent to a chat channel arrived twice, and the second copy was wrong. A reply meant for an approval gate could reach the model as if it were a new question.
- One failed branch of a parallel step no longer erases its siblings' results. A step that cannot start fails on its own instead of taking the run down with it.
- A declined approval no longer leaves the run marked "running" forever.
- Scheduled skills say where their output went — a run delivered to the console used to report "delivered nowhere".
- An expired login says it is expired. A credential that could not be renewed reported itself healthy.
- Memory searches stopped sending a whole document where a query belongs — about fifteen places did.
- The context a turn used survives a reload, with a per-turn budget that names what it dropped instead of dropping it silently.
- Two Vodou sessions editing the same files now warn each other.
Install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VodouAI/OS/main/install-vodou.sh | bash
Windows: irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VodouAI/OS/main/install-vodou.ps1 | iex
Engine binaries: https://github.com/VodouAI/vodou-core/releases/tag/v0.6.26
Full changelog: https://github.com/VodouAI/OS/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Known issues
- The Windows build is unsigned — SmartScreen will warn — and is download-only: Windows installs do not auto-update.
- The browser extension updates on the Chrome Web Store's schedule, not this release's.
Alpha.