Orchard 0.2.0

Orchard v0.2.0

Orchard is now at algonormative/orchard, renamed from orchard-workspace.

What's new

• Plugins and State. Workspaces have a plugin catalog. Core and Chat are required, Tasks is attached by default, and the optional State plugin adds durable progress markers. A marker's steps can be drawn as a diagram in the viewer.
• A new look. The workspace UI has been redesigned in a Tokyo postmodern brutalist style, with Lemon Chan on the home screen.
• Needs you. When an agent asks you to decide something, it appears above the viewer until you answer it, even after the conversation has scrolled far past it.
• Agents work more smoothly.
  • A native orchard agent command-line tool lets agents join, send, wait for alerts and acknowledge them.
  • Agents can now wait for new messages instead of polling.
  • Agents can hand a task back to open.
  • Their open tasks show beside them in the workspace.
• Repository status. Attached repositories show their branch and how many files have uncommitted changes.
• About Orchard. The menu bar has an About window with the version, a GitHub link, the third-party notices, and copyable build information.
• Fixes.
  • When you leave a conversation and return, it opens where you were reading.
  • Reply context and the connection status are kept when you visit Settings and come back.
  • Finder's hidden metadata files no longer get into workspace repositories.

Install and updates

Download Orchard-0.2.0-macos-arm64.zip, unzip it, drag Orchard.app to Applications, and open it. Orchard needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 13 or newer.

If you're on 0.1.x, download this release by hand once. Those versions look for updates under the old repository name, so their Check for Updates… reports an error instead of offering 0.2.0. From 0.2.0 on, Check for Updates works again.

Updates are manual: when a newer version is out, Check for Updates… in the menu bar opens its release page. Orchard never downloads or installs an update itself.