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Cabinet v0.4.0

The biggest release yet. v0.4.0 ships a complete Tasks Board rewrite, a native terminal runtime, an installable Skills system, eight AI provider adapters, a world-class search palette, and over 50 UX/accessibility fixes from a full pre-release audit.

Terminal Mode

Run any task directly in a real shell — not just through the native Claude API.

  • Persistent shell panel — bottom or right placement, tabs for multiple sessions, survives navigation
  • Terminal-mode tasks — tasks can now run in a PTY terminal with streamed output, stop button, status chip with pulsing ring
  • Fullscreen terminal viewer — Terminal / Details tab toggle inside the task fullscreen view
  • Session resume — Continue reuses the same process via stdin injection; falls back to prompt-level replay for providers that don't support native resume
  • PTY adapters for all 8 providers — Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, and more; each adapter streams cabinet-block metadata, status pill, and overflow menu
  • Legacy adapter continuation — providers without native session resume get replay output on reconnect

Tasks Board v2

The old board is gone. v2 is now the only board.

  • Drag-and-drop — reorder cards within lanes; archive/restore with undo toast; destructive drops show inline confirm
  • Keyboard DnD + accessibility — full keyboard drag support, aria-compliant card reporting
  • Multi-select — shift/cmd-click to select multiple cards; bulk delete with typed DELETE confirmation
  • People rail handoff — drag cards to the People rail to reassign
  • Density toggle — compact / comfortable mode, persisted in localStorage
  • Collapse any lane — not just Archive
  • Mute noisy tasks — skip "Just Finished" heartbeat runs from the board
  • Persist view + filter — agent filter and view mode survive refresh
  • Within-lane reorder — persisted via boardOrder field
  • Depth + trigger filters in the header row; flat list option
  • "Add to Inbox" composer — full composer dialog with board shortcut hint
  • Activity feed — rebuilt with three-line task rows: agent pill, status icon, model + time + tokens on the right
  • Thinking indicator on pending agent turns
  • Structured <ask_user> marker — board surfaces awaiting-input state visually
  • Artifact rows rendered as KB page cards in task viewer
  • Artifact clicks scroll+blink the sidebar, infer the right viewer, and offer back-to-task

Skills System

Installable agent skills — Anthropic tool-call format, installed on demand.

  • Skills foundation — ~/.cabinet/skills/ directory, manifest format, trust tiers
  • Catalog + tmpdir injection — skills catalog wired for Claude provider; skill content injected into task context at runtime
  • Agent detail Skills field — editable multiselect of attached skills per agent
  • Task header chip — shows which skills are attached to the running task
  • Settings preview — Skills section in Settings shows what's installed in ~/.cabinet/skills/
  • In-app guidance — "New skill / Open folder" buttons while the full marketplace is in progress
  • Registry page — live manifest fetch from GitHub; cover-art carousel cards; unified card style with cover hero on detail page

Multi-Provider Runtime (BYOAI)

Eight CLI providers, all wired to the same runtime picker.

  • Providers — Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi (Inflection), and 3 more
  • Shared runtime picker — Native / Terminal tabs; icon-only inactive tabs; EXPERIMENTAL badge; Discord CTA
  • Effort controls — model-specific effort slider on Task composer and agent settings
  • Model + effort passthrough — all 6 remaining providers now receive model and effort through headless and continue routes
  • Dynamic listModels() — OpenCode and Pi refresh model lists with a 60 s cache
  • In-UI provider verification — /providers-demo page + Troubleshoot button in Settings
  • Provider brand icons — bundled locally, shown in runtime picker and task header
  • adapterType on job configs — routines and heartbeats can specify which provider to use

Onboarding

A complete rethink of first-run for new users.

