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Changelog

All notable changes to Inspector are listed here.

v1.13.20

Claude authentication improvements and credential management enhancements.

🐛Claude Beachball of Death

  • Fixed app crash — Messages sent to Claude when not connected now show an immediate, clear error instead of silently failing or blocking main process

🔐Claude Authentication Guard

  • Instant auth check on send — Messages sent to Claude when not connected now show an immediate, clear error instead of silently failing or flashing a blank response

🔑Credential Management

  • Dual-format credential writing — Inspector now reads existing Claude credentials to reduce friction when authed into Claude Code
  • Improved credential import — Credential import now tries the CLI's native format first
  • Better error handling — Improved error messaging and connection status synchronization for Claude credentials
v1.13.19

Claude CLI integration and OAuth token management improvements.

🔑CLI Credential Sync

  • CLI credential file support — Inspector now writes credentials in the Claude CLI's native `.credentials.json` format for better interoperability
  • Improved error handling — Better error handling when writing CLI credential files

🔧OAuth Improvements

  • Enhanced token management — Refactored OAuth token acquisition and CLI integration for improved reliability
v1.13.18

Product Hunt launch messaging update.

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Updated launch modal copy — Fixed Product Hunt NUX modal messaging to target developers instead of designers
v1.13.17

Product Hunt launch promotion.

🚀Product Hunt Launch

  • Launch day modal — New Product Hunt NUX modal to promote the launch, shown to users who have completed initial onboarding
v1.13.16

Major UI polish release with chat improvements, Open in Editor dropdown, authentication flow enhancements, and design panel fixes.

🎨Open in Editor

  • Editor picker dropdown — "Open in Editor" now opens a dropdown to select your preferred editor instead of opening directly

💬Chat & UI Polish

  • Sticky header fix — Chat header now properly sticks when scrolling
  • Undo button polish — Improved styling and behavior of the undo button
  • Scrollbar gutter fix — Fixed scrollbar gutter spacing in the chat panel
  • UserMessage & ChatInput styling — Polished styling for user messages and the chat input area
  • Font fixes — Corrected font rendering issues across the app

🔐Authentication

  • OAuth token flow restructure — Restructured the OAuth token acquisition flow with enhanced error handling for more reliable authentication
  • Keychain concurrency guard — Implemented a concurrency guard in credential retrieval to prevent multiple Keychain prompts from appearing simultaneously

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed chat header styles not applying correctly
  • Fixed design panel header behavior
v1.13.15

Chat error handling and user message improvements.

💬Chat Improvements

  • Better error handling — Improved error handling in the EditView and OpenCode agent adapter for more reliable chat interactions
  • Provider-aware messages — Enhanced user message handling with provider support for better context tracking
v1.13.14

Settings cleanup.

⚙️Settings

  • Removed Developer settings tab — The Developer settings section has been hidden from the settings navigation to simplify the UI
v1.13.13

A brand new way to use Inspector: Design Panel

🎨Design Panel

  • All new visual editor! — Design in Inspector just like you would in Figma. Adjust padding, margin, font size, typography, layout, stroke, gradients, background colors, and shadows!

🖥️Open in Editor

  • Multiple editor support — Open files directly in 20+ editors including Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, WebStorm, GoLand, PyCharm, etc.), Sublime Text, Xcode, Zed, Fleet, Windsurf, and Trae
  • Terminal openers — Open file locations in Ghostty, iTerm, Warp, Terminal, or Finder

💬Comments (Beta)

  • Comments moved to beta — The comments feature is now available behind a beta flag with a new hover card UI and video preview in settings

🤖Chat & Agent Improvements

  • Todos tool samples — QOL improvements for Inspector Agent
v1.13.12

Chat UX improvements, and TaskView component updates.

💬Chat Improvements

  • Drag-and-drop chat tab reordering — Reorder your chat tabs by dragging them to your preferred position
  • Max height chat containers — Chat windows now properly constrain their height for better scrolling

🤖Subagents UI

  • New subagent task view — See subagent tasks with expandable details and content summaries
  • Hover and expand — Improved interactivity for exploring subagent task details

🐛Bug Fixes

  • LsView file matching — Enhanced file matching logic with improved fallback descriptions
v1.13.11

Authentication improvements and chat context management.

