Changelog

v0.4.50

The current early-access release of Octopush for macOS (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel). The major arc since v0.4.1:

Sandboxed execution — free. With sandboxing on, a mission’s agents run write-confined to their workspace by the macOS seatbelt; your ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, other worktrees and system paths stay read-only, enforced by the kernel. Review missions are read-only by construction. Security is never paywalled — it’s on the free tier.

Crews that work while you don’t. Detached runs survive quitting the app and post a native notification when a crew finishes or needs you. Routines fire scheduled crews on a Days × Times schedule, with an optional shell pre-condition that skips a window when there’s nothing to do. (Pro.)

Mission Control & the Logbook. One cockpit (⌘⇧M) for every run across every workspace — needs-you, in-flight, settled. The Logbook records each mission’s worked time, spend, and savings vs an all-premium baseline; cross-mission reports live in the Logbook Room (⌘⇧L, Pro).

Direct, sharpened. Per-stage reasoning effort, an ask_director escape valve (a stage stops and asks you, with a recommended default, instead of guessing), and automatic escalation — retry once on a stronger model, only after a proven failure.

Start from a prompt. Prompt genesis and the Greenfield pipeline let you begin from a description with no repo — set a crew on it, sandboxed by default.

Sync (Pro). Run History and your custom pipelines/roles (Library) follow you across machines.

v0.4.1

An earlier early-access release of Octopush for macOS (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel).

A real identity: The Octo. Octopush’s mark is now a minimal geometric octopus — solid brass on onyx, a dome head with two negative-space eyes, four front arms and four muted back arms peeking behind. It is a mascot as much as a logo: in the app’s top bar its body language mirrors the real state of the crew (idle floats, working paddles and scans, pushed rises with a brass halo, blocked freezes). The wordmark is set in Fraunces, a brand-only face. The § glyph is fully retired as the logo.

The Direct beauty redesign. The run track now works with depth of field — the stage that matters renders at full ink while the rest recede to dimmed essences — and exactly one brass beacon pulses per attention scope. Roman numerals, gradient rules, and the ⟶ connector glyph are retired across the UI: stage positions are plain numbers and flow between stages is drawn as solid ink lines.

Director hot controls. Edit a pending stage’s brief, model, or budget while a run is live, and re-run from any completed stage.

v0.1.70

The early-access release that established the shape of Octopush for macOS (universal — Apple Silicon and Intel).

The four modes. Every workspace gives you Talk (chat, ⌘⇧1), Run (a real PTY terminal, ⌘⇧2), Review (diff + embedded editor + git, ⌘⇧3), and the optional Direct mode (multi-agent pipelines, ⌘⇧D).

Workspaces as worktrees. Each workspace is a git worktree with an AI assigned, so tasks run in true parallel isolation. Projects are repositories; workspaces are the units of work.

Token-first cost control. Live input, output, and cache token counts, per-model cost on every message, and per-scope budgets (global, project, workspace; daily or monthly) with warnings at 50%, 80%, and 100%.

Multi-provider, bring your own keys. Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, and DeepSeek via API key, plus local Ollama with no key required.

Direct pipelines. Chain multiple agents into stages with checkpoints and resumable runs.

Quality of life. Command palette (⌘K), Scratchpad notes, session persistence (terminals survive restart), a live RAM/CPU performance monitor, read-only Jira issue tracking, and GitHub PR detection via gh.