Two Months in One Release

Callipso has been quiet on the changelog for two months, but the app has not been quiet. This is the biggest update since launch — new terminal adapters, a rewritten voice pipeline, first-person navigation in the 3D Space visualizer, a full-text session archive, a one-click update flow, and roughly 40 performance optimizations that took renderer CPU from ~100% down to ~2%.

If you were on 0.1.1 ("new icon"), everything below is new.

New Terminal Adapters

Callipso now discovers AI coding agents across 11 different terminal applications — nobody else in the orchestration space has more than one.

• Claude Desktop — native macOS adapter with a long-running Swift daemon for sub-15ms voice sends, multi-pane focus sync, and Chat/Code/Cowork mode detection.
• Antigravity — new IDE adapter (same extension path as VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf).
• cmux and tmux — terminal multiplexer adapters with detached session detection.
• Ghostty — rewritten on a native Swift event bus. Last-tab close now clears the overlay in ~250ms (20× faster than the original baseline).
• iTerm2 — async Python daemon with dead-websocket detection, zombie-state detection, and auto-recovery after restart.

Voice Pipeline

• Apple CoreML backend with a standby process for zero-gap recording and ANE warmup (8× faster short recordings).
• NVIDIA Parakeet MLX — multiple models including TDT v2/v3, CTC 1.1B, Realtime 120M, and v3 multilingual 4-bit.
• Parakeet TDT v2 CoreML — English-only downloadable model.
• Parakeet ONNX Runtime — cross-platform STT backend for future Linux/Windows support.
• Magic word "please" — "Fix the login flow, please one" routes to terminal 1.
• Wake word "OK Colin" via openWakeWord.
• Progressive-hybrid recording with manual send button.
• Clipboard interleaving — clipboard text inserts chronologically within progressive chunks.
• Audio ducking with bezier fade curve editor, per-app fallback rules for pro audio interfaces.

3D Space Visualizer

• First-person camera with arrow-key navigation, sprint, inertia, and keyboard look.
• AI agents appear as spaceships with a sci-fi shader and per-tool color palette.
• Subagent spaceships as distinct ships with idle orbit animation.
• Animates on all 17 Claude Code tools (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, and so on).
• Skybox with brightness sliders, downloaded on demand.
• Folder tree filtering, camera persistence, layout scale slider, node name labels with 3-way visibility.

Session Archive & Git Diff

• SQLite FTS5 full-text search across every past session.
• In-session search inside a single archived session's transcript with match highlighting and auto-navigating snippets.
• Session diff viewer modal — click the diff badge to see the actual code changes for that session.
• Session commit history navigation — walk through every past commit made by a session.
• Scoped-commit button — commit only files changed by a specific session.
• Clipboard history migrated to SQLite FTS5. Load-all with content-visibility dropped renderer memory from 585 MB to 82 MB.

Macro System & Org Builder

• N8N-style 2D node canvas for macros — free-form, not a list.
• Sticky notes on canvas, drag-and-drop reordering of terminal footer buttons.
• Pinned macro buttons with right-click edit.
• Org Builder — configure and launch agent teams in parallel with templates, environment toggles, and a type-to-search project picker.

One-Click Auto-Updates

The update flow was two clicks: Download then Install & Restart. Now it's one.

• Single "Update" button merges download and install. Progress shows inline, install fires automatically when download completes.
• "Check for Updates…" in the macOS app menu — native dialog on every outcome (available, up-to-date, or error).
• Silent background download toggle — when enabled, updates fetch invisibly and apply on next quit without prompting.
• What's New modal renders full release notes on every update.

UI & Themes

• 7 theme presets — Dark, Midnight, Warm, Forest, Purple Haze, Rose, High Contrast.
• Per-token visual editor using @simonwep/pickr with live drag-to-preview.
• Theme syncs across all windows via IPC.
• Design system — 300+ color tokens, 194 spacing tokens, 50 z-index tokens, 90 transition tokens. 800+ hardcoded values replaced across 60+ files.
• WCAG AA accessibility — contrast, focus indicators, reduced motion, keyboard support.
• Ghost mode — optional click-through, hover-triggered buttons, auto-resize to terminal count.
• Dynamic keyboard shortcut mirroring — reflects keybindings of the focused app.
• Session Drawer, detachable tabs, draggable header buttons, inline delete confirmation with undo.

Auth, Licensing & Security

• Per-user licensing replaced per-machine licensing. Device sessions with a 60-second heartbeat and an 8-device concurrent limit.
• Trial transfer — anonymous trial days auto-transfer on OAuth sign-in.
• Privacy & Telemetry opt-in consent with configurable settings.
• Supabase RLS lockdown on license_keys and device_sessions — SECURITY DEFINER RPCs with explicit DENY ALL policies.
• Host header validation middleware closes DNS rebinding attack paths.
• Stripe webhook hardening with belt-and-suspenders signature verification and idempotency guards.
• Sandbox enabled on all 7 BrowserWindows.
• Crypto module — AES-256-GCM with HMAC key tree, SecureFs with 0o600 permissions.
• Sentry renderer crash reporting and Firefox MV3 compliance.

