Changelog

v0.1.72

• Rename a file in the sidebar now works on the first try.
• After the name highlights, arrow keys move the caret instead of the tree.

v0.1.71

• Failed video downloads now include the underlying host error (for example HTTP 403) so it's clear what blocked the download.
• YouTube downloads that stay blocked after a retry now try a second method that works on some long videos the first method can't get.
• Video downloads cap at 1080p so a 4K source doesn't pull a half-gigabyte file just to analyze.

v0.1.70

• YouTube and other video links that get blocked now retry automatically and download at higher quality when ffmpeg is installed.
• If a download still fails, Woven says so in plain English and you can still drag in a local .mp4.

v0.1.69

• See workspace images right in chat — sent photos and agent-linked stills, two-up when there are several. GIFs loop.
• Hover Preview or double-click a still to open it in the right pane.
• Pasted images are saved into the workspace so you can inspect them later.

v0.1.68

• Play workspace videos right in chat — first frame, click to play with sound, hover to open Preview or Editor.
• Add a video now attaches to the composer like a Finder drop, including multiple files stacked after send.
• On a new chat, / skills appear under the input instead of floating away from it.

v0.1.67

• Chat is home: the Editor stays closed until you open a reel or the agent has something to show.
• Drag videos or images from Finder onto the window to attach them to the current chat. Outside files are copied into the workspace; images stay visible to the model.
• New Codex Sol, Terra, and Luna chats start at Medium reasoning instead of Low.

v0.1.66

• Captions now share the same font picker as text overlays — the five curated faces plus any fonts you've imported.
• A caption font set by you or the agent shows in the editor preview and in the exported video.

v0.1.65

• Fixed caption generation failing before transcription when uploading reel audio.

v0.1.64

• Free trials now show the new 3-day duration throughout the Woven paywall.
• Trial access cached for offline use now stops at the trial's actual end time, while paid and grandfathered users keep the existing offline grace.
• Removed stale promises about trial reminder emails and seven-day refund requests.

v0.1.63

• Added full Kimi K3 compatibility, including its 1M-token context window and automatic migration from Kimi K2.6.
• Long-running agent turns now preserve completed reasoning and tool work when a later model step is temporarily unavailable.
• Failed or cancelled follow-up steps now discard incomplete output without rerunning completed tools.

v0.1.62

• Added GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra to Woven Credits, with backend-provided reasoning tiers and defaults.
• Added Claude Sonnet 5, and retired hosted-model selections now move safely to backend-declared replacements.
• Woven's hosted model availability, defaults, and replacements now stay synced with the live catalog and stop safely when it becomes stale.

v0.1.61

• ChatGPT Codex now uses OpenAI's latest standalone runtime, avoiding the outdated bundled executable that macOS could quarantine.
• Added GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, including Max reasoning support.
• The ChatGPT model picker now stays focused on the latest Sol, Terra, and Luna generation.

v0.1.60

• Chat transcripts now use a normal macOS scrollbar that stays beside the divider, supports thumb dragging and track clicks, and fades when idle.

v0.1.59

• Accounts that have already used a free trial now see subscription checkout copy instead of being prompted to start another trial.
• The subscription paywall no longer promises trial-only perks like $0 due today or included hosted credits.
• If billing state is missing or unknown, Woven now falls back to paid-safe checkout copy instead of promising a free trial.

v0.1.58

• Woven now keeps the sidebar, chat, editor, and preview panes usable on compact Mac windows.
• The welcome screen and editor header now compress cleanly instead of clipping behind the preview pane.
• Long reel names and preview breadcrumbs now stay on one line with middle truncation, so file extensions remain visible and buttons like Edit stay readable.

v0.1.57

• Generate images, videos, audio, and captions with Woven Credits using Woven-hosted media models.
• Media generations now run in the background with a compact Generation Activity shelf for queued, processing, completed, failed, and cancelled jobs.
• Generated outputs are downloaded into your workspace automatically, with stronger retry, dismiss, and refresh handling when jobs finish later.
• The model picker now keeps Woven Credits and ChatGPT choices separate, with clearer switching between your Woven balance and your ChatGPT subscription.

v0.1.56

• Sound effects now play in the editor preview, so what you hear while editing matches the exported reel.
• Motion-only clips now refresh in the editor preview after generated motion code changes, without needing to close and reopen the editor.

v0.1.55

• New per-clip playback speed for video clips — a speed control in the editor lets you slow footage down or speed it up.
• Trim, clip duration, and the live preview now follow the chosen speed, so the preview matches the exported video.
• The agent can set a video clip's speed directly when building your reel.

