CoLateral Release Notes for 2026

Multiple AI accounts and desktop fixes.

• Add several Claude Code accounts and choose an account for each terminal. Accounts are numbered automatically with separate sign-ins, and the same selector covers other compatible local AI providers.
• New terminals keep their full starting size while connecting, so the first lines of output are preserved.
• Terminal cards and their mirrors keep updating their screen size during continuous drags.
• Mac launch panels, settings and update screens keep their theme colours on older WebKit versions.
• Command-plus, shifted-minus and numeric keypad zoom shortcuts work on the canvas, and spreadsheet pinch zoom follows the gesture.
• Stopping a Mac or Linux headless agent also stops its tool processes.
• When the assistant sends a spreadsheet cell or slide title in the wrong shape, it is told and the card stays as it was.

Licence renewal and preview recovery.

• Licensed sessions renew silently when the app regains focus or connectivity, and activation keys are masked while you type.
• Preview cards show a themed loading cover and offer Retry, Open in browser and Change address when a page fails or times out.
• Preview and supported tool cards offer Mute and Unmute, where the hosted page supports it.
• Supported preview, browser and tool cards offer Sleep and Wake. Waking reloads the page, so unsaved game progress may reset.
• Claude conversations resume after an app update or bridge restart when the saved transcript is still available.

Nightly gauntlet fixes.

• Agent startup, saved-session recovery and prompt submission preserve your drafts and explain interrupted work more clearly.
• Terminals keep their reading position, fit resized cards and keep clipboard operations in the correct session.
• Open the ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Jules cloud agent apps on the canvas, with optional API workflows and recovery guidance.
• Canvas cards honour saved size limits and reflow arrays, and keyboard focus, accessibility, calendar navigation and the New project dialog improve.
• Office-style editors improve, Notebook cards arrive, and exporting selected PDF pages keeps their annotations.
• Background polling, terminal work and idle rendering repeat less work while streaming.
• Debian installations receive the correct updater payload.

Nightly gauntlet fixes. This is the version on the download page.

• Asking an agent for a Word document with headings, lists or tables now writes the file instead of failing.
• With your own Anthropic API key, a terminal answer that stops arriving no longer leaves the terminal stuck. After about 80 seconds it says the answer is incomplete and accepts input again.
• An agent edit to a slide deck or Word document based on an earlier read is refused if the card changed in the meantime, instead of overwriting newer content.
• Closing agents in another project, or all agents across every project, now reaches agents in saved projects.

Nightly gauntlet fixes, and the first release with CoLateral Arcade.

• Sent agent prompts stay queued when the window hides or a card reloads, and new agents receive their first task directly.
• Agent cards show short task titles and a Sleep button. Command Centre shows task readiness and has a New agent button.
• Terminals fit fullscreen and resized windows faster, and large pastes keep the interface responsive.
• Local previews appear as compact tiles on the agent card, and agents can open an interactive Browser Card to inspect a local app.
• Agents start in the repository saved with their project, and urgent prompts move ahead of long queued work.
• CoLateral Arcade fills its canvas array, and the marketing card and films consistently use the CoLateral Marketing name.
• Purchase emails explain installation and activation, and failed delivery retries without issuing duplicate licences.

Nightly gauntlet fixes, carrying 1.0.60 through 1.0.62 to Mac, Windows and Linux.

• Codex Terminal Cards keep their scrollback and activity when a card reloads or resizes.
• Pasted image cards have a close button.
• Includes every change from 1.0.60, 1.0.61 and 1.0.62, which reach all three platforms in this update.

Games in tool cards, a steadier agent service, and a Chrome-style Browser Card.

• Agents can build 3D and 2D games inside tool cards from one prompt, with bundled game libraries and starters.
• Preview Cards show a local dev server or built folder next to the agent that made it, and agents can screenshot a tool card to check their own work.
• The agent service no longer goes down for every card when one CLI misbehaves, and Stop on Windows ends the whole agent process tree.
• The Browser Card gains a tab strip, round back, forward and reload buttons, an address bar with a site icon and the usual keyboard shortcuts. Browser is in the top bar.
• Voice gains a noise reduction setting (Standard, Headset, Laptop or room, Off) and faster local dictation.
• The canvas shows how much browser storage it is using and tells you once if a save fails.

Working question shortcuts and steadier agent cards.

