v0.18.0

New

• Add Home page
  • Keep track of all your chats
  • Prioritize conversations that need your attention
• Add plume devices
  • Manage your Android physical devices, emulators, and cloud devices in Plume
  • claim leases a free emulator or device and opens it in a split beside the agent
  • claim --kind=remote reserves a remote device from Google's Developer Device Platform, and release ends the (paid) reservation
  • Leases belong to the tab that claimed them
  • See which task holds a device from the sidebar
  • Also has renew, installed, list, and prune (analogous to my device-pool tool)
• Start a conversation in a project subfolder (thanks @martinGingerLabs!)
• Add additional folders outside the working directory (thanks @martinGingerLabs!)
  • Add one when creating a conversation or after it has started
• Pin multiple pull requests to a conversation, like Linear issues, and see them on the task's sidebar row
• Make the composer easier to use
  • Format with ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘E, and ⌘K, on a selection or at the caret
  • Close a code fence automatically
  • Toggle plan mode with Shift+Tab
  • Show the current mode as a faint icon behind the text so it's more obvious
• Misc fixes
  • Link Linear issues and pull requests named in the conversation
  • Keep conversation statuses across relaunches
  • Scope Linear workspaces to a project, in Settings > Projects
  • Resize the info pane, and let it close and reopen with the window's width
  • Close the Linear pin popover when the info pane collapses
  • Copy small chat selections without markdown markers
  • Keep a chat's messages when its agent moves into or out of a worktree
  • Stop finished subagents from coming back as empty rows
  • Show interrupted tasks at full opacity in the sidebar
  • Show Plume's own slash commands with the feather icon

Recently

• Host Android emulators, physical devices, and remote devices in a tab
• Mention Linear issues, pull requests, and files in the composer with @ and #
• Add the plume command-line tool, with plume wt and plume stack
• Select chat text across messages, and copy it as markdown
• Connect Linear, in Settings > Integrations

v0.17.0

New

• Host Android emulators or mirror physical devices in a tab
  • Start, run, and control an Android emulator
  • Mirror a physical device over USB or ADB over WiFi (thanks to scrcpy)
  • Rotate, toggle auto-rotate, and send keyboard shortcuts to the device
  • Set up devices in Settings > Devices
• Reserve and stream a remote Android device through Google's Developer Device Platform
  • Connect your Google Cloud account through the official android cli
  • Pick from the list of all available device models
  • Automatically end the (paid) reservation when the tab closes
• Mention Linear issues, pull requests, and files in the composer with @ and #
  • See mentions as chips with titles and status, in the composer and the chat
  • Narrow an @ search with @linear:, @pr: or @file:
• Add the plume command-line tool
  • plume wt manages git worktrees, and opens them as Plume tabs (analogous to my wt cli tool)
  • plume stack manages stacked branches and their PRs (analogous to my stack cli tool)
  • plume notify posts a Plume notification for the tab it runs in (formerly plume-notify)
  • plume tab new opens a terminal tab in the current task
  • Set up shell integration and Nerd Font icons in Settings > Command line
  • More to come! This will be expanded

Recently

• Select chat text across messages, and copy it as markdown
• Connect Linear, in Settings > Integrations
• See formatting as you type in the composer
• Import conversations from the Claude desktop app
• Add colors and icons to groups and tasks

v0.16.1

New

• Fix a bug that broke text field focusing on macOS 27
• Import conversations from the Claude desktop app
  • Add a button to import conversations from the empty task list
• Clear notifications once you view their source tab
• Move Remote Control controls from the composer to the info pane
• Add toggle to only keep awake for remote control while charging
• Keep Linear issues current with a background sync
• Misc fixes
  • Show slash commands as a prompt in the chat
  • Draw inline code as rounded chips in the chat
  • Fix notifications + unread from background terminal bells
  • Show at most six Linear issues in the info pane, with a toggle to show more
  • Switch and archive tasks with less delay
  • Reflect /rename commands in task names
  • Stop dimming tasks that only have terminal tabs
  • Handle system notes in the opening messages in a conversation (common for imported conversations)
  • Keep the minimap from opening when hovering beside the info pane
  • Open new windows at a reasonable size
  • Fix the window sometimes missing the theme's colors
  • Fade in the group header buttons on hover
  • Reorder the task context menu, and add icons to it

