Iliad MD 0.5.0

Iliad MD v0.5.0

Iliad MD v0.5.0 is a signed and notarized macOS release for Apple Silicon Macs. It is a calmer, lighter Iliad: a quieter window, clearer review of your agent's changes, and built-in AI that reads your whole document and writes the way you ask.

What's New

A calmer window

• The Mac's own font for the app, and lighter, warmer colors with neutral greys.
• No tab and no line under the top row. The sidebar toggle and Back/Forward sit next to the traffic lights; Back and Forward (⌘[ ⌘]) appear once there is somewhere to go.
• Hide the sidebar with ⌃⌘S: the page, and you. Hover the toggle or the left edge to peek at it; a quiet breadcrumb shows where you are.
• Files in the sidebar have no icons; folders have small chevrons. The current document is a soft highlight.
• Settings now lives at the bottom of the sidebar: General (language, version, updates), Typography and Writing, in one panel.
• With no document open, Iliad shows the documents you opened recently in this folder.
• ⌘N creates a new document.

Reviewing your agent's changes

• The controls for the open document sit in the top row: "N changes · ↑ ↓ · Keep all · Restore all". ↑ ↓ jump between changes.
• Suggested text reads like the rest of your document (quotes, bold, lists), on one continuous green block, with removed text lined up above it.
• "Keep all" and "Restore all" act only on the version you are looking at: if the file changed again in the meantime, Iliad refreshes the review instead.
• In the sidebar, one light row keeps or restores every changed document at once.
• Fixed: the review bar could sometimes disappear.

Built-in AI that knows your document

• Suggestions (⌘, ⌘. ⌘/) and the ✦ AI menu now read your whole document, not just the section you are in, so names, terms and the thread of your writing stay consistent. A small ✦ at the cursor shows the AI is working.
• Writing preferences: tell the AI how you write, once (Settings → Writing). They apply to suggestions and ✦ AI edits in every folder, and are never written into your documents.
• Untitled documents name themselves: new documents start empty, and once you've written a heading or a few sentences, Iliad names the file for you — the name types itself in the sidebar. Double-click any name to change it.

Your own keys

Click a shortcut in Settings → Writing and press the keys you want, like in VS Code. Keys Iliad already uses are refused, and a key another action uses can be swapped.

Privacy

With your writing preferences and whole-document context, built-in AI now sends the current document (trimmed for very long ones) and your preferences when you ask for a suggestion or a ✦ AI edit, and a short opening excerpt once to name an untitled document you created. In free mode this goes through Iliad's server, which keeps none of your text, to Groq (Zero Data Retention); with your own key it goes straight from your Mac to Groq. See the privacy page.