Grove 1.2.0

Grove 1.2.0

Grove 1.2.0 is a major redesign of the app—from how you start work to how you follow agents, review changes, and move between projects. A new sidebar, live dashboard, and redesigned conversation workspace bring your coding workflow into one place.

A new workspace

• Navigate projects, sessions, history, and terminals from one sidebar. Group sessions by activity or worktree, search past conversations, and collapse the sidebar when you need more room.
• Start conversations directly from the dashboard and follow active sessions in Activity. See what needs your attention, read completion summaries, and reply without losing your place.
• Browse files, inspect changes, manage branches and pull requests, and use a resizable worktree terminal alongside your conversation.

A better place to talk to agents

• A redesigned composer brings context, model selection, effort, and conversation controls together, with favorite models and a subtle focus glow in Grove Light and Grove Dark.
• Quote selected text into a reply, rewind a message into the composer to edit it, or fork a conversation to explore another direction.
• Accept a suggested next reply with Tab, keep drafts while navigating, and press Escape twice to stop an active agent with visible confirmation.
• Follow long conversations with compact history and a transcript minimap. Keep side conversations attached to their sessions using your signed-in provider.

Review and understand your changes

• Run Describe changes or Review changes on local edits or a pull request. Results live in dedicated conversations, stay available after restart, and show when their captured changes are out of date.
• Read saved descriptions and actionable review findings in native readers. Updating a pull request description remains an explicit action with an editable preview.
• Read plans inline, answer decisions in the existing composer, and approve a finalized revision for implementation.

More context, less friction

• See provider-aware context usage for Codex and Claude, including Claude's reported context breakdown.
• Check account-wide GitHub contribution activity from Home.
• Use a native file explorer and theme-aware file viewer, open HTML documents in a browser, and expand Mermaid diagrams for a closer look.
• Newly installed skills become available without restarting Grove, and provider or MCP connection failures are easier to find in the conversation.

This release also refines typography, spacing, icons, keyboard focus, motion, and feedback throughout the app, with improvements to long-conversation rendering, recovery, and local build times.