Botloft 0.10.0

What's new

Desktop Use (Windows). Bots can now see and use the apps open on your computer, only as far as you allow.

• App by app, or the whole desktop. The first time a bot needs an app, it asks in the chat: first to see it, then to use it. Only you can give the whole desktop, in the bot's details, after a screen that spells out the risks.
• Accessibility first. Bots read windows and click, type, choose and scroll through Windows accessibility, without touching your mouse. The real mouse and keyboard are a switch you turn on per app. Move the mouse or press a key and the bot stops at once, and Ctrl+Alt+Esc stops every bot.
• You see it happen. A Desktop panel beside the chat opens by itself with the window the bot is using, live. On your screen, the window gets a ring in the bot's color, and the bot's own cursor glides to what it clicks.
• While you are away. Let a bot keep working in an app when you are not at the computer, after accepting the risks. When you are back, Botloft tells you which apps it used.
• Never shared: Botloft itself, apps running as administrator, terminals and command boxes, the Task Manager, password managers and password fields.

Bots ask you. A bot can ask you a question and wait for your answer, also from a routine at night. Questions show in the chat and in a question box.

Search across every chat.

Routines can wait for a signal from another bot, and bots can change or delete their own routines with your OK.

The bot's browser

• Sign in to a site in a real browser window, for sites that refuse automated ones.
• Teach a bot a task by doing it once in its browser.
• Open a bot's closed browser for yourself, on the page it showed last, without waking the bot.
• A sharper, quicker live page that fills the panel.

The bot's computer. Its browser, terminal, files and desktop sit in one dock beside the chat, and an icon rail leads to the app's places.

Chat

• Reply to a message, or react to one without waking the bot.
• A run's tool calls fold into one line, and a routine's message shows by its name.
• Bots named in a message are colored, and memory updates show.

Mascots sleep when their bot is idle, wake, pop in, look at each other and cheer when a bot finishes.

Fixed: an answer given the very moment a request appears always reaches the bot.

Already on 0.9? Botloft offers this update by itself.

Verify your download

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Every file was built by GitHub Actions from this repository, which attested where it comes from. To check a download with the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify Botloft_0.10.0_x64-setup.exe --repo httpsphl/botloft

How releases are made, and what Botloft changes on your computer: Code signing policy.

Linux and macOS (preview)

New in this release and not tried on many computers yet: please open an issue for anything that does not work.

• Linux: the .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, or the .AppImage for any other distribution (make it executable first).
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Apple has not notarized the app yet. Open the .dmg, drag Botloft to Applications and open it once; then allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

