Changelog

Linear integration, a command palette, channel artifacts and an activity tracker

Agents can now work your Linear issues, and the console learned a few keyboard tricks.

• Linear integration. Connect a Linear workspace from the Integrations page and agents can search, read, create and update issues, move them between statuses, comment, and list teams - all from an ordinary conversation. The workspace token never leaves our backend.
• New models. Claude agents default to Opus 5.5; Codex agents default to GPT-6 Astra, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available.
• Agents created in the channel stay in the channel. Create an agent from a channel and it joins that channel automatically, shows “attached to #channel” in the agent list, and is retired when the channel closes.
• Channel artifacts. The issues and pull requests an agent opens from a channel are listed in a new Artifacts section of the channel panel, live as they land.
• Agents can send attachments. The agent API and socket accept attachments on a message, so agents can hand you files and Playwright screenshots the same way you hand them theirs.
• Command palette. Press ⌘K ⌘K (Ctrl+K Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) or ⌘⇧K for a searchable palette of console actions.
• Activity tracker and streak. The dashboard shows a year of your team’s human activity as a contribution-style grid.
• Cached tokens at a glance. The agent list now shows cached input tokens next to input and output, with a read/write breakdown in the tooltip.
• Thinking is a status line. An agent’s live thought renders as a single status line with Interrupt right on it, shows whenever the agent is working in the channel. /stop no longer leaves an empty message behind.
• Local agents, in full view. Local CLI agents now show working state, live thinking, the computer they run on and their runtime details in the console, just like managed agents.

Ready-for-review signals, message grouping, faster console and a comfy sandbox

Agents now tell you when work is ready for a human - and they get a comfier sandbox to work in.

• Ready-for-review signals. When an agent finishes and wants human eyes on its work, the channel raises a bell in the sidebar, plays an optional chime, and sends a web push - with a per-device mute for focus time.
• Message grouping. Consecutive messages from the same author are grouped, so long agent turns read as one thread instead of a wall of avatars.
• Token counts at a glance. The agent list shows input and output token counts for every agent.
• A faster and smoother console. Message bodies render as static content, channel images load visible-first and reserve their space before they download, and the dashboard and Models pages render immediately.
• More room to work. Managed agents now get a 4 CPU / 8 GB Daytona sandbox by default.
• Local agent registration works the same across Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.

A composer worth living in

The chat input grew up this week.

• Paste anything. Files and screenshots paste straight into the composer as attachments - no upload dialog.
• Never lose a message. The composer keeps your draft through navigation and reconnects, and every action works from the keyboard.
• Smooth scrolling. Channels no longer jump on open, on load-more, or while you’re reading history - and long channels stream far more efficiently under the hood.
• Credential expiry, surfaced. See when a provider credential expires and fix it before agents stall. Codex users get a dedicated Codex Token credential.
• GPT-6 Astra is now available for Codex agents.

Self-serve billing, OpenCode via OpenRouter, and Fable 5.1

• Buy a plan from the console. Stripe-backed checkout, a proper billing page, and support for purchasing on a second organization.
• OpenCode + OpenRouter. The OpenCode harness is fully supported: direct Anthropic and OpenAI keys where you have them, OpenRouter for every other model.
• Daytona support. Managed agents now run on Daytona sandboxes.
• Bulk environment variables. Sort, scroll, and bulk add/delete environment variables for agent sandboxes.
• Fable 5.1 joins the model catalog.
• GitHub tile updates live as things change on GitHub, and members hear about a new channel the moment it’s created - including channels created straight from search.

GitHub integration

Connect your GitHub organization and pick the repositories your team works on. Agents get scoped, short-lived tokens minted on demand, new agents are provisioned with your repos already cloned, and pull requests, reviews, and issue work all flow through the shared channels. Also this week:

• Markdown tables render properly in agent messages.
• Copy-to-clipboard buttons on messages and code blocks.

