§ Changelog

What's new in OpenHive

Product updates, new features, and improvements. Sourced from GitHub releases.

v0.2.29latestminor

Instagram Skill, Credit Top-Up & Colony Data Hardening

Instagram joins the outbound channels with a guided messaging skill, subscribers get an inline credit top-up prompt, and a deep round of colony-data hardening ends the NFS lock contention that stalled the UI under load.

Features

  • Instagram skill — guided Instagram DM messaging joins the outbound toolkit, with messagability checks
  • Credit top-up prompt for subscribers — paid users can top up credits inline without leaving the flow
  • Onboarding tutorial refresh

Improvements

  • Single-flight cached tracker.db snapshots — many concurrent colony readers collapse to one shared copy instead of stampeding the NFS volume
  • HTTP handlers isolated on a dedicated thread pool with VM-scaled verdict thresholds

Bug Fixes

  • Colony data 500s eliminated — the read path skips redundant DB initialization and snapshots the tracker DB with a plain copy plus immutable reads, ending the NFS + WAL storm
  • 404 request spam silenced
  • Colony push finalize hardened against the undici header-timeout on slow connections
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v0.2.28minor

Resumable Colony Upload, X Messaging & Referral Links

A reliability and outbound release — colony uploads become chunked and resumable with a live progress bar, X (Twitter) messaging ships default-on with dedup, and referral links plus an archived-tasks view land in the desktop.

Features

  • Referral link — share a personal invite link from inside the app
  • Archived tasks list — completed work moves into its own archived view
  • CRM human CRUD — manually create, edit, and delete CRM records from the data grid
  • Chunked resumable colony upload — large colony pushes resume after interruptions, with a progress bar and a dedup guard
  • X (Twitter) messaging default-on — the X DM skill ships enabled, with message deduplication
  • LinkedIn post-reactor scripts improved — cleaner sourcing of everyone who engaged with a post

Improvements

  • Browser bridge LRU tab reaper — idle agent tabs are discarded before the OS memory limit can kill the session
  • Agent-controlled tabs capped at 3 (down from 12) with event-driven reaping to hold memory steady

Bug Fixes

  • Colony push finalize uses Electron net.fetch to escape the undici header-timeout on slow uploads
  • Chunked uploads stage on local disk instead of the NFS volume
  • Session event log self-heals a broken write handle
  • Pending open tool-call conflict resolved
  • Image generation restricted to the low preset to control cost and latency
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v0.2.27minor

CRM Data Grid, Image Generation & Org Chart

A full CRM data grid lands with Kanban boards, granular saved views, and drag-and-drop org-chart management for your queens. Queens can now generate images inline, and X (Twitter) messaging scripts join the outbound toolkit.

Features

  • CRM data grid — browse contacts in a spreadsheet-style grid that defaults to a Kanban board view
  • Kanban boards — lazy-rendered columns, drag cards between stages, and per-column refresh caching
  • Granular table views — save multiple default views per table with custom column order and sizing
  • Horizontal scrolling data grid with Prev/Next paging for wide tables
  • Smart URL cells — links inside table cells render and open cleanly
  • Org chart — drag-and-drop queen positioning, a leader catalog, and persisted layout
  • Image generation — generate images inline from chat via a preset chip, with actions to save or reuse
  • Image generation credit reporting surfaces the cost of each render
  • X (Twitter) messaging scripts — an outbound DM playbook for X joins the skill catalog
  • Name downloaded PDFs from the response content instead of a generic filename
  • Profile & settings surfaced above Inbox in the account menu

Improvements

  • Deferred tool result support — long-running tools stream results back without blocking the agent loop
  • Live tool report refined for clearer in-progress tool state
  • Tool breaker exemption so trusted tools are not tripped by the circuit breaker
  • Queen message prompt refinements for cleaner outbound copy

Bug Fixes

  • Credentials self-heal continues after the initial land via a reactive heartbeat, not just once
  • configureRemoteLlm self-heals with a retry-coalesced backoff loop
  • Unreadable-credentials state self-heals instead of trapping the runtime read-only
  • New tool migration and collect-result handling hardened
  • Image generation capped to the low preset to control cost and latency
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v0.2.26patch

Pinned Colonies & Sign-In Self-Healing

A stabilization release focused on colony reliability — pinned colonies now render even when the local runtime or VM is unavailable, the sign-in race that could strand users at zero colonies self-heals, and account switching is now atomic.

