Armada v0.2.0

Run many agents on one project and watch them side by side, with a clearer view of what each one is doing and what needs you.

New

• Many agents, one project. Start up to 8 on the same task: they open together as full conversations in a grid that fits the window, each in its own worktree so they can't overwrite each other. Add agents in an agent's header starts more in the same project, and the sidebar is now organised by project, with a grid button to show a project's agents together.
• One Mission Control. Needs you, Inbox and Mission Control are a single view with a Needs you / All agents switch, and one count everywhere: the rail, the tabs, the window title and the menu-bar tray.
• Typing while an agent works behaves like Claude Code. Press Enter and your message goes into the turn that's running: nothing is cancelled. Queue it for after the turn, start a helper, or deliberately Stop & send from the menu next to Send. If a message can't be delivered it goes back to your queue, never dropped. ↑ in an empty box takes your newest queued message back.
• What needs you stays pinned above the message box, wherever you've scrolled: approvals, questions with one-tap answers, blockers (usage limit, error, budget cap, merge conflict), live plan progress, and sub-agents with a timer.
• Replies that read like a report. Working notes between steps are quiet and the answer stands out; long replies and code fold behind “Show more”; tables line up; a sentence split across two messages joins back together. A new setting, Settings → Behavior → How agents report (Concise by default, Balanced, Detailed), asks agents to lead with the outcome and skip log dumps. It shapes how they write, not the work they do.
• New notification sounds in three packs: Soft (the new default), Glass, and Classic (the sounds you had).
• The phone app catches up: a project-grouped agent list, a Needs-you queue with big Approve and Deny buttons, the pinned dock, adding agents, and the same reply layout and typing behaviour.
• A calmer interface. A slimmer agent header, two-line sidebar rows (with a Compact option), a live “working / need you / spend” line on the home screen, soft edges on scrolling content, a title-bar search box that stays put, stronger light-theme contrast, and tidier setup, review, accounts and comparison screens.

Faster

• With eight agents streaming, the frame rate on a deliberately slowed computer rose from about 49 to 58 fps: animations pause while the window is hidden, long replies are redrawn less often, and extra screens load one at a time after start-up.
• The first time you open the command palette or New agent is instant (it used to take about 0.8 s).

Changed

• The separate project page from 0.1.11 is gone: clicking a project folds it, and agents open on the agent page.
• “Send now” on a queued message adds it to the running turn instead of stopping the agent. For an agent that can't take messages mid-turn it says Run next and the message goes first in line.
• The “Ask” choice for what Enter does while an agent works is now “Deliver to the running turn”; nobody is asked each time anymore. If you chose Queue or Helper before, that choice is kept.

Fixed

• Stopping an agent and sending a message right away could let a stray line from the stopped reply appear in the new one.
• Answering a question or an approval a split second before the agent finished could be recorded as cancelled.
• A failed first start could make your next try fail too (“The agent process exited unexpectedly”), and a message sent while an approval was pending could reach the agent after your approval instead of before it.
• A sentence could break in two in the middle of a reply, with the second half brighter.
• Tooltips piling up when you Tab quickly, clipped focus rings, the Copy button printing over a message's last line, review buttons being live while the diff loaded, and the menu-bar “Needs you” count disagreeing with the app.

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: v0.1.11...v0.2.0