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Release Notes 0.5.50

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Release 0.5.50 brings CoWork OS's largest post-0.5.49 capability update: a main-screen Automation Studio and deterministic workflow runtime, GPT-5.6 subscription controls, Mixture of Agents orchestration, browser annotations, inline email review, video understanding, stronger browser/computer-use approvals, new Calendar and architecture connectors, governed memory writes, session retention controls, and a bundled privacy-cleanup workflow.

Highlights

Automation Studio: the main sidebar Automations destination now opens Discover, Library, Builder, and Activity views for structured flows. Build from a conservative prompt-generated draft, eight templates, or a blank flow; configure typed fields and variables; author explicit Yes/No branches; review Google accounts/scopes; dry-test without external writes; save inactive drafts; turn an immutable version on or off; run manually; inspect step evidence; respond to approvals; and cancel active work. Advanced prompt-based Routines, queues, schedules, hooks, triggers, briefings, and Workflow Intelligence policy remain under Settings → Automations. See Automation Studio.
GPT-5.6 for ChatGPT subscriptions: added gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-luna, with model-specific reasoning effort choices through Max and Ultra, response-verbosity controls, OAuth model preservation, and Codex Responses transport forwarding.
Mixture of Agents provider: combine multiple advisor models with an aggregator model, including provider-aware slots, failover, usage aggregation, reference caching, recursion protection, Settings integration, and corporate TLS guidance.
Browser annotations: pin feedback directly to live Browser Workbench elements, add comments through the annotation composer, send the annotated context to the agent, and track annotation lifecycle state.
Inline email compose frames: assistant-generated email drafts now render inline for review before sending, with richer recipient/body handling, draft polling, and in-place event updates.
Video attachment analysis: uploaded MP4, MOV, and WebM files are sampled into representative frames and contact sheets for image-capable models and timeline review.
Safer browser and computer use: background/headless execution is preferred by default, while visible Browser Workbench or native computer control requires explicit intent or approval and supports persisted permission rules.
Session archive and retention controls: archive sessions without deleting task data, preview and run filtered prune operations, and configure daemon-side automatic retention cleanup.
Bundled unbroker skill: a consent-gated data-broker privacy workflow with a local PII ledger, deterministic action queue, human-task digest, recurring rechecks, broker playbooks, and legal request templates.

Integrations and Provider Improvements

Added Google Calendar MCP tools for calendar discovery, event list/read/batch read, availability lookup, and confirmed create/update/delete operations.
Added local-only Rhino, Blender, and ComfyUI MCP connectors plus the architecture-design skill, with project-root file boundaries and connector capability metadata.
Added cross-platform desktop location helpers for macOS, Windows, and Linux with explicit one-time permission requirements.
Reordered the most common LLM providers in Settings so OpenRouter, OpenAI, Mixture of Agents, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek appear first.
Fixed ChatGPT OAuth token exchange and refresh behavior in Electron by adding a Chromium-network fallback and preserving useful refresh errors.
Expanded provider documentation for xAI OAuth/SuperGrok and durable runtime context controls.

Memory, Privacy, and Governance

Added approval modes and a pending queue for durable archive, curated, background, and external memory writes.
Blocked sensitive external-memory payloads before queue persistence and exposed approval controls in Memory Hub.
Clarified local SQLite storage, encrypted fields/settings, external memory behavior, and durable-context diagnostics.
Added local-first privacy cleanup tooling without automatically sending requests or bypassing consent requirements.

Reliability and UX Improvements

Added immutable active-version isolation so saving a draft cannot silently change a live starter, Google account binding, action graph, secret reference, or runtime limit.
Added a durable deduplicated workflow inbox, bounded Gmail/Drive cursor pagination, startup requeue/recovery, explicit outcome verification for interrupted steps, cancellation propagation, one-attempt external-write policy, connector allowlist/schema enforcement, key-based stored-payload redaction, and retention cleanup.
Fixed the Automations page's alignment and scroll containment with responsive grid/card wrapping and layout regression tests. Registered the complete workflow IPC handler set, ordered legacy workflow_run_id migration before dependent indexes, and made the dev launcher fail early with the existing PID before macOS can rebrand/relaunch an active Electron bundle and abort during application registration.
Hardened build-health routine evidence checks so inspection steps remain read-only and verification requires concrete command or API evidence.
Hid replay controls behind an explicit toggle, improved task-progress phase reporting during collaborative execution, and preserved genuinely blocked tasks as blocked instead of treating them as approval waits.
Reduced memory FTS work on Electron's main thread with a prompt-recall fast path, bounded caches, batched tier tracking, and richer slow-query diagnostics.
Reused refreshed Google Workspace OAuth tokens during mailbox sync to avoid repeated settings writes.
Tightened output-filter prompt-leak patterns to reduce YAML capability-list false positives.
Improved multitask stability by bounding renderer events, MCP lifecycles, synthesis prompts, SQLite contention, and executor caches.
Added read-only review safeguards and daemon-level deduplication for identical verification commands.
Refreshed first-run onboarding and provider-selection guidance.

Release Readiness

Version bump: package metadata is prepared for 0.5.50.
Release baseline: compare v0.5.49...v0.5.50.
Database attention: validate upgrade paths for browser annotations, memory-write approvals, and session-retention metadata against an existing 0.5.49 database.
Automation attention: validate an existing Routine database, Studio IPC registration in a full Electron run, active/draft version isolation, Google starter pagination, approval/recovery behavior, main-screen placement, and vertical scrolling at desktop and narrow widths.
Skill attention: run the bundled-skill quality gates and the fake-data-only unbroker smoke workflow.
Platform attention: desktop packaging checks remain host-specific; macOS, Windows, and Linux artifacts should be validated on matching runners.
Provider attention: GPT-5.6 availability and effort support remain entitlement-dependent for the signed-in ChatGPT account.

Suggested Validation

Run before tagging or publishing:

npm run skills:check
npm test
npm run build
npm run release:smoke
npm run qa:security:harness
npm run package:desktop:smoke -- --expected-version=0.5.50 --allow-unsigned
npm run package:win:smoke -- --expected-version=0.5.50
npm run package:linux:server:smoke

For npm publication, use a clean checkout or release worktree. Explicitly run npm ci --no-audit --no-fund and npm run build, create the tarball with npm pack --ignore-scripts --silent, verify the packaged desktop and CLI entrypoints, validate clean installation and setup, and publish with npm publish --ignore-scripts only after all required platform checks pass.

Pull Requests

Additional Direct Commits

Hide replay controls behind a toggle.
Poll email draft status while sending.
Add GPT-5.6 ChatGPT subscription controls.
Preserve blocked task progress status.
Refresh public adoption statistics throughout the release cycle.

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