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What’s new · Asyncat 0.9

Release notes · v0.9.0-beta.1

Agents that work while you don’t.

Cats that keep working while you’re away, connectors to your other apps, voice and pictures, one page for everything agents make, and a command sandbox that needs no virtual machine.

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Asyncat after fixing a failing test: the steps it took, under “Worked for”, and its answer
A finished agent run: it ran the tests, read and edited a file, ran them again, and answered.

The story of 0.9

Six big changes.

Agents that keep working when you’re away, reach your other apps, hear and draw, keep what they make in one place, run in a sandbox, and look the same everywhere.

01Cats

Cats keep working while you’re away.

Give a Cat a mission and it wakes on a schedule or when something happens: a new email, a feed item, a changed web page, a file landing in a folder. It works in its own folder, with its own memories and browser profile, inside the limits you set.

  • Schedules and triggers
  • Its own memories, sites, connectors and daily limits
  • Waits in your inbox and its chat when it needs your OK
Meet the Cats
Cats page with three Cats and their latest results
Cats: agents that work on their own, each with a mission, what wakes it, and what it did last.

02Connectors

Reach your other apps and coding agents.

Add connectors (MCP) from a catalog, a remote server with OAuth sign-in, or a program on this computer, and choose which ones each agent and Cat may use. Hand a chat to Claude Code, Codex, or an Agent Client Protocol agent such as Gemini CLI, Qwen Code or Goose.

  • GitHub, Notion, Linear, Sentry, Supabase, Stripe and more
  • Read-only tools run; others ask first
  • Coding agents answer in the same chat box
About connectors
Settings, Connections, with a connected connector and the catalog
Coding agents page with Claude Code, Codex and an ACP agent

03Voice & images

Talk to it. Let it make pictures.

Listening and speaking run on this computer or through a service you have a key for. Asyncat offers what suits your machine, shows each part’s size, and downloads nothing until you press the button. Pictures come from your graphics card, a ComfyUI you run, or a service.

  • One button to set up, sizes shown first
  • Test the mic and hear a voice before choosing
  • Hands-free voice mode in chats
Set up voice and images
Models, Voice: listening and speaking on this computer, with sizes
Models, Images: the image model and engine offered for this graphics card

04Files

Everything they make, in one place.

One page for the pictures, documents, pages, data and notes agents made, from any project, agent or Cat, with a viewer for each. It also shows what else Asyncat keeps on this computer, how much room each part takes, and frees space after a confirm that names what goes.

  • Made by agents, Uploads, Models, Training, Exports, Logs & caches, System
  • Preview, show in folder, move to Trash
  • Never lists your project folders’ own files
Tour the Files page
Files, with the pictures, documents, pages and data agents made
Files: everything agents made, from any project, agent or Cat, and everything else Asyncat keeps.

05Sandbox

A sandbox, with no virtual machine.

Agent commands run in your operating system’s own sandbox, the way Claude Code and Codex run theirs. They can change files only in the project, can’t read your sign-ins, keys or browser profiles, and never see the API keys you saved. If the sandbox can’t start, every command asks first.

  • Network: Open, Package registries only, or Off
  • Nothing extra to download; full speed
  • bubblewrap on Linux, sandbox-exec on macOS
How the sandbox works
Settings, Privacy and safety: the command sandbox and its network
Privacy & safety: the command sandbox, its network, and the folders commands can’t read.

06Calm

One calm look, everywhere.

Every screen is built from the same colours and controls, with neutral grey Dark and Midnight themes. Settings are simpler, and Personalization asks two plain questions that every chat, Cat and Quick ask follows.

  • Light, Dark, Midnight or System
  • “What should Asyncat know about you?”
  • “How should Asyncat answer?”
Make it yours
Settings, Personalization, with what Asyncat should know and how it should answer
Home screen with pinned chats, projects and recent chats in the sidebar

Also in 0.9

And a lot more.

Smaller changes that make everyday chats faster, clearer and more yours.

Quick ask window with a question and its answer

Quick ask

A small window over any app, from a global shortcut or the tray. The answer streams in right there and is saved as a chat; Cmd/Ctrl+Enter opens it in Asyncat.

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Asyncat after fixing a failing test: the steps it took, under “Worked for”, and its answer

A model per chat

Pick a model under the message box and only this chat changes, so two chats can use different models at once. New chats start with the one you picked last.

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Search finding a word said in a chat, with the sentence around it

Search inside chats

Cmd/Ctrl+K finds a word said deep in a long chat and opens the chat at that message. Pin chats to keep them at the top of the sidebar.

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First-run setup offering a model to run on this computer, with download sizes

First-run setup

Choose a model that fits this computer, with its download size, or a provider. Bring your ChatGPT or Claude chats, and choose how careful Asyncat is.

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An answer with a sortable table and follow-up buttons

Interactive answers

Tables in answers sort, filter and copy as CSV. Answers can end with follow-up buttons, and an agent’s question can come as a short form.

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Training, with what this computer can use and the first step

Train on your style (Labs)

Rate answers 👍 or 👎, then four guided steps train an adapter for a small local model on an NVIDIA graphics card and compare answers with it off and on.

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Models page with the default model for new chats and two providers

New models

GPT-6 (Astra, Sol, Luna) and the Claude 5 family, alongside 35+ providers and local engines including a built-in llama.cpp.

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Memory page with memories marked by project and Cat

Memory you can edit

See whose each memory is, filter by project, agent or Cat, and edit or add your own.

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Update screen with release notes

Updates inside the app

Updates download, get checked against the release checksums, and install from inside the app.

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Temporary chat

A chat that isn’t saved and that Asyncat learns nothing from: no memories, no skill suggestions.

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Learning you control

Instead of learning silently, Asyncat asks “Save this as a skill?” and writes nothing until you pick Save. One switch turns remembering things from chats on or off.

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Small things worth knowing

  • Import chats from ChatGPT and Claude, and your ChatGPT memories
  • Notifications with quiet hours
  • Sites agents never open
  • Export or delete everything
  • Who-answered badges on chats
  • Drop a folder to make a project
  • Browser tabs restored after a restart
  • Our own dropdowns and controls on every page

Your agents, your computer, your rules.

Asyncat 0.9.0-beta.1 for macOS, Windows and Linux. Free and MIT licensed.

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