v0.1.54

• MCP approval requests now appear directly in chat with the exact server and request details, so you can approve or deny them without losing context.
• Canceling an MCP approval prompt now reliably stops the pending Codex turn instead of leaving work running in the background.
• Changes to Codex MCP approval and safety settings now take effect before the next turn, with cleaner thread reuse when policies change.
• Agents can upload temporary files to fal.ai for media workflows using your configured provider credentials, with an approval prompt before anything outside the workspace is sent.

v0.1.53

• New effects side panel — browse the effects library and add sound effects and transitions to your timeline by clicking a tile or dragging it onto the timeline. Honors your reduced-motion setting.
• Per-clip volume control — set any clip's volume from a popover fader on the speaker button, with mute that remembers your last level so unmuting restores it.
• Video clips now show their volume level right on the clip, and transitions are marked with a cleaner accent seam instead of a tint.

v0.1.52

• Right-click any image, video, or file to Copy, Copy Image, Rename, Move to Trash, or Reveal in Finder — in the preview, the folder browser, and the multi-select tray.
• New shortcuts: Space previews the selected file, ⌘C copies it, and ⌘⌫ moves it to the Trash.

v0.1.51

• Redesigned timeline lanes — video, image, audio, and caption clips each get a distinct tint, icon, and cleaned-up label (file extensions stripped, hidden on very narrow clips), with chrome that adapts to your app theme in light and dark.
• Audio clips now show their waveform and volume envelope right in the timeline, so loudness and fades are visible at a glance.
• The timeline now rests at your content's length plus a small tail buffer instead of the full source bounds, and holds a steady floor while you drag clips.
• Smoother clip dragging — clips stay anchored as the timeline scrolls underneath, with automatic edge panning when you drag to the viewport edge.
• Press End to jump to the end of your content, and timeline zooming is now blink-free.

v0.1.50

• Aspect ratio menus redesigned — the default option (Original or Component default) is now a clear reset action annotated with the value it resolves to, and the checkmark always lands on the matching named ratio.
• Full-quality YouTube downloads — Woven now auto-installs the Deno runtime yt-dlp needs for YouTube extraction (one-time, automatic); previously YouTube videos could cap at ~360p or fail.

v0.1.49

• Agents can now render and inspect individual reel frames directly from the editor, so visual self-review can catch layout, typography, and composition issues before export.
• Editor context now describes available reel capabilities more completely, including bundled and imported fonts, text anchors, alignment, and effect limits for more accurate agent edits.
• Codex now starts new chats with the configured default model more reliably.

v0.1.48

• Preview multiple files at once — selecting several files (or having the agent open them) now opens a preview tray with a thumbnail rail and arrow-key cycling between items.
• Folders now open in a Finder-like browser inside Preview, with grid and list views, breadcrumb navigation, double-click to drill in, and Finder-style selection.
• Selection is sturdier: multi-selection survives double-clicks, and your folder selection is restored when you exit a preview tray.
• When some selected items can't be previewed (missing files or permission issues), Woven shows a clear notice and previews the rest.

v0.1.47

• Chat links to local files now open directly in Preview, so agent-created files and workspace paths can be inspected without leaving Woven.
• Featured MCP integrations for fal.ai and ElevenLabs are now available in Settings with one-click BYOK setup, clearer provider rows, and better connection errors.
• Woven can now prepare uv-backed MCP runtimes automatically before handing them to Codex, with a faster cached path and better cleanup if provisioning fails.
• Agents can download generated media from public URLs into the workspace, then open it in Preview for the next editing step.
• The Skills tab now supports persisted opt-in enablement, a cleaner hierarchy, and stricter gating so disabled skills are not injected into new Codex turns.

v0.1.46

• Reel exports no longer fail when a stray esbuild environment variable is present — the renderer now runs in a sanitized environment.
• Reel export errors now name the stage that failed (preparing, bundling, selecting, or rendering) for clearer troubleshooting.

v0.1.45

• The reel title menu no longer balloons to full width on some Macs — the dropdown stays compact with the chevron right next to the title.
• Renaming a reel now uses a smooth, native dialog attached to the window instead of a detached pop-up.

v0.1.44

• New editor tab — open a reel project in its own tab with a live preview beside the chat, and start new reel drafts that land in your workspace's reels folder.
• The agent now works on the reel you have open: edits, exports, and captions target the reel in your editor, and unsaved changes are protected when you switch projects.
• Start a 7-day free trial right from the paywall — $99/year with nothing due today, and cancel anytime before you're charged.
• "Manage account" now appears for every signed-in user in the sidebar and Settings, opening your account on the web.

