The app was closing itself while it was working

• Aura had a rescue for a frozen window, and the rescue was the problem. If the app went quiet for a minute the watchdog assumed the window had died, saved your work, and restarted the app. But an app whose window you have closed to the menu bar is quiet for entirely ordinary reasons — nothing is being asked of it — and the watchdog could not tell the two apart. Reading back the stalls Aura recorded against itself over the past week: thirteen of seventeen restarts were of an app with nothing wrong with it. It now looks at what the app is actually doing before it acts, twice over, and steps in only when the window is genuinely stuck.
• A talking agent no longer slows the window down. Everything an agent printed was handed to the interface one small piece at a time, dozens of times a second, and on macOS each hand-off costs far more than the few characters it carries — enough that the app could spend its time on the hand-offs rather than on drawing. It is now gathered and delivered once per frame: the same text, in the same order, arriving just as fast to your eye, with the app staying responsive underneath it. This was also the cause of the freezes that were real.
• Clicking Aura in the Dock brings the window back. Closing the window leaves Aura running in the menu bar, which is deliberate — your agents keep working. But the only way back was the menu bar icon, so anyone who reached for the Dock found nothing happened, and an app you cannot reopen looks like an app that crashed.
• The Code Map tells the story of a feature: it unfolds into the flows that make it work, traced from the code itself rather than from a diagram somebody has to remember to update.
• Your project’s parallel copies are back in the sidebar. A project with many worktrees was drawing a single row and a +57 pill, which reads as a project that has none — the list of copies had been sitting behind a condition that was never true. It is in the rail again, and a copy made minutes ago now appears near the top: git records no creation date for a worktree, so ranking them by their latest commit buried a copy cut today off a branch nobody had touched in weeks.
• “What Aura did” reads like a person wrote it. The window opened on fifteen rows of machine bookkeeping — tool names, file paths, timestamps — and answered the question nobody was asking. It is three lines of plain language now: what changed, and why.