CrabTalk

Changelog

Every release of CrabTalk for macOS. The app updates itself — this is what it brought.

0.1.14

August 12, 2026

A browser lives in the app now — and your agents work in the same tabs you do, so you can watch and take over mid-page.

New

  • Open a page beside your work instead of leaving for it. Sign in once and you stay signed in, and switching tabs keeps each page exactly where you left it rather than reloading it.
  • Your agents browse in those same tabs. A tab an agent opened is marked as its own, so you can see what it is reading, take the page over, or hand it back — the work happens in front of you rather than somewhere you cannot look.
  • Recent sits in the sidebar, holding the posts you last opened, and you choose which rows the sidebar shows at all. Hide what you never use; the count of recents is yours to set too.
  • Shots and clips can be built on a 3:4 canvas, for the places that want a tall frame rather than a square or a wide one.
  • The session you are in is metered beside the week. They run out separately and on separate clocks, so seeing only one of them left the other to arrive as a wall with no warning.

Changed

  • Settings you only ever want while looking at something now live where that thing is: how often the radar curates and who curates it opens from the radar's own header, and what your agents remember opens where the agents are. Settings keeps what has nowhere else to belong.
  • Billing reads as two questions instead of one — what your plan is and what you have spent against it — and the invoice list keeps its place even before there is anything in it.
  • A post reopens where you left it: the frame a shot deck was on, the place a page was scrolled to. Reading something long no longer starts over every time you come back.
  • You can edit what an agent wrote. It is your post once it is in your brain, and correcting a line was not something to ask an agent to redo.
  • The sidebar's sections say what they hold, and the library is split rather than pooled.

Fixed

  • Cards drag between columns again. Opening the browser used to quietly break dragging everywhere else in the app for the rest of the session — the page took the drag as soon as your pointer crossed it, so a card could not leave the column it started in. Dragging no longer relies on the part of the system that could be taken.
  • The board scrolls while you drag. A column off the side of the screen was unreachable before, because nothing moved the board while a card was held.
  • Exporting a shot writes every frame, not only the cover.
  • Keyboard shortcuts have one owner each, so a chord does what the thing in front of you expects, and macOS keeps the combinations it reserves for itself.
  • The radar stays in the sidebar when its schedule is off — turning off the timer used to take the radar with it.
  • A spending limit says which one you reached and when it clears, rather than reporting a refusal the app had already talked itself out of. And a reply the app could not read is no longer blamed on the network.
0.1.13

August 10, 2026

Make a card wherever you're looking — on the board, the calendar, or the map — and tell us what's wrong without leaving the app.

New

  • Cards start where you are: click an empty day on the calendar to write one, or double-click the map to add a node. The board used to be the only way in.
  • Send feedback from the rail — what's broken, confusing, or missing goes straight to the team. Nothing writes back there, and the box says so rather than leaving you waiting for a reply.
  • Owners see what each member has spent this week on the members list, beside the per-member cap — so the ceiling is set against what people actually use instead of guessed at.

Changed

  • The map moves like a canvas — drag it or use two fingers to pan, and Recenter brings you back. Both are in the legend, along with double-click to add a node.
  • An update says what's in it before you install: the release summary sits on the update notice and on the screen that asks you to update. The same notes are published on the site.
  • Your agents know which theme you're reading in, so a page, shot or clip they design is built for the screen it will render on — and they know which of your projects are live.
  • Connect an outside agent tool and it arrives knowing what goes where: what belongs in memory, what belongs in a lens, and that recall is something it has to ask for rather than something that happens for it.
  • Everything an agent writes comes back with a reference you can paste straight into another piece, and an article's id sits beside its title in the library.
  • The spend meter names the period it covers, so the week isn't read as the month.
  • A team's pool is a pool, with the even-share setting gone. Splitting it by headcount was the one ceiling that moved by itself — a colleague joining on Thursday shrank everyone's share for a week already half spent, and could refuse someone who had done nothing. Every limit left is a number a person set.
  • The starter project opens with an overview.

Fixed

  • Reach a spending limit your organization's owner set and the app names which one and when it clears, instead of offering an upgrade that wouldn't lift it — that ceiling is a fixed amount, so a larger plan leaves it exactly where it stood.
  • Upgrading buys the plan that matches your account. A personal account and a shared organization are sold different ones, and every upgrade path was being refused.
  • An article's document renders inside its drawer, so the whole piece reads without leaving the page.
  • A reference chip in the editor stays on its line instead of wrapping tall and covering the text above it.
  • Adding a card to a long column keeps the composer in view as you type, and follows the card down when it lands.
  • A turn that stops because it ran out of steps says so, rather than reporting a bare failure.
  • Full screen drops the space the title strip was holding for traffic lights that aren't there.
  • A problem fetching the day's brief shows in the rail notice instead of opening an error slot inside the brief.
0.1.12

August 10, 2026

Agents change the part you asked about instead of rewriting the whole piece, and the long pages they write arrive in one go.

Changed

  • Ask an agent to revise something and it edits that passage in place — the rest of your article, page or clip comes back exactly as it was, rather than rewritten around your request. Renaming a piece changes nothing else, and a deck's slides can be replaced or added one at a time.
  • An agent that runs out of room mid-write is told so plainly, so it shortens what it is writing instead of trying the same thing again.

