Tempest v0.1.6
Tempest v0.1.6
A short release — one focused change under the hood.
What's in this release
Agents Now Ship Without an Update
The list of CLI agents Tempest can launch is no longer baked into the binary. It now lives in a single signed manifest, agents.json, that the app carries as its built-in floor and re-downloads at startup to pick up changes.
The practical effect: a new agent — or a new flag, model option, download link, or icon for an existing one — can be published by updating the signed manifest, with no app update required, as long as it runs like a standard CLI (a command plus its session, resume, model, and auto-approve flags). Agents that need genuinely different wiring still ship in an app release.
Nothing changes for you in this one. The nine existing agents behave exactly as before — same icons, same flags, same per-project permissions — they simply come from the manifest now instead of hardcoded values. The manifest is verified by signature before it is ever applied; if verification fails, Tempest falls back to the built-in list.
- Structured flags. Session, resume, model, and auto-approve flags are described per agent. Auto-approve is still applied only when your local Auto setting is on — the manifest can describe the flag but can never turn Auto on for you.
- Icons from Tempest's repo only. Agent icons resolve to the app's bundled assets or files in Tempest's own repository — never a third-party host.
- Per-project control unchanged. Every agent, however it arrived, can be permitted or hidden per project exactly as before.
Platform Support
| Platform | Status |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 (x64) | Supported. Pre-built binary available. MSI and NSIS installers. |
| macOS | Supported |
| Linux | Supported |
Windows requires WebView2 (bundled automatically when necessary).
What's next
- Live quota. A dynamic island in the title bar surfacing how close you are to your Claude and Codex rate limits — quiet when you have room, expanding as a window fills and naming which one resets when.
- Worktree setup and teardown.
tempest.ymlgainssetupandteardownhooks: a fresh worktree installs its dependencies and copies your ignored files across on creation, and cleans up on the way out.