v0.1.7 — IDE essentials

Released 2026-05-03. Eight Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code parity features plus four beta-user blockers from v0.1.6 feedback.

Auto-update will land this on every existing v0.1.6 install. Brand-new users get it from codenow.pro/download .

What’s new

Cmd+P — fuzzy file finder

Press Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows / Linux) to fuzzy-search every file in the active project. Skips node_modules, .git, dist, build, .codenow, plus binary extensions. Caps at 10k files with a “truncated” warning when a project is bigger.

↑/↓ navigates the result list
Enter opens the highlighted file in Monaco
Escape or click-outside closes

Cmd+Shift+F — project-wide find-in-files

New Search sidebar tab. Press Cmd+Shift+F to focus the input. Toggles for match case (Aa), whole word (W), and regex (.*).

Uses ripgrep when installed (fast)
Falls back to a pure-Node scan otherwise
Up to 1000 matches, 50 per file, snippets clipped to 240 chars
Click a match → opens the file in Monaco at the line

Cmd+Shift+P — command palette

Cmd+Shift+P (or Ctrl+Shift+P) opens a centered palette of 30+ named commands — Files, Mode, Agents, Studio, Connections, Git, Theme, View, Account.

Fuzzy filter
Enter runs the highlighted command
If a command isn’t available right now (e.g. no project open), you get a toast instead of a silent fail

@ mentions in the Studio prompt

Type @ in the Run tab’s User Prompt textarea to inject context:

@<filename> — recent files appear as you type
@web https://... — fetch URL text via the main process (5 s timeout, 200 KB cap, HTML stripped)
Chips show above the prompt with a × to remove
At run-time, chip contents are prepended to the system message as --- @<chip>\n<contents>\n--- blocks

Apply button on AI-suggested code blocks

After a Studio Run, every fenced code block in the response gets a header with Copy and Apply… buttons.

Apply opens a Monaco diff editor
Modes: Replace file, Append, Insert at cursor
Path validator rejects absolute paths, drive letters, .. segments
After write, open editor tabs reload to reflect the change

”Ask” — repo-wide codebase Q&A

New Ask sub-tab in the Agents panel. Type a question; CodeNow runs a lexical search over the project, picks the top-5 hits, and feeds them to your selected provider as system-prompt context. The answer renders inline with clickable citations that jump straight to the cited file.

Index cached at <project>/.codenow/codebase-index.json
Mtime-aware — only rebuilds files that changed
v0.1.7 is lexical (TF×IDF). v0.1.8 will swap to embeddings.

Tab autocomplete

Monaco now hosts an InlineCompletionsProvider powered by Claude Haiku 4.5.

Triggers after 600 ms of idle typing
Surrounding ±50 lines + cursor position go to Haiku
Tab accepts, Esc dismisses, any other keystroke also dismisses
Cost guards: skips files > 2000 lines or context windows > 8000 chars
Topbar pill toggles it on/off; default on if you have an Anthropic key, off otherwise

Source-control panel (real this time)

The Git sidebar tab is now a real source-control surface, not a read-only status:

Staged Changes, Changes (working tree), Recent Commits — collapsible
Per-file + (stage), − (unstage), ↺ (discard, with confirm)
Click any filename → Monaco diff editor opens in the main editor area
Commit textarea + button at top, Cmd+Enter submits, draft persisted per project

Beta-user blockers from v0.1.6 — fixed

Dev → Business agent handoff

Engineers build agents in Dev mode (manifests in <project>/.codenow/agent-studio/agents/). Previously, switching to Business mode and clicking Import Agent offered only HTTP / Agent21 / Catalog sources — no way to import the agent you just built.

v0.1.7 adds a From this workspace source type that’s the new default when a project is open. Pick a manifest, click Save — the Business catalog now points at your local agent. The main process dispatches via studio.runPrompt using the manifest’s preferredModel (or any provider you have a key for).

”Manage keys” actually manages keys

The Studio Run pane’s Manage keys link used to switch to the Connections (MCP) sidebar tab — wrong place. It now opens a real BYOK modal for Anthropic / OpenAI / Google with per-provider Save / Replace / Remove and signup links.

CLI auth detection

If you’ve already authenticated codex, gemini, or claude CLIs locally, CodeNow now detects that — surfaces “Signed in via CLI” instead of “no key” everywhere. Probes ~/.codex/auth.json, ~/.gemini/oauth_creds.json, ~/.claude/.credentials.json plus the macOS keychain entry for Claude Code.

Version pill in topbar

Every CodeNow window now shows its build version as a pill in the top-right of the title bar (e.g. v0.1.7). Click it to file feedback in the wiki’s GitHub issues.

Smoke

Stage	Result
`npm run smoke:static`	0 errors / 0 warnings / 43 info
`npm run smoke:runtime`	53 / 54 ✓ (1 known fixture-timing flake on the new Git pane in headless Playwright; feature works in real use)
`npm run smoke:e2e:dev-business`	10 / 10 ✓ — full beta-user flow

Known issues / shipping next

Embeddings for the codebase indexer. Lexical TF×IDF gives 80% of the feel for 10% of the work; semantic upgrade lands in v0.1.8.
Apply button does not yet handle multi-file diffs in one shot. Use Composer (Cmd+I) for that flow.
Tab autocomplete is single-suggestion only. Cursor-style “ghost three lines, accept fragment” is on the roadmap.
Stripe billing + tier enforcement still queued — pricing tiers on the website are display-only.