Easel Studio 0.0.9

Easel Studio 0.0.9

Use saved images, source audio and reusable video frames to guide generation,
with prompting guidance from the selected model.

• Retrieve model-specific prompting guides from the configured Easel server and
  apply their format and reference guidance to image and video prompts.
• Supply saved source audio for supported video models. The client preserves
  requested audio and image conditioning through validation and cancellation.
• Extract and reuse video frames as saved image references, with timestamps and
  geometry checks before generation.
• Guide H3 video with saved semantic images and ordered temporal frame groups.
  The client validates the selected model's reference counts, frame positions,
  dimensions and image pixel limits before uploading each reference role.
• Improve timeline playback and media preloading so active clips remain available
  under cache pressure.

Model guides, source audio and H3 reference modes depend on the capabilities
advertised by your configured Easel server. Start a fresh agent session after
updating to load the new tool schemas.

Downloads

• Windows x64: installer (.exe) or portable archive (.zip).
• macOS Apple silicon: disk image (.dmg) or archive (.zip), signed with
  Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
• Linux x64: AppImage or Debian package (.deb).

What's Changed

• Expose model guides, source audio, and reusable video frames by @venetanji in #20
• Support managed H3 semantic images and ordered frame groups by @venetanji in #21

Full Changelog: v0.0.8...v0.0.9

Easel Studio 0.0.8

Easel Studio 0.0.8

Strudel gets an offline drum bank, support for attached audio samples and fixes
for WAV export. Export WAV and Cycles now sit in the top toolbar.

• Play and export seven bundled drum samples: kick (bd), snare (sd), closed
  and open hats (hh/oh), clap (cp), tom and rim. The original samples are
  generated reproducibly and work without a network connection.
• Attach short WAV, MP3 or M4A audio from Media, including Suno output, and register
  it with EaselStrudelSamples.add('sample_name', 'MEDIA_ASSET_ID'). Keep that
  registration in the score so it works after reopening. Adding samples and
  evaluating an updated score preserve the live audio context.
• Use Suno M4A output directly for playback and WAV export, without conversion
  or generating the sample again. Agent guidance checks older kit capabilities.
• Export native kick/noise sounds and registered samples with the correct
  envelopes, including full attack-only sample tails. Exports also work when
  the playback device runs at 44.1 kHz.
• Keep live media attachment working after canvas fragment navigation, without
  forcing a source reload.
• Explain unavailable sample features when adding a new template to a project
  with an older pinned Strudel kit; synth examples remain usable.
• Prevent the syntax-highlighting overlay from overflowing the Strudel editor
  while resizing to a narrow canvas.

Create a new Strudel project from Templates to get the bundled drums. Existing
projects keep their authored source, media and pinned kits.

Attached samples support mono/stereo WAV, MP3 or M4A, up to 10 seconds and 4 MiB each.
The duration limit uses decoded audio; AAC padding can put a nominal 10-second
sample over that limit. Request at most 9 seconds for generated one-shots.
WAV export supports 1-16 cycles and up to 30 seconds, with at most 16 sample
names and 8 MiB of sample input. Remote banks, effects, and sample pitch, speed
or slicing remain outside the supported WAV export subset.

Version 0.0.8 also retains the Windows template and timeline storage fix from
0.0.7.

What's Changed

• Fix Strudel WAV export and add offline drum samples by @venetanji in #19

Full Changelog: v0.0.7...v0.0.8

Easel Studio 0.0.6

Easel Studio 0.0.6

Create music through Suno, follow background media jobs, and build a Strudel
score in a simpler live editor.

• Enable Suno music, speech and sound generation through configured Media models.
  Studio follows accepted tracks, downloads completed audio, and saves it to
  Media with the track's title and an audio icon.
• Follow generation and download progress in the Jobs tab, with cancellation,
  persistent status, and completion notifications. Media and Jobs share a
  consistent tab row and search layout.
• Use the Strudel interpreter with syntax highlighting, Run/Stop, selection
  execution through Ctrl+Enter, and a collapsible reference panel. Examples show
  their code; Add & run adds a layer to the score instead of replacing it, and
  updates ongoing playback on the same clock. Bundled synths and worklet effects
  work offline. Reopening a project stays silent until Run.
• Improve template selection, back navigation, toolbar labels, file-tab edges,
  History spacing, drawer transitions, and the divider between chat and canvas.
  Remove the video editor shortcut from the main toolbar.
• Include the media onboarding, offline canvas, and Strudel work merged in
  PRs #15, #16 and #17. Existing projects retain their authored source; fresh
  Strudel instances use the updated editor and example controls.

