Ness v2.18.0

Ness v2.18.0

Changes

• Resolve Claude's home per worktree from the user's login shell (#326)
• Keep the web client off the host's saved remotes; keep failed remotes visible (#354)
• Label collapsed tool calls with what they're for (#353)
• Declare NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription for Local Network access (#352)
• Reviews view: render GFM and give the timeline more room (#351)
• Don't feed binary or huge files to the review diff (#350)
• Reviews view: history of review rounds in the Review pane (#349)
• Fleet view: every host's worktrees in one sidebar (#344)
• Site: replace the hero demo video with the live mock app (#348)
• Run a Ness remote in Docker with one command (#347)
• Site: rebuild the mock Ness window against current main (#345)
• Show the real agent's mark on a Chat tab, not always Claude's (#346)
• Review MCP tools, submitted reviews, and delivery to a specific tab (#338)
• Make appearance settings belong to the client, not the active backend (#343)
• Task list: a dense, one-line-per-worktree view of the fleet (#342)
• Let agents name their own tab, with a user-set name winning for good (#340)
• Chat mode for Codex, behind a provider layer for any agent (#337)
• Move Review viewer comments into a main-process slice with anchoring (#336)
• Nest worktree tabs in the sidebar, with a preference for when to expand (#334)
• Change subtitle line color so it's readable on selected rows (#335)
• Snoozing a pinned worktree hides it until it wakes (#331)
• Toggle file lists between a path-sorted list and a tree (#330)
• fix(chat): an abandoned approval must not leave a needs-approval dot (#328)
• chore(deps): bump bundled @anthropic-ai/claude-code to 2.1.301 (#327)
• Remove locked worktrees, including ones whose directory is gone (#322)
• fix(chat): entry count is not a change signal for derived panels
• fix(chat): a launch stub is not a finished agent
• feat(chat): make the agent disclosure a tree, keep click for history
• feat(chat): expand/collapse agent rows in place
• fix(chat): stop labelling every sub-agent "background", flatten the agent list
• perf(chat): stop rebuilding settled agents, collapse old ones in the panel
• feat(chat): Agents panel with live peek, plus Tasks tool support
• Teach a table-safe image size syntax, and only to agents that can use it
• feat(command-center): show pinned worktrees in a Pinned section at the top
• Let the embed set a display size, and shrink the default
• Let an agent embed a screenshot in its reply

Contributors

Huge thanks to @blindpirate, @ljacomet, and @tresat for their contributions to this release.

Installing

• Apple Silicon: Ness-2.18.0-arm64.dmg
• Intel: Ness-2.18.0.dmg

Drag Ness.app to Applications, then launch it. Existing installs will auto-update.