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0.103.0

This release is about clicking a file an agent named. A path printed into a session underlines when you point at it and opens when you click it — absolute or relative, mid-sentence or at the end of the line, and a bare filename too. The redline has been given the room to read like a marked-up document rather than a stack of tiles, a wide table in a preview takes the room its content needs, and a large prose file opens at once instead of after seconds.

Added

  • A file an agent names in a session is now a link: point at it and it underlines, click it and it opens where it belongs — prose and code in the editor, a picture in the image view, and a PDF, which Tortie cannot draw, in whatever your Mac opens PDFs with. A path that runs off the right edge of the pane is left alone, because where it ends is not known, and a session running on another machine offers no file links at allb3d042ed4616784094a367d1a9c228876d5
  • Nothing that could run is ever offered, whatever it is called: a file with the executable bit set, an application, or a folder wearing a picture's name. Neither is a file whose name says it holds a secret, which now covers auth.json, .npmrc, .git-credentials and their family as well as the dotenv and key files it already covered4094a36110de49
  • A path printed at the end of a line is a link too. It used to be left alone along with paths that run off the right edge of the pane, and the end of a line is where an agent almost always writes one; a path that really does run off the edge is still left aloned810c33f
  • So is a path written relative to the project, which is most of what an agent prints: it opens the file under the project that session is in. A name that resolves outside that project is left alone, a relative name is never handed to your Mac so a PDF named that way opens nothing, a session running on another machine still offers no file links at all, and a name printed by an agent working in another copy of the same project can open that file in the wrong copy286f7eec
  • A path with its line written the ways tools actually write it now clicks too: grep's path:12:matched text, a compiler's path(12,34) or path[12], and a name with square brackets in it such as pages/[slug].tsx. Only the path and its line are underlined, never the matched text after themb62e277c
  • A bare filename with no slash in it — README.md, Makefile, package.json — is a link as well now, opened under the project that session is in. A plain word, a version number and a dotfile are never links, a name that matches no file there underlines nothing, and a path wrapped onto a second line of the pane is still left alone, because the pane cannot say where it beganb62e277c

Changed

  • A redline now reads in a column wide enough for prose, and a marking that wraps onto a second line is drawn as one continuous passage instead of a row of separate tiles. The change you are standing on is shown by a bar in the margin rather than an outline around every fragment of it, and Accept all and the count of changes line up with your text — on a narrow pane the controls go back over the prose, because there is nowhere beside it for them to sit08d1dc3887eace90
  • A table in a redline is marked row against row now, so renaming a column shows the words that changed instead of striking the whole table through and repeating it. A table over about four thousand characters still gets no redline at all01fca241553117a0

Fixed

  • A wide table in a Markdown preview now takes the width of the pane rather than the width of the reading column, so columns that used to be cut off with nothing on the page to say they were there can be read. Code blocks do the same, and a table too wide even for that still scrolls sideways in its own box, with a scrollbar you can now seeb3c119518ff5ca1d
  • A wide block in a preview now takes only the width its content needs, where before it always took the widest box the pane allowed and drew mostly empty inside its own border. A short block still fills the reading column exactly as before56c754ef
  • A blank line added or removed in a redline is now marked. It used to be drawn as nothing at all, while still offering Rewind and Accept on a change there was no way to see08d1dc38
  • A large Markdown file now opens at once, where it used to hang for seconds while the whole rendered page was built before anything appeared. Past about a quarter of a megabyte the file opens in Source with Preview one click away on the mode chip, which says what that click will cost; a smaller file still opens rendered exactly as beforef163d942

0.102.0

This release is about the redline you can rewind, accept and now type in. Every edit to a prose file shows up as a marking against what the file was, whether git has noticed it or not, and a change you point at either goes back with one key or stops being marked with another, without the file being touched. The editor answers a right click now too, and saving a file somebody else has written to asks you first.

Added

  • The Redline tab for a Markdown or text file now marks every change since the last commit, or since you opened the file when it is not in git. It redraws by itself when an agent writes to the file, and it waits while you have unsaved edits8e036fcf41a5e394e21c6
  • Point at a change in the redline with Option-Down and Option-Up, press Option-Delete, and that one phrase goes back to what it was while every other edit in the file stands. Your own paragraph carries the same control as an agent's, so a rewind can be undone with Shift-Option-Delete for as long as the tab is openfd7ea6cd9590ea1cb818ed9ac372
  • A rewind is written only if the file still holds exactly what Tortie read when you pressed. If something wrote to it in between, or the phrase is no longer there, nothing is written and the redline says which, though a write of exactly the same size landing in the same instant as the rewind can still be written over71fa4f8389a47f
  • The redline now says what its keys are. Point at a change, or step to it, and a small panel appears beside it offering Rewind with the keys written next to it, and the Edit menu shows the same keys and is available only while a redline is open, though Undo there always means the last rewind in the tab rather than the change you are pointing at74a3a79c7948fadd2c8a27b9e090
  • A redline with nothing marked now says so, and says what it is being compared against — the last commit, or for a file git does not know about, the time you opened it — so an empty page is no longer mistaken for one that has not loaded4de50a2
  • You can type in the redline now, so a typo you notice while reading a file no longer means switching to Source to fix it and switching back. What you type is drawn as an insertion like any other change, Command-Z takes it back, and Command-S writes the file — though a save writes what is in front of you over anything an agent wrote to that file while you were typing0722478fd70048ff9d817cbf192d
  • A change you agree with can now be accepted instead of rewound. Press Option-Return on it, or Accept all at the top of the redline, and it stops being marked without a byte of the file being written — though accepting ends the undo of any rewind you made before it7a91726eea8ec8f044001225958d
  • Right-clicking in the editor now opens a menu, where it used to do nothing at all. It carries the ordinary editing rows along with Find, Change All Occurrences, Go to Line, Fold and Unfold, and History, Copy Path, Copy Relative Path and Save for the file you are in808da3380b32c7
  • What you accept in a redline now outlasts the tab. Close the file, reload the window, or quit and come back, and the marking is still narrowed to what changed since you accepted, with the day it was taken written beside it — what is kept is the marking and never a copy of your text, and it lasts until the file's committed version changes, or a week after you accepted, when the redline goes back to marking every change since the commitb6307d351d90298a6c3a1d5adb0b
  • A markdown table under your cursor can be tidied from that menu, and a wall of one-line JSON pretty-printed or squashed back onto one line, over what you have selected or wherever the cursor is, and one Command-Z takes any of them back. A table with a row wider than its header is refused with the line named rather than reflowed, and JSON is left alone if formatting it would change anything other than the spacingebdaab67701c0cbee4e01