• Alt+Up opens queued Codex questions from Terminal Cards and the Command Centre.
• Agents can put pictures onto a slide, into a Word document, onto a spreadsheet cell or onto the canvas as a card.
• Creating a second unnamed project gets the next free untitled name instead of a duplicate warning.
• Account and Settings shows the real application version.
• A quiet Chief of Staff turn keeps running instead of stopping after three minutes of silence, and a one-hour limit never retries the same work.
• An agent card no longer says Finished while its terminal is plainly still working.
• The usage bar names every limit window for each subscription.

Restore the Mac canvas and recover connections.

• Older Macs open the canvas, create cards and arrays, and display Beam Buddy correctly. A failed canvas load offers Reload without clearing your work.
• Agent connections recover through stalled desktop status calls without restarting a healthy bridge.
• Licence renewal retries when you reconnect or return to the app, and the licence banner follows a successful renewal without reloading.
• Licence warnings explain an unrecognised device and let you enter your existing key during the grace period.

Smoother terminals, queued prompts, and a canvas that fits.

• Queue your next prompt while the orchestrator is working or reconnecting. Command Centre lets you type directly into an agent's terminal.
• Agent terminals stay live while visible, resize more smoothly and handle large pastes without freezing the interface.
• Browser Cards stream frames with improved scrolling and media playback.
• Tool cards fit their contents, the tool picker groups tools by installed pack, and starting points appear in a carousel that launches the selected workflow.
• The cards-per-array setting controls canvas capacity, and duplicate project names are caught.
• Grok 4.6 is available in the model picker.
• Creators can submit a module containing multiple tools and follow it through review.

A calmer first canvas, a forgiving key field, and steadier terminals.

• The licence key field finds the key inside whatever you paste, including en dashes, smart quotes and the "Licence key:" label from the email.
• A new, empty project canvas no longer says your pages were full when it seats the Command Centre.
• The empty-canvas note says work saves on this machine, which is true in the desktop app as well as in a browser.
• Stopped terminal sessions relaunch cleanly, and a late event after a disconnect can no longer rewrite the card.

Focus controls stay in the corner, and the filmstrip grip works again.

• Focus controls stay pinned to the bottom-right corner instead of floating over the transcript.
• A click on a Terminal Card activates it, so the wheel can pan scrollback without focusing first.
• The filmstrip grip sits above the creation dock, so hovering reveals the strip again.
• A terminal that loses its socket stays Disconnected instead of showing a false Reconnecting, and turns with unconfirmed outcomes are not sent again.
• Command Centre mirrors live orchestrator replies and restores the active conversation when it remounts.

Reliable agent connections and a more consistent workspace.

• Codex, Grok and Claude launches share connection checks without blocking other sessions, and reconnecting preserves the saved task.
• Connection recovery shows animated progress with working Close, Check now and Retry controls.
• Agents use shorter, voice-friendly names.
• Agents can inspect and navigate the marketing card (named Capital Command in these notes) and operate its supported controls.
• Notifications can be filtered to All, Calendar / email, or Agents.
• Slow agent startup stays unconfirmed until activity is detected, then recovers without resending your prompt.

Command Centre on the card glass, tool projects that stick, and quieter agent cleanup.

• Command Centre follows the same card glass as the rest of the canvas, and ranked rows say where they came from.
• Project to-dos live on the Command Centre instead of a separate corner of the board.
• Tool projects persist across frameworks, and the store packages them for reuse.
• Agent tasks and run timing survive reattachment, and cleanup keeps your work instead of wiping the canvas.

Clearer agents and protected downloads.

• Agent cards use clearer chat bubbles, glass controls and terminal themes, and the notification centre and Most urgent view are easier to scan.
• Agents act instead of stopping at exploration, and canvas results are reported only after the requested action has been verified.
• Paid installer links use protected, short-lived download URLs for Windows, macOS and Linux.
• Licence heartbeats no longer let a changed device fingerprint silently rebind a seat.

Sharper terminals, an in-app store, and licence activation on the site.

• Voice replies speak after the answer and any requested canvas action are verified.
• A temporarily disconnected agent shows automatic reconnection progress and resumes when ready.
• Pasting text or voice dictation into an agent terminal works when clipboard access is blocked.
• Terminal background transparency is adjustable in Settings.
• Account and Settings lists every pack, and the in-app store leads with CoLateral's own modules.
• Licence activation talks to colateralai.com.

Command Centre chat that matches the card, and a stall that names the cause.

• Reloading an agent conversation no longer appends a second copy of the last screen.
• A stalled CLI turn is reported as an error that names the cause, instead of showing Finished about work that never came back.
• The Command Centre agent chat shows the same thread as the card, with times on the bubbles.
• Sending a prompt to an agent that has left the board is refused by that agent's name instead of disappearing.