Run work where you want, and watch it happen
This release moves execution to the center of Cogno. A Project now carries its repositories, work runs in Environments that each member owns, and the Task page shows you the files, changes, and terminal of the agent doing the work — live.
One Task, mid-run: what the agent said, what it changed, and the shell it is working in.
New names for where work runs
Three words now describe execution, and the old Worker is gone from the app.
Saved views, filters, and links you already had keep working. See
Set up a Project for the current model.
Put a Project on your own folders
Work no longer waits on a shared runner. Each member places a Project into a folder on their own Machine, and Cogno runs the work there.- Register a folder and place a Project in it in one step — no stray, unplaced folders.
- Choose an empty folder and Cogno offers to turn it into a repository checkout.
- A Task claims its Environment when you send the first message.
- Where work runs lives in one place: the Project’s Environments section.
Placing a Project into a folder on one of your machines.
From a repository to a Project, an Environment, and the first message.
Run work on your own servers
Enroll any server over SSH from Set up a new server and route agent work to it. Your own computer and your servers are managed side by side in the same list.Terminals are served from macOS and Linux Machines. On a Windows Machine, work still
runs and files and changes still stream — the terminal strip is hidden.
Your own computer and your servers, managed in one list.
Watch the work as it happens
The Task page replaces the old modal. Open a Task beside your list, or take it full width with tabs.
Files, changes and the terminal, streamed from the machine doing the work.
Three sub-agents working at once, each opening onto what it ran.
Steer the conversation
- Attach files to a message and see them in the conversation.
- Rewind to any earlier point and branch the conversation from there.
- Dictate instead of typing.
- Plan mode for a proposal before any file is touched.
- Replies stream as they are written; short or interrupted replies stay in the transcript.
Rewinding to an earlier message and taking the conversation another way.
Run Tasks side by side
Every Task now works in its own copy of the repository, so two Tasks never write over each other. Pick the branch each Task starts from — the picker searches your branches and tells you how fresh the remote is.
Choosing the branch a Task starts from.
When Cogno starts on its own
Cogno inspects a Project on its own and can file or start Tasks from what it finds.- The inspection is read-only: it reads the working copy and never writes to it.
- Every wake-up records what it looked at and why now, so a filed Task can be traced back to its source.
- A Task stays marked as Cogno’s until you take it over — by changing its status or sending a message.
A Task Cogno filed from a Sentry issue, with the reason it acted.
Move through Tasks faster
- Drag Tasks between views and across the sidebar.
- Select many Tasks and act on them at once.
- Changes made by teammates appear without a reload.
- Deleting a Task now says what goes with it — the conversation and the working copy.
Selecting several Tasks and moving them at once.
Desktop app
- Open Cogno at login — off until you turn it on in Settings. Available on macOS.
- Startup no longer shows half-drawn windows, and a window that fails to paint recovers itself.
- A workspace remembered from an earlier session can no longer keep the app from loading.
- Updates install themselves; you no longer update the execution layer by hand.
Settings
Settings is a full page of its own. Each Project has its own settings page, reached from the settings rail, and Projects are created from a repository rather than a list page. You can also set the Font size for the whole app.Meetings
Recording can be switched on or off for a whole Workspace by an owner, or for your own account. See Record calls and meetings with Notetaker.Fixes and accessibility
- Actions that used to fail silently now tell you: sign-out, avatar changes, DM creation, and Inbox actions.
- Dialogs, pickers, and the Task calendar are operable from the keyboard; focus is visible; icon-only buttons are named for screen readers.
- A rejected first turn no longer retries forever.
- A failed Slack canvas download no longer blanks the message body.
- A Workspace’s Memory can no longer stay frozen.