What shipped in Forkbench

New

• Agent teamwork is now remembered on your account, so every Mac you sign in on starts with the same choice.

Fixed

• Agents working as a team reach each other reliably, and asking a teammate for help now points them at the work itself instead of filing a copy of it.
• A secret can be dragged into another folder from the Vault drawer, and the activity dots in the sidebar stay put when you move between them.

New

• Adding a secret to the Vault now asks which folder it belongs in. Pick one from your list or name a new one, instead of everything landing in General.

Fixed

• Signing in no longer gives up while you are still doing it. Stopping to fetch a code from your phone, or to reset a password, could take longer than the app was willing to wait.
• A tab and its terminal header no longer keep a quit agent's name and logo for the rest of that pane's life.
• Windows you open and close again no longer leave empty threads behind on your account.

Fixed

• Work handed to an agent on another of your Macs now reaches the terminal it was sent to. It arrived on the right machine, but read as unclaimed, so nobody there was told it was waiting for them.

New

• Agents working in the same thread can now hand each other work, and are told when it comes back done. It stays off until you turn it on for a thread, and you choose whether they may open new terminals of their own.

Improved

• Tabs show at a glance which agent asked for help and which one is helping.

Improved

• Your terminal is stricter about what the text passing through it is allowed to do. Output from a file you opened, a page you fetched or a tool you ran can no longer quietly swap what is on your clipboard, send you somewhere unexpected when you click a link, or read what is on your screen.

Fixed

• Notes that fall behind between your Mac and the web now catch up on their own.
• A long file path that wraps onto a second line is still one path when you click it.

Improved

• Signing out now removes your account from the Mac. Your threads, notes, Vault and boards are deleted there and the key that opens them is destroyed, so a Mac you have signed out of keeps nothing of yours. Your work stays in your account: sign in again, let the Mac back in from another Mac or with your recovery code, and it comes back.

Fixed

• An update that has downloaded and is ready to install now finishes installing. It could stop at the last step waiting for a quit that never came.
• The mark in a terminal's header now answers the question it is there for: whether this agent holds a seat your plan pays for.

Fixed

• The people mark in a terminal's header now appears only where there are people. On a thread you are working on your own it wears a single figure, so nothing on screen suggests you are sharing a thread you are not.

New

• Merge, rebase, stash and the rest of the Git operations are now in the panel, so you stay in Forkbench instead of dropping to a terminal. History pages in as you scroll, and opening a worktree takes you straight into its own working copy.
• Keep an eye on a task and be told when it moves, without the whole board being interrupted.

Fixed

• Notes written into a shared Thread now reach the people you shared it with.
• Work done offline arrives the way you left it, and a change the server turns down says so instead of promising to try again.

Improved

• The activity dot on every tab says three things at once: how hard the agent itself is thinking, how fast its output is moving, and how many commands it has handed off. It reads as one continuous dial rather than reporting a single state, so two panes working at different rates no longer look the same.
• Live text in the terminal sits back until you point at it, and its card waits for a deliberate hover instead of appearing on the way past.

Fixed

• The confirmation for handing a thread over responds to its buttons again, and the hint about the git rail closes when you click away from it.

Improved

• Setting up another Mac takes one code, once. Approve it from a Mac you already use and that machine gets everything your account holds, instead of being asked to compare a second code a few minutes later for the same computer.

New

• One recovery code for the whole account. It opens what the account holds and puts a Mac back into the account with it, so losing every machine you own is something you can come back from.

Improved

• Fork Lab is now called Talk, in the app and here on the web. Same feature, plainer name.
• The activity dots follow the work. They track what an agent is actually doing rather than how its screen redraws, so they settle when it settles instead of stopping halfway through a turn.

Fixed

• Commands Forkbench runs for you stay out of your shell history, so pressing Up gives you back what you typed.

New

• Every agent you run turns up on the board with a name and a colour of its own, even one Forkbench was never told about.
• A single command inside a Forkbench terminal reaches the board, so an agent can see the work and take a piece of it without any setup.

Improved

• Many more agents fit on one Mac before it starts to feel it.

Fixed

• Notes written in a thread stay with that thread, whichever window wrote them.

New

• Agents working a shared board from different Macs now see one another, so they can split the work between them and put a question to a colleague by name.
• A question can be argued out on the board itself, before any task has to state its answer.