🔐WorkOS Authentication Fixes

  • Unified token storage — Migrated WorkOS tokens to use Electron's safeStorage (no keychain popups)
  • Automatic migration — Existing tokens are seamlessly migrated from legacy keytar storage

🧠Chat Context Compaction

  • Context window management — New system tracks token usage and prevents hitting context limits
  • Automatic summarization — Older messages are automatically summarized when context fills up

🔌MCP OAuth Improvements

  • User-provided OAuth credentials — MCP servers now support custom OAuth clientId/clientSecret in config
  • Improved DCR compatibility — Better compatibility with Figma, Linear, and other restrictive OAuth servers
  • Token refresh fix — Fixed setTimeout overflow for long-lived tokens (>24 hours)

🎯Move Tool Improvements

  • Semantic element identification — Reorder changes now include text content, aria labels, and data attributes for robust element matching
  • Fixed index tracking — Corrected element index calculation during drag operations
v1.13.10

Reorder tool experience improvements and refactoring.

🎯Reorder Tool Enhancements

  • Cleaner UI — Implemented a Figma-style UI for reordering sibling components
v1.13.9

Bug fixes for device picker.

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Web Serial API dropdown — Fixed issues with the Web Serial API device selection dropdown
v1.13.8

Web Serial API support and device picker improvements.

🔌Device API Support

  • Web Serial API — Full support for the Web Serial API, enabling communication with serial devices like USB-to-RS232 adapters
  • Multi-device support — Unified device picker handles Serial, USB, Bluetooth, and HID devices
  • Persistent permissions — Device permissions are remembered across sessions
  • Device picker modal — New UI for selecting and connecting to devices with visual feedback
v1.13.7

Chat input improvements, enhanced analytics tracking, and UI generation guidelines.

💬Chat Input Bug

  • Plain text enforcement — Disabled broken formatting options (headings, lists, text styles) in the TipTap editor.

🎨UI Generation Guidelines

  • Design meta prompt — Added comprehensive guidelines for UI generation emphasizing clean, professional interfaces
  • Negative prompts — Guidance to avoid common design pitfalls
v1.13.5

Bug fixes for anonymous user authentication flow.

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed GLM model authentication for anonymous users — Anonymous users can now use GLM models correctly with proper auth token handling
  • Fixed message count not decrementing — Anonymous message usage is now properly tracked and decremented
  • Backend auth fallback — Added X-Install-Id header fallback for Cerebras routes to match Anthropic routes
v1.13.4

Migration from Auth0 to WorkOS for authentication.

🔐Authentication Migration

  • WorkOS integration — Migrated authentication provider from Auth0 to WorkOS for improved reliability and faster login
  • Seamless token refresh — Automatic access token refresh with WorkOS refresh tokens
  • Backend dual-auth support — Backend supports both Auth0 and WorkOS tokens during migration period
v1.13.3

Anonymous user support with free trial, new user experience tutorials, and bug fixes.

📚New User Experience Tutorials

  • Free usage — New users now have a limited amount of free usage in Inspector
  • Interactive onboarding — New tutorial modals help first-time users discover key features
  • Design bar NUX — Learn about the visual editing toolbar
  • Chat tool hints — Tips for getting the most out of the AI chat

🧠Skills in Chat

  • Skills integration — Skills are now integrated directly into the chat experience! Use / to directly call a skill.

🎨UI Improvements

  • Traffic light buttons — Improved fullscreen handling for macOS window controls
  • Glassomorphic styling — Enhanced visual effects for tab bar and panels
  • Smaller tooltips — More compact tooltip design
  • Scrollbar styling — Updated scrollbar appearance
  • Branch picker — Repositioned for better accessibility

⌨️Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Shift+Tab on start page — Cycle through model providers quickly

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed undo all functionality for Inspector Agent
  • Fixed focus mode toggle being blocked by webview
  • Fixed publish panel and branch picker dismissal being blocked by webview
  • Fixed clicks incorrectly passing through comments and element select overlays
v1.12.0

New user experience with integrated AI chat and skills support.

