Changelog

What's New

Smarter Local Connections: Mobile devices now discover secure direct connections automatically and recover smoothly when the available route changes.
Redesigned Mobile Workspace: The all-new mobile interface transforms the editor, file browser, Git views, and chat drawer with polished navigation, richer visuals, and more flexible organization.
Mobile Terminal Upgrade: The rebuilt iOS and Android terminal delivers smoother output, more reliable input, and steadier behavior when switching chats or reconnecting.
Faster Project Files: Large project trees now open and refresh faster through a shared file index that stays current as files change.
Better Follow-Up Queue: Queued messages now survive interruptions and can be reordered, edited, or sent into the active turn at any time.
Full-Screen Artifact Viewer: Open shared images, audio, video, and other files in a dedicated viewer with playback controls and quick attachment navigation.
Better Chat Streaming: Responses now stream more smoothly with new animations and clearer tool and plan activity across desktop, web, and mobile.

Experimental Features

Persistent Goals Across Agents: Use /goal to keep Codex, Claude, Pi, OpenCode, and other compatible agents working across turns, with progress, pause, resume, edit, and clear controls on desktop and mobile.
Side Chats: Use /side, selected text, context, or a queued message to start an isolated temporary chat without changing the parent conversation or adding to your history.

Bug Fixes

Chat Reliability: Fixed lost or duplicated turns during reconnects, stale state after navigation, changing follow-up identities, incomplete subagent continuity, and chats appearing finished too early.
Streaming & Context: Fixed stuttering responses, unstable first-response rendering on mobile, missing attachments after resume, repeated Claude results, and execution modes changing after continuation.
Sidebar & Workspace: Fixed missing newly opened projects, inconsistent project order, drafts or panels resetting during chat switches, and conversation lists disappearing during recovery.
Mobile Terminal: Fixed dropped input after reconnecting, output appearing in the wrong chat, focus races, unsafe teardown, and failures during rapid workspace changes.
Mobile Navigation: Fixed startup routing loops, stale drawers and sheets, incorrect device scope, and handoff races with the active connection.
Files, Editor & Git: Fixed stale file trees, Git status leaking between repositories, unavailable mobile actions staying enabled, editor worker failures, and in-progress file updates reverting.
Connections & Browser: Fixed local-route handoff failures, remote tunnel address collisions, browser URLs changing during transport switches, and tunneled previews failing to recover.
Desktop & Updates: Fixed interrupted downloads, blocked updates, unclear stalled-update recovery, launch theme flashes, Windows development startup failures, and sign-in flows that could not be cancelled.

Changes

Various bug fixes and UI enhancements

Changes

Various bug fixes and UI enhancements

Kisuke Desktop

Desktop UI Revamp: Zen Mode and Classic Mode have a cleaner workspace, smoother panel behavior, and richer chat details throughout the app.
Classic Mode Revamp: Build a true split workspace and drag columns to redock them into your preferred layout.
Sidebar Hover Cards: Hover over a chat to see its project, branch, worktree, and device, then use the new next-unread shortcut.

Multi-Device Sync

Every Paired Device: Chats and your open workspace stay in sync across every paired iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux device, even after reconnecting.
Surfaces Follow You: Continue the same terminals, browsers, and files from another paired device without rebuilding your session.
Device-Aware Projects: Project folders stay on their host machine while onboarding and installed-plugin state remain consistent everywhere.
Faster Chat History: Conversations open sooner and load older messages as you scroll, keeping long chats fast and steady.
Visible Subagents: Subagents appear in worked-for summaries with distinct avatars, collapsible environments, and their own multi-tab Zen workspaces.
Broader Session Import: Dedicated per-agent parsers let you import conversations from many more external agents and formats.
Edited-File Summaries: Each turn shows the files it touched, with hover previews and detected file-reference previews.
Mobile File Import: Bring files directly into your projects from iOS and Android.
Project Drawer: Browse saved projects through the refined drawer and manage them from Settings.

