Aria 0.1.5
Come back to your Mac and the notch tells you what your agents did while you were gone, with anything waiting on you first.
Release, 2 min read
The thing I kept doing with agents was walking away. Kick off a long task, go make coffee, come back twenty minutes later and scroll three terminals to work out what happened. Did it finish? Is it stuck waiting for me to approve something? Did it fail ten minutes ago?
So that's this release. When you come back after 20 minutes away (you can make it 10, 30, 60 or off), the notch opens on a short briefing: decisions still waiting for you first, then anything that failed, then what finished. Each line opens the thing it's about: the replay at that moment, the approval, the ledger. If something is waiting, Allow and Deny are right there, and they go through exactly the same approval path as the peek. Allow is never the default key, so a stray Return can't approve anything. You can also just say "catch me up".
To cover an overnight absence, Aria keeps a small history on your Mac: agent and project names, session titles, tool names and times. Session titles can include the start of your prompt, so I want to be plain about that. It stays on this Mac, it's kept for 7 days, it's never uploaded, and Settings has a button that deletes it. It's listed on the what Aria reads page with everything else.
Two fixes I'm a bit embarrassed about. The permission notice I shipped in 0.1.4 never actually appeared: it was attached to a view SwiftUI never started while nothing was wrong, so the check never ran. It works now. And installing an update while a sheet like What's new was open could leave Aria running, because the quit request was refused. A quit now closes the sheet first.
The biggest gap in the usage counts was the first approval, and on my own Mac the reason turned out to be hooks pointing at a script that no longer existed. You'd only see that by opening Agents. Now the main window tells you when Claude Code's or Codex's hooks are broken and offers Repair, with the same reviewed config change as before.
Smaller things: while you're not using it, the music-reactive orb now draws 24 frames a second instead of 30, and its audio analysis does less work on every buffer. If you opted in to usage counts, they're now also sent the same day when you reach a new setup step, not just once a day, so I can see where setup actually stops.
Paid plans aren't open. Yearly Pro and a founding price for the first 100 people are built and tested, but hidden; during the beta everything is free. Downloads are still invite-only while I finish testing on a second Mac. Known problems are on the known issues page.