Features

  • Free colony creation — spin up a colony on the free tier without a plan upgrade
  • Global DB UX — shared CRM database surfaced with a cleaner interface across colonies
  • LinkedIn key support in the credentials flow
  • Non-blocking home message so the new-chat screen paints instantly
  • Carry queen ID when reusing a prompt from the input box

Improvements

  • Improved empty-state placeholder on the home screen
  • PostHog event tracking coverage expanded
  • Dynamic tool loading so tools register without a runtime restart

Bug Fixes

  • Self-heal the sign-in race that could leave users stranded at zero colonies
  • Render pinned colonies on every colony fetch regardless of VM state
  • Show pinned colonies even when the local runtime is unavailable
  • Atomic account switching — no more half-switched state between accounts
  • Rebind sandbox ID on a stale-ID 502 from the VM proxy
  • Ignore cookies bleeding in from the website session
  • Colony message display correctness
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v0.2.25minor

Skill Capsules, Reactive LinkedIn & Hive Inbox

Skill capsules land in the command bar, LinkedIn outbound goes fully reactive, and a unified Hive Inbox brings every reply into one place. The Chrome Extension hits 1.7 with a glowing browser-control indicator and animated status.

Features

  • Skill capsules — type / in the chat bar to browse and attach skills inline, or pick them from the manual skill picker
  • Reactive LinkedIn outbound — outbound campaigns update in real time as the agent works through the connection list
  • Hive Inbox — unified inbox surfaces every LinkedIn, email, and colony reply in one panel
  • Chrome Extension 1.7 — glowing browser-control ring shows live agent activity; animated status indicator in the extension badge
  • Activated browser status — desktop shows a live indicator when the extension has control of the browser
  • Triggers refactor — cleaner trigger configuration with better rule composability
  • Global DB — shared CRM database accessible across all colonies and queens
  • 1,012 integrations — 866 new brand logos added to the integrations catalog
  • Home page prompt cards — curated prompts surfaced on the new-chat home screen
  • Apollo.io credential card — Apollo surfaces in the credentials panel with official brandmark

Improvements

  • LinkedIn skills reorganized into a cleaner skill hierarchy; delegation skill renamed for clarity
  • Colony header redesigned with tighter layout and improved colony-switching UX
  • Sentinel logic improved — fewer false positives; sentinel now connects directly to Hive Inbox for reply events
  • Default queen skills pre-loaded so queens are ready to work without manual skill selection
  • Action plan rail is now scrollable on long plans
  • Sidebar update badge simplified — strips pre-release suffix from version display

Bug Fixes

  • Sentinel edge case where a stopped queen could re-enter the loop
  • LinkedIn pending connection outreach playbook — invite-based flow now handles edge cases cleanly
  • Display correct skills list after colony switch
  • Windows agent path resolution on non-standard installs
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v0.2.24minor

Prompt Library, New Queens & Messaging Integrations

A full prompt library lands in the desktop with tags, sort persistence, and a one-click Deploy button. Four new pre-configured queens join the roster including a Lead Generation queen and a Chris Voss outbound persona. Slack and Telegram get guided setup skills.

Features

  • Prompt library — browse, tag, sort, and deploy prompts from a full-screen library modal
  • Prompt tags and sort persistence — tag prompts by type; sort preference saves to your profile
  • Deploy button on prompt cards — launch any prompt directly into a new queen session
  • Lead Generation queen — pre-configured queen for ICP sourcing, enrichment, and outreach
  • Chris Voss outbound persona — never-split-the-difference negotiation framing baked into the default outbound queen
  • New queen profiles — four new queen configurations aligned to GTM, research, ops, and support workflows
  • Slack guided setup skill — step-by-step Slack workspace connection from inside the app
  • Telegram auto-config — Telegram bot setup detects credentials and configures the channel automatically
  • Runtime resource monitor — real-time CPU, memory, and process health visible in the runtime panel
  • File uploader — drag files into chat or attach via the paperclip; file context available to queens and workers
  • Memory initialization from onboarding — queens start with context from the onboarding flow pre-loaded
  • Colony right panel auto-sizes 50/50 alongside the conversation
  • LinkedIn inbox listing — script surfaces all LinkedIn DM threads for the inbox pipeline
  • Global CRM database — shared prospect and contact store across LinkedIn outreach agents

Improvements

  • Prompt library modal is wider with cleaner section groupings and copy-count tracking
  • Home library layout is roomier; CRM placeholder card added for quick access
  • Prompt cards on the home screen with shared PromptCard component
  • Referral banner moved to the top of the new-chat home page
  • Worker stop is now real — stop button immediately halts the active worker loop
  • Session loading uses concurrent futures — colony sessions with many messages load significantly faster
  • Queen order aligned across desktop and runtime rosters
  • Thumb-down feedback submits immediately without a confirmation step

Bug Fixes

  • noVNC initialization, pop-up, and embed token refresh for cloud computer sessions
  • Colony drop-off on unstable remote connections
  • Remote colony heartbeat and runtime lifecycle on reconnect
  • Colony chat typing indicator flickering
  • Windows: terminal exec, PowerShell fallback, and rg (ripgrep) path resolution hardened
  • Colony deduplication on Windows session restore
  • Attachment sessions resolve correctly when clicking a file link
  • Bridge host memory leak on long-running sessions
  • MCP client coroutine wedge on slow tool responses
  • Side panel agent count display after colony switch
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v0.2.23minor

Sentinel Watchdog, BYOK Credentials & PDF Export

Sentinel v1 ships — a per-colony watchdog that detects and recovers stuck queens. Bring-your-own-key credential support lands for every provider. Queens can now export their full responses as PDFs.