What's Changed

• feat: questions from bots to the owner by @httpsphl in #133
• feat: search the chats by @httpsphl in #134
• feat: signals between bots start routines by @httpsphl in #135
• feat(app): color and corner tokens that read in both themes by @httpsphl in #136
• feat(app): shared card, badge, tone and empty-state pieces by @httpsphl in #137
• feat(browser): show sites a common Edge by @httpsphl in #138
• feat(browser): sign in in a real window by @httpsphl in #139
• feat(browser): point the owner to the window when a sign-in fails by @httpsphl in #140
• perf(app): smoother panel, list and dialog motion by @httpsphl in #142
• feat(bots): hide the idle state, fade the badge in by @httpsphl in #141
• feat(chat): fold tool calls, routine messages and color mentions by @httpsphl in #143
• fix(app): rise a new pane in without a view transition by @httpsphl in #144
• feat(app): mascot cheers when its bot finishes by @httpsphl in #145
• feat(app): mascot reel page and a recorder for videos by @httpsphl in #146
• feat(app): mascots wake, pop in and look at each other by @httpsphl in #147
• fix(app): show conversation previews without Markdown marks by @httpsphl in #148
• feat(chat): show when a bot updates its memory by @httpsphl in #149
• feat(browser): set the live screen on the bot's color, with a control pill by @httpsphl in #150
• feat(routines): a page with every routine, coming up first by @httpsphl in #151
• feat(messages): show bots calling each other, live by @httpsphl in #152
• feat(chat): reply to something in a bot's chat by @httpsphl in #153
• feat(chat): react to a bot's reply without waking it by @httpsphl in #154
• feat(app): an icon rail for the app's places by @httpsphl in #155
• feat(app): the bot's terminal and the dock of its computer by @httpsphl in #156
• feat(crews): the work folder as an icon in the crew header by @httpsphl in #157
• feat(browser): teach a bot a task by doing it once by @httpsphl in #159
• feat(crews): a right-click menu on each crew in the list by @httpsphl in #158
• fix(app): smooth switching in the bot's computer, and a page you can see by @httpsphl in #160
• perf(app): mascots stand still while another app has the focus by @httpsphl in #162
• perf(app): the mascots' eyes move in moments, not forever by @httpsphl in #163
• feat(routines): bots change and delete their own routines, with the owner's ok by @httpsphl in #161
• test(browser): give real-browser tests time on busy CI runners by @httpsphl in #164
• feat(app): idle bots sleep, and only a working flame moves on and on by @httpsphl in #165
• fix(app): the bot's page fills the desk, and the notes under it fold by @httpsphl in #166
• feat(browser): the owner sees the page as sharp as their screen, and quicker in their hands by @httpsphl in #167
• docs(desktop): design bots seeing and using the owner's desktop by @httpsphl in #168
• feat(desktop): find the owner's windows, what is never granted, and a picture of one by @httpsphl in #169
• feat(desktop): read a window through its accessibility tree by @httpsphl in #170
• feat(app): the desktop request card and what each bot may see, in its details by @httpsphl in #172
• feat(desktop): bots list, read and picture the owner's windows, app by app as the owner allows by @httpsphl in #171
• chore(license): relicense under FSL-1.1-ALv2 by @httpsphl in #173
• feat(desktop): bots click, type, choose and scroll in the owner's apps, through accessibility by @httpsphl in #174
• feat(desktop): what each bot does on the desktop, live, and stopping it by @httpsphl in #175
• feat(app): the desktop panel, live, with Stop by @httpsphl in #176
• feat(desktop): the real mouse and keyboard, stopping when the owner moves by @httpsphl in #177
• fix(desktop): stop every bot with Ctrl+Alt+Esc, which every keyboard has by @httpsphl in #179
• feat(desktop): the owner turns on the real mouse and keyboard, and sees on screen when a bot has them by @httpsphl in #180
• feat(desktop): keys, clicks at a point and what accessibility cannot do, with the owner's real hands by @httpsphl in ht...

Botloft 0.9.1

What's new

• Any color for a bot. The palette in the bot window now has 16 colors, and "Pick any color" opens a full picker: a saturation and brightness square, a hue slider, and the color as hex or red, green and blue.
• Try again works after a failed update. If the update installer did not start (the Windows prompt declined, or an antivirus blocked it), the window and the tray icon come back and Try again installs the update.

Already on 0.9.0? Botloft offers this update by itself.

Verify your download

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Every file was built by GitHub Actions from this repository, which attested where it comes from. To check a download with the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify Botloft_0.9.1_x64-setup.exe --repo httpsphl/botloft

How releases are made, and what Botloft changes on your computer: Code signing policy.

Linux and macOS (preview)

New in this release and not tried on many computers yet: please open an issue for anything that does not work.

• Linux: the .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, or the .AppImage for any other distribution (make it executable first).
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Apple has not notarized the app yet. Open the .dmg, drag Botloft to Applications and open it once; then allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

What's Changed

• fix(app): retry an update whose installer did not start by @httpsphl in #130
• feat(app): pick any bot color by @httpsphl in #131
• chore: release 0.9.1 by @httpsphl in #132

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1

Botloft 0.9.0

Verify your download

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Botloft_0.9.0_x64-setup.exe	f79d691aaa7c592069a16a1b32b5640546d4b98331b5838697a742f046c511e7
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Every file was built by GitHub Actions from this repository, which attested where it comes from. To check a download with the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify Botloft_0.9.0_x64-setup.exe --repo httpsphl/botloft

How releases are made, and what Botloft changes on your computer: Code signing policy.

Linux and macOS (preview)

New in this release and not tried on many computers yet: please open an issue for anything that does not work.

