Locus 2.7.0

Locus 2.7.0 makes the workspace easier to navigate and brings automatic app updates to the wallet-free Mac app.

Install this download once if you use 2.6.0 or earlier. Existing chats, accounts, settings, and browser data stay in place. Future Locus updates can download in the background and install when you quit; update preferences remain under your control.

Added

• Automatic updates for direct-download Locus: daily checks, background
  downloads, and installation on quit, with preferences and manual checks in
  Settings. Version 2.6.0 and earlier require one manual upgrade. The separate
  signed Locus feed preserves the unchanged legacy feed for older installations.
• A detailed Chat Context panel with a segmented usage bar, token counts,
  percentages, expandable context categories, reserved space, and free space.
  Deferred tools are listed separately; provider-managed context is identified
  when a detailed breakdown is unavailable.
• Image generation and editing inside the conversation. With an OpenAI API or
  compatible account chosen under Settings › Models & Providers › Image
  generation, the agent can create a picture from a prompt or edit an existing
  image, and the result appears in the answer as an image card. Each call asks
  for permission and names the prompt, model, provider host, and destination;
  edits always ask. Images are saved to Locus Images inside the workspace,
  captured in Outputs, and exported with the chat.
• Image cards and inline workspace images referenced in prose offer Edit in
  chat, Copy Image, and Save As…, and Edit in chat attaches the picture with a
  prefilled request naming its workspace path.
• The chosen image account reaches every agent process — the main agent on
  launch and each chat worker as it starts — and a change made while a turn is
  running is applied once that turn ends. A custom model name is pushed once
  per committed value rather than on every keystroke.
• Stop interrupts an in-flight image generation immediately, while the
  provider is still working and not only once the picture is streaming back.
  An image API key pasted with a line break or other control character is
  rejected with a clear error instead of failing later at the provider.
• Interactive visual explanations. An answer can include a self-contained
  interactive widget rendered in a sealed, offline web view with a written
  summary that stands in for it on the phone, in exports, and when interactive
  rendering is switched off. Open larger, Copy HTML, and Save As… are available
  on the card.

Changed

• Work Overview appears at the top right during a request and yields its place
  to an open inspector. It can be minimized, dismissed, or reopened from the
  workspace menu. Browser and Chat Context exchange positions in the right
  toolbar, and a divider separates panel visibility from the tool buttons.
• Dark appearance is the default for new settings. Existing appearance choices
  are preserved.
• The composer groups Work, Plan, Grill, Goal, Task Capsules, and team options
  in one keyboard-accessible workflow menu while keeping the draft intact.
• Library previews add image zoom and pan, clearer document viewing controls,
  visible export actions, sorting, and useful filtered-empty states. Saved
  outputs and Vault documents make versions and related details easier to find;
  private document previews stay in memory.
• Getting Started opens once when the main window is ready, offers document,
  coding, and recurring-agent paths, and preserves progress when postponed.
• Chat Context focuses on context usage; source attachments remain available
  through Overview. Inspector tabs have larger click targets and an open-tabs menu.
• The answer contract teaches the agent when to generate an image, when to
  attach an interactive explanation, and how to explain that image generation
  is not set up.
• Markdown, plain-text, and PDF exports include generated images and the
  interactive HTML beside the exported chat.

Fixed

• Workspace file rows have full-height click targets and describe their open, expand, or collapse action to screen readers.
• Avoid redundant workspace refreshes when switching chats with Overview already closed.
• Updated the bundled HTTP transport to HTTPX2 and HTTPCore2 2.12.0, including upstream TLS, redirect, and streaming decompression security fixes.

Download

Use Locus-macOS.zip below on an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. Move Locus to Applications after unzipping it. The optional ChatGPT-plan helper is downloaded from within Locus when needed.

The separate Locus update feed keeps older wallet-era installations on their unchanged legacy feed. LocusX remains a separate edition.