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Botloft 0.2.0

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@github-actions github-actions released this 29 Sep 05:03
· 484 commits to main since this release
v0.2.0
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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.

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

Contributors

httpsphl
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