v4.8.0

Start a session from your phone

• A plus on the phone's session list. Tap it, pick one of the folders in the workspace this Mac has open, type the first prompt, tap Start. A Claude tab opens in the app as the active tab, exactly as if you had clicked Claude yourself, and the prompt is sent the moment the session is at its prompt. Needs the phone app 1.1; the plus appears only when both sides are current.
• Only the workspace that is open. The phone sees the folders of the workspace the Mac has open right now, nothing else, so leave a workspace up when you step away. With no workspace open, the phone says so instead of guessing. A folder the app has not tracked yet is registered as it launches.
• Two Macs, no mix-ups. With more than one Mac paired, the folders are listed under each Mac's name, every row says which Mac it belongs to, and the Start button names the Mac it starts on.
• Nothing typed is ever lost. If the session is slow to come up or the Mac refuses, the first prompt lands in the phone's composer instead of vanishing; if you had already typed something else, the phone keeps both and lets you choose.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download the .dmg file below and drag CC Blackbox to Applications. The other files on this release are for the app's built-in auto-updater; you do not need them.

v4.7.1

One notification per turn, and only for your own session

• The "waiting for your input" alert fires once per turn. Before, every real turn end alerted twice: once when Claude finished, and again a minute later when Claude Code's own idle reminder arrived. Now the first one posts and the second stays quiet.
• Only your own session raises it. A claude process spawned inside a tab (a pre-push code review, any claude -p) used to fire "Claude finished" onto the tab, so a review of nine files meant nine alerts while the tab was still working. Those are recorded as flight data and never alert. The amber tab dot follows the same rule.
• A permission ask always notifies, even from one of those spawned processes: a process blocked on a permission with nobody told is worse than one extra alert.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download the .dmg file below and drag CC Blackbox to Applications. The other files on this release are for the app's built-in auto-updater; you do not need them.

v4.7.0

Decision Patterns: see what your agents keep choosing

• A Patterns tab in the agent's Decisions window. After each run that logs decisions, CC Blackbox runs one small Claude pass (Haiku, a few cents; the model, cost and time show right in the window) that names the recurring themes. Every number on the screen is then computed from the recorded log itself: what the agent keeps choosing, with a count, the runs it touched, a per-run trend, the crew members involved, how those runs ended and their share of the spend; where it wavers (the same question answered differently across runs, each answer with the runs that chose it); and decisions per run against outcome and cost. Every number opens the runs and decisions behind it.
• Suggestions you can apply in one click. The pass proposes prompt lines: lock in a choice the agent already makes well, forbid one it should stop making, or clarify an instruction it reads inconsistently, each with the evidence behind it. Add to prompt opens the agent editor with the line already in place; you still press Save. Later passes then report whether the change worked: stopped, reduced, unchanged, holding, slipping, settled, or still wavering.
• Fully observable. The status line shows when the last pass ran and what it cost; badges flag new decisions or a prompt change since; Refresh runs it again on demand; Analysis history lists every pass, and a failed pass keeps the model's raw answer so you can see why.
• Reports > Operations > Agents gains a Decision patterns line per agent (top themes, how many questions it wavers on, when it was last analyzed) that opens the same window.

The analysis is private to you: nothing from it is ever shown to an agent, and it only reaches a prompt when you save it. The pass itself is never recorded as a session and never counts toward your session costs.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download the .dmg file below and drag CC Blackbox to Applications. The other files on this release are for the app's built-in auto-updater; you do not need them.

CC Blackbox 4.6.2

Cleaner updates, and a way to find the rest of the family

• Old update files are now removed properly. After an update, the previous copy of the app and the unpacked download are deleted for good. Before, a quirk in how Electron reads app archives could leave a hidden leftover bundle behind beside the app, which occasionally made the next update stumble.
• Help > More Power Your Process Apps. Opens the Hangar Deck download page in your browser. Hangar Deck is the launcher that installs and updates CC Blackbox, Model Radar, and every Power Your Process app that follows, from one place.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download the .dmg file below and drag CC Blackbox to Applications. The other files on this release are for the app's built-in auto-updater; you do not need them.

CC Blackbox 4.6.1

Open files from Finder

• CC Blackbox shows up under Recommended. Right-click a text, configuration, or source file in Finder, choose Open With, and the app is listed with the other editors instead of hiding under All Applications. It never claims to be the default for a type; it just offers.
• Opening a file actually opens it. Choosing the app from Open With, double-clicking a file you assigned to it, or dropping one on the Dock icon now lands the file as an editor tab. Before, the app came forward and nothing happened. A file inside your open workspace opens in place; one from anywhere else opens as a standalone tab for the rest of the session. If no workspace is open yet, the file waits and opens the moment you pick one.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.6.1.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.

CC Blackbox 4.6.0

The Claude tab, fullscreen

• Claude tabs always run Claude Code's fullscreen renderer. The prompt stays pinned to the bottom of the terminal from the first frame and the conversation scrolls above it, on every Mac, regardless of how Claude Code's own rollout would have started you. The mouse works inside Claude: click in the prompt to place the cursor, drag to select (it copies on release), scroll with the wheel at a speed tuned for this terminal. Plain shells are untouched. To get the classic renderer back, put "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ALTERNATE_SCREEN": "1" in the env block of your ~/.claude/settings.json.
• The Claude button explains itself. Its tooltip, its walkthrough stop, and the empty-terminal hint list what a Claude tab gives you over a plain shell: a clean direct launch, the project's client Vercel account, and the fullscreen renderer.

