nus v0.0.2-preview.1

nus v0.0.2-preview.1

A terminal, browser and workspace in one application.

Channel: preview · Source: d4477bc66dc5cfe064d939a49d904af714892141

Changes

• A new Windows installer. One page instead of four: where nus installs (just for you, no admin, no restart) and what it adds to Windows: the nus command on PATH (on), nus listed as a browser in Default apps (off) and a desktop shortcut (off). Updates show the same page with your last choices on one line; untick one and it is taken back out. If nus is open, Setup asks once and closes it. Uninstall asks whether to keep your settings.
• Assistants in the sidebar (the Ledger). A tab running Claude, Codex or another assistant shows what it is doing under its title: working with its elapsed time and current tool, waiting with the question it is asking, or done with the files it changed. Claude's permission prompts can be answered from the sidebar (Allow, Deny, Always); the answer is the keystroke the assistant's own prompt takes, so the terminal and the sidebar stay in step. The top strip counts waiting and working assistants.
• nus hook. Assistants report through their own hook systems: nus hook install claude|codex adds nus's hooks beside the user's (a backup is kept; uninstall removes only nus's). Settings · Assistants · Connections offers the command for review. Programs that send desktop notifications (OSC 9, OSC 777) are shown as waiting with their words.
• One profile per channel. Rebuilt, redownloaded and moved copies share installs/<channel>/shared instead of starting over. The most recently used profile moves in on first launch when no nus holds it. A copy can keep its own profile (Settings · Updates · Profile). Welcome shows once per version.
• Home. Clicking a row opens that row (rows naming other tabs were missing while the frame drew, so clicks landed one row early). The nus wordmark is a latched button: press for home, press again or go back to return. The home line and the palette follow CURSOR's shape, color, blink and weight.
• Stopping processes. The ports board's stop button opens the row so its confirmation is visible; before, a stop that needed confirming did nothing.
• Back and forward. The swipe overlay has styles (arrow, arrow and words, edge band, none) and distances, shows where a swipe goes or that it goes nowhere, and one swipe no longer fires twice.
• Panes and windows. Layout changes go through one director with undo and redo; pane mode (Ctrl+Alt+P) and drop zones move and swap panes; tabs move between windows with their shells and pages intact.
• Shell colors from the theme's signal family, in OKLCH, by random choice or by folder.
• Finish Work. The coffee in the header keeps the machine awake until work you started finishes, then gives power management back.
• Interstitials. Error, warning and interruption pages read as a shell transcript, with the safe command as the default.
• Intelligence. One level, Instant to Max, for assistant launches, shown as an atom in Settings · Assistants.

Candidate review notes, compatibility and known limitations

Downloads

Package	Signing
linux-x86_64	checksum
macos-arm64	ad-hoc
windows-x86_64 (installer and portable ZIP)	authenticode

Extract the complete package before launching. macOS: move nus.app to Applications. Windows: run the -setup.exe installer, or extract the portable ZIP and launch nus.exe. Linux: run ./nus; see README.txt for desktop integration and runtime dependencies.

Preview builds are for early testing. Unsigned Windows previews can show a SmartScreen warning; ad-hoc Mac previews are not notarized. Use the signing column above for this release’s exact status.

Verify the archive against SHA256SUMS.txt. Release metadata and hashes are also in release.json.

Downloads and installation: https://cbassuarez.com/nus.dev/download/
Changes: https://github.com/cbassuarez/nus/commits/d4477bc66dc5cfe064d939a49d904af714892141