Changelog

What's new in Mates

Every feature and fix we ship, newest first. Your mates pick up each release on their own.

Oct 13, 2026

v0.23.0

Dialogs, command palette and empty states

New mate is now two steps: pick a template (Researcher, Builder, Inbox manager, Code reviewer or Blank) with starter instructions, then name it and choose whether it gets email.
Edit mate, delete with type-the-name confirmation, new group chat, put to sleep and the publish share sheet all share one dialog style.
⌘K opens a command palette grouped into Mates, Chats, Actions and Pages. Actions run from it: new routine, turn on email for a mate, put a mate to sleep, or go to any page.
Every empty list and tab has a small drawing and one next step. The computer and Files tabs say plainly when a mate is asleep or can't be reached, and the usage limit message says what happens next.

v0.22.0

Usage shows this month's two meters, spend by mate, spend by day and the most expensive tasks, each with a link to its replay.
Account brings your profile, sign-in methods, sessions, appearance and the danger zone into one page.
Notifications and defaults: choose emails for routine results, approvals, held mail and a daily digest, plus the default sleep time, approval rule and whether tasks are recorded.
Workspace settings: name, default timezone, the email domain's status and a table of published apps with Unpublish. Members and invites are marked as coming soon.

v0.21.0

Activity lists every task on the left and plays the selected one on the right: video, click markers and steps. Filter by mate or show routines only. Links with ?turn= open a task directly.
Inbox works the same way: the list on the left with Needs you, All mail and Held filters, the thread on the right with VERIFIED tags and the approval card.
Edit an email in a full editor before approving it, and turn on email for a mate without leaving the Inbox.

v0.20.0

Home is now Today: a greeting, a quick composer with a mate picker, everything that needs you (approvals, held mail, failed routine runs with Run again), who is working now, what runs next and recent activity.
Mates shows a card per mate with its job, live status, computer state, email address and routine and skill counts, with search and filters.
Routines is a table with the schedule in words, next run, run history dots, email settings, an on/off switch and Run now. A row opens to show its prompt and last runs. The new routine dialog previews the next three runs and reads a custom cron back in words.
Skills opens the selected skill on the right, with checkboxes for which mates have it. Knowledge shows each source as a card, with an Add source dialog for GitHub (deploy key steps included) or a zip upload.

v0.19.0

A Notion-style editor with a / menu, drag handles and an inline formatting bar, reading and writing plain markdown.
Open .md files and MEMORY.md from the Files tab and edit them in place. Changes save when you click away, or with Save. Knowledge files stay read-only.
Skill instructions, routine prompts and the edit-before-approve email body use the same editor.

v0.18.0

The panel beside a chat has four tabs: Overview, Files, Activity and Settings. Overview shows the live computer with Take control and Sleep or Wake, today's tasks and spend, routines with their next run, skills and a preview of the mate's memory.
Activity lists that mate's tasks. Settings edits name, job, instructions, face, email, knowledge and skills in place.
The full-screen computer shows who has control and for how long. Esc releases the keyboard first, then closes. Fit to window, and a collapsed step rail.
Group chats get a To picker in the composer, a divider when one mate hands work to another, and a panel listing members and their roles.

v0.17.0

Each mate can have its own address, like fulfilment-7k2q@agents.usemates.com. Turn it on in Settings.
Mail from senders you have not allowed is held until you release it.
Outgoing email waits for your approval: approve, edit, don't send, or always allow this recipient.
Messages that pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC carry a VERIFIED tag. Forged mail, bounces and autoresponders never reach the mate.

v0.16.0

Every answer that used the desktop has a replay: a 5 fps recording of the mate's screen with click markers and a tick on the scrubber for each step.
Recordings are stored privately, opened through signed links and removed after 90 days.
A mate can publish a port from its computer at its own apps.buildberg.app address. Open, copy or unpublish it from chat.
Files a mate makes are offered as download cards in the conversation, with previews.

v0.15.0

Skills are reusable playbooks: a kebab-case name, a when-to-use description and markdown instructions.
Choose which mates have each skill. Mates can also save a skill themselves when they work out a better way.
Type / in the composer to pick a skill for the next message.
Press the mic to talk: the recording is transcribed into the message box so you can edit it before sending.

Oct 12, 2026

v0.14.0

A calmer theme: white ground, ink type, hairlines, and one yellow signal that only appears where a mate is working or something needs you. Dark mode follows the same rules.
The sidebar lists Home, Inbox with a count of what needs you, and Activity; your mates with a live status line; group chats; the library; and this month's usage.
Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘K to search, ⌘. for the panel, ⌘1 to ⌘9 for your first mates, G I for Inbox and G A for Activity.
The chat header shows what a mate is doing right now, with Stop while it works. Answers carry a work summary with key steps, time and cost, plus inline email approvals and app cards.
The composer records voice, picks skills with /, and turns what you typed into a routine with Repeat on a schedule.

v0.13.0

Repeat on a schedule under any message turns it into a routine.
Run every hour, day, weekday or week at a set time in your timezone, or write a custom cron.
Get an email after every run, only when a run fails, or never. Run now, and the run history dots show what happened.
The new Activity page lists every task with its result, steps, time and cost.

v0.12.0

Connect a repository by owner/repo and branch. Private repos get a deploy key to add on GitHub; until then the source shows Needs key.
Each source is mounted read-only at ~/knowledge/<slug> on the mate's computer.
Choose per mate which sources it can read. Sync status, last synced time and file count are shown on every source.
No repo? Upload a .zip instead.