Every release, in the open.

Capturing Actions Happened in past

• NewNow Users can capture actions happened on their screen in last 30/60/90 seconds with /capture-screen 30|60|90 given their preferences. It captures actions prior the command was sent, and stores that in the journal as a log.

Cinematic onboarding tour

• NewA self-driving first-run experience: a director script drives the real UI through a staged takeover, seeded with demo projects that carry backdated history and a fabricated git repository so every screen has plausible data.
• NewAccessibility-gated event synthesis powering the tour — right-click menus, keystrokes, and Unicode typing — with longer interludes for the Cursor agent prompt and a real repository page.
• NewApplication picker for shortcut targets, so editor and terminal launches respect which apps are actually installed.
• NewCommand history cycling in the input bar via the arrow keys, plus placeholder hint text.
• NewInput bar and entry pinning in the Journal view.
• NewTRACE_STORE_DIR debug override for isolated development stores, guarded against migrating a legacy store into a dev location.
• ImprovedOnboarding moved from a ghost-cursor takeover to a progressive, step-by-step flow after the ghost model proved fragile to pacing and window geometry.
• ImprovedProject focus view gained a card-shuffle transition between task states.
• RemovedThe /council entry point and its access path from the app.
• RemovedThe legacy slideshow onboarding — views, window controller, and roughly 50 MB of bundled video assets.
• FixedHeatmap day step in the onboarding flow now advances reliably.
• FixedKill-port menu no longer renders as a clipped sliver inside project rows.
• FixedLong journal logs containing blank lines render in full instead of being truncated.
• FixedBack button hit area expanded to a usable size.

TraceServer & AI Council

• NewTraceServer — a localhost HTTP surface on 127.0.0.1:8787 (NWListener, bearer-token auth) exposing /health, POST /command routed through the existing command pipeline, and GET /projects/:id/context for journal and task grounding.
• New/council — a Next.js AI council of seven personas across six gated stages, grounded in live journal and task data. Includes cross-persona relay with unread badges, automatic stage-insight capture and manual save-back into the project journal, side threads, and an artifact gallery.
• NewCouncil agent harness with a mode-aware tool registry (artifacts including Mermaid, relays, stage insights), attachable skills, and web search.
• NewCouncil chat input with file and skill attachments, push-to-talk voice transcription with a live waveform, and an elapsed-time activity indicator.
• NewCouncil rendering for Markdown, Mermaid, and HTML artifact previews, zoomable inline diagrams, and a browse trail.
• NewNotification system with twelve triggers derived from existing app data and tiered delivery levels, including Claude usage alerts keyed to remaining quota.
• New/config for power-user opt-ins and for setting how many actions earn a project its daily checkmark.
• NewIn-app /claude-usage popup.
• ImprovedThe recap pipeline was extracted into a dedicated generator so the overlay and headless callers share a single map-reduce path.
• FixedDeleting a log now clears that day's checkmark instead of leaving it lit.
• FixedThe council launcher treats a hung listener on port 3789 as foreign rather than spawning over it.

On-device AI

• NewOn-device AI over Foundation Models, with swift-ai-sdk vendored into the project — no network calls and no API keys.
• New/recap for on-device work summaries, scoped to the calling view: the project list recaps everything, the focus view recaps only the project in focus.
• NewProject catch-up banner for stale projects, and a cross-project briefing shown on return after a break.
• New/find — on-device semantic search across the work log, available from both the project and Priorities views.
• New/canvas — an AI pipeline that traces features out of git history into a draggable, pinch-zoomable feature map, presented from the project focus view.
• NewStructured-output and enum-pick primitives in the AI layer, plus history-derived cache invalidation keyed on the repository HEAD.
• ImprovedShortcuts now support multiple directories and repositories per project; the GitHub shortcut lists every repository across a project's directories.
• FixedRepaired guided-generation streaming in the vendored swift-ai-sdk.

• New/create-section to group pending tasks under named dividers, with those dividers carried through to the completed-tasks table.
• NewTask completions broadcast to local listeners.
• FixedAttaching images from folder-based sources.
• FixedDuplicate prompt when submitting non-command input in the focus view.

• NewClickable links in tasks and logs, styled to match body text with an underline and a per-link hover fade.
• NewCompletion tick beside a project's name once meaningful progress is recorded that day.
• NewWrapping and unwrapping in the Priorities view.
• ImprovedAccess gating: free use is limited to two projects; a full unlock requires contacting the maintainers.
• ImprovedOnboarding is now mandatory — the app is unreachable until it completes.
• ImprovedOnboarding steps reordered.
• ImprovedThe docs/ folder is no longer tracked in version control.
• FixedRestored SwiftUI text rendering for task rows that had gone invisible.

• NewLive dev-server port detection per project, surfaced in a dedicated row beneath the project focus header.
• New/claude-usage to open Claude usage settings.
• New/show-tags and /hide-tags to toggle tag display on project rows.
• NewGit commits shown alongside logs in the Journal view.
• NewFirst-run onboarding flow.
• NewImage attachments in journal logs.
• NewDelete action for pending tasks.
• ImprovedThe cursor now becomes a pointer over tappable elements across the project list and focus views.
• FixedView state is preserved when the app is summoned via the global hotkey.

• NewHeader statistics on the project heatmap view.
• NewAutomatic new tag on projects for their first ten days, removed automatically thereafter.
• New/delete-project to remove abandoned projects from the database, cascading their rows.
• NewTemporary Priorities list for day-scoped work outside any project, with its completions surfacing in the "today" feed.
• NewInline slash-command suggestions in the input bar.

• NewGlobal hotkey to summon the app from anywhere.
• NewVoice input support.

• NewOpen a project directly in Cursor from the task screen, and in cmux from the project focus view.
• New/rename, /add-tag, /remove-tag, and /filter commands.
• NewCombined and per-project heatmaps reachable from the project list.
• NewTimer views with accompanying animations.
• NewGitHub repository link button.
• NewRight-click menu with a quit action.
• RemovedThe /archive and /bring-back commands, superseded by tagging and filtering.
• FixedCrash when the timer's finish outline animation completed, caused by overlay windows tearing down mid-stroke.
• FixedHeatmap view positioning, task text editing, and text overflow in task cards.
• Fixedcmux launch button target resolution.

Initial release

• NewInitial release of Trace, a menubar-only macOS 14 application for tracking projects, tasks, and work history.
• NewSQLite storage layer built on a database actor with schema migrations, over a four-table schema.
• NewDomain models for projects, tasks, journal entries, and activity, each with an observable repository store.
• NewSlash-command system — command enum, parser, and router — driving all interaction from a single input field.
• NewProject list view and a per-project kanban focus view.
• NewSecondary views: help overlay, today feed, contribution heatmap, and journal.
• NewReusable components: command input with #project autocomplete, task cards, project rows, and an undo toast.
• NewFloating heatmap tooltip with click-to-expand day activity.
• NewRelative time formatting, task rot staging, and data export utilities.
• New/show-all and /show-active as explicit commands rather than a single toggle.
• NewProduct specification, architecture notes, feature list, build milestones, and README.