Changelog: Agents At Work

September 6, 2026

Agents At Work on Linux

Linux support, alpha. The same bridge to your phone, now for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, and any other systemd distribution. There is no app: a background service does what the Mac app does, and one command, aaw, covers sign-in, pairing, and sessions. Install with curl -fsSL https://agentsatwork.app/install-linux.sh | bash.
Runs headless. Sessions stay bridged after you close the SSH window or log out, which makes a home server or a cloud VM a fine place to leave an agent working overnight.
Sign in from any browser. A headless box has no browser, so aaw login shows a one-time code that you enter on agentsatwork.app/link-linux from any device, then prints the QR code for the phone right in the terminal.
Plain claude, codex, gemini, grok, or cursor-agent in a project folder starts a bridged session, exactly as on the Mac. aaw start <folder> --agent <name> is the explicit form, and a second agent on the same folder runs alongside the first.
Mac and Linux side by side. A Linux machine shows up next to your Macs on the phone. Personal covers one computer, Pro up to five, in any mix.
Local models on Linux too. aaw start ~/proj --agent ollama --model qwen2.5 runs a session on a local Ollama model, no terminal involved, controlled from the phone like on the Mac.
Signed releases. The Linux installer and aaw update verify every release against the Agents At Work signing key before installing, on top of the checksum.
Also on the Mac: the terminal integration now covers cursor-agent, so a Cursor session started from a terminal is bridged like the others.

September 6, 2026

Sessions show "Ready" when they are ready

Fixed a finished session still showing as "Running" on your phone and in the Mac's session list until its next turn. The notifications that follow each reply were resetting the status a moment after it had been marked ready.
Fixed sessions failing to start after the Mac restarts. The first session after a reboot stopped at the keep-awake step and never launched the agent. Starting a second session worked, which is why it was easy to miss.
Checking an agent's version no longer starts a session. With the terminal integration enabled, codex --version, claude --help, or a script calling an agent in print mode could quietly start a full bridge session in the current folder. Only interactive launches start one now.

September 5, 2026

Messages from your phone always arrive, whole

Fixed a message from your phone occasionally never reaching the agent while the feed showed it as sent. The bridge now confirms delivery before showing your message as sent, retries on a hiccup, and tells you in the feed if it could not get through so you know to send it again.
Long and multi-line messages arrive intact. A long answer with several paragraphs could reach the agent as just its last line. Messages are now handed to the agent as one block, on Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, and Cursor.
A message sent while the agent is showing you a question now waits until you have answered it, instead of being typed into the question.
Removing an Ollama session on the Mac now asks first, the same way stopping any other session does.
Fixed "restart" from your phone starting a fresh conversation instead of resuming, for projects whose folder path contains an underscore, a dot, or a space.
Agent sessions you start outside the app no longer show up in it. A Claude, Codex, or Gemini session launched from an IDE or a plain terminal could appear on your phone as a stray project, or write into a real project's feed.
Fixed push notifications silently not being sent on some Macs, depending on which Python the system had installed. The bridge now always uses its own bundled Python for them.
Fixed the Mac being kept awake after all sessions had stopped, when two sessions had been started at the same moment.
Fixed restarting a stopped session while a second agent was still running on the same folder: the restart could quietly land on the running agent instead, so the new session never appeared and messages went to the wrong agent.

September 2, 2026

Run a second agent on the same project

Open Codex alongside Claude on the same folder, or any other pair: one agent developing while another reviews, or a second agent picking up when the first hits its usage limit. Start Session with a different agent on a folder that already has one running, and the Mac asks whether to open it alongside or switch to the one already there. Each session gets its own terminal, its own feed, its own notifications, and its own Stop button.
Works from the terminal too. Typing codex in a folder where Claude is running now starts a separate Codex session. Previously it dropped you into Claude's window and confused the bridge about which agent was running.
Ollama can run next to another agent on the same folder. Before, starting Ollama on a folder with a running session quietly took over that session's connection to your phone.
The session list groups sessions by folder, with the agent named on each row when a folder has more than one.
Two folders with the same name in different places no longer collide; the second one is told apart by its parent folder.
On your phone, sessions on the same project sit together, titled by the project folder, each with its agent badge, so a project running Claude and Codex reads as one project with two agents rather than two unrelated entries.
Read-aloud skip now jumps to the next sentence instead of a fixed number of seconds, which kept landing mid-sentence.
Fixed a stale "stopping" spinner that could appear on a Mac session you had stopped and then started again.

