The familiar desktop returns, with better navigation and more providers

• The desktop app returns to the earlier layout people preferred, with the workspace, chat and context controls back in familiar places.
• Changes brings working-tree changes and review into one workspace. Navigation keeps the selected page and tab together.
• Settings headers and controls stay aligned as you move between categories. Search includes the settings inside each editor.
• Leaving an unsaved editor offers Save, Discard or Stay. MCP drafts include servers you have started adding.
• Move file previews between workspace positions, with keyboard, touch and right-to-left controls.
• Workspace background images fit the available space. Framing controls let you choose which part of the picture stays visible.
• Loading panes show the shape of the content coming next and remember the previous layout.
• Status colors, meters and controls follow the selected theme.

• The desktop composer separates Queue and Steer into distinct controls. Queue holds a message for a separate follow-up turn. Steer keeps its existing behavior of sending a correction at the next model step.
• A queue panel above the composer shows waiting follow-ups and lets you restore them to the draft.
• Stop returns unsent queued prompts and unused steering to the draft, including attachments, while retaining newer text you have typed.
• Queued prompts stay with their original tab. The queue waits while a question, plan decision or review needs attention.
• The latest response keeps its position when streaming finishes. Scrolling up to read keeps your place when the composer changes height.
• Streaming Markdown and code highlighting reuse completed content as a response grows. Decorative animations pause when their surface is hidden or inactive.
• Automatic tab names use the subject of your prompt and ignore placeholder labels.

• Sign in to OpenRouter from your browser with /login openrouter. Its credit balance appears in /usage and the desktop Usage drawer.
• Eight more providers are available: Z.AI Coding Plan, Zhipu Coding Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan, Alibaba Token Plan, Xiaomi MiMo, Kilo Gateway, SiliconFlow and Synthetic. Add a key to show their models in the picker.
• These providers read model lists, context limits and published prices from the live catalog, so catalog updates do not need an Empryo release.
• Cursor models can use their native file and search tools in the workspace, with completed actions shown in the conversation.
• Usage meters show the allowance in the units the provider reports: requests, credits, tokens or dollars. Overage estimates appear separately.
• Keep favorites, return to recent models, and hide models you do not use in the desktop model picker.
• Set reasoning effort separately for orchestration agents, judges, advisors and council seats.

• Choose from ten looks for files in the Genome, including spores, crystals, embers, orbital systems and cell colonies. Each look distinguishes files the agent has read or edited.
• The docked map shows a selected file's branches. Click empty space to clear the selection.
• Reopening a workspace restores its saved code map while the current files are checked. Change cues mark new activity without replaying old edits.
• JavaScript projects receive diagnostics. JSX and TSX files use their own language rules, and diagnostics wait for the complete result.
• TypeScript path aliases resolve exact and wildcard imports separately. Workspace discovery preserves comments, globs and URLs in project configuration.
• File and text search use ripgrep and workspace file discovery. The /fff command and its configuration switch have been removed.
• Code tools can locate callback blocks in test files before indexing completes. Renames and rollbacks update the code map and file views.
• Script budget errors name the operation that used the allowance. The agent can still inspect changed files and roll back its edits after reaching the limit.

• Korean and Russian join the interface languages. Arabic and French translations are complete across the desktop app and TUI, alongside English.
• The selected language applies from startup. Arabic uses right-to-left navigation and layout, with mixed Arabic, English and code displayed in their own direction.
• Counts, dates and plural forms follow the selected language.

• /storage and the desktop Storage drawer list crash checkpoints by session and tab, with their disk usage.
• Reclaim superseded checkpoints while retaining the latest recovery point. Cleanup skips live sessions, and settings let you disable crash checkpoints.
• A page that fails to load offers Retry and a way back to the workspace without closing the rest of the app.
• Background work shuts down with the app, including when the desktop process is force-closed. Long sessions release finished workers and script listeners, with safer memory monitoring.

• CLI and desktop engine builds use Bun 1.4.2 across release targets. Running from source requires Bun 1.4 or newer.
• The desktop app uses Electron 44.3.

• Long turns compact when the next request reaches the model's capacity, with compaction reported in the conversation.
• Cache pre-warming keeps unsent draft text out of the request and cannot execute tools.
• Completed provider-run tools keep their successful result when a later step is interrupted. Repeated reasoning blocks stay separate across turn steps.
• Stacked TUI dialogs remain visible and receive focus independently.
• Tab-menu rename, model selection and split actions work consistently. Browser automation clicks a target once per action.
• An invalid multi-file edit returns an error without freezing the app.
• Linux AppImage updates keep the installed app in place until its replacement is ready. Browser previews restrict local file access to the workspace and folders you open.
• Headless runs enforce repository Cell guards in every mode.

Shoutout to nerminba on GitHub, @artdiffuser on X, for sponsoring Empryo! I build this solo, and your support helps me keep going. Thank you.