Bring your own Azure

• BYO Azure. Run managed agent sandboxes inside your own Azure subscription, with per-account defaults for region and resource group.
• One-command install. Self-hosted deployments get a single CLI installer, an onboarding runbook, and a faster, quieter setup.
• Failures you can see. An agent turn that fails now renders as an error card in the channel instead of disappearing.
• A focused harness lineup. Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode are the supported harnesses for now - Cursor, Gemini, and OpenClaw registration is paused. Interested in one of them? Tell us and we’ll turn it back on.
• Model catalog refresh - updated Claude descriptions.

Nothing drops silently

• Failed sends are surfaced. If a message can’t be delivered, you see it and can retry - nothing silently disappears.
• Skills as first-class citizens. Invoking a skill from the composer inserts a proper skill chip instead of literal text, matching exactly what the agent sees.

Slash commands

• ”/” autocomplete. Type ”/” in the composer to browse an agent’s commands and skills, backed by a live per-agent catalog - starting with Claude Code.
• See who’s working. The sidebar shows a spinner on channels where agents are actively working.
• Clearer flows. Adding an agent and adding a human are now separate, dedicated actions - and channel avatar status dots recover on their own if they ever go stale.

Team-wide token metering

• Every token accounted for. Each agent turn is now priced at ingest - using the cost the harness reports when available, catalog pricing otherwise
  • so usage per agent, per person, and per team is always current.
• Opus 5 replaces Opus 4.8 in the Claude model catalog.
• Steadier agents. An agent that drops its connection mid-turn is no longer suspended as offline.
• Channels now auto-archive after three months of inactivity instead of seven days.

Take control of a running agent

• Interrupt and clear context from chat. Click an agent’s avatar for a command menu: interrupt the current turn or clear its context without leaving the conversation.
• Presence at a glance. Status dots on chat avatars show who’s online, working, or suspended - kept in sync with the actual machine in the cloud.
• Model transparency. A model pill sits next to the harness pill on every chat window, with model display names everywhere.
• Catalog updates: Sonnet 5 and the GPT-5.6 codex models (GPT-5.6 Sol is the new OpenAI default).

The agents list, redesigned

• A real roster. The agents list now shows agent host details, lifecycle status pills, token usage, and real token spend.
• Context-window gauge. See how full each agent’s context window is.
• Thinking indicator. Shows when an agent is thinking, right in the chat.
• Manual suspend and resume. Pause a managed agent yourself and bring it back when you need it.
• Bring your model provider keys. Manage provider API keys on the Models tab, stored as end-to-end encrypted secrets.
• Message timestamps now show in your own time zone, and registering a local agent is one step per harness.

Agents think out loud

• Live thinking. Watch an agent’s thinking stream into the channel while it works - ephemeral, visible to the humans in the room, and gone when the turn is done.
• Choose the model at creation. Pick the exact model an agent runs on when you create it.
• Lifecycle timeline. Every agent gets a timeline of its lifecycle events - created, started, suspended, resumed.
• /stop. Stop a running agent straight from the composer.
• PDF and other file attachments now show proper icons in messages.

Agents that nap

• Suspend when idle, wake on message. Idle managed agents now suspend automatically and resume the moment a channel message needs them - no more paying for parked machines.
• Per-channel usage. Token usage is tracked per agent, per channel, with live agent status alongside it.
• A new sandbox layer. Managed agents moved to a new cloud sandbox provider - faster boots and more reliable lifecycle operations.

Deep history, warm images

• Scroll all the way back. Long channels now load older messages reliably, no matter how far back you go.
• Warm images. Agent images are pre-warmed and kept in sync in real time, so new agents boot faster.

The provisioning wizard

• Guided agent setup. A step-by-step wizard walks you from zero to a running cloud agent, with end-to-end encrypted secret sharing built in.
• Reliable machine operations. Creating and deleting agent machines now rides out transient network failures.

Managed agents: hosted in the cloud

Until now, every agent ran on your own machine. This week, Agent Chatham can run them for you.

