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CLI v0.245.0, Desktop v0.202.0: Chrome cookie import, folder links in the Files panel, voice dictation answers, and CLI and app fixes

Published Oct 20, 2026 (). Newer: CLI v0.247.0, Desktop v0.204.0: PDF preview rendering, Environment session grouping, Files panel speed, and CLI and app fixes (Oct 22, 2026)

Changelog

CLI v0.245.0, Desktop v0.202.0: Chrome cookie import, folder links in the Files panel, voice dictation answers, and CLI and app fixes

New features - Chrome cookie import - The built-in browser can import your Chrome cookies on macOS, so you stay signed in to your sites - Folder links in chat - Clicking a folder path in Droid's message now opens the Files panel and reveals that folder Improvements - Voice dictation answers - Droid's questions now take a dictated answer, and the dictation level meter has a new design - Remote session footer - The footer now separates a remote session's location from its branch with a dot - Thinking label shimmer - The shimmer on the thinking label now lines up with the text it covers Bug fixes - MCP tools with union inputs - An MCP tool whose input schema uses a top-level union now works instead of failing - Blocked request errors - A refused request now shows a readable message instead of an empty error - Saved project in New Session - New Session now shows your saved project right away instead of waiting for your computers to load - Resuming remote sessions - Resuming a remote session no longer delays your messages while it loads that machine's scheduled runs - Reserved MCP server names - Adding an MCP server under a reserved name now reports an error instead of saving nothing - Wiki repository URL matching - The wiki commands now find a repository's wiki when its URL is written in another form - Plugin MCP server paths - A plugin's MCP server now resolves its plugin folder instead of reporting an unset variable - Newly added GitHub repositories - Repositories added to your GitHub connection now show up in the repository picker - Linux in-app updates - Updating the desktop app on Linux now unpacks the release instead of failing - Stuck background commands - Droid no longer keeps waiting on a command whose process has already exited - Compaction notice on reopen - Reopening a running session no longer adds compaction notices that were never shown live - Composer focus after dictation - The chat box takes focus again when dictation ends, so Enter sends your message - Force restart during resume - Forcing a restart on a computer now works while that computer is still resuming - Background process shortcut - Pressing down now reaches background processes once a session's Droids have finished - Crash with many Droids - Resuming a session with many Droids no longer crashes the terminal interface