Obeya demos

• No more stall after Obeya startsOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Right after a start, Obeya used to freeze for up to ten seconds while it checked shared demo pages against a large archive.
• No more freezes when coming back to ObeyaOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On a canvas with a large archive, Obeya's server could stand still for several seconds whenever you came back to it or approved a card: checking the shared demo pages rebuilt the whole archive for every card it looked up.
• Obeya's look-ups stay out of the agent's workOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent passes a question on to Obeya while it works on a card, Obeya reads files (the plan, the repository) to answer it.
• The canvas switcher closes on a click beside it and on EscapeOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The switcher at the top left lists the canvases you can move between.
• Public repositories share demos right after a restartOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A public repository without its own demo site shares its demos on the owner's personal site, and Obeya asks the forge whether the repository is public.
• Handovers no longer fail for a missing demo pageOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · After Obeya restarted, agents working on a repository that shares demos on the personal site could get stuck: every handover was refused because the demo page was missing, even though the agent had sent its title and text.
• Freezes now show up in the log, with their causeOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya sometimes froze for a few seconds, for example right after a card was approved, and nothing said why.
• Obeya answers after the agent that asked itOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When the owner asks a card's agent something only Obeya can answer, the agent passes the question on to Obeya and says so.
• Handover questions with answer optionsOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent hands over its work and needs a decision from you, its question can now come with answer options, like any other question from an agent.
• A card's state line no longer runs into its textOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The state line at the foot of a card on the canvas now always stays on one line.
• See on the card that the demo is linked on the pull requestOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When Obeya merges a pull request, it shares the demo and links it on the pull request: as a comment on a contributor's PR, in the description of your own.
• Agents know when their demo is sharedOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you share an agent's demo with the team, the agent now hears about it: that the page is online, its address, and that Obeya will put the link in the commit or pull request once the work lands.
• Pulling main after a merged pull requestOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When Obeya merges a contributor's pull request, it brings the merge into your local main.
• Share on approval on your personal demo siteOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A repository without a demo site of its own shares its demos on your personal demo site.
• A merged pull request no longer leaves its card stuckOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent asked for permission to run a command while it finished up after its pull request was merged, Obeya could take the card for an open pull request again and merge it a second time.
• A card stays at work while its agent waits for its testsOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent answers you and then waits for background work, such as a test run or a video render it said it would hand over after, its card now keeps showing the agent at work instead of "waiting for you".
• Old demos clean up after themselvesOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Each demo used to keep the frames its video was cut from, about half a gigabyte per demo, forever, so a busy machine filled up with demos.
• Answers above the microphone read as plain textOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you ask Obeya or a project's agent something and close its sheet, the start of the answer appears in a line above the microphone.
• Share demos from any project, on a personal demo siteOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Every project can now share its demos as a link, not only the ones with a demo site of their own.
• Turn a review finding into a follow-up taskOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent reviews someone else's pull request, each finding used to offer two choices: send it to the contributor, or have the agent fix it on the PR.
• Project cards show the project agent's repliesOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you ask a project's agent something in the project's sheet and go back to the canvas, its reply used to show only as a count on Obeya's button in the top bar.
• Demos record on the stronger graphics chipOctober 29, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Agents hand their work over with a demo video, recorded by a hidden Chrome on their machine.
• Tags and a filter on the demo siteOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Shared demo pages now carry tags from a fixed vocabulary in the repository's settings, such as an area and an audience.
• A supplement is shared together with the demo it supplementsOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a task has a demo and then a short follow-up clip that only supplements it, the shared demo page now shows both: the original demo on top and the follow-up below it as an addendum, under one link.
• Configuration: one canvas at a timeOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The configuration lists the canvases on the left, under the heading Canvases, with a button for a new canvas at the end of the list.
• A test server left running no longer keeps a task "at work"October 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent answers you on a task it has handed over ("the test server is running again") and leaves that server running for you to try, the task now waits for you again: "Agent answered, waiting for you".