v0.1.43

• Codex chats now support manual context compaction — run the /compact command to summarize a long conversation and reclaim context window space.
• Improved reliability of Codex context tracking and compaction across session resume and turn boundaries.

v0.1.42

• Reorganized the reel editor around picture lanes — stack videos and images in layered lanes with clearer arranging, per-lane transitions, and clip movement (replaces the old spine/overlay split).
• Rebuilt the reel preview engine so live playback matches the final render, with smoother video resizing and scrubbing.
• Added fit and aspect controls for motion clips and images, so you can frame each element exactly how it renders.
• Tool-call errors are quieter now — rows no longer pop open on failure, and an "Add Credits" card appears inline when you run out of credits.
• Codex now prompts you to sign in again when your login expires, without nagging on unrelated errors.
• Markdown previews now use a scrollbar that matches the app theme.

v0.1.41

• Claude Opus 4.8 — the new flagship Opus is now available (replaces Opus 4.7).
• Claude Opus and Sonnet now use the full 1M-token context window, so long chats compact far less often.
• Fixed extended thinking on the latest Claude models when bringing your own Anthropic key.

v0.1.40

• Markdown file previews now scroll smoothly even for very large documents.
• Press ⌘F to find text within a markdown preview, with Copy Raw Markdown one click away.
• Wide tables and code blocks in previews scroll horizontally with properly sized columns.
• Downloading videos now works for full-length clips from most public sites — no longer limited to short-form.

v0.1.39

• Chat pane dividers now reflow the conversation live as you drag them.
• Grabbing a divider responds instantly, with no initial lag.

v0.1.38

• Woven now unlocks with a one-time $99 lifetime license — no subscription. You can buy it without leaving the app: the Unlock screen opens a secure Stripe checkout, and the app unlocks automatically once the purchase clears (there's a "Refresh / I already purchased" link if it takes a moment). Every purchase is backed by a 7-day money-back guarantee, and a built-in "Contact us" button reaches support — we usually reply within a few hours.
• The file sidebar is noticeably snappier. Folders now expand and collapse instantly, and the tree no longer springs open or loses your place when you move, rename, or refresh files. The list is tighter and more native, the scrollbar sits flush at the edge and auto-hides when you're not scrolling, and the divider between the sidebar and editor sits cleanly against both panes.
• Caption generation failures are now visible — when a run can't complete you'll see a clear error explaining what went wrong, instead of the job quietly doing nothing.

v0.1.37

• New SFX side panel: browse the shared SFX library, search, click to insert at the playhead, or drag onto the timeline
• Timeline splits audio into separate Voice / SFX / Music / Audio sub-tracks for clearer editing
• Volume ducks and swells now work on any audio item, not just music
• Stuck-chat recovery: new restart control on the status badge and automatic recovery when the chat connection drops
• Agent can now browse and place sounds from the shared SFX library via a new tool

v0.1.36

• Video overlays now have their own aspect ratio. A new Aspect pill in the overlay toolbar opens a popover with common presets (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 4:5), a custom W:H input, and a "Source" action that snaps back to the underlying clip's native aspect (probed from the file via ffprobe on import, with a server-side fallback for older items that never carried it). Imported videos automatically pick up their source aspect, and Fit canvas now sets the overlay's aspect to match the canvas instead of just rescaling — so resizing the wrapper after that keeps the frame intact rather than letterboxing.
• Captions no longer collide when multiple reels share a folder. Generated captions used to write to a fixed filename derived from the folder root, which meant two reels in the same project directory would overwrite each other's caption output. Caption files are now keyed off the reel's own identity, so each reel keeps its own captions even when several reels live side-by-side. Every caption spec write is also logged with its destination path, making it easy to tell which reel a particular caption file belongs to.
• Webview exceptions from the inline reel editor are now mirrored to the sidecar log. When the editor JS throws — usually during a feature you just touched — the error and stack land in the same log file as the rest of the app, so reproducing a crash no longer requires opening the webview inspector to see what happened.

v0.1.35

• Codex can now finish reels for you. Two new tools — export_reel and generate_captions — let the agent take a reel end-to-end: ask Codex to "export this" or "add captions" and it runs the same export and caption pipelines you'd trigger from the editor, with progress and the final result rendered inline as a normal tool row. If a caption run hits insufficient credits, the failure card includes an "Add credits" action right next to the row instead of just telling you it failed.
• Captions invoked by the agent now land in the correct reel folder. Generation that ran from a tool call could previously write its output beneath the workspace root rather than into the reel's own folder, where the editor expects it. Caption writes are now canonicalized to the reel folder regardless of who kicked the job off, and hosted transcription failures are labeled clearly in the surfaced error so you can tell when a retry is worth doing.
• Export cancellation reliably stops in-flight renders. Cancelling an export now dominates renderer completion (so a render that happens to finish in the same moment the user cancels won't be presented as a successful export), and a cancelled renderer that ignores the soft signal is escalated after a short grace period. Agent-driven exports also now render from the preview workspace root so the asset paths the editor used resolve identically inside the render subprocess.