Changed

  • The redline's controls now belong to the change you are on rather than to your pointer: they stay put while you read, while you type in that change, and while an agent writes to the file, and they move with the change when the file reflows underneath them. Clicking anywhere else in the text puts them away, and Undo has left the panel for the line that already says it means the last rewind in the tabe8bfa9a67994329bcdfaf10c4093

Fixed

  • Saving a file that changed on disk while you were typing no longer writes over it in silence. Tortie says so and offers three answers: Compare, which opens the two versions side by side, Cancel, or Overwrite, which is never the default. Overwriting is checked again as you press it, so a write that arrives while the question is on screen is caught as well067f0a0112bcca4ac7c1203c
  • A file that is a symbolic link, and a file outside your open projects such as a global CLAUDE.md, are asked about too. They are checked a moment before they are written rather than as they are written, so a write that lands in that moment is still lost96f6d634
  • A save that cannot happen now says why, whether the file is read-only, gone, too large, in a project you have closed or not text Tortie can rewrite without damaging it. It used to say the same sentence twice and name no causec7c1203c96f6d634
  • A file that is not plain UTF-8 text is no longer told that something wrote to it when nothing did. It says the file is not text Tortie can rewrite, and it leaves every byte where it was96f6d634
  • Every kind of file now gets the same question and the same second look: a file in a project, a symbolic link, a file outside your open projects, or one that grew too large to read while you were typing. Overwrite is checked again as you press it whichever kind it is, though a write of exactly the same size landing in the same instant as the save can still be written overa40282ed
  • Tortie now signs in to your machines side by side when it starts, so a machine that is off or asleep no longer holds up the one that answers, though a fifth machine waiting behind four that do not answer still waits for them. A machine that did not answer at launch is asked again on its own, first after half a minute and then less often up to every five minutes, and at once when it starts answering2df65516039cc213
  • The bar saying a machine could not be reached now appears on that machine's own tab only, and no longer on another machine's tab or on a local one87783605
  • A tab whose machine did not answer now carries Prepare this machine, the same control Settings has, so you can reconnect from where you are882b3484da18d0a6
  • A symbolic link inside the folder you let Tortie save under is no longer a way out of it. A save, a new folder or a rename aimed through one is refused and says so, where before it could replace a file outside that folder and tell you it had saved — and the Stage and Commit buttons refuse through one too, where before they acted on whatever the link really pointed at and said the work was done — though a link that points back inside that folder is refused as wellb3550212fa89813f
  • The two messages you get when Tortie cannot write on a machine now send you to the right place. They used to tell you to confirm a machine you had already confirmed, when what was missing was the folderaa1dd69b
  • The Architecture map now says when the picture it drew is only part of a folder. A repository too large to read in one pass was drawn as though it were the whole thing, with nothing on the picture to say otherwise69a14370
  • A picture opened from a machine no longer offers Reveal in Finder. The file is on that machine, so the row could only ever have opened a folder on this one3d17478f
  • Dropping a picture into an agent on a machine now always lands in Tortie's own folder there. A name planted in that folder beforehand could send the picture somewhere else on that machine while Tortie reported it had arrived29ee53c4
  • Reopening a prose file no longer carries the last opening's rewind with it. Undo in a freshly opened tab could put back text from a session you had already closed, over what was in the filec043c2b5
  • Architecture on a machine now notices an edit that leaves a file the same size within the same second. Such a change was invisible for as long as the file stayed that way, so the picture could keep describing code that had already changedc8a836bb
  • Inserting a paragraph above one you had edited no longer makes the paragraph below look rewritten. The redline marks the word that moved and draws the new paragraph once, where before it struck the whole paragraph through and then repeated it in green with nothing marked at all — though a paragraph you rewrote rather than edited still shows as the old one struck through and the new one after it, because there is no single word left to markea2e6750

0.101.0

This release is about light mode. The whole app can now sit on paper rather than graphite, terminal and editor and diffs included, and the frame controls work the same way on both. A codex session you restore after a reboot now opens instead of refusing, and a development build no longer disagrees with the installed app about which tmux to use.

