Kommandr 0.1.0

[0.1.0] - 2026-08-28

Highlights

• A new Docs tab: a file explorer for the project's docs/ folder — folders, drag to move, rename in place — with a seamless inline Markdown editor beside it, so the assistant can read and write the same documents.
• AI inside your documents: Summarize, and Edit with AI for the whole document or just the text you highlight — reviewed before anything is saved, with your choice of provider and model — plus "chat about these documents" for any selection of docs and folders.
• Every chat is now kept: conversations get a title automatically, live in a per-project Chats panel, and pick up where they left off — even after restarting the app or opening them from your phone.
• The Markdown editor is now a real inline editor — you edit the formatted text directly, like JIRA or Confluence — everywhere Kommandr edits Markdown.
• A Files drawer: browse the project folder, drag files in from Finder, preview PDFs, images, spreadsheets and documents, and drag a file into a chat to talk about it — and the phone gets the same Docs and Files screens, AI included.
• Projects can now be "General" — for coursework, a business, writing, research — which hides the developer tools, speaks plainly on the board (goals, tasks, ideas, problems), and briefs the assistant as a helper that works in your documents rather than a code repository.

New Features

• Chats are permanent: each conversation is saved with its messages, titled automatically after the first reply, and listed in the project's Chats panel (the speech-bubble button in any chat's header) with search, pin, rename, archive, and delete.
• Reopening a chat resumes it with its full context — the app rebuilds the conversation on demand, so a chat from last week keeps working after a restart.
• Search across chats finds conversations by title and by what was said in them; copy a chat as Markdown or save it into the project's docs.
• The phone's Chats list shows the same titled conversations and opens the exact chat you tap, not just the latest one on that surface.
• Docs tab on every project: a file explorer of the project's documents — nested folders that collapse and remember it, a "New doc" that adds a row you type the name into, folders from the "…" menu or a right-click, rename and delete in place, drag documents and folders between folders — plus search, inline editing with autosave, "Ask about this doc" to open a chat with the document attached, and a "Save as doc" button on any assistant reply. The phone gets a matching Docs screen with the same editor.
• Summarize and Edit with AI on every document: a quick synopsis you can copy or insert under the heading, and rewrites from a preset ("Fix spelling & grammar", "Make it concise", "Improve clarity", "Add structure") or your own instruction — shown for review with Keep / Discard before anything is saved. Pick the provider and model right in the bar (it starts on the provider's fast model, like Claude Haiku, so answers come back in seconds); ⌘Enter or "Ask in chat" turns what you typed into a question in a chat instead. Highlight any text and an "Edit with AI" button appears over it — the rewrite then applies to just that passage, formatting intact.
• Chat about several documents at once: ⌘-click, Shift-click, or the hover checkbox to select documents and folders, then Chat or Summarize — a new chat opens with every document attached (folders included). Those chats stay listed under "Chats about docs" in the sidebar so you can pick one up later.
• The phone has the same Docs: the folder tree, new documents and folders, rename, move and delete from each row's menu, a Select mode to chat about or summarize several documents, the "Chats about docs" list, and the editor with Summarize, Edit with AI (whole document or highlighted text, reviewed before saving) and Ask in chat.
• Files on the phone: browse the project folder, add photos and documents from your phone, preview images, PDFs, audio, video, spreadsheets, Markdown and text, rename, delete, and hand any file to a chat.
• Project knowledge (what the assistant remembers about the project) is now visible and editable from the Docs tab.
• Inline Markdown editing with headings, lists, task checkboxes, tables, links and code blocks, plus a "Markdown" toggle for editing the raw text when you need it — used for documents, issue descriptions, agent prompts, memory notes and CLAUDE.md.
• Files drawer (the Files button in a project's header): folder browsing with sizes and dates, drag files in from Finder or add them with a picker, previews for images, PDFs, audio, video, CSV, Markdown and text, reveal in Finder, rename, delete, and drag-a-file-into-chat to mention it.
• Choose a project's kind — Software or General — when adding it (Kommandr suggests one from the folder's contents) or later in Project settings. General projects open on their Docs tab, hide the dev server, code, terminal, git and GitHub tools, and label the board in everyday words; the planner and the task runner plan and produce documents instead of code.
• The workspace assistant's "create project" tool accepts the kind too, and infers it from the folder when omitted.

Fixes

• Chat history no longer depends on the browser's local storage, which Electron did not always save on quit — conversations are stored by the app itself.