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May 01, 2026

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Highlights

This week focused on smoothing developer workflows in the VS Code extension and improving hardware and plotting tools. Conversations, side questions, and todo flows are more interactive and discoverable, while plotting and device tooling now support more reliable RTT, oscilloscope discovery, and attach workflows.

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New features

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VS Code extension experience

You can now ask side questions with a lightweight /btw aside that runs separately from the main turn and renders inline, so asides do not interrupt the active conversation. The message queue, todo tracker, history overlay, and chat rendering were all redesigned to make queued messages interactive, keep plans and todos in context across rewinds, and surface conversation history quickly.

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Plotting and hardware tooling

Plotting gained math/derived channels so you can create computed data series for more powerful visual analysis, and charts now filter non-finite values so axes render consistently. Hardware tooling now auto-discovers supported oscilloscopes on the LAN, supports agent-driven RTT configuration, and adds an attach mode and run-to-main behavior for GDB helpers so connecting to live devices is faster and avoids unnecessary reflashes.

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Miscellaneous

  • Evaluation and billing UX updates
  • Improved: tab close behavior is now optimistic for smoother UI
  • Updated: EMBEDDER.md now travels with chat requests as system prompt parts
  • Fixed: math chart y-axis disappearing
  • Fixed: todo header line overflow
  • Fixed: defer RTT settings until after user confirmation
  • Fixed: show backend decline message on invite-accept
Last modified on May 23, 2026