OuterSpace 0.1.4

Choose how big things look on the virtual display.

Install or update: run OuterSpace-setup.exe. It installs for your user only, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OuterSpace, without administrator rights, and updates an existing install in place. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway.

New

• Scale: next to the resolution, pick the virtual display's scale (100%, 125%, …) from the ones Windows allows at that resolution. A scale that suits a 1080p screen makes everything too big at 720p; now each can have its own. Your choice is remembered and comes back when you change the resolution or turn the display on again. If it doesn't fit a smaller resolution, the largest allowed scale below it is used.
• The status tool now tells agents the display's scale.

SHA-256 of OuterSpace-setup.exe: cd400c3929f7e7625716af46c2c30ff52f6a910cd36d96a620aa97bfa2bfcfb4

OuterSpace 0.1.3

Agents' apps no longer get knocked over by OuterSpace guarding your focus.

Install or update: run OuterSpace-setup.exe. It installs for your user only, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OuterSpace, without administrator rights, and updates an existing install in place. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway.

Fixed

• Apps crashing on the virtual display (Blender with Vulkan). When an agent's window took the foreground and Windows refused to hand it back to you, OuterSpace minimized and restored that window as a fallback, and kept doing it ten times a second for as long as the window stayed in front. An app still starting up, like Blender setting up Vulkan, could crash. Now OuterSpace tries once per focus steal, and never minimizes a window in its first 5 seconds.
• Clicking an agent's window in the taskbar works. Switching to it from the taskbar, Alt+Tab or Start is your choice, and the window now stays in front instead of being fought over.
• OuterSpace no longer mistakes the taskbar or other parts of the shell for the window you were using.

SHA-256 of OuterSpace-setup.exe: d343ed6f8e1f62a1e0935bdea15f2a3a39bba9f1d8c2ba55681acb6783dd246c

OuterSpace 0.1.2

Your windows always find their way back to you.

Install or update: run OuterSpace-setup.exe. It installs for your user only, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OuterSpace, without administrator rights, and updates an existing install in place. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway. After updating, reconnect OuterSpace in the agents you have open (in Claude Code: /mcp → outerspace → Reconnect).

New

• Take a window back: the OuterSpace window now shows the icons of the windows on the virtual display. Click one and it moves to the middle of your main screen, in front.
• return_window: a new tool that lets agents give a window back to your main screen, without taking your focus.
• launch warns about borrowed windows: apps such as Notepad, Windows Terminal and browsers hand a launch over to the copy that's already running. The window may then be one of yours, with your tabs or documents. launch now marks it with handed_off: true and tells the agent to check it and give it back.

Fixed

• When OuterSpace crashes, the reason is now kept in logs\stderr.log in the data folder, so the problem can be traced. Panics are also written to the main log.

SHA-256 of OuterSpace-setup.exe: fc695759838c91cbce6907803b54936901a9be609ff7fe0ff90f04a641431619

OuterSpace 0.1.1

Agents stay connected, you can watch the virtual display live, and pick its resolution.

Install or update: run OuterSpace-setup.exe. It installs for your user only, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OuterSpace, without administrator rights, and updates an existing install in place. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway. After updating, reconnect OuterSpace in the agents you have open (in Claude Code: /mcp → outerspace → Reconnect).

Fixed

• Agents no longer fail with HTTP 404: Session not found. OuterSpace ends an MCP session after 5 idle minutes and forgets them all when it restarts; outerspace-mcp.exe now opens a new session by itself and retries, so the agent never notices.
• OuterSpace no longer hangs when Parsec's driver crashes. Every call to the driver has a deadline, resolution changes are spaced out, and a new Restart driver button brings it back (one administrator prompt).
• The mouse fence now also stops Windows 11's "Ease cursor movement between displays" from carrying your cursor onto the virtual display.

New

• Peek: a window that shows the virtual display live, just to look. Open it from the tray menu or the Peek link while the display is on. Nothing is captured while it's closed or minimized.
• Resolution: choose among 13 modes, from 1280×720 to 3840×2160 at 60 Hz (16:9, 16:10 and 21:9). It applies right away when the display is on and is remembered.

SHA-256 of OuterSpace-setup.exe: 0804627f211eaf35be31861fa0ee515c07c143f26e7961745165f01147e72afb

OuterSpace 0.1.0

The first release of OuterSpace: a virtual display for AI agents on Windows 11. Agents open apps, look, click and type there over MCP, while you keep your screen, mouse and keyboard.

Install: run OuterSpace-setup.exe. It installs for your user only, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OuterSpace, without administrator rights. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn — choose More info → Run anyway.

First run: flip the switch. The first time, OuterSpace installs Parsec's signed virtual display driver (one permission prompt). Then click Add next to Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode.

In this version

• Virtual 1920×1080 display that turns on in ~0.3 s and off in ~1.8 s
• 10 MCP tools: status, launch, list_windows, screenshot, click, type_text, press_keys, scroll, move_window, close_window
• Input without touching your cursor or focus, with a short "borrow" fallback that waits for you to pause
• outerspace-mcp.exe stdio bridge that starts OuterSpace when needed
• About 0.04% CPU and 40 MB of memory with the display on

SHA-256 of OuterSpace-setup.exe: c0510c5dad277cc24b38dd52dcc00bd0966a4c2b18001b8e4c8df968d8460842