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