Desktop app changelog

New features, improvements and fixes in the Desktop app.

November 8, 2026

New
Agents can use Lightpanda, a lightweight headless browser, for browsing tasks
New
Agents can see the other chats working in the same project, so two chats don't step on each other's changes
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Share your rules files and subagents with Codex, Antigravity, Copilot or Claude Code from Settings, one by one or all at once, where the other agent supports them
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Add all your MCP servers or skills to Codex, Antigravity or Copilot in one step, and turn each server or skill on or off per agent, VibeCoder and Claude Code included
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VibeCoder can run on your own OpenAI API key
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Turn an MCP server on for Codex, Antigravity or Copilot CLI right from its page in Settings
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Put a queued message in the editor chat on hold so it waits until you resume it
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Each MCP server's page shows whether it's connected or needs sign-in for VibeCoder and Claude Code, lists its tools, and lets you check again or sign in
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VibeCoder has its own Advisor switch in Settings, Models & keys, using the advisor model you pick in Agents
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Your coding agents stay up to date on their own, never in the middle of a chat (turn it off in Settings, Agents)
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Use OpenCode with your configured providers or local models, and enable Hybrid mode to let a free or local vision helper explain images to a text-only model
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Agents Window: a chat-first workspace with your chats grouped by project, opened from the new Agents Window button and back to the editor with IDE
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Choose in Settings which browser agents control, and whether they use your own signed-in browser or a separate hidden (headless) one that needs no setup
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Agents can now see the dev servers running in your editor's terminals, read their errors, and reuse a server that's already running instead of starting another copy
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Rename and delete chats from your chat history, search inside a chat, export a chat as Markdown, regenerate the last reply and deny an approval with a note telling the agent what to do instead
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Tap a background helper in the chat to open its full conversation in its own tab
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Connect your Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Safari so your coding agent can open pages, click and type in it, signed in as you. A tag at the top of the chat shows which computer's browser is connected and everything the agent did there, and disconnects it in one click
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Turn on the eye button in your app preview to let your coding agent see the page you're on, take a screenshot of it, and read its recent errors and failed requests
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When an agent runs out of quota, chat suggests continuing with another agent that has quota left and keeps new messages queued until a limit resets
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Coder IDE Settings → General has a Phone & web access switch: turn it off to keep Coder IDE on this computer only, and it stays off until you turn it back on
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Dictate anywhere in the desktop editor: press Ctrl+Alt+Space, talk, and press it again to type what you said into the file or terminal you're in. Say “new line” or “open paren” for symbols, and add the names you use to Settings → Voice so they're spelled right
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VibeCoder chat shows which MCP servers and skills your agent has (a chip beside the message box opens the list), marks each skill it uses, and shows plugin messages such as lean-ctx's token savings as small cards with their own action buttons
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Antigravity CLI replaces Gemini CLI, now that Google has moved Gemini CLI users to it: install, update, sign in with your Google account (or use a Gemini API key) from Settings → Agents, pick its models and modes in the chat, and approve its actions from your phone. Chats that ran on Gemini CLI continue on Antigravity CLI
Improved
Voice chat feels like a call: a call panel with a timer, live waveform, captions, mute and hang up, and replies start being read aloud while they are still being written
Improved
Coder IDE Settings sits beside Settings in the editor menu, in the same row
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When a new version of Coder IDE is ready, the editor asks you: Update installs it right away, Later installs it once you're done
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Dictation uses Ctrl+M everywhere: tap it or the mic to start and stop, or hold to talk, and your words appear in the message box as you speak
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Editing a sent message with Claude Code or Codex redoes it right in the same chat: the old reply disappears and the conversation continues from there
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VibeCoder chats no longer get stuck when they outgrow the model's memory: earlier messages are summarised automatically, and /compact and /clear now work
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Tidier chat: back-to-back commands and file edits stack into one compact card, and notices sit with the files and queue above the message box
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The / menu in the editor chat groups commands into tabs, opens on the ones you used recently, and adds commands like /mcp and /skills that jump straight to that setting
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API keys now power VibeCoder only, so Claude Code and other coding agents always use your own subscription
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The editor mode buttons are labeled Agent Mode and IDE Mode
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The background agent manager checks less often while the agent is off or only the local editor is active
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Agent settings show icons beside agent names and run modes, matching the chat picker
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Coder IDE Agent uses a consistent app name on Windows, macOS and Linux, clearer on and off labels, and explains when the local editor is still active
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The start screen adds searchable recent projects and keyboard shortcuts, with cleaner chat and settings layouts
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The browser chip has a sharper Chrome icon and tighter spacing
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Browser activity keeps action names on one line, with clearer spacing and aligned timestamps
