What’s new in Sheepdog.

The home page is redesigned as a precision grid, and busy tasks get a new loader.

New

• A new home page, laid out as a ruled grid with the app beside the hero.
• A pixel wave loader replaces the spinner, and a busy task shows it as its status mark.
• Start a task or send a message while its files are still uploading.

Improved

• On phones, the menu button sits in the task header.

Fixed

• Paused tasks with an unsent message pick it up when they resume.
• Reinstalling the GitHub App reconnects a GitHub account whose connection had broken.

Change any keyboard shortcut, and new sign-ups get a guided start.

New

• Account settings, with keyboard shortcuts you can change.
• Shortcuts for the composer's model, effort and fast mode.
• A welcome wizard walks new sign-ups through setting up.
• Fable 5.2 is available to pick.
• See each subscription's usage in settings.
• Task titles scramble into their generated names.

Improved

• New icons throughout the app.
• Each turn shows who's speaking above it.
• Links in agent replies show as blue chips.
• A message sent now shows as sending, not queued.
• Previews start again when they crash, and can run without a port.
• The sidebar's "Waiting for you" section is now Inbox.

Agent replies stream in a word at a time, and archiving keeps you moving.

New

• Archive a task with E, from the task or the sidebar, and move on to the next one waiting for you.
• Queue a message with Cmd-Enter, with keys shown on the composer's buttons.
• Sign Codex in with ChatGPT using a device code.

Improved

• Agent replies stream in smoothly, a word at a time.
• A workspace's environment and settings are one Settings page.
• The task composer floats above the bottom of the screen.
• Message text is smaller and wraps more nicely.
• The sidebar is tidier, with footer links, a one-line switcher and new avatars.

Fixed

• An interrupted turn no longer shows as an error.

New

• Previews open full screen, under a thin bar back to the task.
• Open the sidebar's first nine tasks with Cmd-1 to Cmd-9.
• Send a message now from a working task, with a Queue button beside Send.

Improved

• A waking preview shows a spinner and one line instead of steps.
• A simpler composer, with retoned environment badges.
• Signed-in visitors to sheepdog.sh go straight to the app.

A big one: attach files, @ mention your tools, and drive Sheepdog from anywhere.

New

• Attach files to messages, and let agents share files back into the conversation.
• Mention repos, MCP servers and skills with @ in the composer.
• An API, a CLI and an MCP server, with personal API keys.
• Workspace skills, picked from a GitHub link.
• Workspace instructions, added to the agent's prompt every turn.
• Private tasks, and a choice of who in a workspace can use them.
• Tool calls show as badges, grouped into runs you can open.
• Open a new task with N.

Improved

• Markdown in agent replies matches the rest of the UI.
• Previews open in a resizable side panel.
• Resize the sidebar by dragging its edge.
• Organisations and workspaces are created in dialogs, with website icons as avatars.
• A task shows as in progress as soon as you send it a message.

Improved

• Task machines set up faster: CLIs install while repos clone.
• A redesigned home page.

New

• Dark mode, following your device or a theme you pick.

New

• Sign in with a link in an email. No passwords.
• Add several agent credentials, and switch to the next when one runs out.
• Agents can use Sheepdog's own tools, like starting tasks or renaming the workspace.
• Send a queued message now, stopping the turn that's running.

Improved

• Menus and popovers share one clean look, and animate in and out.
• The phone menu has bigger text and rows that are easier to tap.

New

• An organisation can connect several GitHub accounts.

Fixed

• A task carries on without a repo it can't clone.

New

• Free, Individual and Teams plans.
• Install Sheepdog on your Home Screen, and get notified when a task needs you.
• Previews have links of their own, shown in a panel beside the task.
• New tasks are named for you.
• Archive and delete tasks.

Improved

• The task composer floats over the conversation.
• A task opens at the end of its conversation.

New

• Pin tasks to the top of the sidebar.

Cloud coding agents, each in its own machine.

New

• Start tasks that run coding agents in cloud sandboxes.
• Pick the model, effort and fast mode from the composer.
• Give your workspace's agents MCP servers, including ones that sign in with OAuth.
• Fold any sidebar section.