Aria 0.1.2
A shorter setup that ends with a real first approval, voice that says when Dictation is off, and tabs that tell you what they need.
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Setup is now one path with six steps: welcome, the permissions Aria needs now, finding your agents, connecting Claude Code or Codex, a first approval, and done. Every step can be skipped, and if you quit halfway, setup picks up where you left off.
The first approval can be a real one. With Claude Code or Codex connected, setup shows one command to paste into Terminal. It opens your agent in a new, empty temporary folder and asks it to create one small file. When the agent asks for permission, you answer in Aria. Aria doesn't run the command for you. If no agent is connected, you get a practice approval instead, and it's labelled as simulated.
The usage counts switch is now also on the first setup screen, unticked. If you turn it on, Aria sends one more number than before: how far through setup you got, from 1 to 6. That's how I'll find the step where people get stuck. The full list is on the privacy page.
Voice depends on macOS Dictation. When Dictation was off, voice used to fail without saying why. Now Aria tells you, with a button to the setting, and Settings > Voice has a short "I can hear you" check. Voice is optional; everything else works without it.
Tabs with nothing in them now say what they need and give you one button to fix it. Settings has a Redo setup button. Disconnect now checks that no Aria hooks are left before it says it's done.
The updater now starts when Aria launches. In 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 it only woke up after you opened the notch menu.
Known problems are on the known issues page.