0.16.x recap

• Select chat text across messages, and copy it as markdown
• Connect Linear, in Settings > Integrations
  • See the Linear issues a conversation is working on in the sidebar and info pane
• See formatting as you type in the composer
• Import tasks from Orca

Recently

• Add colors and icons to groups and tasks
• Show two tabs side by side in a split
• Send a queued message immediately, without stopping the turn
• Support /btw to have a side chat without interrupting the agent
• Add an info pane beside the chat

v0.16.0

New

• Select chat text across messages, and copy it as markdown
• Connect Linear, in Settings > Integrations
  • See the Linear issues a conversation is working on in the sidebar and info pane
• See formatting as you type in the composer
  • Properly format lists, block quotes, and code blocks
  • Work better with list items, including using Tab and Shift-Tab to indent
  • Support undo/redo in the composer
• Import tasks from Orca, from File > Import from Orca… or Settings > General
• Misc fixes
  • Allow the composer to get bigger

Recently

• Add colors and icons to groups and tasks
• Show two tabs side by side in a split
• Send a queued message immediately, without stopping the turn
• Support /btw to have a side chat without interrupting the agent
• Add an info pane beside the chat

v0.15.0

New

• Add colors and icons to groups and tasks
• Show two tabs side by side in a split
• Fix artifacts not being available, and highlight artifacts in the chat and in the info pane
• Add an "unread" state for tasks and tabs
  • Mark one unread again from its context menu
• Send a queued message immediately, without stopping the turn or background agents
  • Add option to always deliver immediately in Settings > Agents
  • Assign a Send Now shortcut in Settings > Shortcuts
• Change the accent color used throughout the app, picked from the theme's palette in Settings > Visuals
  • Also visually see the theme's palette in Settings > Visuals
• See what's using your context from the statusline
• Misc fixes
  • Wait for running subagents before notifying that a turn finished
  • Fix multi-select questions not allowing multiple answers alongside the free-form one
  • Fix tasks getting stuck after moving between groups
  • Better notify when the sleep helper is misbehaving
  • Keep a hidden tab's directory current in the sidebar
  • Keep the keep-awake footer text from truncating
  • Tweak subagent presentation in info panel
  • Shorten collapsed agent messages

Recently

• Support /btw to have a side chat without interrupting the agent
• Add an info pane beside the chat
• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via Homebrew or the DMG file
• Run shell commands with a leading !

v0.14.0

• Support /btw to have a side chat without interrupting the agent
• Add an info pane beside the chat
  • Shows the task's subagents, background tasks, and a link to the PR
  • Collapses in narrow windows
  • Replaces the subagent statuses below the latest chat message
• Track background tasks more accurately
• Show messages from subagents and other agents as agent messages
• Misc fixes
  • Widen tab titles, and truncate them at the end like the sidebar
  • Use a clearer "merged" PR icon
  • Bold the sidebar's PR status icons for legibility
  • Remove extra space around skill and system note rows in the chat
  • Reduce sidebar redraws when a branch's git state updates

Recently

• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via Homebrew or the DMG file
• Press Esc to interrupt the agent
• Run shell commands with a leading !
• Create and delete worktrees for tasks, and drag + drop tabs and tasks

v0.13.4

• Fix chat issues
  • Fix text sometimes not showing up after display sleep if fade-by-word was on
  • Fix fade-by-word animation not working after display sleep
• Show resumed and nested subagents while they run
• ⌘W on a task with no tabs deletes it, instead of closing the window
• Misc fixes
  • Fix resumed Claude sessions starting in the wrong directory
  • Fix a closed tab's status sometimes sticking around
  • Fix the status badge squeezing long branch names in the sidebar
  • Fix a lack of opacity in sidebar's empty state
  • Reflect refusals for permission mode changes in the dropdown
  • Hide empty thinking blocks

