The biggest release yet: read-only session views, a diagnostics console, an expanded command palette, saved layouts, backup and restore, plus the host side of Blackcrab Remote — a companion mobile app coming soon to iPhone and Android.

• Read-only session view with live tailing, and a diagnostics console that records recent errors.
• Expanded command palette with keyword search, saved grid layouts, and backup/restore for local app data.
• Clearer single-writer conflict handling; resuming no longer fails on retired model ids; smoother transcript scrolling.
• Blackcrab Remote (coming soon to iPhone and Android): encrypted pairing over LAN with relay fallback, live sessions, formatted transcripts with tool cards, and send/stop/approve from the phone.
• Start new sessions and continue past ones from the phone, with a synced 'where you left off' read cursor across devices.

A design-focused release with a denser power-user shell, first-class density modes, faster recent-session navigation, safer Claude auth startup, and better behavior in smaller windows.

• Added comfortable, compact, and focus density modes, available from Settings, the command palette, and the status bar.
• Refreshed the app shell with a command chip, denser transcript layout, and a more informative bottom status bar.
• Added keyboard and command palette navigation for opening the next or previous recent session.
• Fixed right-side clipping in non-fullscreen windows with responsive sidebar, preview, and status layout behavior.
• Claude sessions now prefer normal CLI authentication over stale credential override environment variables.

A focused quality release with steadier conversation switching, cleaner transcript reading, and published installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

• Conversation continuity is improved across grid and single-session mode switches.
• Transcript tool calls and thinking blocks use compact drawers, with noisy output folded by default.
• Claude session startup refreshes auth state without injecting keychain access tokens into spawned processes.
• Anonymous app and updater events can help measure release health and can be disabled in Settings.

A usage and project visibility release for tracking token spend, session activity, and saved Claude Code work across projects.

• Usage dashboard with range filters, token and cost rollups, history, budgets, and CSV/JSON export.
• Project dashboard with active session counts, attention counts, usage totals, and direct session open actions.
• Expanded global search across session metadata and transcript content.
• Grid title synchronization and additional single-mode/grid handoff fixes.
• Native build commands, centralized session metadata updates, and startup/search performance improvements.

A reliability pass for live sessions, attention management, Claude token setup, and packaged-app behavior.

• Smoother sidebar activity promotion and session attention management.
• Claude OAuth refresh support, token setup flow, and smarter stuck-turn detection.
• Deferred grid handoff while sessions are busy, plus fixes for single-session to grid handoff.
• macOS TCC strings, stderr filtering, and title edit focus fixes.
• Signed installer and updater artifacts published through GitHub Releases.

The first public shape of Blackcrab: a macOS-first desktop workspace for running Claude Code sessions side-by-side.

• Tileable session grid for parallel Claude Code work.
• Local session discovery from Claude Code project data.
• Token, context, and cost signals in the session surface.
• Integrated terminal drawer and in-app preview pane.
• Docs covering setup, requirements, privacy, security, and limitations.

Near-term work is focused on shipping Blackcrab Remote to the app stores and tightening the first-run experience.

• Blackcrab Remote on TestFlight, then the App Store and Google Play.
• Clearer setup checks for Claude Code installation and authentication.
• More practical devlog posts from building the desktop and mobile workflow.