  • 3-slide "Meet your Cabinet" tour — animated intro, sidebar-accurate mockup, mocha palette, vivid file-type icons
  • Seamless wizard → app → tour — no flash between transitions; disclaimer folded into final wizard step
  • Animated home blueprint — rooms (Study, Lab, Studio, Archive, Vault) wrap the welcome popup as a central patio
  • Staged data reveal — DATA slide animation sequence with half-duration tweens for snappier feel
  • Home > Room > Cabinet breadcrumb on cabinet-created screen
  • Tour persistence — sidebar flicker on cabinet name load fixed; tour state tracked correctly
  • 2× faster file-click → viewer reveal in the data slide

Help Section

Replaced the Tour chip in the status bar with a dedicated Help page.

  • Deep-dive demo cards for: AI Team, Task Board, Knowledge Base, Cabinets/Nested Teams, Routines & Schedules, Conversations & Approvals, Themes & BYOAI
  • Alternating card layout — visual and text swap sides every other row
  • Skills + API Keys cards with guided demos
  • Keyboard Shortcuts section — two-slide demo
  • Onboarding finish routes through a popup instead of a redirect

World-Class Search

  • Command palette — instant fuzzy search across all pages, agents, tasks, and files
  • Daemon live index — search results backed by the real-time file-system index
  • Search snippets — results show context around the match
  • No Tab hijack — Tab key no longer stolen inside search

Editor Upgrades

  • Notion-grade features — text color, text highlight, embeds, image/video buttons, drag handles, link popover
  • Folder index — folders with both index.md and children show a List/Gallery toggle
  • Page/Files tab — new tab mode when a folder has both an index and children
  • @ mention picker — type @ to link to any KB page, with clean URL scheme
  • Inline Lucide icons — IconExtension renders named icons inline and they survive Markdown roundtrip
  • Toolbar overflow — chevron buttons for unreachable toolbar items; always-visible scrollbar on macOS (1 px, 10% opacity)
  • Heading anchors — decoration-based, gutter add button, slug generation, MutationObserver loop guard
  • Save failed pill — clickable to retry
  • Stale-content flash fix — opening Markdown artifacts no longer shows old content first
  • flushSync guard — folder-tab reset no longer collides with Tiptap during render

Composer & Scheduling

  • Unified Task/Routine/Heartbeat dialog — single composer surface replaces three separate flows
  • WhenChip — human-friendly scheduling UI with natural-language parsing, anchored top-right on all kickoff surfaces
  • Shared AgentPicker chip — same component across home, cabinet inline, and launch surfaces
  • Drag-drop, paste, and file-picker attachments — attach files to any task before launch
  • Inline terminal banner — shown in composer when runtimeMode is terminal
  • Disabled send tooltip — explains why the button is inactive when input is empty

Agent Page v2

The agent detail page is now chat-first.

  • Color-wash hero — agent color applied even when an avatar image is set
  • Conversations rail — recent conversations listed alongside the agent
  • Editable identity — name, icon, color, and avatar all editable inline
  • Inbox section — assigned AgentTask items appear on the agent page
  • 100 famous-figure avatars — with cryptic labels; expanded icon catalog
  • Vivid Tailwind-500 default palette for new agents
  • Provider-agnostic task delegation — agents can dispatch sub-tasks with human approval; dispatched tasks inherit parent runtime + per-row overrides
  • Single ConversationApprovalPanel — shared by all three views

Sidebar Redesign

  • Cabinet drawer — Data / Agents / Tasks tabs replace the old sidebar layout; drawer stagger animation
  • Tab-aware footer actions — context-sensitive actions per drawer
  • Drag-reorder + move-to dialog — reorder sidebar items; order persisted
  • Import files — via context menu or OS drag-drop into the tree
  • Recent Tasks list — under the Tasks header with richer status dots
  • 20 tasks shown by default with progressive "Show older"
  • Reliable tree refresh after file import and page mutations (tree cache invalidated)

Viewers

  • Jupyter notebook (.ipynb) support — renders cells, outputs, and visualizations
  • Unified toolbar — type-aware artifact buttons, consistent across all viewer types
  • User-initiated top-nav from webapp iframes allowed

Settings

  • MCP Servers — read-only list of connected MCP servers
  • Storage backend section — shown only in the cloud edition
  • Workspace section — promoted above the avatar grid in Profile
  • Cabinet Cloud waitlist — inline form in onboarding + dedicated section in Settings/About
  • Settings tabs as anchor links — deep-linking to specific settings sections works
  • Profile sticky save bar — stays visible while scrolling

Themes

Four new built-in themes: Windows 95, Windows XP, Matrix, and Apple.