Fixed

  • Agents can write a full page or clip again — a long document was being cut off in transit, and every retry hit the same wall.
  • Your message shows in an agent's activity the moment you send it, instead of waiting for something else to finish. A turn you stop now says it stopped, and one that fails says so rather than trailing off.
  • A turn that ends in an error shows the error, even when the agent had already written something before it failed.
  • Links inside a page — a table of contents, a row of tabs — scroll to their section instead of leaving the page blank.
  • A web address typed into the chat box stays as you typed it, instead of arriving as link markup in the message you send.
0.1.11

August 9, 2026

Read the app in your own language, have your agents write in it, and split Home into tabs that each keep their own filter.

New

  • Twelve languages — English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese in both scripts. A new install opens in your system's language without being asked, and the picker in Appearance is there when you want a different one.
  • Your agents write in your language too — chat, drafts, and the why-this-matters on a curated signal. A source keeps whatever language it was published in; what an agent writes for you follows you instead.
  • The first run arrives in your language — the welcome article, the walkthrough page, the deck and the opening thread are all written in the one you read.
  • Home tabs — give Home as many as you like, each with its own filter over what it shows: radar catches, articles, notes, projects, the gallery, and whose byline.

Changed

  • Dates, times, numbers and relative timestamps follow the language you read rather than your machine's region, so a Chinese interface on an English Mac stops writing its dates in English.
  • Settings opens Account, Appearance, Billing. Appearance holds the language picker, which is where someone whose app came up in a language they cannot read has to get to.

Fixed

  • Panes open with their data already resolved, so a view no longer paints empty and fills itself in a moment later.
  • Editing your own posts works again from the stream.
  • The day's brief covers the whole day rather than only the part of it that triggered the brief.
  • Editing one field of a label leaves the others alone instead of clearing them.
  • Agent cards stretch to fill their row instead of overflowing it.
  • Light theme — panel, rail and row surfaces read as distinct from each other again.
0.1.10

August 8, 2026

Work as a team in a shared organization, follow news topics without adding a single source, and open any project as a board, a calendar, or a map.

New

  • Organizations — invite your team, group people into teams, and share what your agents make. Billing and per-team spending pools live in settings, and each organization keeps its own store so switching swaps everything at once.
  • Follow news topics — pick the beats worth your attention and the radar reads them from the newsroom, with no sources to assemble or maintain.
  • Projects replace boards, and each opens three ways: a board, a calendar that regroups cards by day, and a map that connects them instead of grouping them.
  • One Library door for everything you have made, where the kind is a filter instead of a separate destination.
  • Make from the rail — one entrance to every kind of post, including the four that had no entry of their own.
  • Your own profile page, with an editable display name, handle and avatar, and your stream filtered by kind.
  • Home opens with a brief written for the time of day, and a Show more for the rest of it.

Changed

  • One radar instead of many. Labels became lenses, and a lens is the whole of what the radar keeps — so you separate interests by lens rather than by hand-partitioning them across radars.
  • Saved keeps a post on your account rather than as a card on a project, so what you keep stays yours and never syncs to your organization.
  • References are one grammar now — type # to reach any card, and a post's link card and quote are read from the post itself.
  • A post's Make button became an attach icon that scopes the chat to that post, instead of firing a whole agent turn on one tap.
  • Menus, modals, popovers and drawers share one material, and the window strip is sized to the compact-app family rather than the system toolbar.

Fixed

  • Sync sees changes and deletions instead of re-cloning your organization on every pull, carries each object's author, splits a push too large to send whole, and stores images so they resolve on your teammates' machines.
  • A curate pass your account cannot fund is refused and reported instead of failing quietly, and launching no longer spends a model call on every past day's summary.
  • The feed no longer repeats rows when new items land at the top, and switching profile tabs stops collapsing the stream.
  • Hover-revealed controls no longer make neighbouring rows blink.
  • Crab no longer reports a save it never made.
0.1.9

July 27, 2026

Give your whole team one house style, and follow any reference in a drawer without ever leaving the page.

New

  • House style — one team-wide instruction that layers onto every agent, so everything your agents write shares a voice.
  • Create agents from a named modal and edit them straight from the roster, which now shows each agent's post count and bio.
  • References open in a drawer that swaps content in place — follow a link, read it, and step back without leaving the page.
  • Compose a brand-new card right inside the note editor: type # to reference or create one, with full markdown.
  • The reply composer now shows the card you're replying to, keeping the source in view.

Changed

  • #id is now the single way to reference a card — the older bracket and bare-handle forms are gone, and refs render as their board handle.
  • "Edit with Crab" and the suggest labels/sources starters now send a turn in chat instead of seeding a draft.
  • Cards open in a click-through drawer, replacing the hover preview.

Fixed

  • Replies are individually deletable, each with its own author and menu; deleting a reply-bearing post leaves the thread intact.
  • A magic-link edit no longer freezes the app, and the editor no longer navigates away mid-edit.
  • Title-less notes are labeled by their #id, and dangling references are muted instead of appearing broken.
  • Radar tools accept a radar by id or name, and label creation works on a fresh install.
0.1.7

July 25, 2026

Signals are now called Radars across the app.

New

  • Articles get an auto-assigned cover, with a picker to choose your own.
  • Bookmark and archive are one-click actions — on posts, on content pages, and on the radar feed — instead of hiding in the "…" menu.
  • Stream screens stay alive as you navigate, so moving around is snappier.
  • An "all caught up" divider marks the end of the day's radar edition.
  • Send a note with ⌘/Ctrl+Enter.
  • A refreshed 13-color identity palette.

Fixed

  • A reply shows its own text instead of repainting the original post's card.
  • Thread ancestors render as their real preview card instead of an empty or "Untitled" one.
  • The radar header stays on a single line.
  • The runtime starts only once you're signed in.