Bug Fixes

Crash-Safe Updates: Updates now preserve active sessions, terminals, and tunnels, recover cleanly after crashes or power loss, and roll back safely across platforms.
Update Protection: Background processes recover reliably after updates, with protection against accidental version downgrades.
Clarifying Questions: Codex input requests now open in Kisuke's keyboard-friendly question interface.
Context-Preserving Edits: Editing an earlier message now retains prior conversation context.
Chat Reliability: Fixed premature completion between tools, canonical edited turns, lost focus, narrow model selectors, transcript navigation, and duplicate durations.
Workspace Stability: Fixed hidden panel layers, closable tabs, preserved launchers, per-chat side panels, editor file links, and draft workspaces.
Agent Compatibility: Fixed Codex approval responses and live events, normalized ACP tool activity, and disabled unsafe editing for agents without rollback.
Permissions and Sync: Persistent approvals, onboarding, and plugin state now reconcile across devices without duplicate responses.
Mobile Notifications: Fixed hidden-chat approvals, stale alerts, and queued actions after reconnecting.
Mobile Reliability: Improved iOS startup and chat input, serialized approval responses, stabilized early summaries, and fixed empty project catalogs.
Editor Undo & Redo: Restored native undo and redo in the editor and composer.
Editor & Desktop: Fixed clipped Monaco hovers, local folder browsing, panel resizing, and popout window rendering and resource lifecycles.
Windows & Onboarding: Restored harness detection, hid background processes, fixed Unicode CLI output, and made GitHub CLI checks lifecycle-safe.

Harnesses (beta preview)

Bring Your Own Harness: Run Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode, Goose, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Copilot CLI, and other ACP-compatible harnesses from one interface, with the harness chosen per chat.
Harness Discovery: Find installed harnesses in a searchable Settings panel covering 30+ ACP registry options, including availability, installation status, and website links.
Shared Harness Controls: Use supported slash commands, plan mode, and delegated Tasks through the same Kisuke interface across harnesses.
Native Models: Browse, refresh, and switch each harness's own models directly from Kisuke.
Shared MCPs, Hooks & Skills: Use your configured MCPs, PreToolUse hooks, and enabled plugin skills across supported harnesses.
Consistent Conversations: Imported tools use readable names and familiar cards, while Kisuke maintains a durable transcript that can resume across harnesses.
Chat Origins: Each conversation clearly shows its source harness and format, with its selected harness kept consistent for the session.
Richer Chat: View live images inline, edit your latest message, access quick message actions, and see tool work grouped into a collapsible activity region.
Zen Workspace: Chat summaries and pinned Tasks now work without Git and collapse cleanly in narrow columns.
Refreshed Design & Settings: Themes, defaults, MCP and plugin management, and desktop menus now feel more consistent and respond to the current context.

🧪 Experimental Features

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Bring your own model: Self-hosted or custom models through the new Custom provider.
Rewind & Checkpoints: Roll Claude Code or Pi sessions back to an earlier point, including their associated file changes.
Universal History: Open sessions from Cursor, Gemini, Qwen, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Goose, Codex, and Pi, then continue supported sessions natively through ACP.

🛠 Bug Fixes

Codex & Providers: Improved Codex web tools, rollbacks, MCP rendering, and Adaptive Thinking.
Fixed multi-turn failures with DeepSeek.
Fixed Kimi and Qwen processing.
Chat Reliability: Fixed URL chip editing, prompt history recall, draft sending, duplicate archived chats, and redundant streaming indicators.
Imported Sessions: External sessions now remain indexed reliably, with readable tool names and a dedicated card for directory listings.
Zen Stability: Improved project and task grouping, dragging, and automatic scrolling.
Mobile: Refined chat spacing and typography, stabilized the drawer and loading states, fixed device-row scrolling, and improved Android build reliability.
Editor Diagnostics: Fixed TypeScript import resolution so valid imports no longer appear with false red error underlines.
Desktop & Editor: Improved daemon recovery, workspace diagnostics, settings scrolling, Windows file activity, manual port forwarding, and Windows ARM64 builds.