Codex MCP, multi-lane text & truer exports

v0.1.33

• Send feedback from inside the app. A new Send Feedback entry in the sidebar — and ⌘⇧F from anywhere in the window — opens a sheet where you can describe what went wrong or what you want next. The reply lands in our inbox tagged with your account and the app version, so we can write back without you having to dig up build numbers. You can opt in per submission to attach the last slice of sidecar logs from the same run, which makes "this happened to me once" reports actually traceable. Logs are never attached unless you tick the box on that specific submission.
• Reworked onboarding flow. First launch now walks through workspace setup before dropping you into the main window, then ends on a chooser that asks how you want to start your first reel — generate from a prompt, start from an existing video on disk, or pick a starter idea. Empty workspaces show the same chooser later so you can replay the path whenever the app feels blank. Model connection state is spelled out earlier so you can tell at a glance whether you're on Woven Credits, hosted, or your own key, and the full Welcome flow is now replayable from the Help menu if you want to walk a teammate through it.
• Import an existing video as an editable reel. Pick any video from your workspace (or drag one in) and Woven hydrates it as a reel project with the original clip on the timeline — no re-encoding, no thumbnail dance, ready to caption, cut, or restyle from the first frame. Adding the same source video to a workspace twice no longer creates a duplicate copy on disk; the import recognizes the existing file and reuses it.
• Starter prompts route straight into a new chat. Tapping a suggestion from the workspace empty state opens a fresh chat session with that prompt prefilled, scoped to the current workspace so a prefill set up in one folder doesn't bleed into another. Numbered chat-tab shortcuts (⌘1–⌘9) also got wired up so you can jump between recent chats without reaching for the sidebar.
• Model picker cleanup. Kimi K2 is now hosted-only — there's no longer a BYOK row, so the model just appears if your account has access. Woven Credits is also promoted as the top option in the picker, so the easiest path (no keys, no setup) is also the most obvious one. Behavior of the rest of the picker is unchanged.

v0.1.32

• Reworked text overlay coloring and alignment. Every preset now exposes its full secondary color palette as first-class slots — calligraphy outline, crossout strike line, pill / subtitle / calligraphy backdrops, watermark outline — instead of hardcoded constants. The toolbar's five separate color buttons collapsed into one Colors button whose popover renders only the slots that apply to the current preset. Highlight a span of text and you can color just that range, so different words within the same overlay can have different colors instead of forcing the whole text to one. A new alignment toggle (left / center / right) sets paragraph alignment inside the text box.
• Watermark redesigned, plus per-preset text case. Watermark switched from a hollow text-stroke trick to filled translucent text with a color picker and an opacity slider (default 0.78), which is closer to how broadcast watermarks actually look. Every text preset also got a Case row in the Style popover (none / uppercase / lowercase) with sensible per-preset defaults — only watermark defaults to uppercase, the rest stay as authored unless you opt in.
• Curated font picker for text overlays. Five hand-picked families — SF Pro Display, Montserrat, Inter, Playfair Display, Caveat — selectable from a chip-based picker in the text-style popover. Each chip renders its label in its own typeface so you can see the font before applying. Each preset keeps a sensible default font; the picker only overrides when you explicitly choose one.
• Use any font installed on your Mac for text overlays. Pick an installed font in the reel editor and Woven imports its per-face bytes, deterministically aliases them, and registers them both with the native preview and the Remotion render pipeline — so the font you pick in the editor is the font that ships in the exported video. Stale imports whose source file has gone missing now fall back gracefully instead of breaking text rendering for the rest of the reel.
• Smoother overlay editing. Scrubbing through a reel with video overlays no longer hitches on each seek. Replacing or removing an overlay's underlying media also retires the previous video/image immediately instead of leaving a detached preview layer behind the new one.