August 30, 2026

Fewer ways to lose track of what your agent is doing

Tapping a notification on Android could close the app instead of opening the session it was about. It now opens the right session, and Back returns to that Mac's session list instead of jumping all the way out to your list of computers.
Your Mac now tells you when an agent is waiting and your phone is silent. If your phone is in Focus or Do Not Disturb, a push notification can be held back, so an agent could sit waiting for your approval without you noticing. The Mac app now shows a notification and flashes its menu bar icon if a question goes unanswered. Set the delay, or turn it off, from the menu (Alert If Waiting).
A heads-up when the connection to Claude is struggling. When the connection drops repeatedly, Claude retries on its own, but your phone showed nothing but "working…", which looked identical to a long task. You now get one notification when it's genuinely struggling, not one per retry. No action needed unless it keeps failing.
Messages sent to a stopped session no longer disappear. The message box on your phone used to let you type and send to a session that had already stopped, with nothing running to receive it. A stopped session now shows "Session stopped" with a Start Session button instead.
Stopping a session on the Mac now asks first, so a stray click can't end a running session. Also fixed a rare problem where the Mac app could freeze and start using a lot of CPU after stopping one.
Delete an Ollama session from your phone. This used to require going to your Mac. Long-press the session on iPhone, or use the ⋮ menu on Android.

August 29, 2026

Clearer messages when Claude's connection drops or your sign-in expires

A dropped connection, an expired sign-in, or a usage limit could previously show up in your feed as a raw, technical error message, or not reach your phone at all.
These now show a plain message explaining what happened and what to do next — for example, whether it's a brief connection issue you can just retry, or something that needs you to sign back in on your Mac.

August 29, 2026

Fixed a type of multiple-choice question that never reached your phone

Some of Claude's multiple-choice questions — the ones that show a preview next to each option — weren't recognized by the bridge at all, so they never reached your phone, even with mobile mode turned on.
These now show up and can be answered from your phone like any other question.

August 20, 2026

Formatted text in the expanded message view on iPhone

Tapping "Expand" on a long response now renders headings, lists, tables, code blocks, and links properly, matching what you already see on Android and in the regular conversation feed — previously it showed raw formatting characters instead.
Read-aloud now switches back to formatted text as soon as you pause, not just when you stop.

August 20, 2026

Fixed a session that could silently stop responding

In rare cases, the background bridge process for a session could get stuck internally and stop delivering messages, while still appearing to be running normally.
The bridge now watches for a message that isn't getting through and automatically restarts the affected session's connection within a couple of minutes, with no action needed on your end.

August 19, 2026

Fixed stopped sessions still showing as active on your phone

Closing a session on your Mac — or its terminal window closing any other way — wasn't always updating its status, so it could keep showing as active on your phone indefinitely, including a stuck "is working" indicator on iOS and Android.
Fixed a separate case where a reply could finish on your Mac but never reach your phone, after the bridge had been running for a long stretch without a restart.
The bridge now double-checks every session's status in the background and corrects it within a couple of minutes if anything gets out of sync.

August 16, 2026

Fixed a feed mix-up when switching sessions from a notification on iPhone

Fixed a bug where tapping a notification for one session while viewing a different session's feed could leave the old session's messages and badge on screen instead of switching to the new one.

August 15, 2026

Cursor support added

Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Grok are now joined by a fifth agent: Cursor (Anysphere).
Cursor sessions show up in the mobile app with their own color-coded badge, the same push notifications and one-tap approvals as the other four agents.

August 15, 2026

Fixed messages from your phone silently failing to reach a long-running session

Fixed a bug where, after a session had been running for several days, messages sent from your phone could stop reaching your Mac — while replies from your agent kept arriving normally, making it easy to miss until nothing happened after you sent something.
The bridge now automatically refreshes its connection in the background on a regular schedule, and cleans up more reliably after a restart, so this shouldn't need a manual fix going forward.

August 9, 2026

Answered questions now stay in your conversation

Fixed a bug where, after you answered a question from your agent, both the question and your answer would disappear from the conversation with no record of what was asked or how you responded.
Fixed a bug where "Auto-approve" could silently pick the wrong answer on a question with more than a simple Yes/No choice. Auto-approve now only answers genuine Yes/No prompts automatically and still asks you for anything else.

August 9, 2026

Fixed a navigation bug on iPhone

Fixed a bug where opening a session from a notification, then tapping Back, took you to the list of computers instead of back to that computer's sessions.

August 9, 2026

Fixed a bug where a background task update could show up as a chat message

Fixed a bug where, after Claude finished a task running in the background, an internal status update could appear in your conversation feed as if it were a real message.

August 6, 2026

Fixed a bug where starting a new Claude session could fail silently

Fixed a bug where starting a Claude Code session for certain projects could exit immediately with no explanation, instead of starting normally.

