What's new in RepoOps

Steadier on its feet, and a memory that answers straight

This release hardens the parts you feel every day: a first run that never dead-ends, an app that keeps its own server alive, and a project memory that returns an exact count instead of a confident guess. Windows stays the code-signed path; macOS and Linux builds ship alongside it.

Highlights

• ✓A first run that never dead-ends - Missing Git no longer closes the app. If setup cannot finish, you can explore with sample data or continue offline and sign in later, so you always land on a working dashboard.
• ✓The app keeps itself running - If the background server crashes it now relaunches itself, a crash leaves a diagnostic report you can hand us, and a single failing tab shows a small error instead of blanking the whole window.
• ✓Ask your brain a counting question, get a real number - Questions like "how many sessions mention this error" or "how many PRs shipped last month" now return an exact count, with the query that produced it, instead of a ranked guess. When it cannot answer with a real number, it says so rather than inventing one.
• ✓Work fully offline - A local-only mode runs the whole dashboard with no account and no network. Your code and telemetry stay on your machine, the same as every other mode.
• ✓Knowledge Graph - A new view maps how your repos, sessions, decisions, and the people behind them connect, so you can see the shape of a project at a glance.
• ✓Connect Anthropic billing without environment variables - Paste your Anthropic admin key right on the Billing Guard tab, now its own item in the nav. The key is checked against the live account before it is saved, never returned to the browser, and never logged.

Also in v0.2.6

• ✓Team and org rollups - Owners can group the teams they manage into an org and see capture coverage, cost, and prevented incidents rolled up across them. Device tokens now expire, rotate without a capture gap, and can be revoked.
• ✓Always-on capture, now container-ready - Run the background capture agent as a server-side container so a team keeps capture on with no desktop left online.
• ✓Hundreds of smaller fixes - Reliability, packaging, billing accuracy, and a long tail of polish across the dashboard.

Notes

• Existing installs update themselves: the app checks repoops.ai on launch and every four hours, downloads in the background, and installs on quit.
• Windows is code-signed. macOS and Linux builds are available too; on macOS the first launch needs a right-click, then Open.

macOS and Linux, now downloadable (testing)

RepoOps has run on Windows for a while; now macOS and Linux builds are downloadable too. These are early and meant for testing, so we want your feedback before we call them final. Windows stays the polished, code-signed path.

Highlights

• ✓macOS downloads: Apple Silicon and Intel - Two macOS builds, so you grab the one that matches your Mac: Apple Silicon for M-series, Intel for older Macs (the Apple menu's "About This Mac" tells you which). They are not notarized yet, so the first launch needs a right-click, then Open.
• ✓Linux downloads: AppImage and .deb - Run the portable AppImage or install the .deb. It is the same local-first dashboard as every other platform.

Notes

• macOS and Linux are testing builds, so please send feedback. Windows remains code-signed and is the recommended path for now.

The app stops restarting itself

On some machines the app's built-in health monitor used a memory limit smaller than the memory a healthy app actually needs, so it kept restarting its own server every half minute - pages loaded, but data calls randomly failed. The limit now sizes itself to your machine.

Highlights

• ✓Fixed: constant background restarts - The health monitor's memory limit now scales with your machine's RAM instead of a fixed number smaller than normal usage, so a healthy app is never killed mid-request.

Notes

• Installs update themselves automatically. If you previously set REPOOPS_DESKTOP_MEMORY_CEILING_MB as a workaround, you can remove it - explicit settings still win if kept.

Sign-in gate fix

v0.2.1 could show a blank window at the sign-in step on a fresh device - two of the app's gate screens were left out of the packaged bundle. v0.2.2 completes the fix; activation now carries you from the app through Google sign-in and back.

Highlights

• ✓Fixed: blank window at sign-in on a new device - The activation gate and recovery screens were missing from the app bundle, and the sign-in flow's server callback could fail after choosing a Google account. Both are fixed; packaging now bundles every app screen automatically.

Notes

• If the app showed a blank window, download and run the installer again from the download page - it replaces the install in place. Existing working installs update themselves.

Startup fix

v0.2.0's installer left four startup modules out of the packaged app, so the desktop app could fail to launch after a fresh install. v0.2.1 repackages the same release with the fix. Everything listed under v0.2.0 applies.

Highlights

• ✓Fixed: app failed to start after install - A packaging gap dropped the app's health-watchdog and recovery modules from the bundle; launching showed a JavaScript error instead of the dashboard. The bundle is fixed and a regression test now guards it.

