What’s new in Ouros X.

• Semantic and keyword retrieval use a mapped, quantized index with bounded caches, while preserving declared tags, current source revisions, cancellation and source-byte citations.
• Broad keyword matches retain the correctly ordered result page without materializing every matching object in SQLite. Active content queries use an appropriate foreground scheduling scope and restore the caller's prior scheduling policy afterward.
• Search reports when a requested folder becomes unavailable, keeps results from healthy folders, and recovers when the same folder returns. Intentional scope removal clears the warning.
• Saved-index opening overlaps bounded checksum and descriptor validation without removing corruption checks. Native file-event callbacks have an owned executor with joined teardown.
• Nearly parallel embedding vectors retain correct top results. Queries inside a write transaction cannot publish uncommitted cache entries that survive a rollback.

Verification scope

This is a local build, not a public download or stable-channel release. Existing authentication, paid admission, model selection, permissions, updater trust and appearance remain unchanged.

The retained controlled workload contains one million real files and current production-ingested vectors, but uses repeated synthetic distractors around an enriched public SciFact subset; it is not one million unique semantic texts. Warm-filesystem latency observations are not first-query, every-run, whole-application memory or physical-device guarantees. Cold startup, a retained initial parent replay miss, native sanitizer/tool boundaries and installed-workflow acceptance are recorded separately in the engineering evidence. Stable-channel promotion requires its normal separate acceptance.

Platform availability

The withdrawn Mac build was checked natively on Apple Silicon and under Rosetta for Intel code, not on a physical Intel Mac. Those checks do not establish full feature acceptance or current download availability. The public Mac installation guide covers the unchanged Apple Silicon stable release.

The Linux preview is a separate native client with its own package version, requirements and verification limits. It is not this Mac release.

• Playback controls stay steady while a command completes.
• Open the gear in Music to switch between Spotify and Apple Music or adjust the player background.

Files Preview

• Select a file and press Space to expand its preview to the window width. Press Space again or choose Back to columns to return.
• The same action bar provides the file controls in both layouts.

Check for Updates

Choose Check for Updates from the Ouros X menu. If an automatic check is already running, the menu waits and shows its result. When an update is available, you can install it from that window.

• The Display helper closes when Ouros X exits, including after an unexpected quit.
• The Mac app takes up less disk space. Third-party notices remain available in the app.

• eyes1te is included with Premium. Choose an image or capture the screen, and read the text on this Mac.
• Ouros X ships the eyes1te helper inside the app. Capture, sanitization, hashing and Apple Vision OCR stay in that helper.
• Screen capture uses Screen Recording. If the helper cannot capture, the app uses the Screen Recording already granted to Ouros X, then inspects the image.
• Agent observation lists windows and reads on-screen text through eyes1te. Click and type on other apps stay locked behind Agent Computer.

Follow Find and change a setting to open Workspace and Preferences, and Recover a shortcut or note save if screen capture is refused.

Workspace

• Workspace and Preferences share one window. Preferences fills that window; Back to Workspace restores the three-pane home.
• Workspace agent chat waits for an active membership. Compact bar chat still bills when you send.

Earlier changes

• Includes the terminal, window and placement changes in 2.1.11.

The candidate looks for the focused editor in the foreground application if the system-wide focus query is unavailable. Focus, selection and secure-input checks remain in place when dictated text is updated. Live speech insertion in Hermes has not yet been verified on this candidate.

See Dictate at the caret for the shortcut, permissions and microphone settings.

Orange buttons keep white text and icons in light and dark appearances, including selected and unavailable controls. Search and Settings use the same highlight color.

Your chosen theme, window material and corner style stay in place. Settings, saved projects and conversations keep their existing behavior.

See Settings to change the app's appearance.

• Keep a project goal and chosen folder alongside RX's lead chat, separate worker chats and saved task history.
• Give workers names, instructions and explicit tool and path permissions. Reading and listing do not grant writes; creating output files requires a separate grant. Project workers cannot run shell commands.
• Save a goal while the project is paused, review the workers and their scopes, then resume. RX plans bounded assignments, respects dependencies, collects worker results and provides a final response.
• Add follow-up goals without losing earlier conversations or results. Pause projects, cancel attempts and deliberately retry interrupted work. Recovery preserves uncertain outcomes instead of silently repeating them.
• Use the signed-in Ouros account for project execution without changing the provider selected for Personal Assistant or ordinary chat.
• Keep private project state when the existing Ouros workspace uses a linked folder.

