New

• Intel Macs. TasteCode now ships for Intel Macs as well as Apple Silicon, both signed and notarized. Each Mac gets its own update.
• Math in replies. Formulas render properly, whether the agent writes \( \), \[ \], $x$ or $$. Prices like "$5 and $10" stay plain text.
• Account pool. The limits popup shows every account of a provider on one line each, with its 5-hour and weekly bars. With many accounts it stays under half the window. A new chat you didn't pin starts on the account whose weekly allowance refills first. Nothing switches accounts on its own.
• More Grok accounts, each with its own sign-in. Cursor shows the plan it reports.
• A smoother app. The message box glides down when you send your first prompt, and the prompt rises into place. Menus open from their button and close quickly. Each new prompt gets more room above it, so an answer and the next question read as two steps. The message box and profile card are calmer, and icons sit exactly centered in their buttons.
• Window background. Dither and Halftone move slowly, the Appearance preview shows the whole window, and the window lets Windows 11 Mica/acrylic and macOS vibrancy show through. The Effect background uses less memory over long sessions.
• A first start that feels finished. The welcome screen builds up calmly, and a click skips it.

Fixes

• Undo on an agent's edits asks first and says which new files it deletes.
• Design mode and Isolated no longer carry over into the next new chat. A folder without Git offers Isolated disabled, with the reason, instead of failing.
• A prompt that failed to send stays with its chat instead of showing up in the next new chat.
• The sidebar keeps the projects you opened open after a restart.
• Images dropped from Explorer or Finder keep their preview in the sent message.
• Codex /review ends and shows its findings. /goal, /compact and /review work in Design projects too.
• Cursor shows the reason when it refuses a turn (for example a model outside your plan), keeps its text around tool calls as separate messages, and says up front that it can't run in Ask first.
• A repository that Git refuses because another Windows user owns it is reported as that, not as "not a repository".
• The pull-request list loads for accounts with many open pull requests, and a GitHub timeout says so.
• Design chats on Grok get a title from your request, and Design protocol data no longer shows up as chat text.
• Chat titles no longer contain stray markdown, and edit cards show file paths relative to the project.
• A background chat's preview opens only in that chat.
• The account-switch divider names the account and the model.
• Onboarding shows which sub-agent choice applies before you pick one.

Update

Existing installations update on their own: TasteCode checks shortly after start and every hour, downloads in the background and installs when you quit, unless a chat is still running. You can also use Settings > About > Check for updates and Restart to update.

Downloads

• Windows x64 installer. This build is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning.
• macOS Apple Silicon installer, signed and notarized.
• macOS Intel installer, signed and notarized.

Verification

All installers were built from d5e4582602d377020da8f0fa5b4ca6ee46b7e519.

SHA-256:

33669a2dc756109767417745f767fab92f21703d19162e6b870e5b2da9604fbf  TasteCode-0.5.1-win-x64.exe
ddb85621ffe3047ecea48924f0c61d0df80075e6f029fb452f139fd1be3be23f  TasteCode-0.5.1-mac-arm64.dmg
238968bfb104660252a01a5b1a7c92fb8bf2de9089773f84524470914ac3238c  TasteCode-0.5.1-mac-x64.dmg

New

• Codex and Claude Code can hand work to sub-agents on other providers when you allow it in Settings > Models > Sub-agents, or when your message asks for one. Each sub-agent gets its own mark in the Agents panel. Open one to read its whole conversation and send it a follow-up.
• Cursor joins Codex, Claude Code and Grok as a provider.
• Open two chats side by side, or drag a chat from the sidebar into split view.
• Use several Codex and Claude Code accounts, continue on another account at a plan limit, or switch providers with the conversation carried across.
• Choose a background picture with Dim and Blur and a live preview, or try the Dither and Halftone effects.
• TasteCode now includes cinetic, tasteskill and cook, with inline skill and command chips. Bundled skills run as short commands like /cook. Design mode can build dashboards and app screens with tasteskill.
• Commit, push and open a pull request from the Review tab.
• Find chats waiting on you in Needs you, receive desktop notifications, and see activity, plan limits and model use on the updated Usage page.
• Updated setup and Settings include model, reasoning and access defaults for each provider, with context controls and more slash commands that work directly in chat.

