v0.2.0
First public release.
(0.1.0 was never a usable release: its four per-platform binary packages reached
npm, but the launcher that resolves them did not, and no GitHub Release was ever
cut. 0.2.0 is the first version published as a complete set.)
Added
- The whole fleet at a glance. Every agent session in one table — status,
working directory, model, context usage, git branch, and a live transcript
preview — so you can tell at a glance which session is working, which is
waiting on you, and which has finished. - Claude Code and Codex. Both agents are supported side by side, and rows of
either kind mix freely in one dashboard. - Full session lifecycle from the dashboard. Launch, resume, fork, and kill
sessions without leaving it, with a filterable picker over recent working
directories and path completion for new ones. - Status detection that distinguishes waiting from working. Sessions blocked
on your approval or an answer are flagged and sorted to the top;sjumps to
the next one needing attention. - Background jobs split into Task and Server. A build or test the agent is
waiting on keeps the session green, grouped with the active sessions, and your
machine awake. A dev server or watcher the agent parked does not — it goes
yellow, sorts with the idle sessions, and flags itself for follow-up. Common
dev servers are recognised out of the box, and anything unrecognised that runs
past an hour is learned, so it is classified correctly from the first moment
next time. - Review-pending detection for r3. When
every background job a session is waiting on is anr3 watch, the agent is
blocked on a human review rather than working, and the row says so. - Kitty and zellij backends. captain-miao brings no terminal of its own — it
drives the one you already run, so every session is a native window or pane. - Switchable session layout. Stacked (all sessions in one shared
cm:sessionstab, the dashboard being the switcher) or per-tab (one tab each,
switchable with your terminal's own keys).Space ltoggles it, and the choice
persists. - Keep-awake. Prevents the machine from sleeping while any session is still
working (caffeinateon macOS,systemd-inhibiton Linux), with an indicator
shown only while it is actively inhibiting. - Pin, mute, and follow-up flags, plus per-directory icon and colour marks
with a searchable emoji picker. - Configurable keybindings. Every Normal-mode command is remappable from a
[keybinds]table inconfig.toml, including theSpace-leader ones. - Prebuilt binaries on npm and GitHub Releases for macOS (Apple silicon and
Intel) and Linux (x86-64 and arm64).npx @hyperlogue/captain-miaoruns the
matching native binary with no Rust toolchain and no runtime download.
Security
- Session state is written owner-only —
0600files under0700directories —
because state records your prompt text, working directories, and session ids.
A tree created by an earlier build is tightened in place on the next run.
Known limitations
- Remote hosts over SSH are experimental and off by default. The full
cross-host lifecycle is implemented but unverified against a real remote host,
and restart and fork remain local-only. Build with--features remoteto try
it; without it the dashboard is strictly local-only. t(move window to tab) is unsupported on zellij, which has no CLI to
reparent a pane across tabs. The key reports it and the help entry is hidden.- Linux binaries are glibc builds (built against glibc 2.35, so Ubuntu
22.04+, Debian 12+, RHEL 9+). musl/Alpine needs a source build.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/hyperlogue/captain-miao/commits/v0.2.0