🎯New User Experience (NUX)

  • Chat input on main page — The AI chat input is now prominently featured on the main page, making it easier than ever to start building with Inspector

🧠Skills Integration

  • AI skills support — Inspector now supports skills that extend the Agent's capabilities with specialized knowledge and tools
v1.11.0

Introducing Inspector Agent, powered by SOTA AI models with a free usage tier.

🤖Inspector Agent

  • Claude Opus 4.5 — Inspector Agent is powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 for superior code understanding and generation -- best for high performance
  • GLM 4.7 — Alternative model option using Z.AI's GLM 4.7, hosted on Cerebras for fast inference -- best for fast edits
  • $10 free usage — New and legacy users get $10 of free AI usage to explore Inspector Agent's capabilities
v1.10.3

Bug fixes for Google OAuth cookie handling.

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Google OAuth cookie fix — Improved cookie handling for better Google OAuth compatibility
v1.10.1–1.10.2

MCP improvements and bug fixes.

🔌MCP Improvements

  • Tool approval UI — Improved MCP tool approval interface and flow
  • Codex MCP fixes — Better tool name extraction and handling for Codex MCP integration
  • UI polish — Updated Switch and MCPView component styling for improved consistency
v1.10.0

MCP server integration with OAuth support, improved text editing, and settings enhancements.

🔌MCP Server Integration

  • Full MCP support — Connect to Model Context Protocol servers directly from Inspector
  • OAuth authentication — Secure OAuth flow for MCP servers with automatic token refresh
  • Server management UI — Add, edit, and remove MCP servers from the new Settings panel
  • JSON editor — Edit MCP server configurations with a built-in JSON editor
  • Resource & prompt management — Access MCP server resources and prompts from your agents
  • Gateway enhancements — Improved MCP gateway with notification handling and Inspector resource support

✏️Text Edit Improvements

  • Code edits — More reliable code edits
  • Enhanced HTML handling — Better support for editing HTML files with line-based disambiguation

⚙️Settings & UI Polish

  • Header styling enhancements — Refined styling in the Settings screen

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Various bug fixes
v1.9.4

Minor UI polish for the apply bar.

🎨UI Polish

  • Apply bar refinements — Small styling fixes for the move tool apply bar
v1.9.3

Git initialization, movable design toolbar, and chat UX improvements.

🚀Git Repository Initialization

  • Initialize git repos from Inspector — New "Initialize Repository" button in the Publish panel for projects without git
  • No-repo state handling — Clear messaging and UI when opening projects without source control

🎨Move Tool Toolbar

  • Draggable toolbar — The move tool toolbar can now be repositioned to any side of the viewport
  • Styling upgrades — Refreshed visual design for the move tool interface

💬Chat UX Improvements

  • Date separators in history — Chat history now groups conversations by Today, Yesterday, This Week, etc.
  • Open tabs in history — Currently open chat tabs now appear in the history panel alongside closed ones
  • Auto-scroll on open — Chat windows automatically scroll to the bottom when opened
  • History toggle fix — Clicking the history button now properly closes the popup when open

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed publish panel issues
  • Fixed history popup X button spacing
v1.9.2

AI-generated chat titles, deep link improvements, and UI polish.

🧠Smart Chat Titles

  • AI-generated chat titles — Chat tabs now automatically get descriptive titles generated by AI based on your conversation context
  • Semantic tab naming — Tabs display meaningful names instead of generic placeholders

🔗Deep Link Enhancements

  • Inspector rules via deep link — Open and configure .inspectorrules directly from external links

🎨UI Improvements

  • Review actions panel polish — Refined styling and removed drop shadow for a cleaner look
  • API infrastructure refactor — Centralized API handling for improved reliability

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed drag and drop functionality
  • Fixed chat ID reconciliation issues
  • Fixed auth schema validation
  • Speed optimizations
v1.9.1

Source control improvements and bug fixes.

🔀Source Control Improvements

  • Multi-repo support — Source control panel now detects and handles workspaces with multiple Git repositories
  • Merge conflict detection — See merge conflicts directly in the Publish panel with the ability to open conflicting files in your editor
  • Commit validation — Error toasts now appear when trying to commit without a message
  • Enhanced state management — Improved repository state tracking for more reliable status updates
v1.9.0

OAuth fixes, Design Arena enhancements, and improved chat UX.