Fixes

• Stop ends the turn and its sidebar spinner at once, stops its sub-agents and keeps queued prompts paused.
• Queued and steered prompts sit in a full-width row above the message box, and a spinner shows under a prompt you steer into a running chat.
• Deleting a running chat stops it immediately, and deleted chats stay deleted after a restart or history refresh.
• Long chats open faster and load older messages as you scroll, without repeated disconnections from oversized replies.
• Design mode keeps work after preview failures, and no longer stops because package caches or linked worktrees make a project look too large.
• Claude Code continues when background work finishes, and new Codex chats retry stalled setup once.
• Finished Codex activity folds away under "Worked for", even when a server it started is still running.
• Sub-agents that lose their session no longer show as running forever.
• Drafts survive restarts, and editing or recalling prompts keeps their skills, commands and punctuation intact. Fast typing after picking a command keeps your words in order.
• Claude Code skills appear sooner.
• Sign-in checks follow the selected account, and Settings keeps each provider's account status separate.
• Restore shows where the conversation will be cut. Undo, edited-file review and chat search follow the current chat state.
• Project file search includes unopened folders, local chats show edited files, and terminal sessions survive reconnects.
• Replies show tables, links and task lists as they arrive, with code wrapping, steadier scrolling and Arrow Up to recall your last prompt.
• Questions can accept more than one answer, and Codex and Claude Code show how much context a chat is using.
• Fixed keyboard focus, command-palette selection, narrow-window layouts and notices covering the message box.
• Agents are asked to keep their final summaries short, with fewer repeated file notes in replies.
• Recovery screens let you reload or ask an agent for help, and you can send feedback and report errors from the app.

Update

Existing installations can update through Settings > About > Check for updates. After the download finishes, choose Restart to update. If chats are still running, choose When they finish or Stop and update. Older versions that missed the Beta 7 updater bridge need the installer below.

Downloads

• Windows x64 installer. This build is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning.
• macOS Apple Silicon installer, signed and notarized.

Verification

Both installers were built from db5fba4d1eb492d90bd0e04df84c6f365d796472. Release proof passed for Windows x64 and macOS arm64.

SHA-256:

9be9f15704cf56d00f4d6ced5f9c180686f6c2176a22c29834ea4069db0f3b18  TasteCode-0.5.0-win-x64.exe
78ca0734b8b59347421dbad6e39a65c7bd18d320265edd3f59ff5f0da1517191  TasteCode-0.5.0-mac-arm64.dmg

Linux preview for x86_64 desktops. Ready to install and try; final release acceptance is still in progress.

Install on Ubuntu, Debian, or Pop!_OS

1. Download the DEB.
2. Open a terminal in the download folder and run:

sudo apt install --reinstall ./TasteCode-0.1.1-linux-amd64.deb

3. Open TasteCode from your application menu and follow setup.

Close any running TasteCode instance before installing. Reinstallation replaces an older package with the same version number. No GitHub account, source checkout, or Node.js installation is needed to download and install TasteCode. Setup helps you connect a coding provider.

Portable AppImage

Download the AppImage, then run these commands in its download folder:

chmod +x TasteCode-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./TasteCode-0.1.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage

On Ubuntu, use the DEB if the AppImage cannot start because of user-namespace restrictions.

Feedback

Report a Linux issue or test result. Include your distribution, desktop environment, which installer you used, and what happened.

sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS-linux-x64.txt

Fixes

• Codex setup now uses the official standalone installer, so a fresh computer does not need npm first.
• Repeated failed Design Agent repairs now stop at the correction limit instead of launching unlimited retries.
• Fixed a local disconnection caused by live updates arriving while a large chat history was loading.