• Linux: the .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, or the .AppImage for any other distribution (make it executable first).
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Apple has not notarized the app yet. Open the .dmg, drag Botloft to Applications and open it once; then allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

What's Changed

• docs: Botloft on Linux and macOS by @httpsphl in #102
• feat: keep the computer awake on Linux and macOS by @httpsphl in #103
• feat(release): removing the .deb stops the background service by @httpsphl in #104
• fix(browser): keep the spaces of words built one element per letter by @httpsphl in #105
• feat(app): idle mascots move again in the sidebar and crew cards by @httpsphl in #106
• feat: a bot that replied stays marked unread in the sidebar by @httpsphl in #107
• test(rpc): wait for the request to be read in race() by @httpsphl in #108
• fix(daemon): wait for a busy store off the runtime threads by @httpsphl in #111
• feat(files): a color and an icon per kind of file by @httpsphl in #112
• feat(app): mark a bot unread, count unread bots per crew, mark the icon by @httpsphl in #109
• feat: "Allow always" on a bot's requests, with the rules in its details by @httpsphl in #110
• fix(app): a reloaded page replaces its tray icon instead of adding one by @httpsphl in #113
• docs: contributing guide, security policy and issue and PR templates by @httpsphl in #114
• chore(design): sync Botloft's interface to claude.ai/design by @httpsphl in #119
• chore(design): app screens in the design system: sidebar, crew, chat, requests by @httpsphl in #120
• docs(readme): keeping the computer awake works on every system by @httpsphl in #122
• feat(crews): fold crews in the sidebar and a page of all crews by @httpsphl in #121
• chore(design): the live browser in the design system; the sidebar runs full height by @httpsphl in #123
• chore(design): routines in the design system by @httpsphl in #124
• fix(runtime): run the native binary of an npm install of Claude Code by @httpsphl in #126
• feat: bots share files as cards in the chat by @httpsphl in #125
• feat(chat): keep what the owner was writing when they switch chats by @httpsphl in #127
• chore: release 0.9.0 by @httpsphl in #128
• feat(app): soft sounds for a message sent, a reply, a file and a new bot by @httpsphl in #129

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0

Botloft 0.8.0

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Every file was built by GitHub Actions from this repository, which attested where it comes from. To check a download with the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify Botloft_0.8.0_x64-setup.exe --repo httpsphl/botloft

How releases are made, and what Botloft changes on your computer: Code signing policy.

Linux and macOS (preview)

New in this release and not tried on many computers yet: please open an issue for anything that does not work.

• Linux: the .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, or the .AppImage for any other distribution (make it executable first).
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Apple has not notarized the app yet. Open the .dmg, drag Botloft to Applications and open it once; then allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

