v1.70: Fabric Studio

What's New

• Fabric Studio: A workspace for people who don't write code. Turn it on in Settings → General and the file tree and terminal give way to your projects and the chats inside them.

• Use Fabric Without an Account: Skip sign-in and use Fabric with only your own API keys or a local model. That session keeps its own separate data, and hosted models and remote access wait until you sign in.

• Run Models on Your Own Computer: Fabric checks your hardware, suggests a model that fits, then downloads, verifies and starts it in one click. With a local model selected, summaries and helper agents stay on your machine.

• Account Switching: Switch accounts from a dropdown in Settings instead of logging out, and beta updates are now open to everyone.

• One Queue Across Devices: Your phone, desktop and web share one queue per chat, so messages run in order and a stop or reload on one device no longer leaves another stuck.

• Edit and Regenerate Everywhere: Edit and Regenerate work from the phone and web as well as the Mac, and prompts you type on the Mac appear live on your phone.

• Shared Permission Mode: Each chat has one permission mode that every device follows, and new chats start in the mode you last picked.

• Code Map Settings: The Code Map gets its own settings tab for the naming model, a daily background limit and automatic builds, with a progress bar and Stop and Resume.

• Parallel Subagents: A new setting chooses how many helper agents run at once, from 1 to 16, with the rest waiting in a queue.

• Simpler Settings: Skills, MCP, Hooks, Terminal and Benchmark now sit under one Advanced section, and the Files and Terminal panels are optional.

• Office and PDF Files: Fabric reads, creates and edits Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files through built-in skills, on Mac and Windows, with nothing to install.

• App Notifications: Installed apps can notify you with a card while you're in Fabric or a system notification when you're away, plus a count until you open it.

• Quit Confirmation: Quitting while a reply or routine is running now asks first and lists what would be interrupted.

• Step-Through Questions: Questions asked several at a time step through with Next and Back, and the auto-answer countdown links to turn auto-answer off or back on.

• Clickable File Names: File names in chat replies open the file at that line, and chat and Markdown previews keep their scroll position when you switch tabs.

• Multi-Repository Source Control: Source Control works in a folder that holds several repositories, with a picker to switch, and New File and New Folder are named right in the file tree.

• Live Slash Commands: Custom slash commands appear in the / menu as soon as you add or edit them, with no restart.

• Phone: Browse Your Computers: Pick one of your computers to browse its chats and search their titles and message text.

• Phone: Background Replies: Chats keep generating in the background, a "Your reply is ready" notification takes you back, and unsent text stays in each chat.

• Phone: Dictation and Photos: On iPhone the mic in the chat box dictates a prompt and pasting a photo works, and the pencil starts a new chat on any phone.

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Changes

• Code Map Naming: The Code Map now names everything with your Helper Model or a low-cost model you pick, and no longer summarizes every file in the background, which could burn through your rate limit.

• Phone App 1.2: The new Fabric phone apps work best with this version — update your Mac to get live prompts plus Edit and Regenerate from your phone.

• Support Contact: Error reports now point you to [email protected].

• Removed: The file tag preprocessing setting and the automatic chat cleanup timer are gone, and Fabric no longer runs any built-in routine automatically in the background.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed the cost shown after each reply not matching what you're billed, with the discount for cached input applied.

• Fixed messages sending on every keystroke after an automatic send.

• Fixed Escape closing Settings or other panels stopping a running chat, and Send not working while Fabric waits on a background task.

• Fixed Fabric failing to load on Intel Macs, where the database, Code Map, file watching and image tools had stopped working.

• Fixed long-running tasks exhausting memory, oversized command output being allowed through, and a crashed window staying blank instead of reloading.

• Fixed long unattended tasks losing their way through summaries, dropped connections and provider cuts, and a model that goes quiet mid-task is now asked for its status.

• Fixed replies cut off mid-sentence starting over, and half-written actions running instead of being re-issued.

• Fixed local models being cut off as stalled on long prompts, and truly stuck turns now giving up after about five minutes.

• Fixed turns that use helper agents failing unexpectedly or losing the end of their answer.

• Fixed garbled or doubled replies.

• Fixed model actions written as plain text showing up as stray markup, and empty results now reaching the model as a clear "no output" note.

• Fixed a single step spending minutes on hidden reasoning.

• Fixed slow typing in the chat box, New Chat's first message landing in the wrong chat, scrolling up snapping back down during a reply, and a malformed question card crashing the chat.

• Fixed projects sharing terminals, Copy to Prompt failing in some shells, and the Files panel not updating while an agent works in the background.

• Fixed text starting with / not sending unless it names a command, and a /skill sent from the phone or CLI now shows what you typed plus its skill card.

• Fixed onboarding showing an "API key missing" error without a Fabric account, and Settings showing Connected when the Fabric key is missing.

• Fixed the Mac dictation hotkey silently stopping after a day of use, and the built-in browser reloading endlessly on OneDrive and SharePoint links.

• Fixed task test runs failing on Windows, and the onboarding profile scan now looks in Windows locations.

• Fixed indexing your chat history pegging the CPU.

• Fixed phone and web chats with one very large message opening blank, duplicate desktop replies from phone turns, and usage totals that didn't match.

• Fixed troubleshooting copies of failed requests being saved to a shared temporary folder; they now stay private and capped at 20 files.

• Fixed Code Map and code search in installed builds, the map asking for curation after every launch or sticking on "Building…", and rebuild always being offered.

• Fixed light theme readability for code highlighting, table borders, scrollbars, copy buttons and slash-command badges.

• Fixed a hook exiting without reading its input crashing the app, and the Mac's name on the phone showing a stray ".localdomain".

• Fixed PNG images being labelled as JPEG with some providers.

• Fixed phone replies making the screen jump, and expired sessions now asking you to sign in again.

• Fixed phone accounts sharing chats, computers and ambient recordings; ambient audio is deleted once transcribed.