• Setting up a repository: proposed on the canvas, offered before savingOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya can have an agent fill in a repository's settings: how its app starts, which checks run and how an agent runs it for a demo.
• The repository picker only where it appliesOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On a canvas with one repository, cards show no repository picker.
• Approving by word never skips the pull requestOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · You can approve work by telling Obeya to do it, typed or spoken.
• Finished cards on the phoneOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The phone view now has a third list below what waits for you and what runs: Done, the finished cards that are not archived yet, with their count.
• Guidelines for agents building Obeya's UIOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Agents building Obeya now follow three more UI rules.
• Obeya main pushed to GitHubOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The latest 27 commits on Obeya's main branch are now on GitHub, including the newest fixes to the configuration dialog.
• Claude plan usage limits, live in the barOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya's top bar now shows how much of the Claude plan's usage limits is used: the five-hour session and the week, each as a small meter with its percentage, updated about every minute.
• Remove buttons in the configuration are waste bins, shown on hoverOctober 28, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The buttons that remove a canvas, a repository or another machine from the configuration are now small waste bins instead of crosses, so they can no longer be mistaken for the dialog's close button.
• Review cards for pull requests from outsideOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Saying “Review PR #5” to Obeya now starts a card that reviews a pull request someone outside the team opened.
• Give a card's workspace to a card that waitsOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When every clone is taken and an urgent card waits, the Workspaces list shows a faint menu beside each card holding a clone, with one action: give this workspace to the waiting card.
• Agents learn where their demo is shared after landingOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent's work lands, the message it gets now includes the address of the demo's shared page, so it can link the demo wherever it points people at the work, such as the comment that closes an issue.
• The Workspaces list shows each workspace with its path and cardOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The Workspaces pill in the top bar now drops down every workspace on its own line: its path and the card working in it, or that it is free or blocked and why.
• A waiting card shows the queue and is dragged to its placeOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When every workspace is taken, a started task waits in the queue.
• Two new contributor rules in CLAUDE.mdOctober 27, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The ElevenLabs voice clone is now reserved for videos on the site (the hero video, anything for obeya.si).
• Wide tables in HTML demos scroll sideways on the phoneOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · An HTML demo wider than the phone's screen, such as a table with many columns, used to be cut off on the right, and swiping sideways did nothing.
• Canvases in the order of your choiceOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The canvases can now be put in any order in the configuration: each one has an up and a down arrow beside its name, like the tasks in the queue.
• Pull requests on GitHub EnterpriseOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya now works with pull requests on a company's own GitHub Enterprise server, not only on github.com.
• Finished workstreams keep their description beside the PR numberOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent ticked off a workstream in the plan doc with its pull request number in front ("#15 — Order confirmation lists the delivery date"), Obeya showed only "#15" as the workstream's title on its tile and on the project page.
• Drag a task to its place in the queueOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Tasks waiting in Obeya's queue can now be dragged to any place in the list, with the mouse or with a finger on a touch screen.
• The Workspaces pill says why a free clone goes to no cardOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a free clone had uncommitted changes, the Workspaces pill still counted it as free, while a new task waited for a workspace without saying why.
• Review comment notices in the interface languageOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When reviewers comment on a card's pull request, Obeya passes the comments to the card's agent and notes this in the card's conversation.
• A slow GitHub no longer holds up ObeyaOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya keeps an eye on every card whose work went out as a pull request on GitHub, asking GitHub every two minutes and whenever you come back to the page.
• A slow GitHub no longer freezes ObeyaOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya checks each card's pull request on GitHub every two minutes.
• Choose where demos are savedOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Agents used to save every demo in ~/demos.
• Open GitHub issues turned into cardsOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Every open issue on the Obeya GitHub repository now has a proposed card on the canvas, written so an agent can take it on directly.
• Workspaces whose folder is gone leave the poolOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When Obeya's home folder was moved to another place, every canvas used to show its workspaces twice: the clones at their new place and the old ones, whose folders no longer existed.
• Obeya from your checkout, as an appOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · If you run Obeya from your own checkout, you can now install it as an app: `bun run app install` puts "Obeya (checkout)" among your applications, to start from Spotlight, Launchpad or the Dock.