v0.1.31

• Faster, calmer chat transcript. Long conversations now stay smooth as you scroll — offscreen messages render as lightweight placeholders sized from a cached row-height map, so only the rows near the viewport pay the full layout cost. Re-opening a chat (or switching between recent sessions) lands on a fully-virtualized first paint instead of mounting every row real, so the transcript appears instantly even on conversations with hundreds of turns.
• No more thrash during window and pane resize. Dragging the window edge or the sidebar/preview divider now folds into the same freeze the editor uses for layout transitions — the chat content holds steady mid-drag and settles into the new width once you release, instead of relaying out on every pointer move.

v0.1.30

• Reel-editor preview now plays back smoothly like a normal video editor. Earlier, after play/pause, seeking, selecting an overlay, or tweaking a visual property, the preview could briefly repeat the first moment of the clip — audio doubled syllables, video flickered, and styling an overlay sometimes flashed black even though the timeline time hadn't moved. The native preview now distinguishes "media/timeline" mutations from "live visual" mutations: changing selection chrome, caption style, text style, overlay geometry, radius, shadow, fit, color, or layer no longer touches the media clock, so playback continues from the current frame instead of restarting.
• Dragging an overlay no longer flickers on pointer-up. The handoff from drag-preview back to the timeline now happens in the same frame the drag ends, so there's no in-between moment of stale layout.

v0.1.29

• Add Ken Burns–style motion to any reel. A new effects lane in the timeline punches in, pulls out, drifts, or pushes across the stage during a time range you pick — text and captions stay un-zoomed so annotations remain readable. The agent maps natural prompts ("zoom in on the second clip", "slow push", "pan right") to the right preset on the first try.
• Per-overlay layer ordering. Each visual overlay (video, image, motion clip) now has a Layer ▾ menu — Bring to Front / Forward / Backward / Send to Back — so a video can sit on top of an image, or a logo can sit on top of b-roll. The +/− sizing buttons become a continuous Size ▾ slider with Small / Medium / Large ticks, matching the Intensity slider. Click any empty stage area to deselect the active item and dismiss the toolbar.
• Insufficient-balance now shows a native sheet. Caption generation that runs out of credit used to leak red inline error text into the timeline toolbar; it now opens a SwiftUI sheet with your current balance and an Add Credits button. A pre-check short-circuits before uploading audio if the last-known balance is already exhausted.
• Native preview matches the editor. The macOS file-preview pane recognizes the unified video / image / motion / text / effects spec keys, so what you see in the side panel matches what the reel-editor stage renders.
• Tighter reel player corner radius and a calmer feel — captions and selection state survive spec mutations and reel reloads instead of flickering off, and overlay videos prime themselves before playback so they don't show a black first frame.
• Older reels open correctly. The reel-editor's legacy migration now preserves full-canvas overlay layout for clips[] / videoOverlays[] shapes, keeps voiceover order stable across all three legacy audio shapes, and carries migrated export state and unified-spec media behavior into the new shape.

v0.1.28

• Brand extraction now drives a real shared Chrome browser in the background, so sites that previously blocked stateless fetches (cookie walls, bot protection, login-gated pages) work reliably.

v0.1.27

• Send-into-chat no longer stutters. Your submitted message now snaps directly to its pinned position instead of animating into place, removing a brief jitter that could appear when the assistant began streaming mid-animation.

v0.1.26

• Extract a brand kit from any URL. A new extract-brand skill lets the agent pull a website's palette, gradients, logo, fonts, and design tokens into a brand.md you can drop into a reel — switching brands across projects is now one prompt instead of building a kit by hand.
• Motion clips can fill the full canvas. A new scene layout mode renders a motion component edge-to-edge for full-bleed brand intros and outros, instead of always being wrapped in a 1080×1080 square. Overlay-style motion clips (badges, count-ups, callouts) still behave exactly as before.
• New reels default to 16:9. Reels created without an explicit aspect now come out horizontal instead of vertical, matching the tool default and most desktop/landscape use cases. Pass width/height explicitly to override.
• Right-click the workspace sidebar. Right-click any empty area below your projects to create a new workspace or open an existing one — no more hunting through the File menu.
• App opens at 90% of your primary display on first launch. Fresh installs land at a useful size instead of a tiny default window in the corner.
• Thinking pill stays alive between events. The "thinking…" indicator no longer flickers off during quiet stretches mid-turn — you can see at a glance that the model is still working.
• Smoother chat transcript scrolling. Scroll position now anchors through SwiftUI's native scroll-on-size-change API, so the transcript stays put instead of jumping while messages stream in.

v0.1.25

• Codex (OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Codex) is now available as a coding agent. Sign in with your existing ChatGPT account from Settings → Account, then pick Codex from the composer's agent menu — switch per-turn between Codex and Claude, with reasoning summaries streaming into the thinking bubble while Codex works.