🎨Design Arena API Migration

  • Enhanced Design Arena integration — Migrated to new Design Arena API for live model ranking in info boxes

🔗Deep Link Enhancements

  • Improved deep link handling — Refactored deep link processing to improve integration with other apps

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Implemented Claude code OAuth token refresh, tokens will no longer expire
  • Improved login URL handling in Settings screen
  • Enhanced UI consistency across chat components
  • Various styling improvements and refinements
v1.8.0

Dev server management, deep link templates, bug fixes.

⚙️Dev Server Management

  • Kill dev server from port picker — New "✕" button to stop running dev servers directly from the dropdown

🔗Template Deep Links

  • Create projects via deep link — New inspector://open?template=... support for creating projects from external apps
  • Screenshot context — Deep links can include screenshot paths for initial chat context
  • Auto-scaffold — Template deep links automatically start project creation

🔔Notification Sounds

  • Chat completion sound — Audio notification when an agent finishes its work

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed timeout cleanup in new project modal to prevent stale callbacks
  • Misc. bug fixes
v1.7.3

Now you can change branches directly from the address bar! This makes it really easy to setup two tabs with different branches or pages to iterate on multiple worktrees at once with Claude Code.

🪵Branch Picker

  • Switch branches in the address bar — New branch picker dropdown lets you switch between git branches without leaving the browser viewport
  • Create branches inline — Type a new branch name and create it directly from the dropdown
  • Delete branches — Remove branches in line
v1.7.2

Improved chat tab status indicators and visual feedback.

🎨Chat Tab Improvements

  • Enhanced status indicators — Chat tabs now show clear visual feedback for streaming, needs review, and idle states
  • Provider icons in tooltips — See which agent is active with provider icons displayed in chat tab tooltips
  • Animated activity indicators — Animated dots show when agents are actively working
  • Better activity descriptions — Tooltips now show detailed agent activity status (e.g., "Thinking", "Editing", "Planning next moves")
v1.7.1

Bug fixes for Z.AI integration and comment handling.

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Z.AI connection status not refreshing correctly in comment input
  • Fixed blank comments appearing after agent responses
  • Fixed comments not dismissing properly
v1.7.0

Text editing, Z.AI provider support, deep links, and multi-framework project detection.

✏️Text Edit Tool

  • Click to edit text improvements — Double-click any text element to edit it directly in the browser viewport
  • Cursor positioning — Click anywhere in the text to position your cursor at that spot
  • Deterministic editing — Inspector will attempt to edit the text in your codebase deterministically before attempting an agent run

⚙️Dev Server Improvements

  • AI dev server error handling — Start an agent run to create a new "start my dev server for me" command

🧠Z.AI Provider

  • GLM-4.7 support — New Z.AI claude code override option using the GLM-4.7 model

🔗Deep Link Support

  • PR checkout via deep link — Open and checkout pull requests directly from links in PRs created in Inspector
  • Auto-start dev server — Projects opened via deep link automatically start the dev server

🌍Multi-Framework Support

  • Better Ruby on Rails Handling — Inspector now detects and supports non-Node.js projects
  • Improved project detection — Better heuristics for detecting project type and generating setup commands

🔧GitHub CLI Integration

  • Built-in gh CLI — Inspector now downloads and manages the GitHub CLI for enhanced Git operations

🐛Bug Fixes/Misc

  • Sign up button — New sign-up option on the login screen
  • Improved macOS app quitting — Better handling when closing the app on macOS
  • Fixed screenshot file drop not working correctly
  • Fixed file dragging class not being removed from body
  • Fixed model selector visibility in chat input
  • Fixed platform-specific Codex binary handling
v1.6.12

Rate limiting improvements, better undo support for new files, and UI enhancements.

🖥️Open Project Screen

  • View All button — New "View All" button to browse all recent projects
  • Clear All option — Quickly clear your recent projects list

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed error handling when restoring unstaged git changes
  • Cleaned up unnecessary agent logging for better performance
v1.6.6-v1.6.11

Direct editing tools, improved settings, and better tab management.