• A file dropped on the microphone survives the sidebarOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · With no card open, a file dropped on the microphone waits beside it and moves into Obeya's field when the sidebar opens.
• Drop any file to hand its path to the agentOctober 26, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Dropping a screenshot on the microphone or a text field has always attached it.
• A reply and its handover count as one new messageOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On the phone, the number on a card's conversation button counts the new messages waiting there.
• Reply buttons on every message until first useOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Every message in a card's conversation can be replied to with a button in its corner.
• Card excerpts without markdown marksOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Under its title, a card shows the start of what its agent asks or reports.
• PDFs on the phoneOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a card's result is a PDF, the phone now shows its pages right on the card, one under the other and as wide as the screen.
• Copy button on code blocksOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Agents often hand over text that is meant to be pasted somewhere else as it is, such as a command or a message to send.
• Agents propose cards in the right repositoryOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On a canvas with several repositories, an agent working in one of them often notices something that needs changing in another: one drafting a launch post sees what the app lacks.
• Obeya changes the configuration beside a folder without gitOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When one canvas was a plain folder without git, Obeya refused every configuration change it was asked to make, on any canvas: adding a repository, changing clones, renaming a canvas.
• Releases include everything on mainOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The contributor guide now says that a release contains everything on main at the moment it is tagged.
• A snoozed card shows the card it waits forOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent snoozes its card until another card is done, hovering either card now shows that wait on the canvas, just as it does for a card in the queue.
• Flaky host test no longer blocks releasesOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A test of how Obeya treats a remote machine that stops answering failed on GitHub's Linux runner but passed on macOS, which blocked the v0.7.0 release.
• New demo videos play on their own againOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you open a card with a new demo video for the first time, the video starts by itself again.
• Quote from artifacts and an idea's briefOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Marking text and clicking Quote used to work only on messages in a card's conversation.
• Code stays in the backgroundOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya's contributor guide now states the principle behind the product: you work at the level of requirements, feature and bug descriptions and specs, and judge results by demos and result artifacts.
• Re-rendering a demo without a new agent runOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Demos that show real agents at work, such as the hero video on obeya.si, used to need a new agent run for every correction: about ten minutes, Claude usage, and a slightly different run each time.
• Notes that cross an agent's question get an answerOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Sometimes you write a note to an agent just as it asks you a question, so it reads your note only after asking.
• A card for later waits until thenOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you ask Obeya for a card and name a later time for it, such as "early December" or "in two weeks", the card is now created and set aside until that time.
• Open questions keep the conversation's orderOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you write to an agent while it is working and it asks you a question before reading your note, the conversation used to put the open question below your note, as if the agent had already read it.
• Quote marked text into your messageOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · To answer a single sentence of an agent's message, mark it in the conversation: a small Quote button appears beside the marking.
• No "Agent working" while a card waits for youOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent has handed over its work but still serves the app in the background for you to try, the card's conversation used to end with "Agent working …" and a pause button, as if the agent were still busy with the change.
• Phone: snooze until a date of your ownOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On the phone, a snoozed card's "Change" menu offers a date and time of your own.
• Wait arrows end cleanly in their headOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Resting the pointer on a queued card draws an arrow from the card it waits for.
• One question block counts once on the chat buttonOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · On the phone, the chat button of a card shows how much is waiting in its conversation.
• Changed files start folded beside a demoOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A card with a demo used to list its changed source files above the video, a whole screen of them on the phone.
• Discarding a prototype no longer holds up ObeyaOctober 22, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In a large repository, or with clones on another machine, git can take many seconds to give a workspace back: cleaning a discarded prototype's clone, removing a finished card's worktree, renaming a branch.
• Cards wait for their own repositoryOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a repository leaves a canvas's configuration or fails to start, its cards stay on the canvas.
• The canvas answers while git worksOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In a large repository, or with clones on another machine, git calls take seconds.
• Prototype tests no longer depend on worker start orderOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Several tests for idea prototypes assumed that agents start in the order their prototypes were created.