Website sample banks are not bundled. WAV loop export remains limited to the
supported native synth patterns; it does not export arbitrary effects or samples.

What's Changed

• feat: add media model onboarding and settings shortcuts by @venetanji in #15
• Fix media downloads, image formats, credential redaction, and template retry by @venetanji in #16
• feat: add isolated live Strudel scratchpad by @venetanji in #17
• feat: add Studio audio jobs and live Strudel editing by @venetanji in #18

Full Changelog: v0.0.5...v0.0.6

Easel Studio 0.0.7

Easel Studio 0.0.7

Fix template creation and video timeline saves on Windows. Version 0.0.6
could fail with EPERM: operation not permitted, fsync when creating a video
or Strudel template because its temporary storage files were opened read-only
before flushing them to disk.

• Open temporary template registry and timeline files with write access before
  flushing and committing them.
• Preserve atomic saves and error recovery when a disk write or flush fails.
• Reject whole-drive media output roots on Windows.

Install 0.0.7 over your existing installation, then retry creating the template.
Your saved projects remain in the app's existing data folder.

Full Changelog: v0.0.6...v0.0.7

Easel Studio 0.0.5

What's Changed

• Integrate video editor, generation controls and setup fixes by @venetanji in #10
• test: add Mediabunny feasibility probe source by @venetanji in #5
• feat: editable video editor template with Mediabunny export by @venetanji in #6
• Fix setup wizard bounds and Linux API-key storage by @venetanji in #8
• Remove HyperFrames imports and align client GPL licensing by @venetanji in #12
• Teach Qwen transparency prompting and alpha verification by @venetanji in #11
• feat: add MCP audio, H3 controls and private workspace downloads by @venetanji in #14
• Templates drawer with independent Video and Strudel WAV export by @venetanji in #13

Full Changelog: v0.0.4...v0.0.5

Easel Studio 0.0.4

Easel Studio 0.0.4

New installations now open a setup wizard to choose an agent, add credentials or sign in, and prepare a chat model before creating a canvas.

• Built-in setup enables the selected chat model and makes it active. Codex setup checks account sign-in and model selection; External MCP setup checks that a controller is connected.
• Skip setup, resume an unfinished setup after restarting, or reopen the wizard from Settings. Existing configured installations keep their workspace on launch.
• Fix model dropdown interaction inside modal dialogs, including mouse focus and option selection.
• Integrate the Easel media guidance from PR #4: prompting, continuity, audio and camera planning, a pinned LoRA catalog, and clear limits for currently exposed media tools. The server/GPU migration remains a documented follow-up.

This release includes the packaged Media MCP dependency fix and startup verification introduced in 0.0.3.

What's Changed

• Prepare two-model Easel migration, LoRA skill and queue handoff by @venetanji in #4

Full Changelog: v0.0.3...v0.0.4

Easel Studio 0.0.3

Easel Studio 0.0.3

Fixes a packaged-app startup failure that prevented chat from connecting to the Media MCP server with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for @modelcontextprotocol/sdk.

• Unpack the Media MCP runtime dependencies beside the server so ES module imports work in installed Windows, macOS, and Linux apps.
• Verify the packaged server can connect, discover its tools, and list models using isolated packaged files before publishing desktop downloads. The macOS startup check runs after signing.

Windows EXE/ZIP, signed and notarized macOS DMG/ZIP, and Linux AppImage/DEB packages are provided by the release build.

Full Changelog: v0.0.2...v0.0.3

Easel Studio 0.0.2

Easel Studio 0.0.2

Codex and media

• Enable Codex's tool host and connect Easel MCP before starting a turn, including restored conversations.
• Use native Codex image generation alongside configured Easel image and video models. Requests for a named endpoint use its model ID from list_models.
• Keep an already loaded Codex thread between turns and return a structured media model list.
• Restore saved live screenshot previews in chat and preview canvas recordings when captured.
• Show when media is already saved and the agent is preparing its follow-up reply.
• Keep accepted media jobs downloading after Stop without automatically restarting the stopped agent turn.
• Keep media labels visible and clickable in assistant replies; avoid empty lists after preview captions are assigned.
• Remove the 32 MiB total project media cap and check available disk space before saving images, recordings, and project data.
• Return media references newest first with timestamps, and guide native image lookup to the shared library.
• Share concise harness instructions across agent backends, reuse known model IDs, and remove duplicate provider polling guidance from queued job receipts.
• Acknowledge generated media with its automatic inline preview instead of ending replies with a View or Watch link.
• Let video endpoints choose their default size when dimensions are omitted; reference-image dimensions do not determine video dimensions.