Added

  • Tortie can run light. Settings then Appearance offers Light, Dark or Match the Mac, and the terminal, the editor, the diff view, the Architecture map and the window itself all follow. Switching is a crossfade, and it is instant if you have reduced motion turned on4ab4400419bc5f4564106
  • The colour and depth controls work on light as they do on dark, and a control that cannot move on the base you are using is simply not shown. A shade you chose on dark comes back when you choose Dark againa5a846a
  • Settings now says why the Claude usage meter is polling, so a meter that is working is not mistaken for one that is stuck2f96be2
  • The repository carries a costing of what shipping Tortie on Linux and Windows would take, written to be read rather than filed4e1b98c

Fixed

  • Restoring a codex session after a reboot now opens the conversation you actually had. It could name one of that session's sub-agents instead, which codex refuses to resume; rows already stored that way are repaired once, and a row whose parent cannot be found is left alone rather than guessed atac13925f2acc9e
  • A development build and the installed app now run the same tmux, so they can no longer disagree about a session server after a restart. If they ever do, the message says which app started the server and what to run1bd4094dfea858
  • The idle and ended session dots are readable on every frame colour you can choose. On some of them they were too faint against the selected rowc38b4d4
  • In the git graph on light, six branches side by side stay distinguishable to a colour-blind reader065d41e
  • Clearing a session while text is selected no longer copies nothing in silence — the selection goes with the history4564106
  • One very long session name no longer stretches the diagnostics table, and the live capture window is the interval it says it isc7b9b8b91212ae
  • Adding a login refuses a folder reached through a link, and a login record Tortie did not write no longer authorises anything to be swept away4a4823d9a94ff9
  • Choosing another account now reports what actually happened, including when a running session could not be checked. Quitting settles credential work rather than abandoning it mid-write, and removing a login during a quit no longer stops half-donee1a1359ff60e492ff1c5d
  • Migrating a stored credential says why it refused when it refuses, and counts only the deletions that really happenedb3c3a80

0.100.0

This release is about the account a session runs on and the frame around it. Choosing another account now reaches a session that is already running, and signing in inside a session is noticed the moment it finishes. The frame can take a colour of your own, darker or lighter, and a selection you scrolled through now copies all of it.

Added

  • Choosing another account for a session that is already running now reaches that session. Claude Code picks the change up on its own within about half a minute, and a Restart now control beside the card restarts the session with its conversation kept if you want it at once. This includes your own default sign in, which Tortie now writes when you ask it to, keeping a copy of the account it replaces first5643dd342ebeca1c378d1
  • Signing in as another account inside a session, with the vendor's own /login, is seen the moment it finishes. The card, the menu, the Settings list and the meter refresh on their own, and the account you left stays on the liste399a0bb084880
  • The frame around your work takes a colour of your own. Settings then Appearance offers eight named colours, each drawn as the frame it will produce, and the terminal, the editor and the window itself follow itcfc57117be6221
  • Beside the colour, Shade moves the whole frame darker or lighter and Depth sets how far the panels and hairlines stand apart from the background. When a step would make text or the file colours unreadable the slider stops and says which other control would allow it. The lightest frame is a charcoal, not grey or white787894e5b7f57f
  • Architecture now reads imports in Java, PHP, C, C++ and C sharp as well as the languages it already knew, and a name a repository declares for itself is never mistaken for somebody else's2f6b931f4aaa126197a8b3db2b61a2df598
  • The repository now carries a plain language account of what independent verification found across the last fifty rounds of work, and how each finding was fixed4a8b510

Changed

  • A second copy of Tortie on the same Mac, such as one run for a test, now keeps its own copies of your accounts and cannot reach the ones your own copy keeps5fb1665538ba25

Fixed

  • Copying a selection you extended by scrolling now copies all of it, not just the part that was on screen. Capture Selection keeps the last thousand lines of it65272fa6b5c364d63fa4c
  • Scrolling up in a session and switching to another app no longer loses your place when you come backb2778ee
  • A selection keeps growing as you drag past the top of the screen, and a program that asked for the mouse, such as a picker, keeps it instead of the pane scrolling3ba0a60d6efcc4
  • Removing a login now removes everything it kept, including its entry in the keychainc7a51c3
  • A crash in the middle of a switch can no longer leave a copy of a credential where nothing would clean it up1292c3c
  • A session with an impossible timestamp in its record no longer takes a project's Catch Me Up page down9b47c2f
  • The font family field now refuses every invisible character, not only the ones it knew aboutb5c2523

0.99.0

This release is about following things back. A file can be traced through every commit that touched it, even across renames, and the commit list narrows as you type. You can also keep more than one Claude or Codex account now and move between them from the meter, without signing in again.

Added

  • Right click a file and choose History, or use View then File History, to see every commit that touched the file you have open, followed back through its renames. Choosing a row shows that commit's change to the file. Merge commits are not listedd2b5067
  • A field at the head of the History section narrows the commit list as you type. A bare word searches messages, and author:, message:, commit: and file: narrow further. change: searches inside the changes themselves and waits for you to press Search, because it is slow on a large repository11a6366
  • Every part of the Architecture map now says what it is in a sentence, and the sidebar reads from the repository down to the contract. Architecture is still off until you turn it on in Settings5fe4f0a
  • You can add a second Claude or Codex account and choose which one your next session runs under, from the usage meter. Adding one opens a session running the vendor's own sign in, and Tortie never asks you for a password or a token8773a3a
  • Each login is drawn as the account it is, by email address, with your own sign in marked as the one Tortie does not own93eb4f3
  • An account you have signed into is one you can go back to. Switch away, or sign in as someone else inside a session, and the account you left is still on the list and one click away. Sessions already running keep the account they started withb53f2c6
  • The diff's inline control now tells you which of its modes can actually differ on the change in front of you, instead of offering four that draw the same thing8cab959

Changed

  • The window chrome steps below your work rather than competing with it, and the sizes, spacings and radii across the app now come from one scalef58001ef29861f

Fixed

  • Select all in a redline now copies the document rather than the window around itfc562a6
  • A font family name can no longer carry an invisible character that changes how it reads57fe757
  • A session name containing a line break stays on one row when you paste a diagnostics reportb5f0254
  • A selected or pressed row now has an edge you can see1371500
  • Quitting now shuts the usage meter, the hook server and live diagnostics down as one operation, so nothing can be read or started again after the quit has finished8ea7248
  • Turning on reduced motion no longer leaves a diff holding on to its rows after you close it0929c6e
  • Creating a session on a machine whose tmux reports no server running is now read as the plain answer it iscd338cb

0.98.0

This release is about reading a change the way you would read a document, and about the small things that make the window easier to live in. A changed text file can be read as a redline on its own, the usage meter follows your own turns, and a row of project tabs stays readable however many you open. A remote tab you close now stays closed.

