Team AI for Mac — Release Notes
What's new in each release
Version 1.4.0 — Autonomous Task Agents
The biggest update since 1.1.0: a new agent type that acts, not just answers.
New
- Autonomous Task Agents — Give an agent a goal instead of a fixed prompt, and it plans and executes its own sequence of tool calls to get there, re-planning after every result. Any action that writes data or has a real-world effect pauses for your explicit approval first — you always see exactly what it's about to do before it happens. Generated images and spend are shown right in the run and tracked in Usage & Costs. Find it next to Standing Agents in the Agents tab.
- Search Everything — A new search (⌘F) across chats, messages, agents, memories, and Knowledge Base documents at once, instead of hunting through each section separately. Opening a message result jumps straight to it in the conversation.
- Standing Agents now tell you why — Agents show a "next run ≈" estimate, and if a scheduled run fails (a bad key, a provider error), you'll see why instead of just a stale "last ran" time.
Fixes & stability
- Hardened the streaming-response path against a rare crash class reported via TestFlight.
- Fixed a data race in model-list fetching that could occur when two screens looked up models at the same time.
- Fixed Ollama tool-calling: multi-tool-call turns now correctly correlate each result to the call it answers.
- Fixed Remove Object and Colorize to no longer crash on very large photos, and no longer return a smaller image than the one you started with.
- Fixed a download-cancel race that could leave a model download running after Cancel was tapped.
- Fixed a Knowledge Base document counter that could drift after a failed re-import.
- Global Search is now faster on large chat/document libraries, and debounced so typing doesn't stall the interface.
- A broad pass over the app's typography and spacing for more visual consistency across every screen, on both platforms.
Version 1.3.0 — Menu Bar Mini-Chat & Smarter Memory
A quick way to chat without opening the main window, plus more control over how Memory understands your conversations.
New
- Menu Bar Mini-Chat — a compact chat popover right from the menu bar icon, showing your most recent conversation with its own input box, so a quick question doesn't need the full app window open.
- Custom OpenAI-compatible embedding provider for Memory — point Memory's embedding step at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you've configured in Settings › Providers (including a local Ollama server), with a model picker for both OpenAI and custom providers.
- On-device Ollama image generation provider in Image Studio.
Improvements
- Memory now resurfaces revisited conversations by actual recency, not just when they were first created.
Fixes
- Fixed memory extraction, the weekly digest, and Standing Agents silently failing to produce anything when using the on-device Apple Intelligence provider.
- Fixed the Menu Bar Mini-Chat sending messages into the wrong conversation when a group discussion or model comparison had been created more recently than your last single chat.
Version 1.2.0 — Device Limit, Now Enforced
Your license key is now checked against a real device limit (one Mac per license, as it has always been sold). Activating on a device already at the limit shows a clear message instead of a generic error, with a way to see and free up the device using your license from Settings.
Version 1.1.0 — On-Device Tools & a Refined Mac Experience
The first major update since launch, adding a full set of private, on-device tools and a redesigned, professional-grade Mac interface. It's still a one-time purchase — no subscription.
Highlights
- Knowledge Bases (Chat with Your Documents) — Add PDFs, text, and Markdown files and chat against them. Documents are embedded and searched entirely on-device, then attached to any chat from its tools menu. Your files never leave your Mac.
- Standing Agents — Set an agent to run on a recurring schedule and have its latest results waiting for you.
- Roundtable Listen mode — Hear a multi-agent discussion read aloud, with a distinct voice per agent.
- Weekly Memory Digest — A private, on-device "What I've learned about you" summary, refreshed about once a week.
- One-Tap Boost — Have the model critique and refine its last answer in a single click.
- AI Judge for Model Comparison — Compare two models side by side and let an AI judge score which response was better.
- MCP Server Directory — Browse and add Model Context Protocol servers from a built-in, one-click directory.
- Decision Records — Key decisions from group discussions are saved as durable memories.
- Image Recipes — Apply chained image-editing steps to any generated image in one click.
- Monthly Spend Budget — Set a budget and track usage in Usage & Costs.
Design & Interface
- Redesigned three-column layout — a native, Mail-style source list → items → detail, with Settings now in the sidebar.
- Liquid Glass chat bubbles — chat and group-discussion bubbles now use Apple's Liquid Glass material, tinted per participant, in both light and dark.
- Full Light / Dark / System theme support — the whole window, all three columns and the title bar, switch together and stay consistent.
- A refreshed, more professional look throughout: a deliberate accent color, calmer empty states, and a refined splash screen.
Fixes
Data & sync
- Fixed an issue where updating from an earlier version with iCloud sync on could fail to open your data on launch, temporarily falling back to a blank in-memory session (your real data on disk was never at risk).
- Fixed data loss when regenerating a chat response, and a consent-screen bypass.
- Fixed data loss when interrupting or resuming a Group Discussion, and discussions occasionally assigning agents random playbook roles.
- Fixed a gap where a Workflow's pipeline progress could fail to persist.
Memory & Knowledge Bases
- Fixed Memory on Mac: the on-device summarization bridge was never actually wired up, plus deduplication and search bugs.
- Fixed Knowledge Base documents creating duplicate chunks on re-import, and a dangling attachment reference left behind after deleting a base.
- Fixed the Weekly Memory Digest silently failing to generate when its first-choice provider errored instead of trying a fallback.
Agents, Group Discussions & MCP
- Fixed Group Discussion voting cancellation, a turn-limit (maxTurns) bug, and per-agent tool assignment.
- Fixed the agent editor silently swapping a selected model, a duplicate model-list fetch, and a missing "Tools" section on Mac.
- Fixed MCP server environment variables (API keys, etc.) not reliably surviving save/reload, and the MCP Directory's "already installed" detection.
Interface
- Fixed the theme selection (System/Light/Dark) not fully applying to every pane, and made all three columns plus the title bar one consistent flat sheet in both themes.
- Fixed a Knowledge Base view getting "stuck" in the detail column after switching sections.
- Fixed chat auto-titles that could echo the conversation instead of summarizing it.
- Fixed malformed output when a sandboxed JavaScript tool hit a syntax error.
- Numerous smaller alignment, color, and stability fixes.
Known Limitations
- On-device (local) AI models require Apple Silicon. Cloud providers (bring-your-own-key) work on any supported Mac; the local MLX models do not run on Intel Macs.
- Standing Agents run when the app is open (macOS has no background scheduler equivalent to iOS); they fire on launch and on their schedule while the app is running.
- Knowledge Base ingestion is optimized for text-based PDFs, Markdown, and plain text.
Version 1.0.1
Initial public release of Team AI for Mac.