🎨Move Tool Improvements

  • Delete elements — Select and delete elements directly from the browser viewport
  • Custom Inspector pointer — New cursor icon when using the move tool for a more polished experience
  • Reorganized toolbar — Cleaner move tool interface with better visual hierarchy

⚙️Settings Enhancements

  • Custom port configuration — Set your preferred dev server port in General settings
  • Default clone directory — Choose where GitHub repos are cloned by default

🗂️Tab Management Improvements

  • Improved tab close logic — Closing your last project tab takes you back to the Open Project page

💬Chat Improvements

  • Global model state — Model and provider selection now persists correctly across new chat tabs
  • Fixed Codex todos — Todo items now display properly in Codex conversations

🔧Improved GitHub Integration

  • Non-blocking GitHub modal — GitHub repository import no longer blocks the UI
  • GitHub repo search — Search for public repositories when importing from GitHub

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Removed unnecessary logging for better performance
  • Updated model cards
v1.6.5

Redesigned AI provider management and improved explore view experience.

🤖Coding Agents Settings

  • Unified provider management — New "Coding Agents" section in Settings for managing Cursor, Claude, and Codex connections
  • Refactored Agent Selector — "Add Agents" in agent picker now links directly to the Coding Agents settings tab. You can no longer send messages with agents that aren't connected.

🖥️Chat UI Improvements

  • Jump to code from chat — New "Open in Editor" button on file edits let you open changes from the chat in your editor.
  • File references deep link to editor - Now all of your file references made by agents will deep link back to your code editor (e.g., if your agent says /src/index.html, you can just click on it to it's location in your codebase)
  • File tree rendering — See file structures in a clean tree view during agent explorations
  • Semantic search styling — Improved display for semantic search results in explore views
  • Better interleaved explores — Fixed rendering issues with Cursor and Claude explore views

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Shift+Tab not working in user message input
  • Fixed spacing issues with Cursor explore view
  • Fixed "planning next moves" incorrectly showing sometimes on Claude
  • Fixed spacing issues with file explore chat UIs.
  • Fixed model not resetting when switching providers
  • Various styling and color fixes
v1.6.4

Built-in source control with a new Publish panel for committing, pushing, and creating PRs without leaving Inspector.

🚀Publish Panel

  • One-click publishing — New "Publish" button in the browser toolbar opens a source control panel
  • Stage & commit — Stage individual files or all changes, write commit messages, and commit with amend support
  • Push, pull & sync — Push to remote, pull changes, or sync in one click
  • Create PRs — Open a pull request on GitHub directly from Inspector
v1.6.3

Figma-style zoom and pan for the browser viewport.

🔍Zoom & Pan

  • Figma-style navigation — Pinch to zoom and pan around your app just like in Figma
  • Pixel-perfect zoom — At high zoom levels (12x+), see individual pixels with a grid overlay
  • Smart zoom reset — Page reloads automatically reset zoom to 100%
v1.6.2

Claude Code reliability improvements and bug fixes for non-Cursor models.

🔧Claude Code Fixes

  • Fixed "Undo All" for Claude Code — Undo functionality now works correctly when reverting all changes made by Claude Code
  • Fixed diff parsing — Code diffs from Claude Code are now parsed correctly, improving change visibility

🧠Interleaved Explore Improvements

  • Better tool call display — Improved rendering of bash, ls, and find tool events in the explore view
  • Smarter processing — Enhanced agent run processing for more reliable tool call handling

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed model corruption issue where non-Cursor models (like Claude Code or Codex) would get incorrectly overwritten with Cursor model IDs
v1.6.1

Model selector improvements, better rate limit handling, and reliability fixes.

🎛️Improved Model Selector

  • Easier model management — "Add Models" button in the model picker takes you directly to Settings
  • Smoother selection experience — Model picker is now less clunky and more responsive
  • Better model previews — Updated model cards with improved information display
  • Arena ranks for Cursor models — See how models compare for front-end at a glance based on Design Arena's rankings

🖥️Terminal Improvements

  • Cleaner terminal look — Improved styling for a more polished appearance
  • Smart auto-collapse — Terminal output collapses automatically when commands finish

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed comments not disappearing when they should
  • Fixed user message width issues in chat (finally looks)
  • Fixed Codex consecutive message handling
  • Fixed bug where if a chat was initiated via a comment you couldn't change the model
  • Improved update toasts
v1.6.0

Tons of usability improvements, plug and play support, HTML fallbacks, chat UX improvements, settings improvements.