August 6, 2026

Faster message sending and better formatting on Android

Sending a message now appears in the conversation instantly, matching the iPhone app.
Long agent responses opened full-screen now show proper formatting, headings, bold text, and code blocks, instead of plain text.

July 5, 2026

Session reliability fixes across Claude, Gemini, and Ollama

Fixed a bug where a new Ollama session's conversation window wouldn't update live until you closed and reopened it.
The session window now shows whether that session is actually running, with a one-tap restart if it's stopped — instead of looking active when it wasn't.
Fixed a bug where Claude could occasionally show an unrelated usage notice instead of its actual reply.
Fixed a bug where sending a message from the Mac's session window could unexpectedly switch the session into mobile mode.
Fixed a bug where Gemini's replies could take up to a couple of minutes to reach your phone or the session window.

July 5, 2026

Ollama session reliability fixes

Fixed a bug where an Ollama session could fail to start entirely due to a missing file in the app bundle.
Fixed a bug where a running Ollama session wouldn't show up in the Mac app's session list, even though it was reachable from your phone.
Fixed a bug where restarting an Ollama session could clear the conversation shown in the session window until it was reopened.

July 4, 2026

Fixed a startup bug affecting some fresh Mac installs

Fixed a bug where the Mac app could get stuck showing a plain yellow window at launch instead of the menu bar icon, with no way to sign in.
Fixed a bug where a fresh install could fail to start a session with a missing-dependency error.

June 29, 2026

Run local AI models from your phone, Ollama is here

Ollama is now a first-class agent in Agents At Work. Install Ollama on your Mac, pick a model, and control it from your iPhone or Android phone exactly like you would Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Grok, with live feed, push notifications, and one-tap replies.
Nothing leaves your desk. Your prompts go phone → your Mac → your local model → back to your phone. No third-party API, no per-query cost, no data sent to anyone's cloud. Ideal for private documents, sensitive projects, or anyone who just wants to keep things local.
Two modes depending on the model. Any Ollama model works in Chat mode for conversation. Models that support tool use (qwen2.5, qwen2.5-coder, qwen3) unlock Agentic mode; the model can read and write files, run shell commands, and complete multi-step tasks on your Mac while you're away from it.
Always asks before acting. In Agentic mode, the model pauses and asks your approval before running any destructive command, such as deleting a file, overwriting one, or running a shell script. You get the prompt on your phone as a tap-to-approve card, or inline in the session window on Mac. You can approve once or for the whole session.
Works while your Mac is asleep. As long as your Mac is plugged in and connected to the network, Ollama keeps responding to prompts from your phone even with the lid closed.
Start from your phone. If your Ollama session is stopped, you can restart it directly from the mobile app, no need to go back to the Mac.

June 26, 2026

Session feed window for Mac

A new window in the macOS app shows the live conversation with any active agent session, so you can follow what your agent is doing without keeping a terminal in view.
You can send prompts to your agent directly from the window using the text bar at the bottom (⌘↩ to send), without switching to the terminal.
The window includes a search bar to filter the conversation by keyword, and a clear button to wipe the display without affecting the session log on disk.
Session feed windows now appear in ⌘Tab while open and support ⌘` for cycling between multiple open sessions.

June 21, 2026

Restarting or clearing a session now actually clears your history

Typing /clear in the Claude Code terminal now deletes that conversation's history from our servers, not just your phone's screen — previously it stuck around in the cloud even though Claude had already forgotten it.
Sending /restart from your phone now clears it the same way, so the new session starts with a genuinely clean slate instead of stale history sitting in the cloud.

June 21, 2026

More prompts now reach your phone

Claude Code's plan-approval confirmation (the multi-option "Would you like to proceed?" menu) now reliably reaches your phone — previously it could fail to show up on mobile entirely.
Claude Code's interactive question prompts now show up on your phone as tappable question cards too, not just the standard approve/deny prompts.
Fixed Codex hooks silently breaking after a recent Codex update deprecated a config flag the bridge relied on.
Fixed a spurious "usage updated" notification appearing on your phone every time a session restarted on the Mac, even with no real usage change.

June 20, 2026

Agents At Work is public

The iPhone and Android apps are now publicly available, no more invite or beta enrollment needed. Download on the App Store or Google Play.
The macOS companion app remains a direct download, no app store required.

June 12, 2026

Grok support added

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI are now joined by a fourth agent: Grok (xAI).
Grok sessions show up in the mobile app with their own color-coded badge, the same push notifications and one-tap approvals as the other three agents.

May 30, 2026

End-to-end encryption

Conversation content, prompts, responses, tool-call summaries, and project paths are now encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they ever leave your Mac.
The encryption key is exchanged automatically during the QR scan that links your phone, no extra setup step.
Available on both iOS and Android.