v0.1.24

• Reel editor live-reloads when the spec is edited from another tool. Tweak the JSON in VS Code or Cursor and the timeline reflects the new spec the moment you switch back to Woven — no restart, no reopen.
• Motion clips stay locked to the editor playhead while you scrub the timeline, instead of drifting out of sync as the surrounding clips shift.
• Asset picker accepts files reached through symlinks (e.g. an iCloud Drive folder linked into your workspace) and now explains the workspace-only constraint when you try to pick something outside it, rather than silently rejecting it.
• New reels are saved with the aspect ratio you chose for the project, instead of always defaulting to 9:16.
• Welcome card after sign-in. A new one-screen intro explains how billing works — pay-as-you-go Woven credits, or bring your own keys, no subscription required — with one-click Add credits / Add your own keys actions. Replayable any time from Settings → Account.
• Insufficient-balance state is now consistent. Whether you have $0 or a few cents left, you see the same "Insufficient Balance" banner above the composer with Add Credits / Add Own Keys buttons — instead of starting a turn that crashes into a red 402 error row mid-chat once the backend refuses it.

v0.1.23

• Video URLs work reliably on fresh installs. The video downloader (yt-dlp) is now fetched on first launch in the background — typically done before you paste your first link. The app is also ~36 MB smaller as a result.

v0.1.21

• Analyze any reference video. Paste an Instagram Reel, YouTube Short, TikTok, or X / Twitter URL — or drop in a local .mp4 — and Woven breaks down the hook, pacing, format archetype, and shot structure. Works on any aspect ratio (vertical 9:16, landscape 16:9, square, X's odd 4:3). Powered by a bundled, auto-updating yt-dlp, ElevenLabs Scribe for word-level transcripts, and Apple ShazamKit for song identification. The structured analysis.json hands off to the chained authoring step so you can build a reel in the same format.
• Paste images into the chat composer. ⌘V or right-click Paste drops thumbnail chips above the input; they ship to the model alongside your text and persist across restart.
• Friendlier Analyze Video errors. Short or voice-only audio that can't be Shazam'd now cleanly reports "No song match" — no more raw com.apple.ShazamKit error 201 leaking into chat.
• Reasoning defaults to Medium. New chats with a reasoning-capable model start with the thinking pill on Medium instead of off. Your manual choice still persists across restart.

v0.1.20

• Context-window meter now reflects each model's actual size. The little token counter under the composer reads the context length the Woven gateway publishes for each model, so Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5 show 200k, Grok 4.3 shows 1M, etc. — instead of the old 128k default that didn't match what the model actually accepts. Auto-compaction uses the same number, so it kicks in at the right point for high-context models.

v0.1.19

• Reasoning effort per chat. A new "thinking" pill (bars icon) in the composer sets the model's reasoning effort for the current conversation — click to cycle off → low → medium → high. While the model is reasoning, the bubble shows a streaming "Thinking…" trace that collapses to "Thought" once the final answer arrives. Reasoning isn't replayed into later turns, so token spend stays predictable across long chats.
• Model picker is now backend-driven. Hosted models come straight from the Woven gateway's /api/v1/models endpoint, so new providers and versions appear in the picker as soon as they're added server-side — no app release required. Grok 4.3 (xAI) is the first model to land this way. The picker also groups entries by provider in the backend's order.

v0.1.18

• Reliable tool calls on hosted Claude. Tool calls with empty inputs (read_preview, save_memory) were getting silently dropped at the streaming layer, freezing the agentic loop after the first step. Woven now uses an OpenAI-compatible parser that finalizes unfinished tool calls at flush time, so the model can complete its loops end-to-end.
• Switching providers mid-conversation no longer 400s. Some aggregators emit tool-call IDs with characters Anthropic rejects (`:`, `.`); switching from Kimi back to Claude in the same chat would invalidate the whole history. IDs are now normalized at the persistence boundary so cross-provider chats stay valid, and older mixed sessions self-heal on load.
• First click on icon buttons works again. The popover-backed tooltip introduced in 0.1.17 was stealing the first click on sidebar toggle, preview toggle, new chat, approval mode, edit file, and shortcuts-panel close. Replaced with native macOS tooltips that still show the keyboard shortcut inline (full keycap pill UI lives in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel, ⌘/).
• The tool activity dropdown no longer flickers open while the model retries a failing tool — it only auto-expands when there's a pending approval to act on.
• Polished motion-clip defaults. Easings switch to easeOutQuint entrances and easeInQuart exits, slide distances trimmed for less travel, and the default bounce is off (still opt-in on scale and rotate). Motion clips the assistant authors land smoother out of the box.

