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Holmes now asks you to sign in, and this is the first installer built from today's work.
Download Holmes.dmg, open it, and drag Holmes into Applications, replacing the previous copy.
Accounts
- Holmes asks you to create an account or sign in when onboarding starts, and again at launch if you are signed out. Settings shows your email with a Sign Out button.
- Signing in records your email, the Mac's Region setting, macOS version, Holmes version, and Mac model. Holmes also checks in once a day so installs can be counted. Everything else still happens on this Mac, and the onboarding text now says exactly that.
- Holmes predicts the email you are about to write from the thread, the people you are writing to, your calendar, recent mail you sent that person, and what it remembers, then writes it into the composer. It never sends.
- One click undo puts back whatever was there. If you already typed something, Holmes offers a review card instead of writing.
- It can offer to add a calendar event, save a draft, set a reminder to follow up, or fill an empty subject. Each one asks first.
- Gmail drafts keep their line breaks, signatures and quoted replies stay untouched, inline replies are recognised, and Outlook and Proton composers work too.
Tasks that finish, or say why not
- Starting a task no longer breaks the stop button for one already running, and approval cards wait their turn instead of cancelling each other. Unattended approvals time out rather than blocking everything.
- Clicking and typing report success only when they worked. Emoji type correctly, the clipboard is restored properly, and the confirmation gate checks the control that actually matched, so a vague request cannot reach a Send button.
- Model replies wrapped in extra text are still understood, a stalled request is detected instead of hanging for ten minutes, and a dropped connection is retried once.
Browser extension
- Tabs that were already open reconnect after the extension updates, and commands still arrive when Chrome puts the extension to sleep.
- Large results no longer look like timeouts, the same command cannot run twice, several browsers can stay paired at once, and error messages say what actually went wrong.
- Reload the extension at chrome://extensions after updating, then refresh your mail tab.
Also
- A short launch video plays the first time Holmes opens.
For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. This build is ad hoc signed and not notarized, so if macOS blocks it, right click Holmes in Applications and choose Open once. INSTALL.md in the repository has the full first launch steps.
Checksum files are included. Verify the download with shasum, checking Holmes.dmg against Holmes.dmg.sha256 with both files in the same directory.