Release v0.8.2 · synthetiks/claudible

[0.8.2] — 2026-07-17

A reliability release: live-session collaboration now shows the truth, quickly — plus the security and legal
fixes from the pre-beta audit.

When a teammate ends a live session, everyone sees it end — right away, and everywhere. Before, the "● LIVE"
badge could linger for minutes after a host stopped, and only cleared when you clicked the session. Three
separate things were wrong: (1) the badge only tracked the project you were actively in, so a session going
live or ending in a project you were merely looking at froze until you clicked into it; (2) the host's "end"
could silently fail to publish — a network blip at the wrong moment left you advertised as live until a timeout,
and closing the shared tab or deleting the shared project didn't stop it cleanly; (3) if you'd joined the
session, your own connection knew the host was gone within a second or two, but the sidebar ignored that and
waited on the slow sync. All three are fixed: every open project's badge stays current, ending is reliable and
immediate, and a joined session clears in ~1–2 seconds. A hard crash (the one case nothing can clean up) now
clears in about two minutes instead of five.

Creating a project no longer asks "local or shared repo?" Every project starts as a plain private folder —
the "Shared repo project" tile is gone. When you actually want it on your other devices or want a teammate in,
use the project's ▾ menu (Sync across my devices / Invite someone): the same consented flow as before, with
the same "creates a private GitHub repo — your transcripts stay out" confirmation. Nothing is created on
GitHub until you say so, ever. Invites, discovery and already-synced projects behave exactly as before; folders
you adopt still never offer sync (publishing someone's existing repo is not our call to make).

Claudible now injects the live git state of your project into the model's context on every prompt: branch,
short commit, package.json version, up-to-date/ahead/behind-origin status, and the last commit subject —
with an explicit instruction to never state "which version / what's shipped / is it done" from memory or the
conversation summary. In a multi-machine, multi-collaborator, auto-syncing setup the repo genuinely moves under
a long session, and a model answering from a 50-turn-old snapshot confidently reported a released project as
having open bugs. Same cure as the machine-identity line: re-present the truth every turn instead of hoping the
model remembers to check. Local-only git reads (never a fetch) — no network on the prompt hot path; when the
local clone is behind origin, the line says so loudly and tells the model to git fetch before making claims.
Commit subjects are collaborator-authored, so the line is sanitized like every other injected field.

Third-party licenses now ship with the app. The installer bundles a handful of MIT-licensed libraries
(ws, node-pty, xterm), and their licenses now travel with it in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md, as those licenses
require. Enforced by the test suite so it can't silently fall out of the build.
The live-session guest cap is now enforced at admission, not just at connect. With approval on, a backlog of
approvals could seat more than the 8-guest limit; it's now re-checked the moment each guest is let in.

A clearer error when "Install" needs admin rights. On first run, the System-check installer runs with no
terminal, so on a machine without passwordless sudo the package install failed and unhelpfully reported "no
apt/brew" — which was false. It now tells you exactly what to run yourself. The normal (passwordless / root)
path is unchanged.

An "Uninstalling" section, covering what a Windows uninstall intentionally leaves behind (your projects and
the voice models) and how to reclaim it, plus how to stop the background voice services.
The full-transcript sync is now spelled out. Turning on collaboration commits each session's entire
transcript — including anything Claude read — into the private repo's history for collaborators to see. The
in-app modal already said this; the README and SECURITY.md now do too.