PounceCode v0.8.5

PounceCode v0.8.5

An agentic coding and AI harness for macOS — the tools, the project context, the history and the guard rails, pointed at whichever model you choose (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, or your organization's gateway). Ships as a desktop app and as pounce, the CLI that runs anywhere you have a terminal — including inside PounceTERM.

Install via Homebrew (recommended)

brew trust pounceapps/tap
brew install --cask pounceapps/tap/pouncecode

Homebrew 6.0+ requires trusting a third-party tap once; brew trust records it.
The cask installs the app and links pounce onto your PATH.

Manual install

1. Download PounceCode-0.8.5.dmg below
2. Open and drag PounceCode Desktop to Applications
3. For the CLI: ln -sf "/Applications/PounceCode Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/pounce" /usr/local/bin/pounce

Changes

Fixed

• Backspace did nothing in the terminal. A GUI app is launched by
  launchd, not by a shell, so it has no TERM — and the PTY was handed the
  app's environment unchanged. With TERM unset, zsh cannot load terminfo
  and never emits the erase sequence: the character stays on screen while
  the shell deletes it internally, so what you type stops matching what you
  see. The same omission degraded colour, arrow keys and history
  navigation. The PTY now gets TERM=xterm-256color, COLORTERM=truecolor,
  TERM_PROGRAM, and a UTF-8 locale when the parent has none — without
  which box drawing and accents arrive as question marks.
• A protected path could be reached through a symlink. The check
  resolved symlinks with a call that fails outright when the file does not
  exist yet — which is every new file — so no resolution happened at all
  and a path through a link wrote to the other side of the protection.
  Fixing that surfaced a second one: macOS firmlinks user data through
  /System/Volumes/Data, which then matched the /System/ protection and
  blocked ordinary home directories.

Changed

• The terminal behaves like a terminal. Whole-number line height — a
  fractional one rounds to a doubled row gap and halves what fits on
  screen. A right-click no longer replaces your selection with the word
  under the cursor, so right-click-to-copy copies what you dragged.
  Cmd-click opens a URL in the browser, which is the config-free way to
  reach an auth URL printed by something running in here.
• A shell started here no longer inherits the Claude session markers of a
  dev build that was itself launched from one — claude run in this
  terminal was treating itself as a nested child.

Still missing

• Scrollback search (⌘F). That needs a find bar, not a setting.

Requirements

• macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)