What's Changed

• docs(readme): a README that shows Botloft by @httpsphl in #47
• feat(release): attest where the installers come from, and list their SHA-256 by @httpsphl in #50
• feat(release): code signing ready to switch on, and a code signing policy by @httpsphl in #51
• fix(installer): the publisher is Botloft, and installs made as "github" are adopted by @httpsphl in #57
• test(setup): wait for the window to be shown by @httpsphl in #59
• feat(app): read marks in light blue, and the side panel comes back with the bot by @httpsphl in #52
• feat: delete bots and crews (daemon and protocol) by @httpsphl in #54
• feat(app): right-click a bot in the sidebar for its menu by @httpsphl in #55
• feat(browser): the live page fills the panel by @httpsphl in #53
• feat(browser): tabs, reload and a typed address in the browser panel by @httpsphl in #62
• fix(supervisor): resume a conversation only once Claude Code has it on disk by @httpsphl in #67
• feat: send a deleted bot's or crew's folder to the Recycle Bin when asked by @httpsphl in #60
• feat: archived bots and crews in Settings, each with Delete by @httpsphl in #58
• feat(app): delete a bot or a crew from its menu by @httpsphl in #56
• feat(daemon): effort per bot, the context in use and compacting the conversation by @httpsphl in #63
• fix(workspace): the owner's CLAUDE.md and auto memory stay out of the bots by @httpsphl in #66
• feat: a command request explains itself in plain words, with the command behind an arrow by @httpsphl in #61
• feat(app): an effort slider and the conversation's space below the chat by @httpsphl in #64
• docs: the code signing policy in the download step and in each release's notes by @httpsphl in #68
• feat(browser): a browser nobody is using rests by @httpsphl in #65
• chore: release 0.7.0 by @httpsphl in #69
• fix(supervisor): turn off Claude Code's own schedulers in bots by @httpsphl in #70
• feat(routines): bots ask for routines with schedule_routine by @httpsphl in #72
• fix(supervisor): a message that joins the running turn no longer leaves the bot busy by @httpsphl in #71
• feat(chat): tokens per turn and per bot, never in money by @httpsphl in #73
• perf(store): stop waiting for the disk and scanning whole tables by @httpsphl in #74
• perf(chat): send live text in batches, not one event per token by @httpsphl in #75
• perf(app): stream a reply without re-rendering the whole chat by @httpsphl in #76
• perf(app): a chat item no longer changes the bot it belongs to by @httpsphl in #77
• perf(app): keep still what nobody watches by @httpsphl in #78
• perf(courier): sleep until the next job, and deliver as a bot gets ready by @httpsphl in #79
• perf(supervisor): start bots without holding the supervisor lock by @httpsphl in #80
• perf(rpc): answer requests on the blocking pool; slow reads aside by @httpsphl in #81
• perf(courier): read and write attachments with the store free by @httpsphl in #82
• perf(app): skip layout and paint of rows out of sight by @httpsphl in #83
• chore(app): pnpm local puts this checkout over the installed Botloft by @httpsphl in #84
• Count the conversation reloaded after a pause apart from a turn's tokens by @httpsphl in #85
• docs: the code signing policy no longer waits on SignPath Foundation by @httpsphl in #86
• feat(app): show each bot's crew in tokens by bot by @httpsphl in #87
• feat(app): show only the tokens a bot spent, without the reread conversation by @httpsphl in #88
• feat(app): count the reloaded conversation in a turn's tokens by @httpsphl in #89
• fix(app): keep the composer on one row in a narrow chat by @httpsphl in #90
• feat(app): hide the bots list to keep only the chat and the panel by @httpsphl in #91
• feat(app): the browser panel closes when the browser rests by @httpsphl in #92
• feat(browser): the owner's cursor gets there before the click by @httpsphl in #93
• ci: the daemon on Ubuntu and macOS by @httpsphl in #94
• feat: bots and browsers on Linux and macOS by @httpsphl in #95
• fix(browser): app state before the waiting tool answers by @httpsphl in #97
• feat: start with the system on Linux and macOS by @httpsphl in #96
• feat: end the processes a crashed daemon left (macOS, hand-started Linux) by @httpsphl in #98
• feat(app): the app on Linux and macOS by @httpsphl in #99
• feat(release): Linux and macOS packages in every release by @httpsphl in #100
• chore: release 0.8.0 by @httpsphl in #101

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.8.0

Botloft 0.6.0

Pre-alpha. Watch your bots work: a live browser, screens that take shape as they are written, and Botloft near the clock.

What's new

• The bots' browser, live. When a bot searches or uses a website, open its browser from the bot's header and watch every page it opens and every click. In Manual, Accept edits and Plan, a bot asks you before its first visit to each site. When it needs you to sign in or get past a captcha, click Take control, do it, and hand it back.
• Screens. Every HTML page a bot writes shows up in a design area and takes shape while it writes, with the bot's cursor on the part it is writing. Zoom in and out, or open one screen at its computer or phone size.
• Panels follow the bot. The browser or the screens open when the bot starts using them (you can turn this off), and panels slide in and out.
• Botloft near the clock. When the bots keep working after you close the window, Botloft stays in the notification area, with a dot when something waits for you. Its menu opens Botloft, pauses or resumes every crew, or quits.
• Windows notifications when a bot needs you and, if you want, when a bot finishes, with an optional sound. Botloft can also open at sign-in, near the clock or with its window.
• Settings in parts: General (language, what happens in the background), Chat (Enter to send, panels that follow the bot, how long a request waits for you), Notifications, Appearance (theme, size, less motion) and About (versions, check for updates).
• A new look for the mascot and the app icon, drawn from the flame's poses: stronger light, a drop of fire above the tip, and eyes that glance around while a bot is idle.
• A new installer. Botloft_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe opens Botloft's own window: one button installs, updates or opens Botloft.
• Tool names in the chat now show in your language.