Claude Code Integration

• Permission request popup — when Claude Code asks to edit a protected file, a dedicated popup shows the pending edit preview before approval. Three actions: Allow, Allow for Session, Deny.
• Plan approval — programmatic PermissionRequest hook decisions with a markdown-rendered plan popup.
• AskUserQuestion popup with voice input routed to question text fields and native hook response.
• Worktree management — stash protection, UI buttons, auto-commit before merge.
• Cross-pollination detector — mutation ring buffer catches state leaks between terminals.
• Live token usage with per-project cost tracking and per-model/per-subagent analytics.

Performance

• 38+ CPU optimizations took renderer CPU from ~109% down to ~2%. Main process dropped ~60%. Idle dropped ~20%.
• Morphdom DOM diffing, shared process detector cache, native clipboard, event-driven process detection, querySelector elimination, element caching.
• Overlay script bundling — 216 modules concatenated via esbuild for production.
• Callipso CLI — zero-dependency wrapper over the dev harness IPC proxy, auto-symlinked to /usr/local/bin/callipso.
• Dev harness — 650+ IPC channels auto-proxied via HTTP, replacing 18K LOC of hand-written endpoints.
• V8 CPU & heap profiling endpoints for both renderer and main process.
• Native Swift recording overlay saves ~11% CPU versus the Electron BrowserWindow path (still available as automatic fallback).

Chrome & Firefox Extensions

• Chrome Web Store submission.
• Firefox extension — full Manifest v3 port.
• Audio ducking controls, fast path for voice text delivery (~15ms).
• ProseMirror and Tiptap duplicate submit prevention.

Installation

Auto-update users on 0.1.1 will be offered the upgrade on the next check. Or download directly from callipso.dev/download.

Requirements: macOS 12 or newer on Apple Silicon.

Community Forum

Callipso now has a built-in community forum at callipso.dev/forum. Discuss workflows, share configurations, report bugs, and help other voice-coding developers.

What's new

• Forum with categories — Bug Reports, Feature Requests, Tips & Tricks, and General Discussion. Each category has its own icon and description.
• Threaded replies — Full reply trees with nested conversations. Vote on helpful replies to surface the best answers.
• Real-time presence — See who else is reading the same thread. Powered by Supabase Realtime.
• User profiles — Reputation system with badges (New Member, Contributor, Pro User, Core Team). Profiles show post history and stats.
• Full-text search — Search threads, replies, and tags instantly. Powered by Supabase FTS with tsvector indexing.
• Leaderboard — Top contributors ranked by reputation. Updated in real time.

Improvements

• Header navigation now includes links to Blog, Changelog, and Forum
• Footer updated with community links
• SEO: JSON-LD structured data for forum threads and profiles

Space Tab & Codebase Visualization

The Space tab is here. Watch your AI coding agents navigate your codebase in real time, rendered with Rust and WebGPU.

What's new

• 3D codebase visualization — Every file in your repository is a node in a 3D star field. Directories form clusters. The layout is force-directed for organic grouping.
• AI ship tracking — Each Claude Code session appears as a ship. When it reads a file, the ship moves toward that node. When it writes, the node pulses.
• Additive mode — Start with an empty view. As the AI discovers files, they fade into visibility. Watch the AI's footprint grow in real time.
• Engine glow shader — Ships have animated engine glow driven entirely by WGSL shaders. No JavaScript animation overhead.
• Hierarchy mode — Toggle between force-directed and hierarchical (tree) layouts for different perspectives on your codebase structure.

Performance

• 2,500 nodes at 250fps on M2 integrated GPU
• ~8MB WASM memory, ~12MB GPU memory
• Zero impact on IDE performance

Technical details

• Renderer: Rust compiled to WASM via wasm-pack
• Graphics API: WebGPU (not WebGL)
• Bridge pattern: explicit JS wrappers over #[wasm_bindgen] methods
• Instanced rendering for file nodes (single draw call for thousands of quads)

Initial Release

Callipso v1.0.0 is live. Voice-first terminal automation for macOS developers.

Core features

• Voice routing — Speak, press a hotkey, and your words arrive in the right terminal. Works with any STT that writes to clipboard: SuperWhisper, Whisper.cpp, macOS Dictation, Wispr Flow, or the built-in Parakeet engine.
• Multi-IDE support — VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Terminal.app, iTerm2, and Warp. Each IDE has a dedicated adapter that handles terminal discovery and text delivery.
• Claude Code integration — Smart routing finds idle Claude Code sessions, tracks their state in real time, and shows reformulations in the overlay. Run multiple sessions in parallel without cross-pollination.
• Transparent overlay — A minimal, always-on-top overlay that shows terminal state, routing targets, and Claude Code activity. Click-through when you don't need it.
• IDE extension — The companion VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf extension exposes a local HTTP API for terminal control. Auto-installs and auto-updates.

Architecture highlights

• Electron app with Express HTTP server on port 3000
• Immer-powered immutable state management
• DI container with branded tokens and lazy resolution
• 480 typed IPC channels with response envelopes
• Pino structured logging (main process + renderer forwarding)
• Rate limiting, CORS, CSP, and preload allowlisting for security

STT options

• Parakeet (built-in) — Local MLX-based STT engine, no internet required
• SuperWhisper — Recommended external STT for best accuracy
• Any clipboard STT — Callipso is STT-agnostic by design