Armada v0.1.10

New

• Armada brings its own Claude Code, Codex and Grok. It installs its own pinned copies in the background, uses them instead of whatever is on this computer, and keeps them up to date by itself (new releases come from the official npm registry, checked every few hours, and never wait for an Armada release). Signing in, checking an account and running agents no longer depend on your PATH, launcher scripts or installed versions. A new Settings → Agent tools page shows each tool's version, whether it is bundled or a system install, and has Update, Check for updates, Roll back to the version Armada was tested with, and an Update automatically switch. Every update is verified and rolled back if the tool no longer starts, and updates wait while an agent of that provider is mid-turn.

• Agents know they can show pictures. Armada now tells Claude and Codex that their replies can embed images (![description](path) for a file in the project or a temp file they mention, or a small inline data: picture), so they stop saying they can't. Inline data: pictures (png, jpeg, gif, webp) now display on the desktop and the phone.

• Plan approval. When Claude finishes planning and asks to start coding, the plan appears as a card you can read (rendered as markdown) with clear choices: approve and auto-accept edits, approve and review each edit, or keep planning, optionally with feedback. On the desktop and the phone. Keyboard shortcuts never pick an "always allow" choice for a plan.

• Project settings. Settings → Projects (or an agent's menu → Project settings) lets you edit a project's CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, manage its permission rules (always allow / ask / deny, shared or local), and see its hooks, custom commands and skills.

• Budgets. Set a daily cap and a per-agent cap (Settings → Budgets). Armada warns at 80% and again when a cap is hit, and can pause the agents that went over (their queued messages stay queued). The Usage view shows today's spend against the daily cap, and agents near their cap show a badge.

Changed

• A live line shows what the agent is doing. Under the last message, one quiet line says what it is working on right now ("Running npm test", "Reading src/app.ts", "Editing 2 files", "Thinking…", "Writing…") with the elapsed time, like Claude on the web. While sub-agents run it reads "Waiting on N sub-agents"; open it to see each one's kind, description, model and effort (or what it inherits), time running and tool calls so far. The same chips show on sub-agent cards. On the phone and the desktop.
• The conversation no longer jumps around. What the agent says now always stays in view: before, a message you were reading could fold into a "used 1 tool" line when the next step started, and fold back out again later, and a lone tool call popped in and out while "Waiting on N sub-agents" was showing. Only runs of two or more tool calls and thoughts fold into one line now, and what is folded depends only on the conversation itself (not on what is on screen or what the agent is waiting for), so a row never changes under you. On the phone and the desktop.
• Phone: tool calls are small. Commands and edits start collapsed, even while running or after failing: a running command shows its newest output line in its row, a failed one an "exit N" badge, and tapping opens it. The opened command and its output have a height limit and scroll.
• Command output no longer shows the markdown fence (```console) the Bash tool wraps it in, on the phone and the desktop.

Fixed

• Codex sign-in showed a blank window. Armada ran a launcher script that re-checks for updates over the network before every start (a minute or more, then nothing). Programs are now looked up so such launcher scripts are skipped, which also speeds up GitHub (gh) features.

Install

• macOS: .dmg (universal: Apple Silicon + Intel)
• Windows: -setup.exe
• Linux: .AppImage, .deb or .rpm

Already installed? Armada updates itself (Settings → About → Check for updates).

Full changelog: v0.1.9...v0.1.10