Notes

• If v0.2.0 showed you the startup error, just download and run the installer again from the download page - it replaces the broken install in place.

Your brain learns overnight, and your AI bill gets an auditor

Two months and more than 800 changes since v0.1.0. The theme: RepoOps stopped being a dashboard you read and became a loop that works while you don't - it consolidates what your agents learned every night, hands you a 90-second triage in the morning, and audits what your AI vendors charge you.

Highlights

• ✓Billing Guard - Reconciles what your Claude, OpenAI, Bedrock, or Azure usage should have cost (from your local telemetry and a versioned rate card) against what the vendor actually billed, flags the gap, and drafts the dispute email for you.
• ✓The nightly brain - A background pass consolidates your project memory every night - a full AI distillation with your own key, or a zero-cost local distiller without one. The Today view greets you with "what your brain learned last night" and the real overnight cost.
• ✓90-second morning triage - At most three cards a day, each a proposed lesson with replayed evidence ("would have fired in 4 of your last 20 sessions"). One click promotes it to a durable rule and rewrites your CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md in the same motion.
• ✓My Brain - A personal brain that follows you across projects and tools: your lessons, decisions, and preferences as local files you own, with capture on-ramps, nightly consolidation, and an "Ask my brain" search that actually cites its sources.
• ✓Brain Wiki - Every repo gets an auto-written, plain-language explainer of what the code is and how it works. Every claim carries an inline citation that is re-verified on each commit - stale claims turn red instead of quietly lying to you.
• ✓Marketplace - Browse installable brains and skills at repoops.ai/marketplace. Packs carry prevention receipts: an outcome-measured count of how often their lessons actually fired after install - a rating that can't be faked.

Also in v0.2.0

• ✓Spend Efficiency grade - One composite grade across six levers (model right-sizing, routing, caching, context, visibility, ROI) with the concrete actions to raise it.
• ✓Always-on capture - A real OS background service watches your tracked repos and survives reboots - no dashboard window to keep open.
• ✓Commitments - Promised-but-not-done work gets an owner, a deadline, and a slip alert.
• ✓Loop contracts - Turn a correction you keep making into a contract with a done-check and a give-up rule, and see whether your automation actually pays for itself.
• ✓Hundreds of fixes - Faster tabs, lower memory, sturdier background jobs, and a long tail of polish across the dashboard.

Notes

• Existing installs update themselves: the app checks repoops.ai on launch and every four hours, downloads in the background, and installs on quit.
• Fresh installs: grab RepoOps-Setup.exe from the download page. At the time of this release the build was not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen asked once (More info, then Run anyway). Later builds are code-signed, so newer installers no longer trigger that prompt.
• Platforms at this release: Windows, with macOS and Linux in progress. Both are available now (see the latest release).

Project memory + ops for AI-built code

Point RepoOps at a local git repo and it remembers what your AI coding agent did, what it cost, and whether anything's unsafe to ship - all on your machine. Nothing is uploaded; your code and telemetry never leave your computer. The local single-developer desktop app is free, forever.

Highlights

• ✓Project memory (the brain) - Aggregates each repo's accumulated knowledge - decisions, mistakes-not-to-repeat, architecture - into one browsable view.
• ✓Today view - The home surface: next-best-action, spend and budget, security, ship-readiness, config/env health, and a brain pulse - each deep-linking to its detail tab.
• ✓Claude Code telemetry & cost - Session usage, spend trends, and model-upgrade recommendations, with LLM-routing guidance.
• ✓Security guardrails - Plain-language footgun checks (.env in git, committed secrets, open CORS, all-interfaces bind) - each with the exact fix.

Also in v0.1.0

• ✓Config & env doctor - Catches referenced-but-unset env vars and won't-run-in-prod issues before you deploy.
• ✓Ship assistant - A go-live preflight verdict plus stack-aware deploy and domain runbooks.
• ✓Explain my codebase - On-demand plain-language summaries of routes, files, and modules (AI-assisted with your own key; structural fallback otherwise).
• ✓Vulnerabilities & Dependencies - Live npm audit plus per-dependency risk.
• ✓File integrity - Sensitive-path change monitoring against origin/main.
• ✓Auto-update - The Windows desktop app updates itself from repoops.ai - no reinstall.

Notes

• Install: download RepoOps-Setup.exe from the download page. SmartScreen shows a warning because the build is unsigned - More info, then Run anyway. See the install guide.
• Privacy: runs entirely on your machine; no account required for the free app.
• Optional: add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in Settings (bring your own key) to enable spend rollups and AI codebase summaries.