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New chats remember your last agent, model and effort level, while older chats keep theirs and offer a switch with a prompt that dismisses after ten seconds; changing model keeps your effort level when the new model supports it
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The editor reopens in the Agents Window when that is where you left off
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Click pasted text, terminal output or a file or code selection attached in the message box to preview it formatted, with a copy button
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Files you have already committed or pushed drop out of the changed-files bar automatically, as if you had kept them
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The chat shows your connected browser's logo and groups browser, tools and rules into tabs
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Agent view keeps your Explorer, projects and sessions on the left; only the editor and terminal make room for the chat
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Your phone no longer buzzes about approvals or finished replies while you're working at your computer
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Typing in chat works better on phones and with a keyboard, with Up arrow to bring back earlier messages and Alt+Y or Alt+N to answer approvals
Improved
Codex, Copilot, Antigravity and VibeCoder can now read and resolve the notes and screenshots you pin on your app preview, not just Claude Code
Improved
Your messages appear in distinct right-aligned tinted bubbles labelled You, making them easier to distinguish from AI replies
Improved
Long command output and code blocks start collapsed with a short preview and Show more and Show less controls
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Queued screenshots open directly in a full-size modal preview, and closing or annotating a preview returns to the chat it came from
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Your latest sent message stays pinned at the top of the chat, collapsed by default with Show more to read it, including messages waiting in the queue
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Chat tabs distinguish working, idle, inactive and approval states with separate indicators, while the selected chat has a clear underline
Improved
The model picker lists each model once with a separate effort selector, and shows Ultracode as available only when Claude Code is selected
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The Coder IDE app on your computer shows when only the editor is using it, with a Turn on phone access button to reach the computer from your phone again
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Voice messages to VibeCoder spell your project's names correctly and drop “um” and “uh”, and Ask by Voice starts a spoken chat from the command palette
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The editor's gear menu and File → Preferences now have a Coder IDE Settings entry right under Settings
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Antigravity CLI and Codex CLI answer your first message seconds sooner: Coder IDE gets the agent ready when you open the chat or switch to it, and closes it again after a few idle minutes
Improved
The editor's feature tour is up to date: it introduces VibeCoder chat and its agent picker, shows a small picture for each step, and puts the Coder IDE logo beside its title
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Chat and Settings in the editor work without the background service: Coder IDE starts on this computer by itself when you need it and stops when you close the editor. Phone access stays off until you turn it on
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VibeCoder's chat is tidier and easier to scan: finished reasoning folds into a one-line "Thought 3s", commands show as one line with their result, searches show how many results they found, and file edits show their changes right in the chat
Improved
Codex CLI now runs the way OpenAI's own apps run it: nothing extra to install, its full model list with reasoning levels in the Model tab, live thinking, commands, edits and plans in the chat, approvals on your phone, and Settings → Agents installs and updates it with OpenAI's official installer (or tells you when your Codex is too old)
Improved
Agents use far fewer tokens with connected tools: they look tools up when needed and can chain several in one step (Settings → Agents → Code mode for tools, on by default)
Fixed
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Fixed
Reopening an older chat, even one from weeks ago, keeps the whole conversation when you reply, even if the agent can't reopen its original session
Fixed
VibeCoder on OpenRouter, DeepSeek or Kimi now reaches the provider you picked
Fixed
Agent view consistently opens the chat, hides the empty editor and terminal, and keeps its layout when toggling the left sidebar
Fixed
Coder IDE Settings appears on its own row in the editor menu
Fixed
Closing a project lets you stop its agents or keep them running in the background, with conversations kept for when you reopen it
Fixed
Long messages from the editor on your computer, such as large pasted text or terminal output, no longer fail with a character limit error
Fixed
The context meter shows the same context size in every chat that uses the same agent and model
Fixed
File edits an agent makes through connected tools now show in chat as edits with their changes, and count in the changed-files bar
Fixed
Coding agents installed with Homebrew, npm, winget or their own installers are now detected on Mac and Windows, and installing them from settings works there too
Fixed
Opening Usage refreshes both Claude Code and Codex limits, including the agent you are not currently using
Fixed
Stopping a reply that has already finished no longer shows a misleading warning
Fixed
The chat button in the editor's title bar now always opens VibeCoder
Fixed
Bug fixes and stability improvements for chat
Fixed
Generate Commit Message uses your active chat's agent and model and handles large changes without failing because the diff is too large
Fixed
Queued messages stay in their own chat and survive restarts with their original agent, model and mode, and each chat remembers its own agent selection
Fixed
Local projects and extension management remain available when the background agent is stopped, and local updates finish without closing the editor before you reload the window
Fixed
Installed Cursor extensions import directly into the desktop editor without requiring the tray or background agent
Fixed
Switching chats keeps each message draft, attachment and context selection separate and restores them when you return
Fixed
Chat image previews recover after a temporary loading failure instead of staying as file icons
Fixed
Uninstalling Coder IDE closes its editor windows first and removes everything, instead of sometimes leaving files behind. It names anything it couldn't remove and reminds you that you'll need to sign in again after reinstalling
Fixed
The editor's welcome tour opens only once on each computer and stays closed after you close it, the activity bar shows just Coder IDE, Explorer, Search, Source Control and Extensions by default, and the tour's logo now sits next to its title
Fixed
Agents that aren't signed in, or stop answering, no longer leave the chat waiting forever: you get a Sign in button or an error you can retry, and Settings no longer shows a signed-out Antigravity CLI as ready