Changes

Various bug fixes and UI enhancements

What's New

Unified Desktop & Connect: Kisuke App and Kisuke Connect are now one desktop experience, with one shared connection layer for projects, agents, devices, and mobile.
Per-Chat Worktrees in Zenmode: Give each conversation its own branch and worktree so multiple agents can work in parallel without stepping on each other.
Send-Now Follow-Ups: Promote a queued follow-up into the live turn when you need to steer an agent immediately.
Long Chat Loading: Huge conversations now open quickly and fetch older messages as you scroll.
Chat Status Indicators: Zen Mode and the sidebar now show each chat's state at a glance, including running, draft, error, and done.
Image Chips: Pasted and uploaded images appear as inline [image N] chips in the composer on desktop and mobile.
Zen Browser Preview: Ask an agent to start a local port and open it immediately in the Zen panel Browser or the Mobile Browser.
Mobile Redesign: Mobile now has a multi-project drawer, native iOS 26 chrome, full-width editor and terminal panels, per-project settings, and improved terminal controls.
Upgraded File Browser: Browse project files with thumbnails, multi-select, drag, inline creation, and quick actions like reveal and copy path.
Conductor Import: Kisuke imports Conductor.app projects and settings on first run and keeps them in sync.

Experimental Features

Review Mode: Review branches, PRs, commits, stashes, worktrees, individual diffs, and branch history from a dedicated review workspace.
Agentic Browser Control: Agents can click, type, and navigate inside the built-in browser.
Codex: Sessions are now auto indexed and available (read-only).

Bug Fixes

Chat Reliability: Fixed draft leaks, stale links after chat switches, resume failures, stuck spinners, untitled title flashes, duplicate rows, and incomplete resumed history.
Streaming & Context: Fixed repeated or stuttering output, stalled compaction, missing tool calls on resume, and stalled turn status after app resume.
Sidebar & Zen Mode: Fixed unread indicators, chronological context menus, worktree chat tab restore, unreopenable worktree sidebars, right-panel tab switching, and non-git folder setup prompts.
Git & Review: Scoped git status to the correct repo root, prevented request cross-talk, improved unreadable repo messaging, avoided credential-prompt hangs during repo creation, and fixed diff token highlighting.
Browser: Fixed omnibar focus issues, .tld navigation, URL persistence across chat switches, copy-URL focus bugs, and tunneled app loading problems.
Desktop & Updates: Fixed repeated onboarding, cold-start auth races, Dock-launched PATH issues, stale Windows self-updates, tray state drift, and deep links after closing to tray.
Windows: Fixed high-DPI file-tree issues, flashing console windows, busy file deletes, PTYs blocking worktree removal, menubar anchoring, and resume-modal keyboard controls.
Mobile: Fixed terminal lifecycle crashes, stuck sheets, keyboard handling, drawer gestures.
Connections & Auth: Fixed token-refresh races, relay disconnect recovery, local-network blip handling, reconnect queue replay, orphan daemon cleanup, and local socket preference on the Projects page.
Terminal & Editor: Fixed terminal copy shortcuts, panel-toggle refocus, TUI alt-screen scrolling, diff contrast and performance, in-flight edit reverts, and .ts file opening.
Popout, Tray & Themes: Fixed popout reconnects, tray task tracking, and contrast across Everforest, Gruvbox, and light themes.

