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v0.19.38· August 18, 2026

A parallel copy opens where you want it

  • This build was never published on its own. Everything below reached people inside 0.19.39.
  • A new parallel copy stops assuming you want a chat. Making a copy of a project always dropped you into an Aura chat, which is one opinion about how you work — and the wrong one if you drive Claude Code or Codex from a terminal, or if you only wanted to read the code. Settings → Copies now has a single choice: just the code, an Aura chat, or any agent you have installed, and whatever you typed as the objective is carried into whichever one you pick.
  • The default changed: a new copy opens the code and nothing else. If you liked the chat it is one setting away, and it behaves exactly as it did.
  • The choice follows you, not the project — it is the same setting everywhere, because which tool you reach for is a fact about you rather than about a repo. You can change it with no project open at all.
  • Uninstall an agent and your copies keep opening. If the agent you picked is not on this machine any more, a copy quietly opens the code instead of failing, and the setting tells you why.
  • An agent’s icon stops looking like it has a stray border. A working agent was drawn with a box around its logo in one of three colours depending on what it was doing; the logo now simply breathes while it works and pulses when it needs you, which reads as status instead of as a rendering mistake.
  • The web console became a real control plane. app.auravcs.com now has the machines your team can work on, what each person spent, who is in a session right now, and the task and crew board — each as its own screen rather than something buried behind a tab — all on one palette instead of four.
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Everything in this release
New

New

Settings → Copies chooses what a new parallel copy opens: just the code, an Aura chat, or any installed agent CLI
The console gains Machines, Cost, Sessions and the Tasks/Crew board as first-class screens, and opens to the whole org
Fix

Fixes & improvements

A copy whose chosen agent is no longer installed opens the code rather than failing, and the setting says so
A new setting could apply immediately and then silently revert on restart, because it was never written to disk
An agent’s run state is shown by motion instead of a coloured box around its logo
A foreign project’s name sits under the tab name rather than beside the branch
The console prices a model it has never seen as unknown, not as free
A dead console session sends you to sign in instead of rendering an empty console
Breaking

Breaking changes

A new parallel copy now opens the code by default instead of an Aura chat — set Settings → Copies back to “An Aura chat” to keep the old behaviour