November 1, 2026

New
New Auto mode for Claude Code chats: Claude decides which actions are safe, runs routine steps on its own and asks only before risky ones. Pick it in the chat's Mode tab or as your default in Settings → Agents
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Edit any message you sent in the editor chat: it opens in place with attachments, mode and model, voice, / commands and @ files, and on resend you choose whether to put your files back to that point or keep your changes
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Install, sign in to and uninstall Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI and GitHub Copilot CLI straight from Settings → Agents: each runs its official command in a terminal you can watch, and the list updates when it finishes
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Turn on Ultracode for Claude Code right from the chat's Mode menu, for longer, multi-step work that checks its own results
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A new Usage tab in the chat's agent menu shows how much of each agent's limits you've used and when they reset, plus what API-key agents have cost this session, today and this month
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Voice chat in the editor: talk to the agent hands-free, it sends when you pause or say your submit word, reads the reply aloud and listens again, and you can interrupt it by speaking
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Editor chat settings now take effect: text size, sending with Ctrl+Enter, steering the agent mid-run instead of queueing, wrapped code, a usage line after each run, automatic switch out of Plan mode, the agent's edits highlighted in your files with Accept and Reject, formatting changed files when a run ends, and an Add to chat button for selected code
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VibeCoder can search the web and read web pages, with no extra key, asking before each search or page unless you turn that off in Settings
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Always allow a command, MCP tool or website in every chat from the approval card, and manage those lists in Settings; risky commands still need your approval every time
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Choose which agent runs your chats: Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI or GitHub Copilot CLI on your own subscription, or VibeCoder, Coder IDE's own agent on your API key. An agent that isn't installed shows the command to install it, and approvals reach your phone whichever agent asks
New
Switch agents in the middle of a chat and keep going: the new agent picks up the whole conversation, the history stays in one place with a note where you switched, and your to-dos, undo points and allowed actions carry over
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Attach files and images to editor chats with the paperclip, paste or drag and drop, and dictate with the mic: in the browser and the app it uses your device's speech recognition, on desktop your own OpenAI, Groq or Gemini key set in Coder IDE Settings → Voice
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VibeCoder now uses your setup: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and Cursor rules, skills, subagents, your own slash commands, hooks and MCP servers. A new Customize page in Coder IDE Settings lists them all, adds new ones and installs plugins from your marketplaces
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Coder IDE Settings opens as its own page in the editor (Ctrl+,): pick your agent, provider, model and key, advisor mode and the default approval mode, separate from the editor's own settings. The editor's menu bar now shows across the top
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Chat with your agent right inside the editor: a VibeCoder panel in the Coder IDE sidebar shows your sessions live, with tool steps, to-do lists, approvals and a model picker
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VibeCoder now writes code: it reads, searches and edits your project and runs commands on your Anthropic API key, with approvals on your phone and undo for every turn
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Advisor mode works with Claude Code too: Claude can ask Opus for a second opinion before big changes, on your API key or your Claude plan
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Allow a request for the rest of a chat, like every npm install, instead of once; risky commands can still only be allowed once. Branching a Gemini, Codex or Copilot chat to your computer now keeps the conversation
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Sessions view in the editor sidebar lists all active and recent AI sessions with real-time status and one-click navigation
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Support for Anthropic Console promotional credits, Opus advisor mode, and mid-session agent and model switching with universal slash commands
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Choose Claude Code's AI provider — your Anthropic API key, OpenRouter, DeepSeek or Kimi — from the desktop app, the dashboard or the app; keys stay on your computer
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A short guided tour shows new users around the dashboard, the desktop app and the editor — replay it any time from your account menu, Settings or the editor's command palette
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A Coder IDE icon in the editor's sidebar lists your projects and dev-server ports — start, stop and switch projects without leaving the editor
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The desktop app installs on every major Linux: Ubuntu and Debian, Fedora, RHEL 10 and its rebuilds, openSUSE, Arch and Manjaro through their own package manager, and other distributions as a per-user install
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Several Claude chats at once: the chat button opens a column on the right with each conversation in its own tab, and + starts another
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Open your projects in a native desktop editor window, with real menus, file dialogs, several windows and drag and drop. It uses the same projects, extensions and terminals as your phone and browser. Switch between it and the lightweight window in Settings
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Use your own AI key with Claude Code: pick Anthropic, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM or any compatible endpoint in the editor's settings. The key stays on your computer
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The desktop app's editor opens even without internet, with your project, theme, extensions and settings
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Install the desktop app on Windows, macOS or Linux with a single download, with nothing else to install first. On first launch, choose the full editor or just keep this computer reachable from your phone and browser
Improved
The editor chat feels more alive while the agent works: a "Thinking…" line that settles into "Thought for 12s" and opens to show the reasoning, live timers on running commands and subagents, and a "Jump to latest" button when you scroll up mid-reply
Improved
Settings and the chat in the editor now use the golden brand colour for buttons, switches, links and focus outlines, whichever editor theme you pick
Improved
Signed-out agents and agents missing an API key can now be picked in the chat, with a Sign in or Add key button right in the list. Signing in from your phone or browser uses a one-time code you enter in your own browser, and the chat picks the agent up as soon as you're done
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Images in the editor chat now open full screen in the editor area, with zoom, all the chat's images side by side, copy, save, and drawing on an image to send it back to the chat
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Models & keys now has its own card for each AI provider, with a separate saved key, an on/off switch and a Test key button, and you choose which one your agents use