📂Drag & Drop to Open Projects

  • Just drag a folder into Inspector — Drop any project folder to open it instantly, no menus needed

📄Static HTML Page Support

  • Works with plain HTML files — Inspector now recognizes and serves static HTML projects without needing a dev server
  • Automatic detection — Just open your folder and Inspector figures out how to run it

🔐Improved Claude Login

  • Smoother sign-in experience — More reliable authentication when connecting to Claude

💬Chat UI Improvements

  • Smoother loading animations — See a shimmer effect while the AI is thinking
  • Better code display — Collapsible code blocks and improved syntax highlighting
  • Dark mode terminal — Terminal output now matches your theme
  • Cleaner overall look — Polished styling throughout the chat experience

⚙️Settings & Configuration

  • Redesigned Settings screen — Cleaner UI showing connection status for all integrations
  • Easy disconnect option — Quickly disconnect from Claude or Cursor directly from Settings

🔄Smarter Updates

  • Smoother update experience — Updates are handled more gracefully with less interruption

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed model picker remembering your selection correctly
  • Fixed messages jumping around while sending
  • Fixed agent connection status not updating properly
  • Various stability and reliability improvements

📦Under the Hood

  • Improved reliability when using integrated agents (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex)
  • Better compatibility across different systems
  • Performance and security updates
v1.5.12

🤖Gemini 3 Flash Support in Cursor Agent

  • We now support Gemini 3 Flash - Very fast model, good for quick UI changes!
v1.5.11

🗂️Local File Support

  • Open local files & folders via drag-and-drop — Drag files or folders into Inspector to open them quickly

🌐Browser Polish

  • Link preview in the browser frame — Improved link preview UI and positioning
  • Address bar reliability — Better handling and navigation when working with local files

📦Build & Release Maintenance

  • Minor improvements to build and release automation
v1.5.3 – v1.5.10

📦Build & Release Maintenance

  • Release pipeline improvements — Ongoing improvements to build stability and release automation
  • Smaller builds — Reduced packaged app size by excluding unneeded files from the build
  • Bug fixes & polish — Various stability fixes and small UX refinements
v1.5.2

📋Clipboard Image Support

  • Paste screenshots directly into chat — Press ⌘V / Ctrl+V to paste images from your clipboard into the chat input or when editing messages
  • Works with screenshots, copied images, and any image data on your clipboard
v1.4.0

🎯Move Tool Enhancements

  • Agent applies move tool changes — All changes made with the move tool can now be applied to your codebase by clicking the "apply" button after editing the page
  • Drag-and-drop reordering — New "Reorder" sub-tool for moving elements within their parent containers
  • Parent boundary indicators — Visual guides show valid drop zones when moving elements
  • Improved hover labels — Clearer element identification when using move tool
  • Change tracking — Track your visual changes before committing them

🪟Multi-Window Support

  • Open multiple Inspector windows — Work on different projects simultaneously with full multi-window support
  • File menu with window management — New File menu with "New Window", "Open Folder", and "Open Recent" options
  • Workspace-specific window positions — Inspector remembers window positions per workspace

🌐Browser Navigation Improvements

  • Smart new tabs — New tabs automatically are connected to your project

🔧Monorepo & GitHub Support

  • Monorepo project detection — GitHub import modal now better supports monorepo structures

🎨UI Improvements

  • Design bar refinements — Improved animation and closed state positioning
  • Dropdown menu component — New reusable dropdown menu in move tool toolbar
  • Monochromatic loading indicators — Cleaner workspace loading step indicators
  • Inspector rules styling — Updated modal styling for better readability

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Codex path resolution for improved reliability
  • Improved tab-related comment handling across multiple browser tabs
  • Fixed navigation regression that could revert URLs to about:blank
  • Enhanced error handling with DevServerDisconnectedDialog
v1.3.0

✨Syntax Highlighting in Diff View

  • Code diffs now have syntax highlighting — File changes are easier to read with proper language-aware coloring

🔍Enhanced Diff View

  • Improved change block handling — Diff view now better handles complex changes with clearer visual separation
  • Integrated lint errors — See linting issues directly in the diff view as you review changes

🎨UI Improvements

  • Escape key closes screenshot selector — Press Escape to quickly dismiss the screenshot overlay
  • Delete mentions from chat — You can now remove @mentions from your messages

🔧Bug Fixes

  • Fixed empty chats incorrectly appearing in history
  • Fixed edit processing to properly include all pending edits
  • Improved styling for InspectorIgnore and InspectorRules modals
  • Improved styling for confirmation dialogs
v1.2.3

⏪Surgical Undo/Redo System

  • It was broken and we fixed it.

