Kandev 0.98 searches your agent conversations and recovers interrupted sessions

Kandev 0.98 is a big release. Nearly 60 features and more than 300 fixes landed since 0.97. Two reach almost everyone: you can search your agent conversations, and interrupted sessions come back without resending your prompt.

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kdlbs/kandev · v0.98.0 · 2026-10-23

Kandev 0.98 searches your agent conversations and recovers interrupted sessions

57 features

308 bug fixes

7 performance changes

Press Command or Control K and type a phrase from any conversation. Kandev searches your messages and the assistant's replies across the workspace, and opens the matching session. Older history is indexed in the background, so early searches can miss a few matches. Task mentions in chat bubbles are now links, too.

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Cmd+K now searches what you and your agents said

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Cmd / Ctrl + K · #4632

Conversation search

Your messages and the assistant’s replies, across the workspace

Literal text, case ignored, 3 to 200 characters

Leaves out tool output, thinking, plans and attachments

Task mentions in chat bubbles are now links #4664

Right-click an agent tab and choose Restart session. It stops and resumes the same session, keeping its history and workspace. Underneath, a run of fixes targets recovery. Interrupted sessions come back without resending prompts, durable sessions recover after runtime crashes, and model capacity recovery stretches to 30 minutes.

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Restart a session from its tab and keep its history

AGENT TAB › RIGHT-CLICK

Restart session

Stops and resumes the same session. Keeps its history and workspace, and sends no prompt.

Recovery fixes

Interrupted sessions recover without resending prompts#4380

Durable sessions recover after runtime crashes#4416

Model capacity recovery extends to 30 minutes#4655

SSH runtimes are reclaimed after controller death#4634

About a third of the fixes are titled preserve something. Many keep what you were editing from being replaced by a refresh or a save, like a rename draft when you switch browser tabs, or a commit draft after a failed commit.

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Drafts, renames and settings survive refreshes and saves

99 of 308 fixes begin with “preserve”

about a third of the fix list

Bug fixes · examples

+preserve rename drafts across browser tab switches

+preserve failed commit drafts for retry

+preserve tab renames during IME composition

+preserve Unicode session names when renaming

+preserve saved workspace secrets during initial loading

Workflow steps get two new events. One fires when a pull request merges, and the other when it closes. Automations add a durable retry policy and a run history, Linear issue watches can filter by project, and the plugin registry adds Shape Up and Nulab Backlog.

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Workflow steps can react to a merged or closed pull request

on_pr_mergedstep event · #4559

on_pr_closedstep event · #4559

AutomationsDurable retry policy and run history#3898

Linear issue watchesProject filter and project context#4558

Plugin registryShape Up and Nulab Backlog plugins#4544 · #4284

For Codex, the profile editor's start model list now includes the models from the CLI installed on your machine. Fresh OpenCode installs use the managed version two package, while existing version one setups stay put until you migrate. The Codex ACP default is updated for gpt-6.1-sol, and workspace settings can add remote repositories.

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Codex model suggestions now include your installed CLI’s list

Agents and repositories

CodexStart-model suggestions include the installed CLI’s list#3940

OpenCodeFresh installs use managed v2; v1 setups stay until you migrate#4014

codex-acpDefault updated for gpt-6.1-sol#4565

WorkspacesAdd remote repositories from workspace settings#4164

Phases 1 through 3.1 of the workspace coordinator ship in this release, still marked in progress and behind a feature flag. Once an administrator enables it, you can turn on autonomy, and the coordinator wakes for events like a stalled task, spending within a ceiling you set per 24 hours. It runs unattended only after four containment checks pass, starting with an isolated executor.

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A workspace coordinator can act on its own, inside a cost ceiling

in progress · behind a feature flag

$ / 24 h Autonomy spends within a cost ceiling you set, from $0.01 to $10,000 per 24 hours

Runs unattended only when

✓An isolated executor: Docker, remote Docker, Sprites or Kubernetes

✓Kandev authentication is on

✓Zero Kandev credentials in the executor or profile environment

✓The agent profile has no extra MCP servers

Three fixes tighten access. Public task shares now redact metadata, manual pull request merges are gated by repository access, and runtime credentials are scoped to the session that launched them. On a shared instance, an executor can now belong to one user, limiting its compute and profiles to that owner and configuration administrators.

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Public shares redact metadata, and manual merges check access

Access fixes

Public task shares redact metadata#4456

Manual PR merges are gated by repository access#4532

Runtime credentials are scoped to the launch session#4498

Per-user executor ownership

On a shared instance, compute and profiles are limited to the owner and configuration administrators.

#4539

Archiving a task now deletes its Kandev-owned worktree with every local change: staged, unstaged, untracked and ignored files. Worktrees an earlier version kept back for local changes get reconsidered after the upgrade, without the old 24-hour delay. So commit and push what you still need first.

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Archiving a task now deletes its worktree’s local changes

staged unstaged untracked ignored

removed with the Kandev-owned worktree on archive · #4570

Worktrees an earlier version kept for local changes are reconsidered after the upgrade, without the old 24-hour delay.

Commit and push what you need first.

Upgrading takes one command. Use the one that matches how you installed: brew upgrade, scoop update, or npm with kandev at latest. One limit: the macOS and Windows desktop installers are unsigned development builds, so your system may block them. That's Kandev 0.98: searchable conversations, and sessions that recover.

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Upgrade to 0.98 the way you installed Kandev

Terminal

$brew upgrade kandev

$scoop update kandev

$npm install -g kandev@latest

$npx kandev@latest

The macOS and Windows desktop installers are unsigned development builds. If macOS blocks Kandev after you verify the checksum:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Kandev.app

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