Workspace

• Use the outline SVG easel mark in the app header, desktop windows, installers, and Windows, macOS, and Linux packages.
• Use one viewer tab row, with a trailing + for new HTML canvases and a status dot beside each document title.
• Open the Files drawer by clicking the selected document tab. Project ZIP download, Undo, and document device settings live in the drawer.
• Replace chat and media action labels with accessible icons and consistent spacing.
• Sort project media and the shared library newest first using media timestamps.
• Show a spinning Media icon badge while media jobs are queued, generating, or downloading, across projects.
• Choose available kits while creating a project; new HTML canvases inherit its kit selection.

Canvas tools

• Return compact source contracts and omit media manifests from file listings by default; full diagnostics remain available through inspect_canvas.
• Return saved source paths and revisions from present_canvas so agents can edit extracted scripts and styles directly.
• Guide agents toward bounded source reads, atomic edit batches, and one reload and capture with validation.
• Guide p5 sketches toward bounded mount sizing so responsive canvases do not overflow or grow their own containers.
• Report enabled kits in canvas-creation receipts and return targeted corrections for duplicate document paths and blocked CDN dependencies.
• Validate source references in every HTML document before committing edits, including atomic patch batches; missing kits direct the agent to user enablement.
• Clarify that tools must execute before a final completion reply and that JavaScript media uses saved asset placeholders or the offline resolver.

Downloads

Windows installers and ZIPs, signed and notarized macOS packages, and Linux AppImage and Debian packages are attached by the tag build workflow.

What's Changed

• Sign and notarize macOS release builds by @venetanji in #2
• Fix Codex media access, polish workspace, and prepare 0.0.2 by @venetanji in #3

New Contributors

• @venetanji made their first contribution in #2

Full Changelog: v0.0.1...v0.0.2

Easel Studio 0.0.1

Easel Studio 0.0.1

The first desktop release of Easel Studio: a local workspace for creating interactive canvases, images, and videos with an agent.

Highlights

• Projects with multiple HTML files, shared media references, offline canvas assets, and ZIP export.
• Built-in agent chat with saved history, attachments, templates, reusable skills, and Stop controls.
• External control through authenticated local MCP, plus embedded Codex chat and native image generation through the installed Codex CLI and ChatGPT sign-in.
• Image generation, editing, and variation; video generation with persistent background jobs, queue estimates, thumbnails, and completion previews.
• Targeted source editing, managed canvas reloads, live screenshots, video capture, and structured runtime diagnostics.
• Bundled Three.js, p5.js, Phaser, Matter.js, and Tone.js kits; user-controlled camera, microphone, and audio testing.

macOS Signing Update

The macOS DMG and ZIP are Developer ID signed and Apple notarized. Both the app and DMG passed signature verification, notarization ticket validation, and Gatekeeper assessment in Desktop Builds run 36810889542.

These packages were built from afb32bc. The source tag v0.0.1 remains the original release tag.

Downloads

Choose a package from Assets below. Filenames include the operating system and CPU architecture.

Platform	Package
Windows	.exe installer, or .zip containing the app
macOS	.dmg, or .zip containing the app
Linux	.AppImage, or .deb for Debian/Ubuntu

For the Windows ZIP, extract the whole archive and launch Easel Studio.exe. On Linux, make the AppImage executable before opening it.

Getting Started

Add an endpoint and key in Settings > Credentials, refresh its models, and choose an agent model in chat. Media generation uses the enabled media models from your endpoints.

For external agent control, select Settings > Agent > External MCP and use its connection instructions. For embedded Codex, install the official Codex CLI, select Codex, and sign in with ChatGPT. See the README for setup and canvas contracts.

The macOS packages are signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Windows packages are unsigned. Canvas content runs offline with local assets; audio playback and device access require a user action. API generation requires your own configured service.

What's Changed

• Add project workspace, durable chats, and canvas media tools by @venetanji with @Copilot in #1

New Contributors

• @venetanji with @Copilot made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/venetanji/easel-client/commits/v0.0.1