Planning and recovery

RX accepts a complete bounded JSON plan even when the response is wrapped in a JSON code block. The same saved-worker, dependency and permission checks still apply. Invalid plans stop before worker execution and report a useful error.

Explicit retries preserve completed peer work and refresh RX's summary from the current attempts. Follow-up worker tasks receive the current goal rather than the project's original goal.

Native controls

Project and Settings controls share the existing visual system while retaining their layout, typography and interactions.

This candidate retains the rendering improvements from 2.1.2: more efficient appearance previews, responsive folder visibility while folders load, and less repeated text-layout work.

Projects and conversations are stored on your Mac. Work runs while Ouros X remains open; it does not continue in the cloud or after the app quits. Workers can create new files only in existing allowed directories. Cancellation does not undo actions already completed.

See RX Projects for setup, permissions and recovery.

• Keep a project goal and chosen folder alongside RX's lead chat, separate worker chats and saved task history.
• Give workers names, instructions and explicit tool and path permissions. Reading and listing do not grant writes; creating new output files requires a separate grant. Project workers cannot run shell commands.
• Save a goal while the project is paused, review the workers and their scopes, then resume. RX plans bounded assignments, respects dependencies, collects worker results and provides a final response.
• Add follow-up goals without losing earlier conversations or results. Pause projects, cancel attempts and deliberately retry interrupted work. Recovery preserves uncertain outcomes instead of silently repeating them.
• Use the signed-in Ouros account for project execution without changing the provider selected for Personal Assistant or ordinary chat.
• Keep private project state when the existing Ouros workspace uses a linked folder.

Planning and recovery

RX accepts a complete bounded JSON plan even when the response is wrapped in a JSON code block. The same saved-worker, dependency and permission checks still apply. Invalid plans stop before worker execution and report an error.

Explicit worker retries preserve completed peer work and refresh RX's summary from the current attempts. Follow-up worker tasks receive the current goal rather than the project's original goal.

Native responsiveness

This candidate retains the rendering improvements from 2.1.2: more efficient appearance previews, responsive folder visibility while folders load, and less repeated text-layout work.

Projects and conversations are stored on your Mac. Work runs while Ouros X remains open; it does not continue in the cloud or after the app quits. Workers can create new files only in existing allowed directories. Cancellation does not undo actions already completed.

See RX Projects for setup, permissions and recovery, interruption recovery for retry precautions, and Settings for appearance and folder visibility.

• Keep a project goal and chosen folder alongside RX's lead chat, separate worker chats and saved task history.
• Give workers names, instructions and explicit tool and path permissions. Read and list permissions do not allow writes; creating new output files requires its own grant. Project workers cannot run shell commands.
• Save a goal, configure your workers while the project is paused, then resume once. RX plans bounded assignments, collects the workers' results and provides a final response. Follow-up goals keep the earlier conversations and results.
• Pause projects, cancel attempts and deliberately retry interrupted tasks. Restart recovery preserves uncertain work rather than silently repeating it.
• Use the signed-in Ouros account for project execution without changing the provider selected for Personal Assistant or ordinary chat.
• Keep private project state when the existing Ouros workspace uses a linked folder.

Native responsiveness

This candidate retains the rendering improvements in 2.1.2: more efficient appearance previews, responsive folder visibility while folders load, and less repeated text-layout work.

Projects and conversations are stored on your Mac. Work runs while Ouros X remains open; it does not continue in the cloud or after the app quits. Workers can create new files only in existing allowed directories. Cancellation does not undo actions already completed.

See RX Projects for setup, permissions and recovery, and Settings for appearance and folder visibility.

• Appearance previews load more efficiently.
• Folder visibility stays responsive while folders load.
• Repeated text layout uses less work.

See Settings to change appearance and folder visibility.

• Keep a project goal and chosen folder alongside RX's lead chat, separate worker chats and saved task history.
• Create a project with its goal saved and paused. Add and review workers, then choose Resume to run that saved goal without retyping it.
• Give workers names, instructions and explicit tool and path permissions. Read and list permissions do not allow writes; creating new output files requires its own grant. Project workers cannot run shell commands.
• Submit a goal once and let RX plan bounded assignments for your saved workers, collect their results and provide a final response. Send follow-up goals without losing earlier work.
• Pause projects, cancel attempts and deliberately retry interrupted tasks. Restart recovery preserves uncertain work rather than silently repeating it.
• Use the signed-in Ouros account for project execution without changing the provider selected for Personal Assistant or ordinary chat.
• Keep private project state when the existing Ouros workspace uses a linked folder.