Fixed

• Work finished by someone you invited stays finished. It could quietly slide back into the backlog seconds after it was reported done.

New

• An agent is warned before work it is holding is handed back, and told if it happens, so nothing in progress is taken away without notice.

Fixed

• The one-line summary on a task keeps up with the work, rather than describing where it started.

New

• Every secret in the Vault now shows what it has done: each time it was used, what it was used for, and what was turned away.

Fixed

• Terminals that were already open when Forkbench last quit can reach the Vault again. One could be refused for the rest of its life, and opening a new tab was the only way round it.

Fixed

• An invitation code now opens the thread it was sent for. Codes minted before this could not be accepted by anyone.
• Revoking someone's access now takes it back, and tells you which secrets they already saw so you can change those.
• Losing access to someone else's thread no longer closes your terminals. Your tabs stay open, in order, in a thread of your own with the same name.

Fixed

• Accepting an invitation opens the thread, instead of leaving you to find it.
• Moving someone up to contributor or admin now gives them the thread's notes and secrets. Before, they got the new role and could open nothing.
• Inviting someone no longer takes a long moment before the code appears.

Fixed

• An invitation now arrives in Forkbench on the other person's Mac, where they accept or decline it. It no longer comes as an email.
• Giving someone access to a thread's notes and secrets asks you to confirm first, whether you are inviting them or changing what they already have.

Improved

• Sending someone their code offers the apps you would actually send it in.

New

• Sending someone their code is one click. Forkbench writes the message and hands it to whichever app you already use to reach that person.
• The second time you invite the same person, there is no code at all. The first hand-off is what proves who they are, and it only happens once.

Improved

• Choosing what someone can do is now a set of cards that each say what that role gets, and the two that open a thread's notes and secrets say so on themselves.
• The invite field tells you in colour when what you have typed is an address, and nothing can be sent until it is.

Fixed

• Threads you have been invited to keep working after you quit and reopen Forkbench, and your access follows you when someone else's changes.
• The buttons that add a collaborator or an agent answer a click anywhere on them rather than only on the words, and Escape closes the invite form before it closes the overview.

New

• An invitation now shows up in the app. The thread appears in your list straight away, and you can accept it with the code you were sent, or decline it. Closing the prompt keeps it for later.
• Issue a fresh code for somebody who has not joined yet.

Improved

• The invite panel says plainly that everyone you add can read the thread's notes and secrets, including the ones you add later.

Fixed

• Inviting somebody into a thread works. It could not on 1.7.0.
• A new Mac asks to join your account, shows you a code, and tells you what it cannot reach until you approve it from a Mac that is already signed in.

New

• Invite a colleague into a thread and they get what it holds: its notes, and any secret you check into it. You are not sending anyone a copy of a key, and your own Vault is never handed over. The thread gets a key of its own, so letting somebody into one thread lets them into one thread.
• Before anyone new can read something, Forkbench asks, and names the people who will be able to read it. Checking a secret into a thread other people are on is its own decision, not a side effect of granting it to your agents.
• A thread's objective, plan and tasks are now sealed the same way its notes and secrets are.

Improved

• Sending a note to one person is gone, and sharing happens in a thread instead. One invitation now carries the notes and the secrets together, and taking somebody back out rotates the key rather than just removing their name.

Improved

• Sign in on a new Mac and your secrets are already there.
• Replace or lose every Mac and your Vault still comes back. Keep the recovery code somewhere safe, because it is the way in when there is no Mac left to ask.

New

• One tap in the terminal header and the pane shows what your agent actually said, in the same rectangle you were already working in. Tap again and your shell is back, still running.
• Your Vault is on every Mac you let in. Add a secret on one, use it on the other a minute later. Everything is sealed before it leaves your Mac and we cannot read any of it, so a new Mac is let in from one that already has your Vault: both show a short code and you pick the one that matches.

Improved

• A note you write is on your other Macs. No exceptions, and nothing to switch on.

Improved

• Jotting a note or filing a request no longer flickers or springs back open once you're done with it.
• Agents get a clearer read on what's on the board and on what counts as finished.

Fixed

• Being signed out ends the session without disturbing your work, and a thread you archived finds its way back where it belongs.