Added

  • A changed text or markdown file can now be read as a redline. Choose Redline beside Diff and File and the whole document reads as prose, with the words that were removed struck through and the words that replaced them right after, and copying gives you the new text. It is for prose files, so a source file gets no Redline optionfe76ecde238ff1
  • The usage meter now moves on every one of your Claude Code turns, at no cost to your plan, rather than only on its fifteen minute check. If you already have a status line of your own anywhere, Tortie leaves it alone and keeps the check650b5b3d878070
  • The sessions table in Diagnostics now names the project each session belongs to and how long ago it started and was last seen, so two sessions with the same name can be told apart06fbe2c

Changed

  • Open more projects than fit along the top and the tabs scroll at a width you can still read, with a menu at the end that lists every project and its shortcut, rather than squeezing each name down to a letterf7d131f
  • The Install a skill sheet is narrower, and its preview of the skill grows with a tall window instead of stopping at six lines2742c9e

Fixed

  • Closing a remote machine tab now closes it for good. It used to come back at least once2e9650c87e5533
  • The custom font field in Settings sits level with the dropdown beside it7917485
  • A session with an impossible timestamp in its record can no longer stop the live diagnostics report18a516b

0.97.0

This release is about knowing what your agents are doing and what they are costing you. Oh My Pi joins the supported agents, the diagnostics report answers at a glance instead of making you read it, and a meter on the sessions pane shows how much of your Claude and Codex plans you have used. Tortie also starts fewer things at launch, holds less memory under load, and lets you choose the font it writes your code in.

Added

  • Oh My Pi is now a supported agent. It launches, restores and resumes like every other agent, wears its own mark everywhere agents appear, and Catch Me Up reads its sessions. Contributed by jakehildreth in #12d0e80a2
  • A meter at the foot of the sessions pane now shows how much of your Claude and Codex subscription you have used, in both the five hour and the weekly window, with the detail on hover and a control to ask again. Each provider is off until you turn it on in Settings then Agents, and while a meter is off nothing is read and nothing is sent16281b3
  • The bar can track whichever window you care about, and it follows the number you read first unless you say otherwise. The card names the plan each login is on, and it no longer hides behind the tabs when your sessions sit along the top1ea852c
  • You can now choose the font Tortie writes your code in, for the terminal and the editor together, either from three bundled faces or by naming any family installed on your Mac. Typing suggests the families you actually have. A captured session keeps a bundled face, and falls back to Menlo for the system font or for a family of your own. Contributed by jakehildreth in #13, suggestions4b350cd9a19ddd
  • The diagnostics report tells you what Tortie is costing in processes, memory, CPU and disk, and opens with a strip that totals it and ranks it against everything else running on your Mac30222a1c05e99b
  • Every row in that report is now read rather than left blank, every table sorts by any column, and the numbers keep moving while you are looking at themc01c013
  • A diff now draws changes the way you want to read them. Choose whether a change is marked by word, by phrase, by character or not at all, and turn the full width colour on or off, from a row of controls in the diff itself. The choice is remembered0a31afb
  • Architecture draws a map of a codebase, keeps a contract of what may depend on what, and can hand a part of it to a session as context. It ships turned off, and Settings then Architecture is where you turn it on, because most agents cannot fill in a contract yet05862639b8a66731f0afd
  • Architecture reads imports in Rust, Python, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin and Objective-C as well as the languages it already knew. Swift resolves between targets rather than between files, because a Swift target's files see each other with no import to readb0f8c6e5a75b54

Changed

  • Tortie starts less at launch. A project you are not looking at no longer reads its git status until you look, and agent discovery waits for a surface that needs itc32b9ef
  • Screens you have not opened no longer load with the app, so the first window paints sooner60a7093

Fixed

  • Catch Me Up no longer wedges if your screen locks while it is opening, which used to leave the chord dead until the window came backe26ecaf
  • A large uncommitted change no longer floods the Source Control view or the memory it holdsad3de97
  • Sessions no longer leak a file handle each time one closes, which used to eat the machine's supply over a long dayad3de97
  • Tortie no longer lets its own browser cache grow without a limit during developmentee02531
  • Boxes in the Architecture map are clickable again, and clicking one drills into it7efd14f
  • A file under a project's contract directory that Tortie cannot read is now skipped with one calm line instead of a wall of errors6032c94
  • The Architecture panel says plainly when it can read only part of a repository, and it no longer counts checks as promises when there are nonecde6566
  • Remote machines are covered by their fault tests again, after those tests had been red long enough to stop meaning anything4b8427b

Contributors

0.76.1

This release is about the file tree and the menus. You can now bring files into a project from Finder and take them back out again, every menu row carries an icon and says which key runs it, and a session will tell you which conversation it is and where that conversation lives on disk. Several things you reported along the way no longer go wrong.