Features

  • Sentinel v1 — watchdog monitors each colony for stuck, looping, or parked queens and surfaces an alert with recovery options
  • Per-colony sentinel configuration — set sensitivity and timeout thresholds independently per colony
  • BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) — paste API keys for any supported provider; keys are stored in the agentic credential store and never leave your device
  • Credentials interface — unified credential management panel for all connected providers and tools
  • Download queen response as PDF — any queen message can be exported as a formatted PDF with one click
  • Visible feedback receipt — submitting feedback now shows a confirmation so you know it landed
  • Delete colony with two deletion modes — safe delete (preserves logs) and force delete (full wipe)
  • Colony name conflict resolution — duplicate name is caught on creation with a rename prompt
  • Premium model toggle — routes the active Queen to the highest-tier frontier model available on your plan
  • Prompt library section sort dropdowns and copy-count tracking

Improvements

  • Sentinel interface refined — status is clearer and the alert action menu is more discoverable
  • Cloud Computer panel opens as a native floating window instead of an embedded panel
  • Scheduler productized as a first-class feature with its own configuration surface
  • Hive Vision model integrated for screenshot and browser-content understanding
  • LLM config refactored into a separate module — faster provider switching, cleaner defaults
  • Premium model support wired into the Hive provider for runtime-side routing

Bug Fixes

  • Doom loop: queen no longer parks itself with an unhelpful "waiting for input" nudge mid-task
  • Colony folder open disabled for VM colonies (folder is remote, not local)
  • Credential pop-up rendering on first open
  • Default LLM model names normalized across providers
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v0.2.22patch

Cloud Computer Window & Agentic Credentials

Quick follow-up to v0.2.21 — cloud computer becomes a resizable native window, the scheduler gets a polished UI, and agents gain a secure credential store for tool auth.

Features

  • Cloud Computer as a native window — the VM panel detaches into a resizable, moveable OS window
  • Agentic credential store — agents securely access OAuth tokens and API keys without surfacing secrets in prompts
  • Scheduler UI — schedule agent tasks with a dedicated configuration panel; recurring schedules persist across restarts

Improvements

  • Hive Vision wired into the default model stack for browser-screenshot understanding
  • LLM config modularized — separate config file per provider makes custom model routing easier
  • Colony chat file serving stabilized for large file transfers

Bug Fixes

  • Default model names corrected for all providers after the litellm config refactor
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v0.2.21minor

Cloud Colony, Paged Chat & LinkedIn Premium Skills

A one-click cloud computer for any colony, paged chat that stays smooth across thousands of messages, and a deeper LinkedIn skillset — including post-reactor scanning that powers the Engagement → Outreach loop and Sales Nav Premium scripts.

Features

  • Open Cloud Computer — one-click handoff from a colony to a cloud agent runtime
  • Colony cloud interface redesigned with cleaner tab organization and an empty-tab instruction state
  • LinkedIn Premium scripts — Sales Navigator-aware sourcing, ICP scoring, and InMail support
  • New skill: scan post reactors — surfaces every engager on your posts for the personalized-DM loop
  • Paged loading of chat — colony sessions with thousands of messages stay smooth on first paint
  • Task list by session + task pivot for colony — queens reason over the work timeline, not a flat log
  • Worker seq — explicit ordering across worker batches
  • Always-enabled system tools — file ops, scheduling, and bridge controls available without opt-in
  • Credit daily allowance + per-cycle / monthly accounting
  • Side-panel tab hand-over notifications — the browser extension and desktop hand context back cleanly
  • Colony prompts now bind a tracker path so queens always know where work plans live
  • Default-hide runtime logs for a cleaner first-run experience
  • Migration-by-app-version so older state upgrades quietly when you bump versions

Improvements

  • Bridge_host lifecycle hardened — owner-PID tracking, pre-spawn, parallel shutdown
  • Bridge reports desktop liveness directly via PID check (no more stale "is the app alive?" guesses)
  • Side panel surfaces agent count instead of overclaiming Hive state
  • Colony queen's tool budget loosened — queens can plan more aggressively without throttling
  • Smoother chat scrolling + overflow polish across panels
  • Tracker reminders improved — fewer false-positive nudges
  • Suppress idle nudge on a normal turn completion

Bug Fixes

  • Windows installation script reliability
  • Workers no longer get stuck loading on long colony switches
  • Colony chat pagination recovers correctly after compaction
  • Per-cycle credit calls correctly compute monthly credits
  • Adapt to non-premium LinkedIn accounts; already-messaged InMail skipped cleanly
  • pdf_read fails fast on bad files instead of hanging the runtime
  • Compaction context split no longer drops mid-session memory
  • Active bridge reconnects after extension disconnects
  • False alerts on transient health signals silenced
  • SVG renderer no longer drops portrait glyphs on first paint
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v0.2.19minor

Colony Cloud Sync & File Attachments

Colonies move to cloud-backed state — pin to your account, sync across devices. Attachments unify across workers and the app handles file open + attach end-to-end.