Projects and conversations are stored on your Mac. Work runs while Ouros X remains open; it does not continue in the cloud or after the app quits. Workers can create new files only in existing allowed directories. Cancellation does not undo actions already completed.

See RX Projects for setup, permissions and recovery.

• Keep a project goal and chosen folder alongside RX's lead chat, worker chats and task history.
• Give workers saved roles, instructions and allowed paths. Workers start read-only; creating output files is an explicit choice, and project workers have no shell access.
• Let RX plan bounded assignments for saved workers and collect their results, or assign a task directly. Follow progress and review saved results in Activity.
• Continue with a follow-up goal using the same saved workers, while keeping earlier conversations and results.
• Pause a project, cancel an attempt or deliberately retry interrupted work without discarding its saved project.

Projects are stored on your Mac. Work runs while Ouros X is open; it does not continue in the cloud or after the app quits. Cancellation does not undo actions already completed.

See RX Projects for setup, scope and recovery.

Ouros X uses refreshed globe and wordmark artwork in the menu bar, setup screens and app previews. The app icon and all five Dock choices use the updated artwork. Existing icon selections are kept.

Open General → Appearance → Icons to choose the menu bar and App and Dock artwork. See Find and change a setting for the controls.

Appearance now separates its controls into three sections: Theme, Window styling and Icons. Theme choices use equal preview tiles. Material and corner choices sit together under Window styling; menu bar and Dock choices sit together under Icons. Labels appear above the choices, and checkmarks identify selections.

The other Settings layout and responsiveness improvements remain available. See Find and change a setting for the controls.

The Extension sources page no longer repeats its title inside the controls section.

This update retains the compact Settings layout, Appearance rows, paged inventories and account sidebar introduced in 2.0.54. See Find and change a setting for the controls.

• Settings removes the repeated category heading above the tabs and uses smaller section headings and spacing.
• Appearance puts theme, material, corners, menu bar icon and Dock icon choices in five compact rows, without large surrounding cards.
• General sections use the space their controls need instead of a large minimum height.
• Saved commands and Search names show eight compact rows per page, with visible page controls.
• The sidebar shows the signed-in profile name and the current membership status, including provisional, expired or unverified states when applicable.

The existing Settings responsiveness and centered chat improvements remain available. See Find and change a setting for the updated controls.

Assistant provider and permission tiles now follow the selected corner appearance. Choosing squared corners also gives these tiles squared corners.

This update retains the Settings layout and responsiveness changes in 2.0.52. See Find and change a setting for the controls.

• Plugins, search names, appearance, terminal, music, assistant, account and gateway settings use consistent sections and action buttons.
• Paired panels share their height. The sidebar keeps its width, and shortcut sections keep their place as content changes.
• Pages resize their scrolling content when status or subtab contents change, so short sections stay at the top.
• Account, membership and connection controls are visible on their pages, including refresh, sign-out, connection checks and invitation actions.

Responsiveness

• Gateway settings no longer reads account credentials repeatedly while drawing controls.
• Provider-key indicators use stored presence state instead of reading secure storage during layout.
• Requests still read and validate their actual credentials. These display changes do not bypass sign-in or access checks.

The centered expanded windows and larger compact-chat Messenger control remain available. Follow Find and change a setting and Open and expand a chat for the changed controls.

• The sidebar keeps its width, with larger category buttons and a separate search field.
• Headings and tabs stay in place above the controls. Related settings sit in aligned cards with consistent spacing.
• General uses two columns of preference cards when space allows.
• Search folders and excluded files use equal panels, with actions above their contents and clear empty states.
• Bar order uses columns for the view, visibility switch and position buttons. The up and down buttons have larger click targets.
• Shortcut editors, window controls, appearance, sources and account sections share the same section structure.

Retained improvements

This update retains the faster Settings navigation, centered expanded windows and larger compact-chat Messenger button introduced in 2.0.50.

Follow Find and change a setting and Open and expand a chat to use these controls.

• Clicking settings controls no longer repeatedly reads account credentials while drawing the interface.
• Category headings and tabs stay in the same place when you switch pages. The controls scroll beneath them.
• Short pages start at the top instead of appearing partway down the window.
• Each settings page uses one view for display and layout.
• Selected categories and tabs use white text on an orange background.

Chat and windows

• The chat icon beside the compact composer has a larger click target for opening Messenger.
• Expanded chat and full-size views open in the center of the screen.

Follow Find and change a setting and Open and expand a chat to use the changed controls. Requests still validate the stored account session; the display change does not bypass sign-in or access checks.