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The chat's model list now shows each model's version, like Opus 5.5 or Sonnet 5.5, instead of just its name
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The chat's Model tab now lists each agent's own models (Gemini CLI, Codex and GitHub Copilot show what they offer after their first message, Claude Code adds Best and Opus plan), remembers your pick per agent and actually uses it; the Mode tab greys out modes an agent can't do, and the / menu shows the commands of the agent you picked
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Switching agents mid-chat now hands the new agent a clear summary of your project, current request, changed files, commands, open to-dos and the rules you gave, and you can expand it under the switch line to see exactly what it received
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Advisor now works with Claude Code and with VibeCoder on an Anthropic key: turn it on in Settings or the chat's Model tab and pick the advisor model there, from only the models that can advise the one you're using, with the best pick marked
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Richer editor chat replies: images show inline and open full size, each reply has Copy, Fork into a new chat and its time, a compact stack above the message box shows background subagents (running, finished or failed; click one to jump to its report) and the files the chat changed with live line counts, Undo All, Keep All, Review and Stop (Ctrl+Shift+Backspace). Undoing the agent's changes now puts files back to how they were before it touched them, keeping your own edits, and you can keep or undo single changes in the editor
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Coder IDE Settings in the editor are reorganised into General, Agents, Models & keys, Voice and Customize, with a search box that finds any setting, your account and plan at the top, and new options for the chat, web tools, edits and voice chat
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VibeCoder waits for you to sign in to an MCP server instead of skipping it, and can ignore other tools' rules, skills and plugins when you only want your project's own CLAUDE.md
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Editor chat polish: every New chat opens its own tab, a / button lists the agent's commands, the agent picker shows full names and statuses, and the chat and settings use the full width
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Coder IDE shows as one app in your launcher; the companion that runs in the background is now called Coder IDE Agent and lives in the system tray
Improved
The editor's VibeCoder chat is rebuilt: chat tabs and searchable history, a mode and model picker, @ file mentions, a pinned to-do list, terminal and diff cards, a Review changes bar, restore to any earlier message, queued messages and a context meter
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VibeCoder chat now sits in the editor's right sidebar like other AI editors, opened and closed with the chat button in the title bar. The Claude Code editor extension is no longer installed for you; Claude Code still works as an agent
Improved
The desktop app's Overview shows at a glance whether your phone can reach this computer, with live sessions, ports, memory and waiting updates
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Open Folder in the desktop app's editor starts in your Projects folder
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The desktop app's Ports page shows each dev server as a card with its program, status and preview link
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Setting up the desktop app now asks which editor's settings and extensions to bring, or sets up a fresh VS Code, so the editor opens right away
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Your recent projects are the same everywhere: projects from the desktop app show up on the web and in the app, and the other way round
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The desktop app's editor opens your project directly, like a regular desktop editor: voice dictation in Claude Code works and it no longer disconnects when Coder IDE updates
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Opening the editor goes straight back to the project you had open last
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Claude Code comes preinstalled as a regular extension you can see, update or remove like any other
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When the editor loses its connection after an update or restart, it reloads by itself instead of asking you to
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Claude Code uses the settings from your own editor on this computer, and stays in sync: change a Claude Code setting in Cursor, the web editor or the desktop app and the others follow
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A new start screen when no project is open: open a project, clone a repository or pick a recent one, with nothing else in the way
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The Coder IDE editor is now fully open source. Extensions come from the Open VSX marketplace
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The editor's side bar starts tidy: Explorer, Search, Source Control, Extensions and Claude Code. Everything else is one tap away in the views menu
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Coder IDE uses less memory and disk: newly added computers pause an editor nobody has used for 30 minutes, and projects share one copy of each extension
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After a restart, the desktop app reopens your editor with the files, tabs and layout you had open
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The desktop editor works without an internet connection, extension panels like Claude Code and Markdown preview included: Coder IDE downloads what it needs ahead of time and brings your Cursor or VS Code extensions straight from this computer
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Open editor in the desktop app goes straight to your last project on this computer, full window, instead of the dashboard
Improved
An editor with no folder open shows a simple start screen: open a project, clone a repository or pick one of your recent projects
Fixed
Settings → Agents tells the truth about each agent: Gemini CLI shows "Signed out" until you've actually signed in, Codex CLI shows "Needs setup" with an Install button when the piece Coder IDE uses to run it is missing, and you can pick VibeCoder before adding a key (it asks for one when you send)
Fixed
The desktop app no longer opens with an unsaved settings file that blocks saving settings
Fixed
Advisor mode turned on from the app now sticks, and saving AI settings in the desktop app no longer turns it off
Fixed
Chats on your Anthropic API key now remember the whole conversation, advisor mode actually consults Opus, and the newest Claude model is the default
Fixed
Switching back to an AI provider no longer asks for its API key again, and OpenRouter now works with Claude Code's model picker
Fixed
New Window from the Linux dock opens a fresh editor window with the start page
Fixed
The editor no longer opens an extra empty Claude Code tab every time it starts
Fixed
On GNOME desktops such as Fedora, the desktop app now sets up its top-bar icon itself, and opens its window when the icon can't be shown
Fixed
Cursor, Windsurf and Antigravity installed from a Linux package now show up in Settings → Editor
Fixed
The desktop editor now looks like the web editor: Coder Pink theme, the Coder IDE logo and icons, and no folder trust prompt
Fixed
An empty editor shows the Coder IDE logo again instead of the VS Code one
Fixed
Claude Code no longer shows Coder IDE as failed when the agent was off as a session started; annotations work again as soon as the agent is back
Fixed
The editor now starts on Alpine Linux
Fixed
Replies to a chat open on your computer no longer get stuck on Sending when it has been idle for a while

