BasicShell 0.6.1

Download: BasicShell-0.6.1.zip, with BasicShell.app inside: unzip, move it to Applications. A release is the build with the agent tools (Settings › Agents, off until you turn it on); the plain build is ./build.sh from the source.

It is self-signed, not an Apple Developer ID, so the first time macOS refuses to open it: open it once, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.

Requires: macOS 27 on Apple silicon.

Updates. From 0.5.3 on, BasicShell updates itself: BasicShell menu › Check for Updates…, and once a day by itself unless Settings › General turns that off. Update and Restart downloads the zip, checks it against its SHA-256 and the app in it against this app's identifier, then replaces the old app (which goes to the Trash) and opens the new one. Nothing is installed without your say.

Fixed since 0.6.0

• Full screen on a screen with a notch: a click in the strip beside the notch, where the menu bar would be, reaches the page again. macOS kept every click there for the auto-hiding menu bar, so a link or button in the strip did nothing and the menu bar came down. The menu bar and the Dock are now hidden until the pointer presses against the top edge (or the Dock's edge, from where the Dock fills its zone); anywhere else in the strip the click is the page's.
• An extension's native helper that ends at once no longer takes BasicShell with it. Writing to it killed BasicShell with SIGPIPE, with no crash report; now the helper is closed and noted in the debug log. (Apple's iCloud Passwords helper is one that macOS refuses to start for BasicShell, so that extension still can't work here.)

After updating, quit and reopen BasicShell if it did not restart itself, and start a new chat in your agent.

SHA-256: BasicShell-0.6.1.zip 14f0b135a3085dca849bb4e38721b24d91e6be6f832fab7e520235669079258e