CommandChain has two parts that ship separately. These notes cover both.
CommandChain app
The app on your computer that runs your agents. From 0.15.0 it updates itself. See Update or uninstall.
Web app
CommandChain in your browser and on your phone. It updates itself.
One entry per release, newest first. Each heading is YYYY-MM-DD · CommandChain app X.Y.Z or YYYY-MM-DD · Web app: <title>. Entries describe what you can now do, in your terms.
- CommandChain updates itself. It checks for a new version every 4 hours, installs it when nothing is in progress, and your sessions reconnect by themselves. If a new version does not stay up, it goes back to the one you had. See Update or uninstall.
commandchain-runner update checks for a new version or installs it now, and commandchain-runner update --auto off turns automatic updates off.
- No coding agent yet?
commandchain-runner in a terminal installs Claude Code or Codex for you and walks you through signing in. See Supported agents.
Version 0.14.0 and earlier do not update themselves. To get 0.15.0 on those, run the install command again once. See Install a specific release.
- Create an account yourself with your email and a password, and confirm it with a 6-digit code. See Create your account.
- Connect a computer shows the install command for Windows and for macOS or Linux.
- Remove an offline computer you no longer use from Computers.
- Windows support. Install with one PowerShell command, no administrator rights needed. See Install the CommandChain app.
- One command installs, connects and keeps CommandChain running in the background on macOS, Linux and Windows.
- Run
commandchain-runner with no arguments to connect, reconnect or check on this computer.
- Agents installed with nvm, npm, Homebrew, bun or into
~/.local/bin are found by the background app.
- Start and drive GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Cursor sessions, alongside Claude Code and Codex.
- Find GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Cursor conversations you started outside CommandChain, and resume them.
- Pick a Cursor model from the list Cursor reports.
- Long-running sessions are steadier.
- A session resumed in your terminal catches up on what was said there.
- An agent’s question can allow more than one answer.
- Restart agent restarts a session’s agent from CommandChain.
- Start and drive Claude Code and Codex sessions on your computer from any browser.
- An agent’s questions stay open for your answer instead of timing out after a few minutes.
- Agents can send you an attention notification when they need you.
- Memory, CPU and disk for a computer are fetched when you ask for them.
- Keep notes per repository or folder.
- Pick from the models each agent reports.
- See a session’s repository status: branch, latest commit and changed files.
- Attach files to your messages.