Codeman 1.50.1: your MacBook keeps working with the lid closed, and the logo keeps glowing

[Ark0N]

Codeman 1.50.1 is out. Close your MacBook, walk away, and your agents keep working. And the Apple logo on the lid keeps telling you what they're doing!

Download the Mac app: Codeman.dmg (the link always gives you the newest app)

A MacBook that keeps working with the lid closed. The Mac app has a new menu, Codeman > Keep This Mac Awake: Off, While Agents Work (plus 5 minutes after the last one stops) or Always. It only acts for a Codeman running on this Mac, and it pauses on battery unless you untick Only When Plugged In. On a MacBook, With the Lid Closed… keeps the closed Mac awake on its power adapter. It asks for your admin password once and installs a small helper. Untick it and the helper is gone again. Heads-up: while it keeps watch, closing the Codeman window hides the app instead of quitting it, so the Mac stays awake. Click the Dock icon to get it back, Cmd+Q to quit.

The logo breathes now, and keeps going with the lid closed. The Apple logo blink from 1.50.0 has one switch now: View > Blink Apple Logo. It breathes while agents work, blinks for a yellow tab and flashes for a red one. The more it moves, the more it needs you. It runs on the logo's own hardware fades now, so the breathing is a real fade. And when you close the lid on power, it keeps going! macOS normally turns the logo off under a closed lid, so Codeman tells the logo the lid is open, and the keyboard stays dark. I tried it on my M5 Pro MacBook Pro with the lid closed and agents working, and the logo keeps breathing. A line under View > Apple Logo Blink Styles says what the closed lid did last, so you can see why if it ever stays dark.

Codeman and LogoLight take turns. If you use LogoLight, my little menu bar app for the same logo, update it to 1.3 or later. It now steps aside while Codeman shows your agents on the logo and takes the logo back afterwards. Before this, Codeman left the logo alone whenever LogoLight was running.

Dictation survives a thinking pause. @ludovicfourrage built this one over three review rounds. A new Voice setting, Stop after silence, sets how long you can pause before dictation stops: the provider's default, 3, 6, 15 or 30 seconds, or Manual. Claude dictation keeps going from one sentence to the next until you press Stop. On Chrome for Android, words are no longer repeated or lost at the end. Heads-up for iOS Safari: dictation no longer stops after 750 ms without new words, it stops at the silence deadline like everywhere else.

Sync cases across devices. @opticon454 stuck with this through five review rounds. A new setting, off by default, keeps each case's Agent Teams and Opus 1M options on the server instead of in each browser, and the case picker follows the case you last picked on another device.

Smaller things.

• Delete a file right from the Files panel, with a confirm first. The idea and the first version came from @shenlvkang-collab.
• Pinch, drag and wheel zoom in the path picker's image preview, also from @shenlvkang-collab's work.
• The phone overview shows up when you fold a foldable phone or narrow the window. @shenlvkang-collab reported that one too.
• @johoja12 stopped the log viewer from reconnecting every few seconds after a startup error.
• The local model install no longer flashes Paused at the very end.

Release notes: https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/releases/tag/codeman%401.50.1

To update Codeman itself: Settings, System, Updates in the app, or re-run the install line. For the Mac app, download the new Codeman.dmg and drag it over the old one.

Thanks: @opticon454, @ludovicfourrage, @johoja12 and @shenlvkang-collab.