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Cloned repos in projects, lower memory use, and rendering and auth fixes · **Cloned repos in projects** - Cloned repositories now appear in the new-session projects dropdown (app) · **Lower memory usage** - Reduced memory use during long and idle sessions · **Word-wise navigation** - Option+Left/Right now jumps between words in secondary text inputs · **Resumed hooks** - Hook rows now render correctly after you resume a session · **File encoding** - Edited files now keep their original encoding instead of always saving as UTF-8 · +2 more changes
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Cloned repos in projects, lower memory use, and rendering and auth fixes
### New features
- **Cloned repos in projects** - Cloned repositories now appear in the new-session projects dropdown (app)
### Improvements
- **Lower memory usage** - Reduced memory use during long and idle sessions
- **Word-wise navigation** - Option+Left/Right now jumps between words in secondary text inputs
### Bug fixes
- **Resumed hooks** - Hook rows now render correctly after you resume a session
- **File encoding** - Edited files now keep their original encoding instead of always saving as UTF-8
- **MCP authentication** - Restored basic auth fallback when signing in to MCP servers over OAuth
- **Org switching** - Fixed selecting the active organization when switching organizations, including in the EU (app)
Archive projects with clearer MCP authentication guidance · **Archive projects** - Archive projects you're no longer working on to keep your project list tidy (app) · **Clearer MCP auth guidance** - When an MCP server fails to authenticate, the CLI now explains how to resolve it · **MCP config errors** - MCP configuration parse errors are now surfaced clearly instead of failing silently
Plugin toggles, tab slash-command completion, and login and rendering fixes · **Enable and disable plugins** - Turn individual plugins on or off with a new toggle · **Tab to complete slash commands** - Press Tab to complete slash commands · **MCP authentication** - Improved handling of MCP authentication responses and desktop redirects · **Account credit checkout** - Subscribe to or upgrade your plan using account credit · **Invalid API key login** - The CLI now exits with an error on an invalid `FACTORY_API_KEY` instead of stalling at login · +6 more changes
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Plugin toggles, tab slash-command completion, and login and rendering fixes
### New features
- **Enable and disable plugins** - Turn individual plugins on or off with a new toggle
### Improvements
- **Tab to complete slash commands** - Press Tab to complete slash commands
- **MCP authentication** - Improved handling of MCP authentication responses and desktop redirects
- **Account credit checkout** - Subscribe to or upgrade your plan using account credit
### Bug fixes
- **Invalid API key login** - The CLI now exits with an error on an invalid `FACTORY_API_KEY` instead of stalling at login
- **Cancel AskUser prompts** - Cancelling an AskUser prompt now interrupts the agent instead of letting it continue
- **Duplicate tool approvals** - Approval-gated tool executions now render only once
- **Windows background processes** - Fixed cleanup of background processes on exit on Windows
- **Document skills location** - Document skills are now written to your current working directory
- **Dark mode toggles** - Dark mode toggles are now visible and loading spinners animate correctly (app)
- **Editable composer** - The composer stays editable during session blockers (app)
External prompt editing and input and onboarding fixes · **Edit prompts externally** - Open and edit your prompt in an external editor for composing longer messages · **Caps-lock cursor keys** - Fixed cursor key handling when caps lock is on · **Onboarding crash** - Fixed a crash that could occur when connecting before onboarding finished (app)
Conversation rewind and reliability fixes · **Rewind conversation** - The new `/rewind-conversation` command rewinds the chat and restores your files to an earlier point (app) · **Org hooks governance** - Organizations can now centrally control hooks settings across their members · **Clickable message links** - URLs in your messages are now clickable · **Light terminal colors** - Improved white rendering in the light terminal theme · **Reasoning indicator** - Non-thinking models no longer show a reasoning indicator · +3 more changes
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Conversation rewind and reliability fixes
### New features
- **Rewind conversation** - The new `/rewind-conversation` command rewinds the chat and restores your files to an earlier point (app)
- **Org hooks governance** - Organizations can now centrally control hooks settings across their members
### Improvements
- **Clickable message links** - URLs in your messages are now clickable