Right-click, at last

• Right-click in any terminal or editor. Copy, Paste, and Select All in a native menu (Cut too in the editor). In a terminal, right-click also selects the word under the pointer, so right-click a path and Copy is one motion. Inside a Claude tab, hold Option (or Shift) while dragging to make a native terminal selection instead of Claude's.

Workspaces

• Leaving and re-entering a workspace no longer wipes your terminals. Switching workspaces, or stepping out to the Workspace Picker and back, used to dispose every terminal: you came back to empty tabs that Claude redrew piece by piece, with no history. Terminals now keep their scrollback across the round trip, and you land on the tab you left.
• Clearer first-run wording. The New Workspace form now says "Open your first project" and explains that a workspace is a set of project folders (one git repo each), not the folder that holds all of them.

Sessions

• A clear button in the search box. The ✕ inside the Sessions search (or Esc while typing in it) empties the search and brings the full list back.

Walkthrough

• Reports, panel by panel. The guided tour now walks the Cost tab (totals, grouped spend, churn) and the Operations tab (how the work went, the activity calendar, the hour strip, agents, friction) one panel at a time, switching tabs in front of you and explaining what each number means.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.6.0.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.

CC Blackbox 4.5.4

Sort your sessions

• Every column in Sessions sorts. Click Title, Project, Client, Branch, Date, Duration, Tokens, or Cost to sort by it; click again to flip. Dates and numbers start biggest or newest first, text starts A to Z, and the arrow marks the active sort.
• The top really is the top. Sorting runs in the database, not on the rows already on screen, so "most expensive" is the most expensive of all your sessions. The list loads two hundred at a time; a Load more button at the bottom appends the next two hundred in the same order, and search results sort the same way.
• Nothing gets lost on a live update. When a session ends while you are looking at the list, the rows you had paged in stay put, and a failed load says so in the toolbar instead of showing an empty list.

Operations

• The busiest-day label no longer gets clipped. On the 90 day and All time views the peak label sits inside the chart with room above it, and swings to the side when the busiest day is at either edge of the range.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.5.4.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.

CC Blackbox 4.5.3

A calendar for your work

The Operations tab's Activity section is rebuilt around the way you actually look at a month.

• A calendar instead of a bar chart. For ranges up to about five weeks (this month, last month, 30 days) each day is a cell tinted by how much Claude actually worked, with the total in the cell, a thin bar showing which projects, and week totals down the right. Hover a day for the project breakdown; click it to open exactly those sessions. The Daily/Weekly/Monthly toggle is gone because all three are visible at once.
• One line for long ranges. 90 days and All time show active time over the range as a single line (per day up to three months, per week beyond) with the busiest point marked, plus one bar of your projects and their totals.
• Explore any month. A new Explore button opens a full-window calendar you can page through month by month, with project chips to narrow it. Esc closes it.
• When you work, with real hours. Hovering the hour strip now reads like a clock ("2pm to 3pm, 2.8h active") instead of a 24-hour timestamp.
• Day totals never double count. A block where two projects ran at the same time counts once, in the cell and in the week.

Claude in the browser: fewer wasted turns

• Clicks that open a page now wait for it. A link that would open a new tab opens in place here, and the click reports the page it landed on instead of the old one, so Claude no longer has to navigate there by hand afterwards.
• Console and network reads cover the current page. After visiting two pages, asking for the console returns only the page on screen; the whole history is one option away.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.5.3.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.

CC Blackbox 4.5.2

Stays connected, wherever you are

Two fixes from a morning at a coffee shop.

• The Mac now notices dead relay connections and heals itself. Public Wi-Fi and network switches can silently kill the connection your paired iPhone relies on, without the Mac ever being told. The app previously waited for a close that never came, so the phone showed a session that would not update. The Mac now checks its own connection every 20 seconds and automatically reconnects within about 45 seconds of it going quiet: no more toggling Mobile off and on after changing networks, and working from a coffee shop behaves like working from home.
• No more question-mark cursor. Hovering the Reports info icons, tiles, and column headers kept the regular pointer instead of switching to the help cursor. The hover explanations are unchanged.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.5.2.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.

CC Blackbox 4.5.1

Operations, rebuilt

The Reports view finished growing up. Cost got its overhaul in 4.5.0; this release rebuilds Operations around your actual work.

• Activity, honestly measured. Active time counts 10-minute blocks where Claude actually produced work, so a tab left open all day inflates nothing. You get totals, an average per working day, and a daily chart stacked by project.
• When you work. A 24-hour profile shows which hours of the day your work really happens, in your local time.
• Friction, explained. Permission asks and denials (ranked by tool, so you can see where an allowlist rule would help), compactions with the auto count, and a session-health line. Project rows click through to their sessions.
• Agents in their own place. Run economics and each run's logged decisions (what was decided, why, and what was considered instead, with crew attribution) live in a section that stays out of the way when no agents ran.
• Hover anything. Every section header carries a small i icon explaining what the numbers mean, and tiles and column headers explain themselves on hover.
• Cost polish. Totals rows are highlighted across every table, By Model gets a real distinct-sessions total, and the guided walkthrough now tours Reports properly: scope, Cost, then Operations, switching tabs as it goes.

New here? Installing for the first time

Download cc-blackbox-4.5.1.dmg below, open it, and drag CC Blackbox into Applications. The other files are for the app's built-in auto-updater. Existing installs update themselves automatically.