• Browser test no longer times out on closeOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The test that checks scrollbars in the demo browser failed even though its check passed: closing Chrome took longer than the test runner allows for cleanup.
• Changed files show once, as the card's tabsOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A card used to list the files its work changed twice: once as a list across the card and again as tabs below it.
• Progress on issue #2: server freezesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Cards built on a long-lived branch no longer freeze Obeya: a card's change list counts only its own work and is read in the background.
• What Obeya's permanent docs holdOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya's contributor instructions now say what the permanent documentation (docs/*.md and the design chapters under docs/design/) is for.
• Starting a card no longer holds up ObeyaOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Starting a card used to make Obeya wait for git: in a large repository, adding the card's worktree can take a minute on Windows, and meanwhile no canvas answered.
• A repository that does not start keeps its canvas runningOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a saved configuration changes how a repository's agents work and the new set-up cannot start (say, a clone cannot be made because the remote does not answer), the agents now carry on as they were set up before instead of stopping.
• Koordinator no longer misses canvas events between commandsOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · With every command, the Koordinator is told what happened on the canvas since the previous one.
• Demo videos show scrollbarsOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Demo videos and the screenshots agents take while checking a page now show scrollbars, like the browser on the machine does.
• A flaky CI test made reliableOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A build on main failed in its test job, while every platform build passed.
• Fewer clones really means fewer clonesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Lowering the number of clones in Obeya's configuration now shrinks the pool to what the configuration names, and the folders of the clones Obeya created go from disk, so the space and their app stacks come back.
• The list of folder changes shows all of themOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Beside a folder task's handover, the list of what it changed now holds every change, in a box about ten lines high with its own scrollbar, instead of stopping after eight.
• Finished cards no longer hold a clone for goodOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In a repository that works in a pool of clones, a card that was done could keep its clone taken, and other cards waited for a workspace that never came free.
• Cards on a long-lived branch no longer freeze ObeyaOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Before a card starts, Obeya checks what every card in progress has changed, to spot likely merge conflicts.
• The existing-clones field grows with its clonesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In the configuration dialog, the field where you list existing clones, one per line, used to stay two lines high: with three or more clones it scrolled inside a small box and the first ones were cut off.
• Obeya's answers stay visible on proposalsOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you asked a question on a card no agent works on, such as a proposal, Obeya answered but its answer folded away like a confirmation, so the conversation showed only your question.
• A hint that screenshots paste from the clipboardOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Most people attach their first screenshot with the image button and the file dialog, without knowing it can simply be pasted.
• A delivered workstream with a demo videoOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a workstream has a demo video, its text from the plan doc stands above the video, cut to its first three lines, so the video stays in view.
• Ctrl-C waits for the agents againOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Pressing Ctrl-C in the terminal is meant to stop Obeya gently: the agents pause at a safe point first, and Obeya waits up to 15 minutes for them.
• Existing clones over https and ssh work togetherOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A canvas can work in existing clones of a repository.
• Existing clones no longer add to the suggested twoOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a repository added in the configuration switches to clones, Obeya suggests two new clones.
• Open cards use the window's heightOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · An open planned card used to stop at a fixed height (480 or 560 pixels) and scroll its text inside a small box, even on a tall monitor with plenty of room below.
• A changed file's name opens its tab, its line counts its diffOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Beside the handover of a task that works in a folder without git, the list "Changed in the folder" names every file the task changed.
• Clones Obeya creates, and taking them backOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In the Configuration dialog, the existing clones now come first.
• Ask the project agent in the project's sheetOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Every project's sheet now has a conversation with its project agent, right under the workstreams.
• Start button always in view on an open cardOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a planned card has a long description, for example a workstream from a plan doc, its buttons used to sit below the whole text.
• Scratch Obeyas pick their own portOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Coding agents stage a throwaway Obeya instance for every check and every demo take.
• Mark several cards and move them togetherOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Cards on the canvas can now be marked with Shift-click or by drawing a lasso with Shift held, and dragging one marked card moves all of them.
