Chapter 0.1.0-beta.1

The first public build of Chapter — a single-window desktop app for reviewing AI-agent work
across git worktrees. It is a beta: everything below works and is used daily, but it has not
been run on many machines other than the one it was written on.

Install

Download Chapter-win-Setup.exe and run it.

It installs per-user into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Chapter — no administrator prompt — and adds
desktop and Start-menu shortcuts. The .NET runtime is bundled, so nothing needs installing
first. Uninstall through Windows' own Apps list.

Windows will warn you on first run. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen
shows "Windows protected your PC" — More info → Run anyway. That is worth knowing before
you see it rather than after.

Requires Windows 10 or 11, the Edge WebView2 runtime (ships with Windows 11), and git on
PATH.

Chapter-win-Portable.zip is the same build with no installer, for anyone who would rather
not install anything. It does not update itself.

Updating

Chapter updates itself from here. It checks on launch, downloads in the background, and
replaces nothing until you restart — when a build is waiting an arrow appears in the rail's
footer, and pressing it restarts into the new one. The help panel (?) shows which version
you are running and has a Check for updates button.

Because this build is a prerelease, it will offer you later prereleases. Installing a stable
release later stops that, without changing a setting.

Only this first download is large. Updates after it are deltas of a few megabytes.

What is in it

• Every worktree in one window, with tabs and scroll position kept per worktree
• Side-by-side diffs across four scopes — branch, uncommitted, committed, last commit
• Staging by file, hunk or line; discard, edit, commit
• Go-to-definition and find-references for C#, from a syntactic index that needs no build
• Branches, worktrees, stashes and tags, including creating and removing worktrees
• Markdown preview, with agent-written HTML treated as untrusted
• Commit messages written by Claude, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a local model —
  optional, and the only feature that leaves your machine
• One keystroke to open the file at that line in Rider or VS Code

What is not

No fetch, pull or push — and so no pushing a tag. No merge or rebase, no conflict-resolution
UI beyond listing conflicted files, no history or blame view, no build or test runner.
Semantic navigation is C# only; diff and browse work for anything Monaco tokenises.

Windows only: this is WPF plus WebView2.

Reporting

Bug reports are the point of a beta —
open an issue and include the version from the
help panel.