- **Light terminal colors** - Improved white rendering in the light terminal theme
### Bug fixes
- **Reasoning indicator** - Non-thinking models no longer show a reasoning indicator
- **Execute step shimmer** - Fixed a stale loading shimmer left on completed execute steps
- **Windows hooks** - Preserved command quoting for hooks on Windows
- **MCP server logos** - MCP server logos now keep their original colors
Command-line autonomy flag, org MCP and marketplace controls, and reliability fixes · **Autonomy flag** - Set Droid's autonomy level straight from the command line with `droid --auto high` · **Org MCP and marketplace controls** - Organizations can centrally govern MCP server and plugin marketplace access · **In-app membership controls** - Manage organization members directly in the app (app) · **Private npm registry plugins** - Plugin sources can now authenticate to private npm registries using an auth token environment variable · +6 more changes
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Command-line autonomy flag, org MCP and marketplace controls, and reliability fixes
### New features
- **Autonomy flag** - Set Droid's autonomy level straight from the command line with `droid --auto high`
- **Org MCP and marketplace controls** - Organizations can centrally govern MCP server and plugin marketplace access
- **In-app membership controls** - Manage organization members directly in the app (app)
### Improvements
- **Private npm registry plugins** - Plugin sources can now authenticate to private npm registries using an auth token environment variable
- **Onboarding copy** - Clearer guidance during Droid setup onboarding (app)
### Bug fixes
- **Status after interrupt** - Droid's status now clears correctly after you interrupt it
- **Event hooks** - Multiple hooks configured for the same event are now combined correctly
- **Summaries across directories** - Fixed conversation summaries when your working directory changes
- **Streaming placeholder** - Fixed a stale placeholder that could linger in the chat (app)
- **Connection stability** - Reduced session UI flicker during brief connection drops (app)
Branded macOS installer with MCP and session reliability fixes · **Skill slash commands in editors** - Skill slash commands are now available when connecting from external editors · **macOS installer branding** - The macOS DMG installer is now branded (app) · **MCP results as markdown** - MCP tool results returned as JSON now render as formatted markdown · **Session reconnection** - Sessions now stay rendered and reconnect instead of redirecting to a Session Unavailable page (app) · **Org switcher** - The desktop organization switcher now shows the currently selected organization (app) · +2 more changes
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Branded macOS installer with MCP and session reliability fixes
### New features
- **Skill slash commands in editors** - Skill slash commands are now available when connecting from external editors
### Improvements
- **macOS installer branding** - The macOS DMG installer is now branded (app)
- **MCP results as markdown** - MCP tool results returned as JSON now render as formatted markdown
### Bug fixes
- **Session reconnection** - Sessions now stay rendered and reconnect instead of redirecting to a Session Unavailable page (app)
- **Org switcher** - The desktop organization switcher now shows the currently selected organization (app)
- **Desktop MCP sign-in** - Improved desktop MCP authentication callback handling (app)
- **Composer actions layout** - Composer actions now stay on a single line (app)
npm plugin sources and long-session performance · **npm plugin sources** - Plugin marketplace definitions can now reference plugins published as npm packages · **Quit confirmation** - Desktop now asks for confirmation before quitting or closing would interrupt an active Droid session (app) · **Long session performance** - Improved chat performance in long sessions (app) · **MCP authentication page** - Polished the MCP authentication success page · **Overdue invoice banner** - Billing settings now show a banner when an invoice is overdue (app) · +1 more change
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npm plugin sources and long-session performance
### New features
- **npm plugin sources** - Plugin marketplace definitions can now reference plugins published as npm packages
- **Quit confirmation** - Desktop now asks for confirmation before quitting or closing would interrupt an active Droid session (app)
### Improvements
- **Long session performance** - Improved chat performance in long sessions (app)
- **MCP authentication page** - Polished the MCP authentication success page
- **Overdue invoice banner** - Billing settings now show a banner when an invoice is overdue (app)
### Bug fixes
- **Rate limit reset display** - Fixed the rate limit reset time shown for sub-hour resets