October 31, 2026

New
See a chat's agent map: the helper agents and background tasks Claude started, how each is doing and how long it has run
New
Replies you send from your phone or the web to a chat that's open on your computer now reach it: Claude picks them up as soon as it finishes what it's doing
New
Choose how Claude works from the chat box: ask before edits, edit automatically, plan first, or auto
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The desktop app can be your code editor: choose Desktop app to open your editor in its own window with every keyboard shortcut working, or Agent only to keep coding from your phone and browser
Improved
Images in your replies show as pictures instead of file paths, and tapping one opens it full size
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Attach any code or text file Claude can read, not just a few types; photos from your phone are sent in a format Claude can open
Improved
The chat box always shows the model and effort Claude will use, and Fable is now one of the models you can pick
Improved
Typing / in the chat box lists every command and skill Claude Code has on your computer, including your own
Improved
Coder IDE uses much less memory on your computer while Claude Code works and while you follow its chats from your phone
Fixed
Messages you type on your computer while Claude is working now show in the chat on every device
Fixed
Sessions you closed or stopped no longer show as working, and the Sessions list no longer shows empty or duplicate entries
Fixed
Images you send with a message now show in the chat
Fixed
Stop shows that Claude is stopping until it really has, and a message you sent meanwhile goes through instead of asking you to reply on your computer