Updating from 0.5.0

Botloft offers this version in the title bar ("Update available"). Your bots, their conversations and their files stay. The update runs Botloft_0.6.0_x64-update.exe by itself; you don't need to download anything.

New install

Download Botloft_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows user only, with no administrator prompt. It is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway. You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and Claude Code with a plan that includes it.

Bots run as your Windows user and are not sandboxed: give them only the permissions you would give Claude Code directly.

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What's Changed

• fix(app): side panels no longer cover the chat; resizable; chat fills the width by @httpsphl in #31
• feat: each bot gets its own browser, watched live in the app by @httpsphl in #32
• feat: a design area where each bot's screens take shape live by @httpsphl in #33
• feat: the owner takes a bot's browser into their own hands (N3) by @httpsphl in #35
• feat: shaded mascot with a burning flame; ready and working icons move by @httpsphl in #34
• fix(app): the mascot fills its avatar as the first one did by @httpsphl in #36
• feat: the bot's cursor follows each part of a screen as it is written by @httpsphl in #37
• feat(app): panels follow what the bot starts doing and slide open by @httpsphl in #38
• feat: tools read as plain actions in the owner's language by @httpsphl in #39
• feat: settings for running in the background and starting with Windows by @httpsphl in #40
• feat(app): settings in parts, with Enter to send, panels that follow the bot and less motion by @httpsphl in #41
• feat: the owner chooses how long a request for permission waits by @httpsphl in #42
• feat: Botloft near the clock, Windows notifications and opening at sign-in by @httpsphl in #43
• feat(app): mascot redrawn from the flame poses, and a new app icon by @httpsphl in #44
• feat(installer): Botloft's own look, with no third-party names by @httpsphl in #45
• feat(setup): Botloft's own install window (I1) by @httpsphl in #46
• chore: release 0.6.0 by @httpsphl in #49
• feat(release): ship the setup window, with NSIS as the updater's installer (I2) by @httpsphl in #48

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

Botloft 0.5.0

What's Changed

• feat(app): a Write line in the chat opens its file in the files panel by @httpsphl in #29
• chore: release 0.5.0 by @httpsphl in #30

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

Botloft 0.4.0

What's Changed

• Routines (2/2): routines in the app by @httpsphl in #24
• Release 0.3.0 by @httpsphl in #25
• fix(supervisor): a bot is busy while its subagents and own turns run by @httpsphl in #26
• feat(files): a panel with the files each bot made by @httpsphl in #27
• chore: release 0.4.0 by @httpsphl in #28

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Botloft 0.3.0

Pre-alpha. Routines: your bots now work on their own at the times you set.

What's new

• Routines. Open a bot, go to Routines and tell it what to do and when: every day, weekdays, chosen days, or every so many minutes or hours, at a time in your time zone. At that time the bot gets your request and does it; the result shows up in its chat, marked "Routine · name".
• See how each one goes: the next time it runs, how the last run went, a switch to turn it off and on, and Run now. A run that failed puts a mark on the Botloft icon in the taskbar until you open that bot.
• Sensible rules out of the box: if the last run hasn't finished, the next one is skipped (or waits its turn, if you choose). If the computer was off at the time, the routine runs once when it's back on, not once for every time it missed. A paused bot skips its times.
• For the crew: the crew's page lists the routines of all its bots.
• For those who want it, a cron expression under More options.

Updating from 0.2.0

Botloft offers this version in the title bar ("Update available"). Your bots, their conversations and their files stay. Botloft doesn't wake the computer to run a routine: the computer needs to be on, with you signed in to Windows.

New install

Download Botloft_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows user only. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway. You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and Claude Code with a plan that includes it.

Bots run as your Windows user and are not sandboxed: give them only the permissions you would give Claude Code directly.