Changes

Unified Desktop & Connect: Kisuke App and Kisuke Connect are now one desktop experience, with one shared connection layer for projects, agents, devices, and mobile.
Codex Session Context: Run OpenAI's Codex agent alongside Claude Code, with sessions indexed, resumable, and shown in the same sidebar.
Per-Chat Worktrees in Zenmode: Give each conversation its own branch and worktree so multiple agents can work in parallel without stepping on each other.
Send-Now Follow-Ups: Promote a queued follow-up into the live turn when you need to steer an agent immediately.
Long Chat Loading: Huge conversations now open quickly and fetch older messages as you scroll.
Chat Status Indicators: Zen Mode and the sidebar now show each chat's state at a glance, including running, draft, error, and done.
Image Chips: Pasted and uploaded images appear as inline [image N] chips in the composer on desktop and mobile.
Zen Browser Preview: Ask an agent to start a local port and open it immediately in the Zen panel Browser or the Mobile Browser.
Mobile Redesign: Mobile now has a multi-project drawer, native iOS 26 chrome, full-width editor and terminal panels, per-project settings, and improved terminal controls.
Upgraded File Browser: Browse project files with thumbnails, multi-select, drag, inline creation, and quick actions like reveal and copy path.
Conductor Import: Kisuke imports Conductor.app projects and settings on first run and keeps them in sync.
Review Mode: Review branches, PRs, commits, stashes, worktrees, individual diffs, and branch history from a dedicated review workspace.
Agentic Browser Control: Agents can click, type, and navigate inside the built-in browser.
Chat Reliability: Fixed draft leaks, stale links after chat switches, resume failures, stuck spinners, untitled title flashes, duplicate rows, and incomplete resumed history.
Streaming & Context: Fixed repeated or stuttering output, stalled compaction, missing tool calls on resume, and stalled turn status after app resume.
Sidebar & Zen Mode: Fixed unread indicators, chronological context menus, worktree chat tab restore, unreopenable worktree sidebars, right-panel tab switching, and non-git folder setup prompts.
Git & Review: Scoped git status to the correct repo root, prevented request cross-talk, improved unreadable repo messaging, avoided credential-prompt hangs during repo creation, and fixed diff token highlighting.
Browser: Fixed omnibar focus issues, .tld navigation, URL persistence across chat switches, copy-URL focus bugs, and tunneled app loading problems.
Desktop & Updates: Fixed repeated onboarding, cold-start auth races, Dock-launched PATH issues, stale Windows self-updates, tray state drift, and deep links after closing to tray.
Windows: Fixed high-DPI file-tree issues, flashing console windows, busy file deletes, PTYs blocking worktree removal, menubar anchoring, and resume-modal keyboard controls.
Mobile: Fixed terminal lifecycle crashes, stuck sheets, keyboard handling, drawer gestures.
Connections & Auth: Fixed token-refresh races, relay disconnect recovery, local-network blip handling, reconnect queue replay, orphan daemon cleanup, and local socket preference on the Projects page.
Terminal & Editor: Fixed terminal copy shortcuts, panel-toggle refocus, TUI alt-screen scrolling, diff contrast and performance, in-flight edit reverts, and .ts file opening.
Popout, Tray & Themes: Fixed popout reconnects, tray task tracking, and contrast across Everforest, Gruvbox, and light themes.