New

• Jot a note or hand your agents a new request straight from where you already are, and walk back through your shell history at the prompt instead of retyping it.

Improved

• Right-clicking the terminal now offers what you'd expect — copy, paste, find, your note sheet, the thread overview — and tapping the thread you're already in steps back out of whatever panel is open.

Fixed

• A conversation returns to the thread it belongs to, searching a list no longer changes what you can drop onto, sign-in says when something went wrong, and the text cursor is back over terminal text.

Improved

• An agent that breaks your goal into tasks now puts real work on the board, ready to be picked up, instead of a queue of drafts waiting on your approval.
• Refining a task while working it, restating the objective, and joining a thread all take effect straight away, so nothing sits waiting for a tap from you.
• Finished work still comes to you — you keep the last word on what counts as done.

Improved

• Requests and discussions each get their own tab, so a busy thread stops burying one under the other, and the count turns orange the moment something is waiting on you.
• Open a discussion to read it in full, from the opening statement to the ruling, and see whose move it is without asking.
• What's true about a thread now sits in its header instead of a strip that pushed the board around.

Fixed

• Archiving a thread now carries over to your other machines instead of staying put on the one you did it from, and deleting a thread makes it stay deleted rather than quietly reappearing.
• A thread no longer turns up twice in the list, and one you create reaches your other Macs even if you quit before you finished naming it.

Improved

• Open a thread and its overview appears on its own, showing who is working on what, then steps aside the moment you get going.
• Notes and the Vault look and behave the same everywhere you meet them, and checking a note or a secret into a thread shows you where it landed.

Fixed

• Only the sessions you actually had open come back at launch, each in the thread it belongs to.
• The Git panel closes when you click away, and responds on the first click.
• Commands Forkbench runs for you stay out of your shell history, and a large notebook no longer looks empty to your agents.

New

• Send a secret to someone in a thread. It arrives as a single copy, and they choose which of their Macs holds it.
• Start a note as the thing you actually want: a page, a to-do list, a sheet, or something interactive.

Improved

• Notebooks, notes and the Vault now work the same way throughout: right-click to rename or delete, the same hover and drag, and a secret that opens the way a note does. Threads list newest first until you arrange them yourself.

Fixed

• Sessions that come back at launch open at full width, so a resumed agent's replay reads normally.

New

• Reopen Forkbench and your agents come back on their own, in every thread, in the mode they were running in, with their split panes and scrollback intact.
• Notebooks and the Vault are now one library: notebooks on the left, your threads on the right, and you drag a notebook onto a thread to let its agents in.
• Bring people into a thread. Add a collaborator, set what they're allowed to do, and share notes or secrets with them.

Improved

• Anything an agent proposes waits for your call, and an agent that gets stuck asks a question you can answer in one tap.

New

• A redesigned Notebooks library you can browse at a glance, with a reader you can preview, split, or edit in place — and a Global view that spans every thread.
• Version history and a recently-deleted trash for your notes, so nothing is lost by accident (Pro).

Improved

• Terminal tabs show what each agent is working on, and you get a heads-up the moment a run wraps up.

New

• New accounts now start with a 14-day Pro trial — a live countdown keeps you posted on how long is left.

Improved

• Smoother, more reliable collaboration across your devices.

New

• A live activity feed shows what your agents are up to — including the notes they write — as they work.

New

• Redesigned Collab overview — one calm, glanceable place to run everything.

Improved

• “Share” is now “Make it a Collab.”

New

• Drag to merge or move Collab threads across windows, and name a thread the moment you create it.

Improved

• The terminal remembers your shell history — Up-arrow reaches recent commands across tabs.

New

• Archive threads and keep everything — tuck them away and bring them back whenever you need them.

New

• Collab threads are now part of Pro.

New

• A two-column Mission Control overview with a live activity stream.
• Interactive HTML notes, rendered safely inside the app.

New

• Send a secret from your Vault instantly — the other side gets a notification and a tidy “Forwarded from” folder.

New

• A big upgrade to how agents collaborate — they pick up work on their own, check each other’s tasks, and stay out of each other’s way.

New

• Folder-grouped Notes and Secrets lists, with quick previews.

New

• Forkbench arrives: run a fleet of AI coding agents in parallel on your Mac, each in its own terminal, all in one place.