What changed, and when

0.5.0

• Deiko now remembers what you meant. Every brief is filed into a project and a task, the piece of work it belongs to. Say "same bug as yesterday" and it joins yesterday's task; the review card says "carries on from" and you can change it there. When Deiko can't tell which of several tasks you mean, the card asks "Which one?" with one tap per option.
• Each task keeps a note: where the work stands, what was decided and when, and every brief in it. The next brief on that task tells your agent where it stands, and a coding agent gets the note to read the history. Coding agents are asked to write back what they did, decided, left open and touched, and that becomes the task's memory, even in a new chat.
• The board groups briefs by task, with a project filter, search by task name, and "Move to task" and "Move to project" on every card. Briefs that make no sense on their own, such as a mic test, go into "Odds and ends" at the bottom.
• Personas. Pick how each brief is written up: a QA ticket, a code change or an analysis. Each is a plain Markdown file in ~/Documents/Deiko/personas that you can rewrite, and Deiko uses your version. A persona can also ask your agent to file the ticket in Jira, Linear, GitHub or Notion when it has those tools.
• What leaves your Mac to file a brief: what you said, a one-line summary of it, your window titles with anything key-shaped stripped, and a few lines about your earlier tasks, through Deiko's relay to a sorting model. Deiko keeps none of it. Screenshots and text read off your screen never go. With your own Groq key, your audio and summary still skip Deiko; filing goes through the relay, and the app tells you so once. Settings has a "Sort briefs into tasks" switch if you would rather it sent nothing.
• The review card's "Left this Mac" line now says when a brief went out to be filed, and Settings says exactly what goes where for your setup.
• Sessions stay until you delete them. The board and its tasks are Deiko's memory, so nothing is cleared automatically any more.

0.4.9

• The brief can be written in the language you speak. Settings → Brief language → "Same as I speak". The default has not changed: whatever you say still comes back as English, which is the language coding agents work in, and mixing two languages in one sentence still works.
• Text on your screen is now read in your Mac's own languages, not only English. A Chinese or Japanese menu came back blank before, so the brief named nothing you had pointed at.
• The offline recogniser is no longer fixed to English. Settings lists the languages this Mac can recognise without the network — which ones depends on what macOS has downloaded, and nothing is ever sent to Apple.
• When the cloud transcript and the on-device one agree on nothing, the brief now keeps the cloud's words. It used to keep the on-device ones, which for a language that recogniser cannot hear is noise.
• Fixed "Update to …" in the menu opening a page that did not exist.

0.4.8

• Drawing no longer needs the mouse button. Hold Left Option and move the cursor: a loop is a lasso, a straight sweep is an arrow, back-and-forth is a scribble. Let go to capture. It starts after the cursor has travelled a little, so Option+Backspace and Option-typed characters leave no mark.
• Deiko no longer intercepts any click. Clicks reach your app during a session, including Option+click, and Option+drag does what it does in that app, such as selecting text, without Deiko drawing over it. So you can click through a bug and mark things along the way.
• The faint trail that followed the cursor is gone. Colour on screen now means a stroke you are drawing.
• Scribbles are drawn at highlighter weight on the screenshot, so the text under them stays readable.
• Fixed "Delete session" appearing to freeze the app. Its confirmation was opening behind the orb.

0.4.7

• Fixed a crash at the start of a session after the audio hardware changed under a long-running app — AirPods connecting, a call app switching the sample rate. Each recording now asks the hardware again.
• Fixed the coin appearing on a Space nobody was looking at after the first drop of a launch, which read as "transcription finished and nothing happened".

0.4.6

• Bringing your own Groq key is free on every plan during the beta.

0.4.5

• A rebuild of 0.4.4. No changes to the app.

0.4.4

• Three fixes from the first installs: a build that had lost its cloud transcription address, the coin sitting too low on the screen, and a capture that did not wait for the accessibility tree.

0.4.3

• Narration now goes through Whisper's translation endpoint: speak in any language, or two in one sentence, and the brief comes back in English.
• One Groq key of your own covers both the words and the summary, and with it Deiko's servers see nothing. [Since the task-memory release, filing each brief goes through Deiko's relay; see privacy.]
• The free 30 minutes belong to the Mac, not to something you type.
• Install is one line in a terminal.

0.4.2

• The first published release, and the first under the name Deiko.
• Pro is a licence key sent by email. No account. The key can be copied to your next Mac.
• The installer says plainly that Deiko needs an Apple Silicon Mac, instead of failing later on an Intel one.

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