Brainwrite 2.0.16

Brainwrite 2.0.16 for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel). Windows is coming soon.

Important: bots now work at Full access by default

• New bots and new threads start at Full access, and so do existing bots and threads that never had an approval level saved (they used to be read as Ask). Levels you saved yourself are unchanged. A Chief at Full access applies new teammates, deletions and setups at once, without a card.
• At Full access, bots send emails, messages, posts, invites and payments through your connected apps without asking. To be asked first, choose Ask for approval for that bot or thread.

New

• Chat widgets: bots can show cards, pick-one lists, forms, tables, charts, and time and day pickers right in the chat; your choice becomes your next message.
• Delete many threads at once: choose Select threads under a bot's thread list, tick threads (with filters such as archived or older than a date) and delete them with one confirmation.
• Reply style: set a bot to Conversational in its Soul settings for short, plain replies.
• Chat width in Settings → Appearance: Standard, Wide or Full.
• Add to prompt: select text in a reply and press ⌘L to quote it in your next message.
• @you in group chats: a bot can mention you to get your attention, and you get a notification with the line.
• Notification feed (off by default, in Settings → Appearance): one panel with your bots' recent notifications and unread counts.
• Out of quota? When an engine runs out of quota or usage, a card offers other engines that can take over that conversation.
• Live call recap: open a finished Live call in the chat to see what you asked, the bot's answers and its steps.
• Record browser steps (in a bot's Access → Browser): numbered steps with screenshots, exportable from the conversation.
• Skills with reference files: a learned skill can carry reference notes, shown in full on its approval card.
• Command line for scripts: brainwritebot run, wait, events, export, team apply, connect and engine set.
• OpenRouter as a decision-model provider, with your own key.
• Always allow on My computer: on Brainwrite Cloud, when an engine such as Codex asks to use your lent computer, Always allow stops that bot asking in all your conversations with it, until you remove it in the bot's Access settings. Engines with their own session allowance, such as Claude, keep it for that session only.

Changed

• Live calls from the desktop app are free. Calling from your phone needs Brainwrite Cloud or an organization license. Calls still use your own OpenAI API key.
• Settings → AI accounts: one card per provider, one clear action per account; ChatGPT accounts can be renamed and removed, and Claude sign-in says when it worked.
• A simpler bot panel, with plain rows, Memory, Skills, Routines and Vault tabs, and three plain choices for where a bot works.
• Approvals take one line in the chat ("{bot} wants to …"), and the composer answers them.
• Plain words for tool steps in Simple mode: "Run a command", "Read a file", "Search the web".
• Archived threads stay archived when they get a reply, and a bot's unread dot ignores them.
• Pinned bots in the sidebar expand to list their threads.
• Groups show who is waiting: each queued member and whose turn it is.
• Connected apps: an account that was signed out shows Signed out with Reconnect.
• Team memory: notes survive a team rename, stale edits ask you to reload, and notes can be pinned and restored.
• Team Library: a team can bundle up to 60 skills, in files up to 2 MB.
• A bot's built-in browser closes after 10 minutes idle and keeps its saved sign-ins.
• A browser click or key that the page is slow to take now says so, instead of asking you to restart.
• The Jump to latest button is a small arrow and no longer covers the run card.

Fixed

• Answering several deletion or setup cards from one turn now applies each of them, and the Chief continues once with all your answers.
• Voice notes from Mac system voices and Chatterbox now appear in the chat.
• A bot whose team tools fail to start says so once and reconnects on the next message.
• Bots on Groq, Mistral, Cerebras and Meta no longer receive the conversation twice per turn.
• Changing a bot's default model from the signed-in web app works again.
• The View all buttons on the Apps page are named after their section.