v0.1.17

• New per-seam transitions in the reel editor — click any seam between primary clips to pick from 13 effects (Fade, Slide, Whoosh, Flash, Zoom, Pull in/out, Smear, Glitch, TV glitch, and more) with a 0.05–2.0s duration stepper. Subsequent clips auto-shift to make room for the overlap and styles paint every frame instead of being skipped while the incoming video decodes.
• Reorder primary clips by dragging them past their neighbors. Drag clip 2 past clip 3 to make the order clip 1 / clip 3 / clip 2 — multi-clip cascades work in a single drag, and reversing the motion restores any transitions that were on the moved seams.
• Smoother timeline scrubbing on heavy clips. Woven encodes a lightweight 720p H.264 proxy on import (and on project open for older clips) and transparently swaps to it during editing; export still uses the original source.
• Hover tooltips on shortcut-bearing icon buttons now show the keyboard shortcut as a keycap pill — sidebar toggle (⌘⌥B), preview toggle (⌘⌥I), new chat (⌘T), edit file (⌘E), approval mode (⇧Tab), and more. The Keyboard Shortcuts row in the sidebar settings popover now renders and opens the panel.

v0.1.16

• The preview pane is now collapsible — toggle it with ⌘⌥I, the View menu, or the toolbar button. It auto-uncollapses when you select a file.
• Fix the right divider being unreachable on narrower MacBook windows (e.g. 13-inch Air at default zoom). Chat and preview can now shrink further before the layout saturates, and the sidebar yields mid-drag instead of pinning the divider in place.
• Reel editor toolbar is now responsive at narrow widths so it still fits when the preview pane is squeezed to its new minimum.

v0.1.15

• Built-in reel editor: open any reel from the file browser to scrub the timeline, swap clips, edit captions and text overlays, switch between vertical/horizontal/square formats, and export to MP4. Captions auto-generate from the voiceover and any b-roll audio.
• Programmable motion clips: Woven can now compose Remotion-style motion graphics inline as part of a reel, and edits hot-reload in the player without restarting playback.
• Smoother chat transcript: native macOS scroller with the message you just sent pinned in place while the response streams.
• Sessions resume on launch — Woven re-opens to the chat you last had focused.
• Sandbox now enforces file-access rules at the kernel level. When a tool tries to touch something outside its allowed paths, you get a one-click prompt to grant access for that run.

v0.1.14

• The "Allow Keychain access" prompts that fired on every app restart are gone for good. MCP secrets now live as a single entry in the macOS data-protection keychain, scoped by app identity instead of per-item ACL — no prompts, no per-restart noise. Existing secrets migrate automatically on first launch. (v0.1.12 and v0.1.13 were withdrawn for failing to launch on installation; this build is the proper fix and has been launch-tested before notarization.)

v0.1.11

• The "Allow Keychain access" prompts that fired on every app restart are finally gone. MCP secrets now live as a single entry in the macOS data-protection keychain, which the OS authorizes by app identity instead of per-item ACL. Existing secrets migrate automatically on first launch — you may see one last round of "Always Allow" prompts that one time, then never again.

v0.1.10

• Tighter follow-up to v0.1.9: editing or removing an MCP server, or testing one whose secret is in the Keychain, no longer pops a Touch ID / password prompt. The "Needs keychain · Unlock" button is now the only thing that ever asks for Keychain access.

v0.1.9

• MCP servers no longer spam Keychain prompts at startup. Stored secrets are read silently in the background, and any server that actually needs your permission to unlock now shows a "Needs keychain" status with a one-click Unlock button instead of popping repeated authorization dialogs.

