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AI Workbench v1.9.0

What's Changed

Added

  • [ADD] Immediate boot screen — no more black screen at startup. Previously the terminal went black for 3–5 seconds between launch and the intro animation: ratatui::init() blanks the screen (alternate screen), and only afterwards ran the kitty-keyboard probe (up to ~2 s on unresponsive terminals) and App::new() synchronously before the first frame. The new ui::boot_screen module paints an instant frame right after terminal init — the "AI WORKBENCH" block wordmark in the intro's stabilized cyan style, version, and a status line ("probing terminal..." → "initializing panes...") — so startup shows immediate feedback and flows seamlessly into the intro animation. App::new duration is now logged to update.log for startup profiling.

Changed

  • [CHG] Startup dependency check moved off the critical path. DependencyReport::check() (~12–20 sequential subprocess spawns probing git/claude/opencode/pi/codex/lazygit and shells) ran synchronously — and, due to WizardState's eager Default, effectively twice on every launch (three times on first run). It now runs once on a background thread via the existing JobState pattern (check_async(), polled in the event loop); WizardState::default() no longer spawns any subprocesses, and only the first-run wizard performs a synchronous check when it actually opens. The Linux clipboard-helper warning banner is seeded when the background check completes.

Fixed

  • [FIX] Intro animation no longer starts before it is visible. IntroState's clock began mid-App::new(), so construction time silently consumed part of the ~4.5 s animation budget — the intro appeared to start partway through. App::run now re-anchors the clock (IntroState::restart()) right before the first frame, so the full glitch → sweep → stabilize sequence plays from the moment it becomes visible.

Downloads

Platform Architecture Download
Linux x64 ai-workbench-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Linux ARM64 ai-workbench-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
macOS Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) ai-workbench-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
macOS Intel ai-workbench-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
Windows x64 ai-workbench-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
Windows ARM64 ai-workbench-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

Installation

Homebrew (macOS / Linux):

brew install eqms/ai-workbench/ai-workbench

Unix (Linux/macOS):

# Download and extract
tar xzf ai-workbench-*.tar.gz
chmod +x ai-workbench
./ai-workbench

Windows:

# Extract zip and run
Expand-Archive ai-workbench-*.zip -DestinationPath .
.\ai-workbench.exe

Auto-Update

AI Workbench includes built-in auto-update functionality. Updates are checked automatically on startup.

See README for full documentation.

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