🔧Bug Fixes

  • Fixed keyboard handling in confirm dialogs to prevent unintended confirmations
  • Improved event propagation handling for better UX in modal dialogs
v1.2.0 – v1.2.2

🔍Find in Page

  • Search any page with ⌘F / Ctrl+F — A new find-in-page overlay lets you search for text within your app's browser view
  • See match counts as you type with incremental search
  • Navigate between matches with Enter (next) and Shift+Enter (previous)

🌐Smarter Address Bar

  • URL History & Autocomplete — The address bar now remembers your browsing history and suggests URLs as you type
  • Prioritized localhost suggestions — Your local dev servers appear first in the autocomplete list
  • Improved Google Search display — Search queries are now shown more clearly in the address bar
  • Various UX polish including better line alignment and visual consistency

🔧Bug Fixes

  • Fixed proxy server handling in address bar
  • Fixed trailing slash visibility issues in URLs
  • Fixed URL completion to not incorrectly prepend protocols
  • Fixed checkpoint and undo functionality reliability
  • Fixed diff count display issues

🧹Maintenance

  • Cleaned up deprecated dependencies for a leaner app
v1.1.0

🤖New Cursor Agent Models

  • Added support for new GPT-5.2 models: gpt-5.2, gpt-5.2-high
  • Added support for new Codex Max models: gpt-5.1-codex-max, gpt-5.1-codex-max-high

🎨UI Improvements

  • Provider selector no longer wraps to two lines — The provider dropdown button now stays on a single line with text truncation for better layout consistency
v0.9.6-v1.0.0

⚠️Bug Fix: Breaking Changes

  • Cursor Chat History Storage Location Changed
  • Chat metadata is now stored in Inspector's application data directory instead of inside your project folder
  • Impact: Your existing Cursor chat histories from previous versions will not carry over. New conversations will start fresh.
  • Why: This keeps your project directories clean — no more .inspector folders cluttering your workspace or appearing in version control
  • What was before: <your-project>/.inspector/cursor-chat.json
  • What is now: ~/Library/Application Support/Inspector/projects/<hash>/cursor-chat.json

🔧Bug Fixes

  • Port Picker Modal Improvements — Fixed keyboard interaction issues in the port picker, .inspectorignore, and .inspectorrules modals. Pressing Enter now works as expected.
v0.9.5

🔧Smarter Package Manager Detection

  • Improved detection logic — Inspector now reads the packageManager field from your package.json first (the corepack standard), ensuring your intended package manager is detected correctly even if multiple lockfiles exist in your project.
  • Better monorepo support — Projects that specify their package manager explicitly (e.g., "packageManager": "pnpm@8.6.0") will now be detected properly, which is common in corepack-enabled workspaces and monorepos.
v0.9.3-v0.9.4

🎨New Project Creation Enhancements

  • You can start a new project directly from Inspector
  • We open-sourced two templates which these projects can start from.

🐛Bug Fixes & Polish

  • Now detecting pnpm, bun, and yarn in "Start my dev server"
  • Updated icons and styling for better visual consistency
v0.9.2

🧠Element-aware AI Context

  • Added DOM element context support so the AI can reason about the currently referenced element
  • Expanded context hydration to include element details and computed styles

💬Mention Improvements

  • Improved mention handling/utilities to carry richer element context through the chat input
v0.9.0

This release focuses on making it even easier to get started with Inspector and giving you more control over how the AI agent works with your project.

🚀New Features

  • 🔗 Import a Project from GitHub — Clone any GitHub repository directly into Inspector with just a few clicks
  • 🚀 "Start My Dev Server For Me" — Inspector can now automatically detect and launch your project's dev server. Works with common frameworks like Next.js, Vite, and Create React App.
  • 📜 .inspectorrules — Define project-specific instructions, coding conventions, or context. Lives in your project root and travels with your codebase.
  • 🙈 .inspectorignore — Control which files the AI agent can see and access. Similar to .gitignore syntax for easy configuration.

