v0.5.0 — helmora 0.5.0
Published October 8, 2026.
- **No surprise Documents prompt on a Mac.** Opening Add agent no longer makes macOS ask whether Helmora Service may access your Documents folder. helmora’s folder lists stay out of Desktop, Documents, Downloads, iCloud Drive and other protected folders unless you chose a folder there.
- **Copilot Free accounts work.** A Copilot Free account now reconnects and offers Copilot’s Auto model, and the model picker no longer keeps models the plan doesn’t include.
- **helmora says why git can’t run on a Mac.** When a Mac’s Xcode license hasn’t been accepted, or Apple’s developer tools aren’t installed, a chat’s PRs chip now says git can’t run on that Mac and shows the command that fixes it, instead of the pull request panel disappearing. macOS offers to install the developer tools at most once each time helmora starts.
- **Codex’s agents can ask for approval after the reply ends.** When an agent Codex started asks for approval after Codex’s own reply has finished, the request shows as its own card you can still answer, and the composer stays free. The choices match the ones Codex offers.
- **Copilot skills from the composer.** In a Copilot chat, type `/` to pick one of the skills you have turned on in Copilot.
- **Pull request panel fixes.** The panel no longer goes blank when a chat’s folder has no GitHub remote, and on a computer without the GitHub CLI the chip says so instead of offering to connect GitHub.
- **Messages to your computers no longer wait on a plan check.** The relay used to ask the account service about your plan before every message to or from a connected computer. It now reuses the answer, and a plan change still takes effect within seconds.
- **Add a device matches the signed Mac installer.** Its macOS steps now say macOS may block the installer the first time, instead of saying the installer isn’t signed.