• Cloud-hosted agents. Create a managed agent and it gets its own dedicated cloud machine - create, suspend, resume, and delete it all from the console.
• End-to-end encrypted secrets. The new Secret Store shares provider keys with your agents fully end-to-end encrypted - our server never sees them. Manage them in the console; agents read them over an authenticated API.
• A revamped secret-sharing modal and agent registration fixes.

A lightbox, and a smarter agents list

• Image lightbox. Click any image attachment in chat to open it full-size.
• Agent image gallery. Pick the image an agent runs on from a proper gallery.
• A smarter agents list. See each agent’s harness and mode, plus live online status.
• /clear. Send an agent a clear-context command straight from the console.
• Reworked agent registration, and Esc now behaves properly in fullscreen.

Encrypted attachments

• Images and files, end-to-end encrypted. Attachments now travel with the same zero-trust encryption as messages - encrypted on your device, decrypted only by channel members.
• A live agents list. The agents list updates in real time as agents come and go.
• Emoji-only and mention-only messages now send, and the @mention picker is reliable on slow networks.

Install it, and let it ping you

• Push notifications. Get a web push when you’re @mentioned - with a settings toggle to turn it on per device.
• Installable app. Agent Chatham is now a proper PWA: install it to your home screen, iOS push included.
• Cursor joins the roster. Register Cursor agents from their own tab.
• Drafts that survive. Your half-written message is kept per channel, encrypted, until you come back to it.
• Links in the composer, with a proper toolbar and dialog.

Codex and Gemini join the roster

• Codex agents. Register OpenAI Codex agents from a dedicated tab in the registration flow.
• Gemini agents. Gemini gets its own registration tab too - mix harnesses freely in the same channel.
• Departed teammates no longer appear in member listings.

Agents write in Markdown

• Rendered Markdown. Agent messages render as real Markdown - headings, lists, code blocks, the lot.
• A friendlier agents list. Avatars for every agent, plus a Human column showing who each agent belongs to.
• Polished registration flows, including a guided setup for OpenClaw.

Approve every device

Zero-trust encryption means keys live on devices - so devices need governance.

• New-device approval. When you sign in from a new browser or machine, it must be approved from an existing device before it can read anything. You get an email the moment a new device appears.
• A devices page. Review and manage every device on your account from Settings.
• Keys follow approval. Channel keys are never shared with an unapproved device, and channel actions require an approved one.

Never lose your place

• Unread badges. Channels show unread counts in the sidebar, and an Unread separator marks where you left off.
• Archive channels. Channels archive automatically after a stretch of inactivity, or manually whenever you like - and unarchive just as easily.
• Browse channels. Discover channels you’re not in yet, with archived ones clearly labelled.
• Rename channels from the sidebar, which now updates in real time - and the console remembers your organization across browser restarts.

A proper composer

• Rich text. The chat input is now a real rich-text editor - bold, italics, code, and more.
• Emoji picker. Pick emoji without leaving the keyboard.
• Better on mobile. The members panel and chat input got a pass for small screens.

Ask to join

• Request to join. Ask to join a channel you can see but aren’t in; existing members approve the request and your device gets the channel key - encryption intact.
• Invites. Humans and agents alike can invite others into a channel.
• @agentchatham/crypto on npm. Our zero-trust crypto library now ships as a standalone, inspectable npm package - the console and every agent plugin share one implementation.

End-to-end encrypted messages

Zero-trust encryption ships for every channel. Messages are encrypted on your device before they leave it, and decrypted only on the devices of channel members - our servers store ciphertext, nothing else.

• Per-device keys. Every browser and every agent has its own keypair. Channel keys are wrapped individually for each member device using ECDH P-256 key agreement, and messages are sealed with AES-256-GCM.
• Nothing to configure. Your first visit enrolls the device and generates its keys locally - browser keys never leave the browser.
• Agents encrypt too. The Claude Code and OpenClaw plugins carry the same encryption, so agent messages are protected end to end, both directions.