🎨UI Improvements

  • 🎯 Revamped Port Picker — Redesigned port selection UI for a smoother experience with better autocomplete suggestions
  • 📋 New Action Cards — Quick-access cards for common actions: starting your dev server, managing ignore rules, and configuring Inspector rules
  • ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut — Added ⌘O keyboard shortcut on the open project page for faster navigation

🐛Bug Fixes & Polish

  • Improved visual consistency with updated modal designs
  • Enhanced cursor position alignment in selection overlays
  • Various stability improvements and bug fixes
v0.8.25

🔄Manual Update Check

  • Added "Check for Updates..." menu option in the app menu (Inspector > Check for Updates...)
  • Users can now manually trigger update checks without waiting for automatic checks
v0.8.24

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Codex path resolution for improved OpenAI Codex integration reliability
v0.8.23

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed OpenAI setup flow in the new user experience modal
v0.8.22

🍎Mac Intel Support

  • Inspector now supports Mac Intel (x64) architecture in addition to Apple Silicon (arm64)

🔧CI/CD Maintenance

  • Various improvements and maintenance updates to the build and release pipeline
v0.8.3

🤖OpenAI Codex Integration

  • Full support for OpenAI's Codex CLI agent – run Codex directly within Inspector
  • New model options: GPT-5.1 Codex Max, GPT-5.1 Codex, and GPT-5.1
  • Secure API key management with native keychain storage
  • Codex connection status indicator in Settings

🧠Enhanced Agent Thinking Display

  • New interleaved explore view shows thinking and tool actions together in chronological order
  • Nested tool calls now displayed within thinking blocks for better context
  • Improved markdown rendering and formatting for reasoning summaries
  • Collapsible thinking sections with smart summaries (e.g., "Explored 3 files and 2 directories")

🎨UI Polish

  • Copy chat button now only appears on hover for a cleaner interface
  • Improved planning view layout and interactions
  • Better connection status indicators for all integrations

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicate message bug when sending rapid requests
  • Fixed user message display issues
  • Fixed copy button incorrectly showing for payload views
  • Fixed message ordering inconsistencies
  • Fixed comment input spacing in browser overlay
v0.8.2

🔌Connection Status Indicators

  • Added visual connection status badges for Cursor and Claude Code in Settings
  • Quickly see at a glance whether you're connected to each service
  • Status checks run automatically when opening Settings

🧹Cursor Model Cleanup

  • Removed deprecated GPT-5 model variants (gpt-5, gpt-5-high, gpt-5-codex, gpt-5-codex-high)
  • Streamlined model selector to only show current GPT-5.1 variants

🎨UI Polish

  • Cleaned up Settings screen by removing redundant success messages
  • Connection state is now clearly indicated via status badges
v0.8.1

🔧Maintenance

  • Re-pushed tags to verify a fresh build due to Apple notarization service outage.
v0.8.0

🔐Claude Code OAuth Integration

  • Added seamless OAuth authentication for Claude Code
  • Users can now sign in with their Anthropic account directly
  • Streamlined authentication flow for better user experience

🔑GitHub OAuth Update

  • Users now see the sandbox-technologies access screen when authenticating with GitHub OAuth
v0.7.3

🔧Maintenance

  • Re-pushed tags to verify a fresh build.
v0.7.2

🐛Bug Fix

  • Addressed update v0.7.1 failing due to Squirrel auto-update process on macOS handling a broken symlink in the node_modules/.bin directory inside the packaged app.
v0.7.1

🧠Smarter Context

  • Inspector now better understands the React components you're working with
  • Improved context awareness when mentioning elements in chat
  • Code grabber passes your component's props and state

🔄Better App Updates

  • Smoother update experience with smarter scheduling
  • Updates won't interrupt you while you're actively working

🎨UI Improvements

  • Cleaner model selector labels across the app
  • Improved styling in chat and comment inputs

🐛Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issues with element tracking in some React apps
  • Fixed chat input styling inconsistencies
  • Fixed deeplinking issue in Safari — Safari users can now sign in
  • Fixed Auth0 dev key error