v0.18.0
A new look built from your Mac's own colours, and Cox, Mooring's new character, who shows you around and can wind Claude down at your plan limit. Plus a Conversation window and a clearer Claude Usage window.
Changelog
Mooring is built in the open. Each release lists what changed and why.
A new look built from your Mac's own colours, and Cox, Mooring's new character, who shows you around and can wind Claude down at your plan limit. Plus a Conversation window and a clearer Claude Usage window.
Claude usage figures are more accurate, and on a Claude plan they read as a value your plan covers, not a bill. Usage now spans every project, card descriptions show their formatting, and cards close more carefully when their work merges.
Claude's answers come into the sidebar — each recent question opens onto what Claude said back. Recent questions appear in every project, the sessions list is grouped by project, and Claude Code knows when its tab is in front.
See what each worktree is spending on Claude, and let Coxswain help you refine any card. Mooring is also much faster — it stays quiet when you're not using it, responds straight away when you click, and finds your conversations in seconds.
Every card in the backlog shows what it's about at a glance, and ⌘Z undoes anything you change on a card. Coxswain answers in plain language and lets you choose its Claude model, and you can see and change which cards belong to each worktree.
Two things that were failing silently are fixed — Coxswain refusing to start on some Macs, and cards with a long discussion never getting a summary. Both work now, and when Coxswain can't start it tells you why.
Coxswain now works inside a card as well as its own window, and can read your code rather than only your backlog. Cards became something you can copy text out of, ⌘⌫ archives instead of deleting, and what you delete can be brought back.
Talk to your backlog. Coxswain is a new window where you manage cards by conversation — find duplicates, refine a vague requirement, split something too big — with the cards it mentions rendered as real cards you can click.
Your sidebar now tells you what state a branch is in — ready for merge, needs rebase, or states you define yourself — without opening anything. Plus release versions you can actually create, a Tips window that fills the screen, and a backlog that stops re-counting itself.
When your organization blocks Mooring's MCP tools, Mooring now tells you which policy rule applies and what to send your admin — instead of a restart loop that could never work. Plus the terminal link menu anchors to the character you're pointing at.
See a worktree's pull request before you raise it — the file pane now reviews a branch the way a PR does, showing changed files and commits since it diverged from its base with a ready-or-conflict verdict, without leaving Mooring for the terminal or GitHub.
Cards grow up — a backlog item is now a first-class thing you open in its own window with description, acceptance criteria, comments, attachments, typed relations, versions, and a full audit trail. Plus Claude sessions you can orchestrate and restart in place.
Mooring shows what every Claude session is doing — recent prompts in the sidebar and a Sessions window that reads back any conversation. Plus a work-rhythm coach, tab re-filing between worktrees, four new themes, MCP health at a glance, and a deep responsiveness pass.
Mooring becomes yours to style — six built-in themes (terminal included) on one calm chassis, with per-project themes and custom theme files. Plus your Claude connectors now work in Mooring's panes, and a backup-import crash is fixed.
Your backlog cards become real tickets, Mooring tells you where Claude needs you at a glance, moving your library between Macs finally does the right thing, and a full pre-release audit put out every CPU "storm" and closed the last terminal-engine crash.
Claude can now drive Mooring from inside a terminal over the built-in MCP server, and the app stays calm under heavy git and file-system activity — two CPU "storms" that could pin a core are gone.
The backlog is reorganised around tags and priority, Claude can now get your attention when it needs you, and background sessions look after themselves — plus a sweep of worktree, window, and performance fixes.
A big update to the file viewer, the terminal, and getting around your projects — a Git Changes inspector, clickable terminal links, in-app HTML/Markdown viewers, projects from anywhere, worktree polish, plus a sweep of performance fixes.
First public Mooring build — a native Mac terminal workspace with per-project tabs and worktrees, on-device voice/type note capture, a file viewer with inline git, a drag-to-send backlog, and automatic updates.