0.13.x recap

• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via homebrew or the DMG file
• Overhaul settings pages
• Improve chat animations
• Show a new "waiting" status when only subagents are working
• Press Esc to interrupt the agent
• Choose a default model for new Claude tabs

Recently

• Run shell commands with a leading !
• Create and delete worktrees for tasks, and drag + drop tabs and tasks
• Install with Homebrew: brew install ryanmoelter/tap/plume
• Send images in chat
• Import your workspaces and tabs from cmux

v0.13.3

• Press Esc to interrupt the agent, like in Claude Code
  • Turn it off in Settings → Shortcuts
• Choose a default model for new Claude tabs in Settings → Agents
• Fix bypass permissions not taking effect when switched on mid-conversation
• Fix 1M models showing as "200K"
  • Opus 5.5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 no longer list separate 200K variants
• Fix "Working…" sometimes staying in the chat after the agent finished
• Move the "Send message with" setting to Settings → Shortcuts
  • Change the default for new installs to send with return instead of cmd+return

0.13.x recap

• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via homebrew or the DMG file
• Overhaul settings pages
• Improve chat animations
• Show a new "waiting" status when only subagents are working
• Polish the sidebar, plans, and composer

Recently

• Run shell commands with a leading !
• Create and delete worktrees for tasks, and drag + drop tabs and tasks
• Install with Homebrew: brew install ryanmoelter/tap/plume
• Send images in chat
• Import your workspaces and tabs from cmux

v0.13.2

• Fix the sleep helper not coming back after a Homebrew upgrade, for real this time
  • If you upgraded to 0.13.1 with brew, reinstall the helper once from Settings → Keep Awake

0.13.x recap

• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via homebrew or the DMG file
• Overhaul settings pages
• Improve chat animations
• Show a new "waiting" status when only subagents are working
• Polish the sidebar, plans, and composer

Recently

• Run shell commands with a leading !
• Create and delete worktrees for tasks, and drag + drop tabs and tasks
• Install with Homebrew: brew install ryanmoelter/tap/plume
• Send images in chat
• Import your workspaces and tabs from cmux

v0.13.1

• Fix the sleep helper breaking and degrading Plume's performance after an upgrade
• Show a new "waiting" status when only subagents are working
  • Allow sending messages to the main agent while subagents run, if it's available
  • Fix the chat getting stuck on "working" after stopping a subagent
  • Fix tool search rows getting stuck on "working"
• Polish the sidebar
  • Lay out quotas side by side when there's room
  • Keep Claude quotas visible, even at 0% (OpenAI quotas still hide at 0%, since they report multiple quotas that most people don't use)
  • Clean up quota tooltips and popovers
  • Add a Remote Control toggle to a task's context menu
• Confirm before archiving or deleting a task while its agent is mid-turn
• Fix branch/worktree labels in the statusline
• Plans
  • Open the plan by clicking a proposed plan in the chat
  • Dismiss the plan by clicking outside it or anywhere on its title row
  • Outline the plan feedback field instead of filling it
• Composer
  • Add icons to the effort and mode menus
  • Stop graying out the mode and model menus in new and restored chats
• Chat
  • Leave a little room above a sent message when scrolling to it, and stop scrolling to system notes
  • Show agent type, context size, and elapsed time on subagent rows
  • Rebalance the minimap so long responses stand out without taking over
  • Fix a slash command as the first message in a conversation
• Keep ⌘, ⌘H, and ⌘Q working while a terminal has focus

0.13.0 recap

• Run Codex agents (beta)
• Auto-update Plume via homebrew or the DMG file
• Overhaul settings pages
• Improve chat animations

Recently

• Run shell commands with a leading !
• Create and delete worktrees for tasks, and drag + drop tabs and tasks
• Install with Homebrew: brew install ryanmoelter/tap/plume
• Send images in chat
• Import your workspaces and tabs from cmux