Added

  • You can now drag a file, several files or a whole folder from Finder onto the file tree and it lands inside the folder row you aimed at, or at the project root over the empty space below the rows. The original stays where it was because this is a copy, a name that already exists asks you first and names every collision at once, and Replace moves the displaced entry to the Trash so it is recoverable. Dragging a folder onto the file tree now brings it into the project instead of opening a new project tab, though a folder dropped anywhere else in the window still opens one, and a project on another machine refuses the drop with a sentence rather than appearing to work29ff027
  • Hold Option and drag a row out of the file tree to hand that file to Finder, or to any other app that takes a file29ff027
  • A session's actions menu now shows the agent's own conversation id, which is what resume takes, the file that agent keeps the conversation in, and Tortie's own id for the session last. Each one shows its value as well as copying it, so the menu is a place to read an identifier rather than only to copy one, though a shell session has none of these and Factory Droid CLI keeps no record to point at4b6247d
  • Every row in a right click menu now carries the icon its own part of the product already usesc25d16d
  • The menu bar along the top of the screen and the menu behind the cat in the status bar now carry those same icons, and every row that has a keyboard shortcut says what it is3c3ea84

Fixed

  • A file you drop into the tree now appears immediately, and the Refresh button at the top of the Explorer re-reads the folder every time you press itf1562d3
  • Running a build or a test suite in a project no longer floods Tortie with dropped file events, and when the system does drop a batch Tortie re-reads what it missed instead of quietly showing you a stale tree. A folder the repository ignores is no longer watched at all, so a change inside one will not appear until something else in the project changesef1c497
  • The icons down the left edge now light up under the pointer, so you can tell what you are about to press33f5593
  • Narrowing the session list no longer pushes its add button and chevron off the edge, because the word SESSIONS shortens instead, and at the narrowest width it goes entirely33f5593
  • The confirm sheet for installing a skill is now about twice as wide, so the command it is asking you to approve reads on one line instead of three33f5593
  • The empty state is quieter, and the Explorer, Source Control and Context views now share one set of text sizes instead of each choosing its ownfa590ea

0.73.0

This release is about picking work back up and reading it back. An agent that ends inside a surviving shell can be resumed on the spot, and every session's one line summary now keeps a history you can open from its row in the project view. Quitting and cloning a project to a remote machine both got safer along the way.

Added

  • End an agent by hand and, if its shell survives, Resume appears on that session's row within about a second, and pressing it types the resume command onto your prompt for you to send, re-adopting the session only when the agent confirms it is the same conversation. Nothing here survives a restart of Tortie, a restored session never shows the verb, Claude Code and Antigravity CLI confirm unaided, every other agent confirms once you send the pasted command, though Pi can never be confirmed and Factory Droid CLI never shows Resume at allb4f0fc9
  • You can now press story on a session's row in the project view and read every version of that session's one line summary, newest first, each with its time, and pressing a version shows the turns it covered. Repeated lines collapse into one row, a change of model is named where it happened, and a session whose line never changed shows just that one line, though until you choose a model for the one line summaries the page says there is no story to read75a5298
  • The current release's installer is now always available at one download link that never changes, so a page can point at the latest version without naming it. The in-app updater is unaffectedb2442f5

Changed

  • The story control is now the one word story at the far right of each session's row in the project view, sitting in one shared column, and it opens that session's timeline in place, one session at a time with no rolled up story for the project. The conversation view no longer carries the story control, so it is purely the word for word record8443052
  • Your asks in Catch Me Up now carry a light accent glow so your eye finds them among the answers, and the top band's collapse and position controls sit beside the traffic lights while the add button stays at the end of the tabs7d7c071

Fixed

  • Once quit starts, no request can reach files, git or your machines mid teardown, so quitting can no longer race a writef711dac
  • A clone to a remote machine that cannot record itself durably now refuses to start instead of starting untracked, and a clone cut off partway through the copy is reported once at the next launch1508c6c

0.70.0

This release adds Catch Me Up, a page that shows the conversation you have been having with every session in a project, taken word for word from each agent's own log. One keyboard chord opens it, and most of the rest of the release makes that page better. A small model can also keep the project view's one line per session current, and that stays off until you pick an agent for it.

Added

  • You can now read the conversation you have been having with every session in a project, with your asks and each agent's closing answer word for word from its own log, and a mark beside a claim about files says whether git agrees. It opens on the session you are in, on the sessions in a split side by side, or on the whole project at one line each, and Return jumps to that turn in the live session, though a Gemini session shows your asks only because Gemini records no agent answercecd6fe
  • The one session view now carries a rail of your asks down the right side, showing your first words and the time, and pressing a row or walking the rail with the arrow keys lands the conversation on that exchange. The arrow keys now scroll the conversation as the selection moves, each session in the side by side view scrolls on its own, an agent session shows its agent's mark, and a session's actions menu can open the page for that session alone, though the rail leaves the screen on a narrow windowca90b63
  • You can now pick an agent and a model under Settings, then Catch Me Up, and a small model writes the project view's one line for a session after that session finishes a turn, in place of the line Tortie builds from your ask and from git. It ships off and stays off until you pick an agent, and a sentence that names a file, carries a number or says what state the session is in is refused whole, so that row keeps the line Tortie built56c9c59
  • Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor CLI, Pi and Grok can each write that line now, and every other agent stays in the picker as a row you cannot choose, on a line saying Tortie has not measured it yet. A row whose line a model wrote says written and the time at the end of the row, though nothing on screen tells you when writing a line failedd4c4d29

Changed

  • The wording Tortie uses about remote machines moved out of one large file into files named for the surface each one describes, so changing what one surface says no longer reaches the rest. Nothing a person reads on screen changed2905051
  • Every internal script that starts the app now closes it again even when the script fails partway, so abandoned copies no longer pile up and exhaust the machine. Nothing a person sees in the app changed4d246f1

Fixed

  • The agent's closing answer on Catch Me Up now renders as real markdown instead of plain text, and raw HTML inside an answer never becomes part of the page, while your own asks and the project view's one line summaries stay plain. The chord that opens the page is Shift+Command+U, and a per-agent hotkey you recorded on that chord before this release still wins2aa7b6b
  • The skill preview sheet is wider and uses more of the window, so more of a long command and its details are readable at once75991fd

0.68.7

This release adds a guarded workflow for editing and committing projects on remote machines, from file changes through staging and commit. It also improves navigation and setup screens, and strengthens internal architecture checks. Remote write operations have only been verified on macOS.