Features

  • File attach + open — drop files into chat, open links straight from results
  • Unified attachment interface across all workers
  • Colony remote APIs — colonies persist server-side and sync across devices
  • Pin colony to account — your colonies follow you, not the machine
  • Deep-link upgrade CTA jumps straight to the billing plan picker
  • App version exposed in the runtime for support + debugging

Improvements

  • Queen's latest reply pinned to the input on colony switch — no lost context
  • Colony names auto-translate "-" to "_" on creation for clean slugs

Bug Fixes

  • Colony runtime status no longer goes stale
  • Scheduler reliability fixes
  • Queen ID correctly assigned during colony creation
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v0.2.17minor

Live Debugger & Gemini 3.5 Flash

Big colony UX pass — the debugger now sees tools as they run, new agent loop states surface park reasons, and Gemini 3.5 Flash joins the worker model lineup.

Features

  • Gemini 3.5 Flash available as a worker model
  • Live debugger — see every tool a worker invokes in real time
  • New agent loop states with park-reason surfacing in the debugger
  • After-OAuth tool selection — pick the connected tool right after sign-in
  • Real-time OAuth status updates without a refresh
  • Colony panel inline rename + worker count display
  • New-chat home iterations; walkthrough now lands on the home view

Improvements

  • Queen profile drawer: avatar loading + race-condition fixes
  • Initial message loading and worker layout overhaul
  • Colony creation refactor with cleaner initial state
  • Credential management consolidated — removed web-side credential flow

Bug Fixes

  • Worker bubble status no longer flickers
  • LLM key resolver picks the correct provider key
  • Forked sessions load correctly
  • Resolved sign-in-through-web race where runtime stopped/started repeatedly
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v0.2.15patch

Lazy Loading & Session Stability

Tighter chat lazy-loading, cleaner session restoration, and a better debugger.

Features

  • New-task rendering with per-session task lists
  • Respect user manual stop — workers no longer auto-resume
  • Open external links in the regular browser
  • Onboarding CTA on the final walkthrough step
  • Debugger improvements for tool inspection

Improvements

  • Don't snap chat to bottom while scrolling up to lazy-load
  • Cleaner PostHog event tracking

Bug Fixes

  • Lazy load no longer swallows incoming messages
  • Session loading regressions resolved
  • Sequential usage counter corrected
  • Windows build dependencies fixed
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v0.2.14minor

Action Plans & Cloud Sync

Action plans land in the chat panel, the queen profile drawer gets refinements, and runtime now passes JWT for cloud sync.

Features

  • Action plan display + lazy loading in the chat panel
  • Colony chat connected to the debugger
  • Queen decommission flow + profile drawer fixes
  • JWT passed to runtime spawn env for cloud_sync
  • Browser bridge moved to port 14829
  • Reminder added to the debug panel
  • Chat UI auto-expands with content

Improvements

  • Rendering optimized across the chat panel
  • User response formatting cleaned up
  • Removed legacy colony action plan template

Bug Fixes

  • Chat panel gap regression
  • Action plan rendering glitches
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v0.2.13patch

Vision Model Upgrade

Vision model bumped, colony creation popup polish, and preference loading on init.

Features

  • Updated vision model
  • Refreshed colony create popup
  • Preference loading runs on init

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed /me call on runtime restart
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v0.2.12patch

Credentials & Queen DM Pipeline

Credential management lands and the queen direct-message loading pipeline gets a rewrite.

Features

  • Credentials management

Improvements

  • Improved queen DM loading pipeline
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v0.2.11minor

Hive-Swarm Default & Colony Creation

Workers default to hive-swarm, colony creation gets a dedicated popup, and streaming gains token-expiry handling.

Features

  • Colony create popup
  • Streaming token-expire handling
  • Record user feedback inline
  • Default worker model set to hive-swarm
  • Colony event status surfaced in the UI
  • Colony session loading
  • Hide queen tasks within colonies

Improvements

  • Context monitoring added
  • Cleaner cancel handling for usage and LLM tracking
  • Removed legacy colony profile tab

Bug Fixes

  • Added "is compacting" status to surface state correctly
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