Changes

Various bug fixes
Improved streaming performance, smoother text updates during long responses
Better autoscroll behavior when messages are coming in
Prompt suggestions and improved tool result displays
Redesigned tool blocks with animations and structured diffs on mobile
Plan mode now shows an inline card in the input bar for reviewing plans
Inline plan editing and improved permission prompts
Plan card dismisses automatically after follow-up messages
Added support for GPT 5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6 (1M context by default), alongside the latest Gemini models.
Unified commands and skills into a single system — use slash commands for everything
Improved slash command dropdown styling
Skills panel now supports scope editing, markdown preview, and matches desktop features
Improved reconnection recovery on mobile
Chat settings panel with thinking level selector
Desktop notifications support
Improved tunnel reliability and stale cleanup
Worktree support, run isolated branches side-by-side without switching
Mobile worktree integration with chat restore
Image Viewer: Tap any image in chat to open a full-screen viewer with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-dismiss.
Chat Titles: Conversations now auto-generate titles from your first message, so the sidebar is actually useful.
Smarter Permissions: Type feedback when allowing or denying a tool, get granular "Always Allow" scoped to specific tools and paths, and see conflict warnings when rules overlap.
Desktop Updater: Redesigned update experience with background downloads, progress bar, cancel support, and a toolbar badge when an update is ready.
Session Preservation: Terminal sessions and chat history survive desktop app updates — pick up right where you left off.
Durable Outbox: Messages are saved locally before sending. If the connection drops, they retry automatically when you're back online.
Gemini Onboarding: Connecting a Gemini provider now guides you through Google Cloud project setup.
CLI Bundled with Kisuke Connect: The command-line tool ships inside the connect app — no separate install needed.
Model Filtering: The model picker only shows models your current credentials can access.
Adaptive Thinking: Choose the agent's reasoning depth across all model providers.
Paste Grouping: Long pasted text is collapsed into a clean attachment instead of flooding the input.
Local Connection: When the app and daemon are on the same machine, they connect directly over a local socket — no relay needed.
Nosleep Mode: Prevent your machine from sleeping while a session is active. MacBooks can stay running with the lid closed.
Mobile: Fixed Android terminal crash on view destroy, iOS terminal selection/copy gesture conflicts, Live Activity theme colors, font rendering in markdown blocks, and paste interception on physical Android keyboards.
Desktop & Windows: Fixed window controls disappearing in Zen mode, port forwarding missing IPv6 listeners, zombie PowerShell processes from port monitoring, worktree permission errors on Windows, and font flash on load.
Connections: Tunnels no longer duplicate on reconnect, brief network blips no longer trigger disconnect banners, and device switching properly cleans up stale sessions.
Chat: Fixed duplicate messages, missing tool calls on /resume, stalled turn status after app resume, and sidebar showing the same conversation twice.
File attachments support with warnings for unsupported formats
Prompt suggestions, improved tool blocks, and autoscroll
New renderers for MCP tools, web search results, task tools, and exploring groups
Polished message UI and improved rendering performance
Rewrote the web tunnel bridge with auto-forward support
Binary image upload and native binary streaming through tunnels
New settings panels for Editor, Terminal, MCP Servers, Agents, and Commands
Fixed sign-out button and version label alignment
Branded OAuth success page and improved signing-in flow
Improved Android OAuth and VPN reliability
Fixed ANSI color rendering
Improved keyboard behavior on Android
Fixed stale file display after switching projects
iOS live activity now uses liquid glass
Fixed first-time card UI and notification wording
Added mascot branding to Windows installer
Added ARM64 macOS build
Unified web and desktop shared code into a single UI package
Repositioned navbar and connection status bar
This is the inaugural staging release of Kisuke, marking a major milestone in bringing together Desktop, Mobile (iOS/Android), and Web development IDE.
Fix connection stability issues that caused repeated disconnections and UI freezes during reconnection.
Add popout chat window support for desktop and web.
Improve mobile experience with background audio playback, better terminal keyboard controls, and fixes for iOS/Android-specific issues including browser keyboard traps and audio output.
Polish desktop UI with consistent hover states, visibility fixes, and new shortcuts.
Rename internal device API for consistency across platforms.
Enable macOS desktop builds in staging and update Kotlin dependencies for Android.
Persistent Browser Tabs: Browser tabs now survive app restarts with screenshot thumbnails, so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
Collapsed Tool Summaries: Resolved tool calls collapse into a single summary line, keeping long conversations clean and scannable.
Inline Permission Prompts: On mobile, the input bar transforms into a permission prompt when approval is needed — no more modal interruptions.
Thinking Moved to Status Bar: AI thinking blocks no longer clutter the conversation — they're shown in the status bar above the input instead.
Refreshed macOS Installer: New DMG background and improved visual styling for a polished first-run experience.
Everforest Theme Refresh: Updated to a hard palette for sharper contrast and readability.
Kisuke Connect (macOS): Fixed two separate issues that prevented the app from updating — missing signing artifacts on CDN and a build detection bug that blocked release builds from self-updating.
Chat: Fixed text duplication and visual stutter when stopping a task mid-stream, and fixed links not being tappable on mobile.
Mobile: Only the tapped sign-in button now shows a loading spinner, browser URL no longer flickers when opening a tunnel from settings, fixed chat input font rendering.
Settings: Built-in MCPs now appear in the settings panel and the label has been updated from "Servers" to "MCPs".
Connections: Fixed OAuth port exhaustion when reconnecting repeatedly, eliminated duplicate streaming output from Codex models.
Prompt Suggestions: New "ghost" suggestions help you kick off conversations, while a thinking level indicator lets you choose the agent's reasoning depth.
Richer Messages: Improved message bubbles now feature context item previews and improved token usage indicators.
Device Switching: Seamlessly switch devices when opening or switching a project via a new integrated dropdown menu in mobile.
Anthropic Console: You can now sign in directly using your Anthropic Console account.
Speed Boost: Faster message rendering and reduced lag during streaming on mobile.
iPad & Tablet Support: Full adaptive layout with split-view workspaces for larger screens.
Zen Mode: A focused, chat-first UI with built-in Git actions (commit/push/PR).
New Models: Added support for Moonshot and Qwen with seamless sign-in.
Settings Overhaul: Dedicated panels for managing agents, slash commands, and MCP servers in one place, now added to mobile.
Android/iOS Polishing: Fixed Android keyboard focusing and iOS Live Activity theme colors.
Terminal & Tunnels: Patched ANSI colors, duplicated shell prompts, and tunnel port binding issues.