• Collapse projects you don't work onOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When a team shares a repository, every colleague's plan doc shows up as a project on your canvas.
• Workstreams arranged by their dependenciesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A project's workstreams used to stand in the order of the plan doc, and which one builds on which was only written in their text.
• A task's files, shown beside its conversationOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · What an agent wrote or changed for a task now shows on the task's card as its result, next to the conversation: one tab per file, after the demo.
• Leave the merge of pull requests to the teamOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Repositories whose work goes out as pull requests have a new setting, "Merge automatically".
• Finished cards show their demo againOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · For a short while, a finished card opened with an empty left side: its demo video and its pull request were missing, although the conversation was there.
• Existing clones for a new canvasOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you add a repository in the Configuration dialog, its row now shows whether its agents work in worktrees or clones, as a switch.
• Workstreams with their description in the project sheetOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A project's sheet used to list each workstream by its title alone, and short titles like "PayPal" or "Receipts" rarely say what a workstream covers.
• A partly landed workstream keeps what landed in viewOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When only part of a workstream lands and its plan doc keeps it open, the card goes back to Planned for the rest.
• English terms pronounced properly in German demo narrationOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Piper, the default demo voice, used to read every word of German narration by German rules, so terms like "Feature" or "Branch" came out garbled.
• Finished workstreams keep their numberOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · In a project, every workstream card shows its number from the plan (W1, W2 …).
• Take a task out of the queue from its listOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The queue's list under the bar's Queue button now has an × on every row.
• Move the plan-docs note freely on the canvasOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The note that lists plan docs which are not projects yet, with its "Prepare as a project" button, used to stick to the top left of the projects: it moved along whenever a project moved, and jumped when a new one appeared.
• Finished cards give their workspace backOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · A card stopped with work on its branch used to keep its clone, so it could go on there later.
• Workstreams wait for what they build on, even when it isn't startedOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you start a single workstream of a project, Obeya now checks the plan for the workstreams it builds on, including ones you haven't started yet.
• A stuck narration voice no longer holds up every demoOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya keeps one narration voice loaded for all demo renders and serves their clips one at a time.
• Screenshots in a proposal's conversationOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent proposes a task, you can now paste screenshots into the proposal's conversation, as you already could on ideas and tasks.
• Follow-ups that start by themselvesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent's work leaves a step for later, such as checking in two weeks whether the bank registered a form, it now proposes that step as a card with a start time.
• Changed files: whole line counts, one file's diff on a clickOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent works in a folder without git, its card lists the files it changed.
• Every question shows how it endedOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent asks something and the conversation moves on, the question now says how it ended: the option you picked stays ticked, or it reads "Settled by your message", "Asked again below" (with a link to where it was asked again), or "Le
• Open questions work the same on every cardOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Ideas, proposals and tasks whose agent asks something now treat their open questions the same way.
• A proposal's dialog grows with its conversationOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent proposes a task, its dialog shows the proposal beside a conversation about it.
• A link to Obeya's own demos on obeya.siOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The Demos section of obeya.si now ends with a line in small print: Obeya is built with Obeya, and its link leads to demos.obeya.si, where every change to Obeya is shown with the demo its agent recorded.
• An idea's open question stays in view while its agent repliesOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you split a settled task off an idea, or write to its agent, the agent starts on a reply.
• The phone app opens from the home screenOctober 21, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya installed as an app on the phone's home screen used to show only the line “Obeya answers its own page, not another site's.” when started from there.
• A new canvas without a path shows that the path is missingOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you add a canvas in the configuration, its repository path starts out empty.
• Shared analysis pages show their images in FirefoxOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Demo pages with screenshots or charts, shared on a demo site behind a login such as Cloudflare Access, showed only the images' alt texts in Firefox, and no styling.
• Trusting a new canvas's commands before savingOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When you add a canvas in the configuration, Obeya shows the commands its repository brings (stop commands, MCP servers) and asks you to trust them.
• An idea's agent picks up where the idea standsOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an idea's exploration agent starts a new session, for example after its old one was pruned, it now starts from where the idea stands: the brief, the mocks, the planned and running prototypes and the latest messages of the conversation.