v0.1.8

• New MCP server support. Add local (stdio) or remote (HTTP, with OAuth) MCP servers from Settings → MCP — paste a config snippet, import from Claude, or pick a local project. Woven exposes each server's tools to chat and lets you toggle them per server.
• The sandbox now passes through your real $HOME so tools like git, gh, npm, brew, and agent-browser find their config and auth without per-call grants. Sensitive paths (~/.ssh, cloud creds, keychains) stay blocked at the OS level.
• Reading files outside the workspace no longer asks. The sandbox is the actual gate now; protected files (.env, .npmrc, shell rcs) still ask on read. Writes outside the workspace still ask.
• Browser automation and Docker get an escape hatch. Explicit host-required commands like agent-browser, docker, and watchman prompt "Run outside Woven's sandbox?" with allow-once or always-for-workspace. Unknown browser automation first runs sandboxed; if it fails with Chrome/Chromium sandbox crash evidence, Woven asks whether to rerun the invoking command outside the sandbox.
• New "Commands run outside sandbox" section in Settings → Safety lets you add your own (e.g. puppeteer, colima, selenium-server).
• New "Write-protected paths" tier. .git/config, .claude/**, .mcp.json, .codex/**, .agents/**, .woven/** now only prompt on writes — git status/log/diff stop hitting approval walls. Add and remove just like Protected and Restricted paths.
• Sandbox failure recovery is more reliable. The auto-retry recognizes more error formats (Node EACCES, Python Permission denied, agent-browser-style "is not writable") and asks for the right permission (write, not read) when the operation isn't statically inferable.
• Unix-domain sockets work in writable directories. Tools that listen on a local socket (agent-browser daemon, language servers, Docker clients) work without extra approval beyond the file-write grant.
• Settings → Safety Add sheets now show the right examples per tier (e.g. puppeteer, colima for commands rather than path globs).
• Moonshot is a first-class BYOK provider with Kimi K2.6 in the model picker. Paste your ak- key in Settings → Models; the row notes OpenAI-compatible support so you can point other Kimi-style endpoints at it.
• New Advanced section per provider in Settings → Models, hidden by default. Expand to override the OpenAI-compatible base URL or pin a Moonshot model id.
• Numbered tab shortcuts (⌘1–⌘9) jump between chat tabs.
• Preview pane remembers its selection per chat, and now supports external preview targets so you can open arbitrary URLs alongside the conversation.
• Pending tool approvals are easier to spot in the transcript, and scroll controls behave better while streaming.

v0.1.7

• New web_search and web_fetch tools. The agent can search the web and read pages directly. Both go through Woven Hosted and debit your prepaid balance; if you run out, you'll see a clear top-up message.
• Network-using commands like agent-browser, playwright, node, and python are now recognized so they prompt for approval instead of silently failing. Approve once and they run.
• New "Allow external network" toggle in Settings → Safety. On by default; flip off if you want every network command to ask.

v0.1.6

• Future updates show a small "Update to vX.Y.Z · Restart" banner above Settings in the sidebar instead of popping a modal. Sparkle now downloads new versions silently in the background; click the banner to restart and install.
• Auto-update checks now run hourly instead of once a day, so updates land on your machine within an hour of publish.

v0.1.5

• Fix hover tooltips on the context meter and "Conversation compacted" marker rendering as a giant empty popover on macOS Tahoe (was most visible on slower hardware like MacBook Air).
• Approval-mode menu (shield icon at the top of chat) now uses macOS's native checkmark column for Auto / Always Ask, matching system menu conventions.

v0.1.4

• New sandboxed permissions: bash and file tools now run in an OS-level sandbox per command, isolated from credentials, SSH keys, and the rest of your home folder. A redesigned Permissions tab in Settings shows what Auto vs Always Ask allow, ask, and block — and lets you manage Protected paths (Woven asks first) and Restricted paths (Woven blocks even after approval).
• Approval prompts get keyboard shortcuts: ⌘↩ to Allow, ⌘⇧↩ to Always Allow for this workspace, ⌘. to Deny. Each button shows its shortcut as a keycap, and the row names the path Woven will remember so "Always" is no longer a black box.
• Context compaction now works on both Anthropic and OpenAI — long chats summarize automatically regardless of which provider is active.
• Sidebar gets a richer file outline with rename, delete, and drag actions. Preview pane navigation stops cleanly at the first and last item instead of wrapping.

v0.1.3

• Sign-in stays active across long sessions: Woven tokens now refresh automatically before they expire instead of silently failing the next request.
• If a session truly expires, you're cleanly signed out with a "session expired, sign in again" hint instead of seeing repeated server errors.
• Backend error messages now display correctly when the server returns structured error payloads (previously some errors showed as blank).

v0.1.2

• Show an out-of-credits notice above the composer when the API rejects a request, instead of failing silently.
• Editing an API key in Settings now auto-restarts the engine (debounced) so new keys take effect without quitting the app; a transient "Saved · engine restarting…" hint confirms the restart.
• Theme switching: window backgrounds stay opaque in light mode and split-pane dividers paint correctly across appearance changes.
• Sidecar startup failures now surface a clear error (exit code or signal plus the last few stderr lines) after a 10-second timeout, instead of hanging the chat indefinitely.

v0.1.1

• Polish DMG installer background.

v0.1.0

• First public release.