October 24, 2026

New
Undo Claude's changes from your phone: rewind a project's files to before any of your messages or any step you approved, and undo the rewind just as easily
New
Attach images and documents to a reply to Claude: pick, paste or drop them into the reply box
New
See when an update is waiting on your computer, like a new VS Code release or a desktop app update that needs your password: the desktop app notifies you and your device details show it
New
Restart the agent with one click from the desktop app or its tray menu
Improved
Ports lists only the dev servers running in each project folder, and only those get a preview link
Improved
Uninstall in the desktop app's settings now asks for confirmation, can remove the computer from your account, and removes the app itself too
Improved
Your editor's extensions now stay on their latest version while it runs, and the editor tells you when a reload picks up new versions or a new VS Code release is ready
Improved
On Windows, the agent now accepts direct connections from your local network only on networks marked as private, and Windows no longer offers to open it to every network
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On every computer, direct connections are now accepted only from devices on your own local network
Improved
Editors open faster, especially on mobile data: they download a fraction of the data, a stopped editor starts sooner, and opening another editor in the Android app skips signing in again
Improved
Turning Claude Code alerts on or off keeps the comments in your Claude Code settings and never replaces another tool you set up under the same name
Improved
One "Check for updates" button in the desktop app now updates the agent, the app and the editor together
Fixed
Starting the agent from the desktop app now waits until it's running instead of showing it as stopped
Fixed
The editor reconnects within seconds after your phone or computer switches networks, instead of getting stuck on connecting
Fixed
The Coder IDE tray icon now stays put whenever the agent is running, and comes back by itself if it was closed

October 18, 2026

Claude Code sessions that keep going

New
Voice control: hold the mic in the new Voice tab and tell your computer what to do, and hear the answer read back
New
Watch your Windows computer's screen live from your phone or browser, on any monitor
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Claude can open apps, click and type on your Windows computer when you ask from your phone, with risky steps waiting for your approval
New
Turn screen sharing and desktop control on or off in the new Privacy section of the desktop app's Settings
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The desktop app now keeps itself up to date, along with the editor it serves
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Change how long an idle editor waits before it suspends right in the desktop app
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See every Claude Code session on your computers, whether it started in a terminal, in VS Code or in the background, and read what it's doing
New
Reply to a Claude session or start a new one in any of your projects from your phone or browser, and your computer picks it up even while you're away
New
Turn Claude session alerts on or off with coder-ide alerts, or when you sign in
New
The desktop app's settings show this computer's security number and editor auto-suspend time, and let you remove the computer from your account
Improved
A fresh new look: warm dark colours, a golden accent and new illustrations across the website, app and desktop app
Improved
Check for updates moved to a new Updates section in the desktop app's Settings, next to the editor's version
Improved
The desktop app's Settings are organised into tabs
Improved
Claude session alerts are now on by default, and you can turn them on or off from the desktop app
Improved
App updates on your computer wait until Claude finishes what it's working on
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Signing in from your computer tells you right away when the request was denied and rides out brief network drops
Improved
Security improvements
Improved
Auto-suspend now waits for a running Claude Code task to finish
Fixed
Screen sharing and desktop control now work on computers where Coder IDE starts at boot
Fixed
The Ports list clears when your editor stops, instead of showing ports that can no longer be stopped or previewed
Fixed
The desktop app keeps its editor settings and extensions separate from VS Code Remote-SSH on the same computer
Fixed
Security improvements, bug fixes and stability improvements

October 11, 2026

Agent view and desktop app updates

New
The desktop app updates itself
Improved
The installer sets up the desktop app and can repair or clean up an existing install
Improved
The editor on your machine stays up to date automatically
Fixed
Bug fixes and stability improvements for Claude Code and the desktop app

October 10, 2026

Ports, instances and a new look

New
Desktop app to see and manage your sessions, ports and logs locally
Improved
Faster, more reliable connections to your machine