Added

  • You can edit, save and create remote files within a confirmed folder. Saves reject stale content, have no undo, discard hard links and extended attributes, and may be uncertain after a disconnect1bff045
  • You can create folders and rename files or folders inside the confirmed write root; open tabs follow remote renames. A concurrent process can still create the destination between the availability check and rename, allowing the rename to replace itd0fedbc
  • You can stage and unstage individual or grouped remote changes from the Changes panel, which refreshes after every action2e87e16
  • You can commit staged remote changes from the Changes panel; remote hooks and signing run there. Tortie prevents stale or duplicate commits, but cannot enter signing passphrases, and timed-out commits may still finishe03af86
  • Settings now separates agents by machine, session lists support arrow-key navigation, project tabs can collapse or move to a left rail, and Shift+Command+Return focuses the active file or session33b0925

Changed

  • Split large renderer and file-tree controllers into smaller modules, and removed test harness code from normal launches. Build checks now enforce bundle and import boundariesa60dc8e
  • Split machine IPC contracts by domain and extracted session services without changing public contracts. Local and remote GitHub Actions now share one parser82c4eff

Fixed

  • Showing an unavailable agent's install command no longer shifts the onboarding layout, including with long commands or short windowsbfb4e29
  • Removed production runtime import cycles and added a graph check to stop them returning8ce91a0
  • Machine settings now show readiness first and keep consent details visible. Low-level settings and the agreement fingerprint moved under 'More about this machine'625bdb9
  • Fixed stylesheet order in the skill install panel so its layout rules apply, the agent list stays whole and the facts and plan section gets more spaced828913
  • Moved project rail controls to the start and kept New project available in every rail state. Sidebar controls now use its header, recovering 48px when projects are on the left272a114
  • Added complete copyright and icon attribution to About and NOTICE, and standardised the company name as Ita Vero, LLCb04ffae
  • New and restored agents now inherit the app's current macOS login session instead of the long-lived server's stale session. Existing sessions keep their original value and need a restart, which does not resume the conversationa43a589
  • Restructured skill search, preview and confirmation sheets so actions stay visible while long content scrolls separately. The wider sheets show more of long commandsf3c140f
  • Made unavailable-agent install commands wrap and copyable, and improved Add machine spacing. Connection and key setup guidance is shorter without losing consent detailsd2be957
  • Made installed preload bridge members required at compile time and removed compensating casts, while keeping runtime guards and genuinely uninstalled APIs optional9b99ab4
  • Corrected Material Icon Theme attribution to Material Extensions in source comments, generator output and design docs; no icon assets or matching rules changed354c03c

0.62.1

This release makes remote work safer and more accurate. Tortie now preserves unconfirmed sessions and interrupted copies, reads agent availability from the target machine, and fixes Quick Open paths, workflow runs and TypeScript process boundaries.

Added

  • Settings then Agents now shows each machine's detected agents, reported paths and scan age, with a per-machine Rescan action that preserves existing results on failure3d60a08

Fixed

  • The create sheet now checks agent availability on the target machine in one batched scan and disables only agents confirmed absent. Discovery also ignores executable directories and treats failed machine-facts reads as unknownd646830
  • Quick Open now handles project and recent-file paths containing spaces by passing the project root and relative path as separate fields3d883ab
  • SpecStory-captured sessions can now be restored or restarted without history capture, and the choice persists for future restores3f08719
  • Runs now includes workflows triggered by a tag at the current branch tip, including queued and in-progress runs89226a0
  • TypeScript now compiles tests in a separate project, allowing production checks to reject renderer-to-main imports and Node or Electron APIs in shared and renderer code43b12fd
  • Tortie now keeps and marks a remote session unreachable when startup confirmation cannot reach the machine. It reconciles the record when the connection returns instead of launching a duplicate682c870
  • Quitting Tortie now closes tracked remote SSH work and records interrupted project copies for the next launch, though remote processes may continue. Machine removal is now transactional, so a failure leaves session records and machine configuration unchanged2ad8fcb

0.58.3

This release makes another Mac a Tortie workspace. You can run and restore sessions there, then browse, search and review its projects without leaving the app. Remote project tabs remain read only, and remote SpecStory capture is not supported.