Update

Existing Beta 7 and Beta 9 installations can update through Settings > About > Check for updates. After the download finishes, choose Restart to update. Beta 9 also shows the sidebar update control once an update is ready. Older versions that missed the Beta 7 updater bridge need the installer below.

Downloads

• Windows x64 installer. This build is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning.
• macOS Apple Silicon installer, signed and notarized.

Verification

Both installers were built from d2b3754cdb72090db3a80868f617d2e48dc8effc. Installed Beta 9 upgrades preserved chats and settings on Windows and macOS. Windows verification and macOS verification.

SHA-256:

2fb21221b779562b20eb6aecce064d260b0644e4776931285c344ce59cea7fa0  TasteCode-0.1.1-win-x64.exe
440c18c2ca2143ac4a6746a3757f3f784ab5256db620ff16996b42eb47678231  TasteCode-0.1.1-mac-arm64.dmg

TasteCode Beta 9 improves chat preferences, provider startup and desktop updates.

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Changes

• See update progress beside your sidebar profile and restart to install directly from the ready button.
• Preserve each chat's composer settings when switching chats, and keep internal approval-review sessions out of the chat list.
• Recover bounded Codex initialization timeouts and handle Claude accounts with missing optional metadata.
• Keep queued Side-chat replies on the correct channel.
• Improve fresh-profile startup and isolate background provider checks from the launch directory on macOS.
• Fix embedded-browser navigation handling and add bounded local text diagnostics.

Updating

Beta 7 users can use the existing in-app updater once this release is published. The new sidebar update button appears after upgrading to Beta 9. Users on Beta 6 or earlier should first update to Beta 7 or download the new installer manually.

Windows is unsigned as approved for this beta, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher or SmartScreen prompt. The macOS app and DMG are Developer ID signed, notarized and stapled.

Source: b65a844f7ed6e1d6816d482a48508076fd7383fa.

SHA-256

• Windows EXE: b522617b6b5ef8e50968bc03b608dc74b6d198bf1df439cd68131c9eb89afd9e
• macOS DMG: 7fd3ea84839dfc2b6a9b2d8349d53cab71f5c38133b5ff5cc0e13da92d27fcc9

TasteCode is still in early beta. Expect bugs and rough edges. Please report issues you find.

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This release improves model defaults, fixes new Claude sessions and resumed Codex chats, and lets Design use HTML files with large embedded images.

The new updater checks the newest published release in this repository. This beta 7 release keeps the Windows and Mac compatibility files so users on beta 6 can update in the app. Keep beta 7 installed before moving to the two-file release format in beta 8.

Windows beta 7 is now available from the same source commit. The release owner approved an unsigned Windows build; Windows may show an unknown-publisher or SmartScreen warning.

Source: 82f714614bfa9454a9c8ee9bc681d15712a3df89.

Mac verification: Developer ID signed, Apple notarized, tickets stapled, and Gatekeeper accepted. The final DMG passed packaged native-library checks and three clean launches. Compatibility ZIP and generated update metadata are included for beta 6.

Public update check passed: a signed beta 6 installation downloaded beta 7, installed through the native updater on quit, and reopened with its test chat and setting intact. The new beta 7 updater also read this live release. The test used isolated data and a controlled relaunch; signed fixtures separately verified automatic relaunch.

Windows verification: lint, type checking, the full test suite, build, license checks, packaged resources and native PTY/keyring checks passed. All five remote asset hashes match, and an anonymous public installer download passed SHA-256 verification. Both the legacy beta 6 update provider and the new beta 7 provider discover this release. A Windows beta 7 clean installation and an installed beta 6-to-7 upgrade have not yet been verified; the running developer installation was left untouched.

TasteCode is still in early beta. Expect bugs, rough edges, and changes as we keep working on it. Please report any issues you find.

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