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What's Changed

• Release 0.2.0 by @httpsphl in #22
• Routines (1/2): the scheduler by @httpsphl in #23

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Botloft 0.2.0

Pre-alpha. Crews that organize themselves, a model for each bot, a work folder of your choice, and an app that feels alive.

What's new

• Every new crew has a chief. Tell the crew what it's for: its chief plans the work, hands out tasks to run in parallel and suggests new bots when a specialist is missing. Each suggestion shows up in the chief's chat, where you can change its name, role, model and instructions before creating it, or say no.
• Pick each bot's model: your plan's default, Fable, Opus, Sonnet or Haiku, below the chat or when creating a bot. The picker shows the model in use.
• Pick how much each bot may do below the chat: Auto, Manual, Accept edits or Plan. A plan arrives as a card to approve or send back. Bypass permissions sits apart, behind a warning.
• Choose where a crew works, such as a project folder you already use. Bots put what they make there and read its CLAUDE.md.
• A new look: bigger by default (with a size setting), rounder, avatars without the black square, and your account at the bottom of the sidebar with usage, settings and language.
• Motion: mascots blink, flicker while they work, hop while they wait for you and sleep while paused, and new messages slide in. Turning off Windows' animation effects stops it.

Updating from 0.1.0

Botloft offers this version in the title bar ("Update available"). Your bots, their conversations and their files stay. Crews created before 0.2.0 have no chief until you pick one: open a bot's menu and choose Make crew chief.

New install

Download Botloft_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows user only. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway. You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and Claude Code with a plan that includes it.

Bots run as your Windows user and are not sandboxed: give them only the permissions you would give Claude Code directly.

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What's Changed

• A new look: avatars without the square, a bigger app, an account area and rounder corners by @httpsphl in #16
• Choose the folder a crew works in by @httpsphl in #19
• Pick each bot's permission mode in its chat by @httpsphl in #17
• Pick each bot's Claude model by @httpsphl in #18
• A chief for every crew, who suggests new bots by @httpsphl in #20
• Motion, so the app feels alive by @httpsphl in #21

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Botloft 0.1.0

Pre-alpha. First public build of Botloft: always-on Claude Code crews for Windows. Bots keep running in the background, message each other, and ask you before they change things.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
• Claude Code installed, with a plan that includes it (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise or a Console account).

Install

1. Download Botloft_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows user only, with no administrator prompt.
2. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Open Botloft. It sets itself up and starts with Windows from then on. If Claude Code is not signed in, click Sign in to Claude.

Botloft updates itself: new versions show up as "Update available" in the title bar. Uninstalling (Settings > Apps) stops Botloft, and your bots and their files stay in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Botloft and %USERPROFILE%\Botloft.

Bots run as your Windows user and are not sandboxed: give them only the permissions you would give Claude Code directly.

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What's Changed

• feat: M1 daemon base (store, RPC, crews and bots, workspaces) by @httpsphl in #1
• feat: M2 runtime (ConPTY, supervisor, hooks, terminal replay) by @httpsphl in #2
• feat: deliver owner messages to bots through the inbox (M3, part 1) by @httpsphl in #3
• feat: tasks between bots through MCP tools (M3, part 2) by @httpsphl in #4
• M4 (1/3): app shell, onboarding, crews and bots by @httpsphl in #5
• M4 (2/3): bot terminals in xterm.js by @httpsphl in #6
• M4 (3/3): timelines, failed deliveries, tasks and the taskbar mark by @httpsphl in #7
• chore: relicense under Apache-2.0 by @httpsphl in #8
• feat: headless bots with a real chat (M4.1) by @httpsphl in #9
• M5 (1/3): start at logon as a scheduled task, keep the computer awake by @httpsphl in #10
• M5 (2/3): Botloft sets itself up, and an NSIS installer by @httpsphl in #11
• M5 (3/3): update Botloft from inside the app, and a release workflow by @httpsphl in #12
• Sign in to Claude from the app by @httpsphl in #13
• The app in English, Portuguese and Spanish, with a language picker by @httpsphl in #14

New Contributors

• @httpsphl made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/httpsphl/botloft/commits/v0.1.0