Added

  • Add, test and confirm remote machines in Settings without changing your SSH known-hosts filed8b5e1f
  • Prepare a remote machine by starting its tmux server with Tortie's required settings and checking its version4c86bea
  • Create, open, rename and end sessions on another Mac, with clear machine badges and connection states17f1dea
  • Choose System, JetBrains Mono or Source Code Pro for terminals, editors, diffs, Markdown code and exported screenshots7b429d5
  • Restore stopped remote sessions only when the machine is reachable, with timestamped saved output and duplicate-work protection. Remote conversations are not restored1741a01
  • Focus the current session with Shift+Command+Return while preserving its split layout and running state8713547
  • Install a dedicated passwordless SSH key for a machine through a confirmed setup flow. Tortie does not store the password or change your existing SSH keysdbbed64
  • Upload images to remote sessions, review remote changes in diffs and show when saved agent output was last copied. Remote image uploads are limited to 90 KBecd1b67
  • Allow an exact unmeasured remote tmux version after confirmation, and stop connection attempts after 10 seconds069ef77
  • Choose remote working folders, launch agents by absolute path and preserve remote session output and removal state5e8aa02
  • Find a matching remote project by its Git address, or offer to clone it after confirmatione61e836
  • Prefill supported remote conversation resume commands without pressing Enter for you3cf14ad
  • Open a remote folder as a read-only project tab with its Explorer, changed files and file diffs9d247ab
  • Open remote folders from the home screen and keep their machine identity in recent projects8596b77
  • Show untracked remote files in their own Changes group and include them in the Source Control count2ca5310
  • Search remote project files on the remote machine without copying them locally1f98e2b
  • Find and open remote files through Quick Open, with recent files tracked per machine2e3eb86
  • Read a one-time snapshot of the remote screen or its last 1,000, 10,000 or 25,000 lines, with clear truncation noticesce56d1f
  • Show up to 10 GitHub Actions runs for the remote branch, using your local GitHub sign-in16d4d2c
  • Show the remote branch, commit, upstream and ahead or behind counts without changing or fetching the repository02aed16
  • Browse remote commit history in pages of 50, including lanes, authors, subjects, branches and tags99c19b8

Changed

  • Remote machines now push session changes instead of relying on polling, while unmeasured tmux versions retain the polling fallbacke9351e8
  • Simplified machine setup, added clearer recovery guidance and improved Tailscale device discovery3e1ba07
  • Load saved sessions and project tabs before the login shell finishes, while keeping Restore disabled until the shell is ready2f0e841
  • Shortened session and machine setup copy, restored compact spacing and moved Diagnostics to the end of Settingsefafb86

Fixed

  • Refuse new state-changing requests during shutdown and finish accepted work before saving the final snapshot60bf5ac
  • Warn when a remote Quick Open result list was cut off at its size limitcaa07d3
  • Isolate test servers and folders so concurrent harness runs cannot affect each other or their cleanupabc32fa
  • Sign bundled SpecStory with its required entitlement and update it to 2.10.0 for current Codex and Muse Code capturef97d69b
  • Separate run age from duration, add hover details and remove repeated job names from single-job runsd1ce49f
  • Mark remote sessions as unreachable during connection loss instead of offering Restore and risking duplicate agents95aa770
  • Remove the duplicate full-screen menu item, show home-screen update status and focus the last file opened from Findera3dcb53
  • Restore the weekly package check without allowing it to publish a releaseab94847
  • Start shell sessions as login shells, preserve restore arguments and clarify New Project and SpecStory setup messages2867223
  • Save session state before sleep and prevent a second shutdown from starting before the first finishesd47ecd7
  • Remove extra characters from connection-test paths and label the fallback Runs button as Copy9fbe8ed
  • Make split dragging reliable, add shortcuts search and improve keyboard control and option summaries in session creationf6cd1ad
  • Keep Explorer, Git decorations, Search and Context tied to the machine that owns the active tabf6e4e32
  • Enable Restore even when projects or sessions fail to load at launche5d2034
  • Keep the Capture control visible but disabled for remote agent sessions, with an explanation13dbec1
  • Make remote activity indicators follow actual session output instead of stale connection state5e4e217
  • Retry fault-test races so all 16 session recovery cases run every night32d901d
  • Start sessions from remote tabs on the tab's machine and folder, including agent hotkeyseb61ffd
  • Reopen a closed project from the attention list, show each session's folder and add confirmed keyboard session ending9f89497
  • Enforce read-only remote files, disable unsafe remote session actions and reduce abandoned image uploads1e3b062
  • Stop scroll polling when a session has no local pane and show that remote scrollback is unavailable1fc2c5f
  • Fix the quit-snapshot test race and log counts for every snapshot outcome6487c4f
  • Give every smoke-test run its own tmux socket and profile, including safe cleanup of abandoned servers859a4a0

0.31.0

This release improves how Tortie integrates with macOS and installed agents. Finder and the new `tortie` command can open projects, Settings shows exactly which agent binaries Tortie uses, and new appearance controls let you adjust highlights and contrast. Updating does not affect running sessions.

Added

  • Settings now shows every detected copy of each agent, its version and why Tortie chose one over the others. Missing agents show an official, copyable install command, and sessions always launch the recorded binarybf6e9e2
  • Run tortie . to open the current folder as a project, starting Tortie if needed. Settings can install or remove this command, which accepts a folder but no agent-launching flags051558e
  • Grok is now a supported agent with conversation resume by session ID. Tortie suppresses Grok's blocking first-run banner without changing your data-sharing choice, and the documentation now covers all 13 agent trademarksb8c59f4
  • Finder can open folders, supported text and source files, HTML, Markdown and images in Tortie without making it the default app. Files open inside their nearest Git repository or parent folder6982ae4
  • Settings now offers 4 highlight schemes and 3 contrast levels. The default blue and normal-contrast combination preserves the previous appearancec8508ec

0.26.1

This release bundles tmux, replaces update dialogs with a quiet status control and improves several session interactions. The bundled tmux takes effect only when a new server starts, so updating does not interrupt running sessions.