Telemetry & Privacy

  • Anonymous opt-out telemetry — no PII collected; fully opt-out
  • Privacy toggle in Settings
  • TELEMETRY.md documents what is and isn't collected

Legal & Disclaimer

  • Calm legal-tech redesign — full-screen card, no red/flying icons
  • Explicit acceptance required — checkbox must be clicked; no X close button
  • Server-side acceptance state — mirrored to a state file, not just localStorage
  • Terms of Service + Privacy Policy links in the layout warning

Routing & Navigation

  • Cabinet-scoped URLs — unified scheme; legacy #/cabinet/<path>/<slug> auto-redirected
  • Task launches + notification clicks open the conversation side panel directly
  • Hash aliases resolved correctly; task-detail timeout fixed
  • Sync button hidden for non-git cabinets via isGit flag

Calendar

  • Off-window event chevrons — navigate to events outside the visible range
  • Editable visible hours — customize the hour window shown
  • Compact density slider for Jobs & heartbeats
  • Past events linked to their real conversations; missed runs flagged
  • scheduledAt propagation — threaded through jobs and heartbeats end-to-end
  • Deduped cron events that span multiple cabinets

Conversations

  • Multi-turn support — continueConversationRun for multi-turn agent runs
  • Live chat stream — sidebar tree refreshes on agent writes
  • Per-turn runtime — codec, tokens, errorKind stored per turn
  • Cold-paint dedup — conversation fetches deduplicated on first load
  • Sub-agent run cleanup — shell-init leaks stripped from transcripts

Performance

  • Server FS walk cache — deduplicated across requests
  • Section chunk splitting — lazy-loaded page sections reduce initial bundle
  • Cold-paint from localStorage — tree and last page painted from cache before server responds
  • Telemetry off in dev — no noise in development mode

Accessibility

  • P1/P2 audit bundle — labels, status shape, keyboard reorder
  • Task card AT report — reports only the title to assistive technology, not 50 words
  • Focus ring — darkened in light theme for visibility
  • Aria-labels on icon buttons throughout

MIT License

Cabinet is now MIT-licensed. LICENSE file added; package.json updated with "license": "MIT".

50+ UX & Polish Fixes

Selected highlights from the pre-release audit (120+ items triaged):

  • Agent avatar/pill tints softened across the board
  • Breadcrumb navigation fixed in agent detail; leaf node larger
  • "New Agent" CTA normalized (was inconsistent across surfaces)
  • Add scheduled job deduplication — single "Add routine" CTA
  • Compact density + needs lane status badges fixed
  • GitHub stars formatted as 12.3k above 10k, exact below
  • Terminal opening another tab instead of replacing; close clears state
  • Sidebar collapsed state persisted; home tooltip added; ⌘S hint surfaced
  • Contextual + icons per drawer: FilePlus / UserPlus / ListPlus
  • Cmd+1/2/3 keyboard shortcuts for sidebar Data/Agents/Tasks tabs
  • Cmd+N opens floating new-task dialog in place
  • 3 system-conflicting shortcuts replaced
  • Markdown table editing improved
  • Accent color contrast warning for light/unreadable agent backgrounds
  • console.log stripped from production builds
  • Skeleton loader on agents list; empty state copy clarified
  • About version pulled from package.json; empty calendar day hint added
  • Toolbar active state updates on cursor move
  • Inbox duplicate CTA removed
  • Pi (Inflection) label corrected
  • IP-evocative avatar labels renamed to generic descriptors

Full diff: git log v0.3.x..v0.4.0