Changelog

Drive from your phone, and a settings that reads like sentences

Update from the pill, or Mandeck → Check for Updates. On 0.1.5 you get a ~0.5 MB delta.

• Drive the deck from your phone. The paired-phone view (Away) is now full control, not just watch-and-reply: press real keys (^C, Esc, arrows, and digits to answer a picker), bring a pane to the Mac, resume an ended session, and start an agent with a first task. Two reading modes — a chat summary and the raw terminal. Still end-to-end encrypted, no account.
• Settings, redesigned. Every setting is one row: a label, a plain-English line saying what it does, one control. Your agent CLIs live in one place (Agents) with their signed-in identity read straight from each tool's own login and their version. Updates is now just Mandeck itself — the app and the CLIs update on separate schedules and never get confused for each other.
• A new pane opens beside the one you're in, not at the far edge.
• Opening a project that's already running reveals it instead of stacking a duplicate.

Signed, notarized, stapled. Agent-facing reference: https://mandeck.dev/agents.

MCP to spec, and the deck won't close your panes

Update from the pill, or Mandeck → Check for Updates. Existing 0.1.4 users get a ~0.5 MB delta.

• MCP server now speaks the current spec (2026-07-28): stateless, server/discover, tool annotations so a client can auto-approve reads and ask before actions, and job-lifecycle tools (deck_jobs, deck_job_done, deck_job_fail). A legacy initialize client still works.
• The deck won't close a pane you opened. DELETE /v1/sessions now refuses a pane that an agent did not spawn through the API unless it passes force — closing the fix for a stale-address close that shut a live session.
• CLI (mandeck): honest 409 on job spawn (one parseable line, exit 2), no more Python traceback when the deck is unreachable, new read verbs agents / jobs / events / messages, ps shows the stable pane uuid, and close --force.

Signed, notarized, stapled. Full agent-facing reference: https://mandeck.dev/agents.

The deck knows its engines

The ⌘N launcher now shows each agent CLI's real version and, where the CLI can answer for itself, whether it is signed in — with the CLI's own login command a hover away. The daily background self-update now refreshes the exact binary your panes run (login-shell PATH truth), and codex, copilot, and grok joined the auto-update table.

Self-documenting deck

The deck opens to agents.

• Self-documenting deck — the API serves its own reference and clients: GET /agents.md, GET /cli/mandeck, GET /cli/mandeck-mcp.mjs (zero-dep stdio MCP server, 20 tools). Discovery chain: health → docs → everything.
• Follow-up contracts — a spawn that hands over a task must be checked; unchecked work is reminded into the spawner's own terminal, then escalated to your attention bell. needs-review events for bots.
• Job lifecycle — every spawn returns a job; done/failed come only from explicit signals (never inferred from silence); mandeck job spawn|send|wait|report|done|fail for orchestrators.
• Safe spawn — cwd required, 409 (with the existing session) on duplicate agent+cwd unless forced.
• Reactive permission grant — a blocked screen capture in a pane opens the drag-and-drop grant flow instead of stranding you at the OS dialog.
• Every API-spawned pane exports MANDECK_PANE / MANDECK_JOB.

Docs: https://mandeck.dev/agents · Changelog: https://mandeck.dev/changelog

Agents resume on launch

Your work comes back when the app does.

• Agents resume on launch. Reopen Mandeck — after a quit, an update, or an overnight reboot — and each pane that was running an agent re-attaches to that exact conversation, instead of showing dead history under a fresh shell. The prior output stays on top for context; the live agent picks up beneath it. On by default; turn it off in Settings → Updates. (Agents that can't truly resume are left as-is rather than silently started fresh.)
• Updates without a second restart. Automatic updates now install when you quit, so the next launch is already the new version. Nothing installs mid-session, so a live pane is never interrupted.

Updates arrive automatically via the in-app updater.

Permissions that actually take

Reliability and polish.

• Permissions that actually take. Granting Screen Recording or Accessibility now clears any stale grant pinned to an old build before the drag, so dropping Mandeck into the list works the first time instead of leaving a checked box that does nothing. The panel dismisses itself once the grant lands, the rows are ordered so the permanent ones come first, and there is no first-run popup — permissions live in Settings and wait until you need them.
• Easier on the eyes at night. One calmer white point across the app chrome and the terminal, so the sidebar no longer reads brighter than the text it labels.
• Under the hood: debug builds are isolated as “Mandeck Dev” with their own bundle id, so a local build can never disturb the installed app's permissions.

Updates from here arrive automatically via the in-app updater.

First public release

First public build of Mandeck — the multi-agent terminal for Mac.

• Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Cursor and any installed CLI agent in side-by-side native terminal panes (libghostty).
• Manager (⌘I): an orchestrator chat that spawns agents, routes tasks, and answers waiting panes on autopilot.
• Sessions: every run logged per project, ⌘K search, one-click resume.
• Rides your existing subscriptions via your own CLI logins — no API key required, no token resale.
• Built-in file viewer/editor, markdown rendering, voice dictation, bottom shell drawer.

Install: download Mandeck.dmg, open, drag to Applications. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon & Intel. Signed & notarized; auto-updates via Sparkle.