Added

  • Tortie now includes a signed tmux 3.7b, so new installations need no separate tmux setup. It adopts the bundled version only for new servers and refuses untested client-server version combinations2c225e4
  • A status ring above Settings now shows update progress and offers actions such as restart now, install on quit and repair. Background checks remain quiet, although the ring is unavailable on the home screen until an update is staged9eb2b7f

Fixed

  • Collapsed session lists now support group drag and drop, restoring a session asks before opening its project, and the View menu shows all 4 views and shortcutscc60680
  • Agent startup failures now identify missing interpreters or show the agent's final output instead of leaving a dead pane. Tortie also waits up to 10 seconds for slow login shells2b4ee2f
  • Test and harness launches no longer access the macOS keychain or leave keychain prompts behind0d92728

0.24.3

This release stops ignored files from flashing during repository updates.

Fixed

  • The Explorer now keeps the last known ignored-file state while refreshing it, so ignored rows no longer flash white during writes. Changes to .gitignore can take up to 10 seconds to appear3bbc3e6

0.24.2

This release makes updates recoverable and improves everyday repository work. You can inspect CI runs, open files in other apps and use a clearer Explorer without losing terminal selections or session ownership.

Added

  • Source Control now shows the latest 10 GitHub Actions runs for the current branch, including jobs and steps, and watches the run triggered by a push1eeddea
  • File rows now include an Open With menu containing compatible macOS apps and the system chooser9a69e89
  • Settings now provides debug logging and diagnostic tools. Logs rotate at 2 MiB, redact the home-directory path and never upload crash data774132a
  • Agent definitions can pass named environment variables from your login shell without storing their values on disk67ce3e3

Fixed

  • The Explorer now greys ignored files, keeps filters active after opening a result and offers row-spacing controls. History also gains a compact gutter option53e919d
  • Right-clicking terminal text now preserves the selection, making Copy as HTML usable. Split groups also make the focused pane clearer without dimming attention indicators08b4757
  • Failed updates now explain the cause, and Repair Updates can reset a broken updater in one stepcb07b37
  • Sessions in the same folder no longer claim each other's conversation records. Tortie now normalises equivalent paths, allows stronger ownership evidence to replace weaker claims and reports uncertain resumes honestlya5c63aa

0.20.2

This release stops crashes during quit and makes removed sessions recoverable for 90 days. It also improves update feedback and preserves split layouts across restarts.

Added

  • Past Sessions provides a searchable list of removed sessions for 90 days and shows whether each can resume its conversationd08ab00
  • Manual update checks now show when an update is ready and confirm that it will install when you quitaa4e456
  • Packaged builds now log updater activity and report why an installation was refused on the next launcha63ec76

Changed

  • New File and New Folder now ask for a valid name before writing anything to disk7c0ae02
  • Removing a skill now uses the skills CLI and shows every path that will be deleted before confirmationf33599b

Fixed

  • Tortie now waits for file watchers to stop before quitting, preventing the crash reports previously created on every exit3c092453d1d70c
  • Split groups now preserve their layout and focused pane when projects reopen or Tortie restarts2cbd873
  • Antigravity sessions now prove conversation ownership from the process holding the conversation open and can reclaim incorrect assignmentsecdfcad

0.19.1

This maintenance release corrects the application credit in Tortie's first self-delivered update.

Fixed

  • The About panel now credits gregce and links to the correct repository instead of naming SpecStorydbbaea1

0.19.0

This release adds quiet, automatic updates that install when you quit without interrupting sessions. Version 0.18.0 cannot update itself, so you must install 0.19.0 manually once.

Added

  • Tortie now checks GitHub Releases for updates, installs them on quit and verifies bundled files after updating. The About menu also adds Check for Updates, and maintainers can remove a bad release from the feedb96b519

Fixed

  • Terminal panes now restore hardware-accelerated rendering after wake, and helper process exits include their cause and decoded exit code in the loge9a8731

0.18.0

This is the first installable Tortie release: a signed and notarized macOS workspace for persistent coding-agent sessions. Projects open as tabs, sessions survive app quits and restarts, and ended conversations can resume with their scrollback. Existing users must approve macOS permissions again because the app identity changed to `com.itavero.tortie`; data and sessions remain intact. This version does not update itself, and its session-data migration prevents older builds from reopening the data.

Added

  • Tortie now ships as a signed and notarized application under the Itavero identity, backed by a 4-lane CI and release pipeline47eb4f9
  • Ended sessions can now replay their scrollback and prepare the agent's resume command for confirmation68620b8
  • The Context view lists each agent's skills, MCP servers, hooks, plugins and instruction files, and can install skills from GitHubec219a3
  • Custom agents can now be defined in JSON. Configuration cannot run code directly, and process-launching changes require confirmation89a5a9a
  • The new home screen lists recent projects and can clone repositories with progress for each phase7b42536
  • Markdown files can now show a side-by-side HTML preview, with untrusted content isolated in a restricted frameffd623b
  • Tortie now keeps verified backups of the session list and can rebuild the list from them8bb473e
  • Session data now uses durable writes, enforced by a fault test that terminates Tortie at 16 critical points3be5d0e
  • The Search pane now supports zoom through the shared view layout modeld6d0fc8
  • Each session now shows its SpecStory capture, sync and cloud statuse930530

Changed

  • The window now uses one layout model, preventing open files from compressing the session tab stripbfa67d7
  • The app is now named Tortie, and its data migrates by copying and verifying while leaving the original intact09cb85353fa1e4

Fixed

  • Restore now uses the agent details recorded with the session, so later registry changes cannot lose its conversationa00f798
  • Tortie now detects the renamed DeepSeek CLI as CodeWhale while retaining support for the old binary name041b664
  • The Context view now opens global skills without Git errors, searches the skill registry, supports enabling skills for more agents and presents installation details more clearly5bdf81bd8e2ebf
  • Session reconciliation no longer marks newly created live sessions as restorable, and shared SQLite settings now handle concurrent writers explicitlycda2b1abfc3c85