SPEXR v0.3.0

Now with fewer identity crises

• Launch Claude per account through a launch profile, because juggling credentials by hand was never a feature.

SPEXR v0.2.0

Five Dependabot alerts survived. Everything else changed.

Features

• Watch every running Claude Code session on a mosaic wall, grouped by project, with expandable cards and embedded terminal emulators.
• Start sessions per account from the launcher, choosing which CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR a session runs under, with recents remembered.
• Harden the Git panel: per-file stage, unstage, discard with confirmation, merge-conflict groups, and a branch indicator with ahead/behind.
• Support multiple workspace folders in the git view, because one repository per window was always a polite fiction.
• Write commit messages with the local model, fed the actual diff instead of a list of filenames.
• Make the search summary model configurable and run it on WebGPU, about four times faster, with a CPU fallback.
• Run opencode beside Claude through a multi-harness adapter where each harness answers for itself whether it is installed.
• Force-complete a workflow step, persist it in the front matter, and hand lint findings straight to the agent.
• Preview any Markdown file, not only the ones the editor previously felt like previewing.
• Read the Welcome page changelog from GitHub rather than the bundle, so releases stop shipping yesterday's news.
• Adopt the Sondalab design tokens across Theia chrome while keeping SPEXR's own product identity.

Fixes

• Cap the Smart Search and Repositories sections at a quarter of the Explorer panel instead of letting them annex it.
• Relaunch the agent terminal when its process is gone, rather than presenting a dead shell as a feature.
• Resolve the startup theme from what the last run actually painted, ending the recurring white flash.
• Keep the file tree from snapping back to the selected row every time you scroll away from it.
• Fork the search model into a real Node child process and cap ONNX Runtime threads so inference stops starving the backend.
• Shut the backend down when its parent dies, closing a long and productive career of orphaned processes.
• Send repository-relative paths to git, not absolute ones, and normalise the root once so trailing slashes stop mattering.

Internals

• Upgrade Theia to 1.75, React to 19 and Electron to 42, all in one sitting.
• Close 101 of 106 open Dependabot alerts; the remaining five are now considered personality.
• Drop the webpack loaders left behind by the esbuild switch and stop tracking generated sources.

SPEXR v0.1.5

Smarter search, tighter security, lazier release notes

Features

• Adds semantic search with local-model embeddings, so the codebase finally understands intent, not just keywords.

Fixes

• Fixes Git and Search panel visibility bugs surfaced while polishing the README, because docs and reality had drifted apart.
• Unifies default-view opening inside onDidInitializeLayout, and hardens the e2e tab-wait so flaky startup races stop failing CI.
• Skips nested node_modules directories during incremental indexing, sparing Search from cataloguing the same dependency tree twice.
• Strips the redundant 'This file' prefix AI-generated descriptions kept insisting on, because yes, we already knew it was a file.
• Hardens shell.openExternal calls by building the release URL locally instead of trusting external input.

Internals

• Automates release notes generation by syncing straight from the changelog, because manual copy-paste was nobody's favorite Friday task.

SPEXR v0.1.3

Fixes

• Update check — replaced electron-updater (requires Apple Developer cert) with a direct GitHub API check; shows a dialog with a download link when a newer version is available. Works on unsigned builds across all platforms.

SPEXR v0.1.2

Fixes

• Responsive sidebar lists — experts and memory panels wrap at ≤320 px via CSS container queries: description goes full-width, action buttons move below.
• What's new spacing — added top margin to the What's new panel for visual separation from the workflow section above.
• Local settings untracked — .spexr/settings.json removed from version control (contains machine-specific paths); settings.example.json added as onboarding template.

SPEXR v0.1.1

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

SPEXR v0.1.0

Initial public release.

Features

• Spec workflow — docs/specs/<NNNN-slug>.md files move through a 7-step stepper (Specify → Context → Clarify → Plan → Implement → Validate → Ship).
• Agent-primary shell — Claude Code session starts automatically on workspace open; the terminal is the primary surface.
• Expert personas — built-in catalog (brainstorming, design, review, marketing, DRI, software-engineering); each auto-activates on the matching workflow step. Installed as docs/agents/<id>.md.
• Spec context fan-in — files and links attached to a spec are passed to the agent automatically on handoff.
• Plan & task artifacts — the Plan step produces _plan.md with a checklist linked to acceptance criteria; checkboxes are tickable from the UI.
• Drift detector — runs the agent against the spec's acceptance criteria and linked source files; surfaces block/warn/info findings; persists _drift.json.
• Ship to PR — one action commits staged work with a Spec: <slug> trailer, pushes, and opens a GitHub PR.
• Live spec validation — bottom panel lints the active spec on every keystroke (duplicate AC ids, placeholder text, frontmatter errors); count badge on collapsed tab.
• Markdown preview — split-right preview of the active spec, debounced live re-render, toolbar toggle.
• Two-scope memory — ~/.spexr/memory/ (user) + <workspace>/docs/memory/ (project).
• Workspace progress bar — aggregate completion percentage across all specs in the panel.