• Folders without git: each card's changes on LinuxOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When several agents work in a plain folder at once, Obeya tells each card's changes apart by the time the file system stamps on them.
• An idea waits for its prototypesOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · While prototypes of an idea are still being built, there is usually nothing for the owner to decide.
• Interface, conversation and repository each speak their own languageOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya's interface language now covers only Obeya's own words, so switching it to test the other language no longer switches the agents with it.
• Demo pages name who shared themOctober 20, 2026 · Several colleagues publish demos to the same site, each from their own Obeya.
• Play a card's agent in a scratch ObeyaOctober 20, 2026 · A scratch Obeya for checks and demos has idle workers: a card can be at work, but nothing ever arrives in its conversation.
• Calling off “Discard changes”October 20, 2026 · After clicking Discard changes on a card in a folder without git, the button counts down eight seconds before the card's changes are put back.
• Answered questions on idea cards stay visibleOctober 20, 2026 · When an idea's agent asks a question with answer options and you answer it, the question now stays in the conversation as its own block.
• The card chat stays where you scrolledOctober 20, 2026 · While an agent is working, the chat on a card no longer jumps back to the bottom when you've scrolled up to read something earlier.
• Share on approval, or share nowOctober 20, 2026 · Some repositories put each task's demo on the shared demo site as soon as the change is approved.
• Answering SignPath's request for referencesOctober 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · SignPath, which signs Windows builds for open-source projects for free, asked for public references showing Obeya's reputation.
• Which demo narrations sound re-recorded?October 20, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Twelve narration clips in Obeya's demo voice, in random order.
• Demo reports without shown / not shown listsOctober 19, 2026 · A demo's report page used to end with three lists: what the video shows, what it doesn't, and what the agent noticed.
• Conversations catch up after a lost connectionOctober 19, 2026 · When the page lost its connection to Obeya, for example while a phone was locked, an open card missed what happened meanwhile.
• Redirect a Question card while its job runsOctober 19, 2026 · A Question card's agent often starts a long job in the background, such as a download or a slow query, and waits for it before it answers.
• An open card shows the agent's new demoOctober 19, 2026 · When an agent hands over a new version of its demo while you have its card open, the card now shows the new version right away.
• Question cards wait for a background job before they answerOctober 19, 2026 · When you ask Obeya something that needs a slow job, like a download or a script that runs for a minute, the agent answering it can now run that job in the background and wait for it.
• Demo sites point back to ObeyaOctober 19, 2026 · Every demo page Obeya publishes, and the overview of each demo site, now ends in a small line, “Recorded with Obeya”, in the page’s language, with a link to obeya.si.
• Obeya's GitHub page, ready for first-time visitorsOctober 19, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The GitHub repository now links to obeya.si and carries the topics people search for, such as claude-code, ai-agents and coding-agents, so it turns up on those topic pages.
• Ideas wait for their agent's background jobsOctober 19, 2026 · An idea's agent can start a slow job in the background, such as downloading data it needs for the discussion.
• Plan: making Obeya better knownOctober 19, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · The plan for bringing Obeya to more Claude Code users and teams has three parts.
• Agents close the GitHub issues they fixOctober 19, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · When an agent's task comes from a GitHub issue, the agent now closes that issue once the fix is on main.
• Plan docs from a folder outside the repositoryOctober 19, 2026 · Some teams keep their plans out of the repository, for example in a gitignored docs/plan folder.
• Obeya's feature demos are public on demos.obeya.siOctober 19, 2026 · by Daniel Sadilek · Obeya's recent feature demos are now public at demos.obeya.si, narrated in English: 31 short videos, newest first, each on a page of its own with chapters and a description of what changed.
• Phone: a card's question shows up as soon as you open itOctober 19, 2026 · When an agent asks something without offering answer options, its card on the phone used to open on its page: it said a question was waiting, but the question itself was behind the conversation button.
• Demos go public when you approve the workOctober 19, 2026 · Obeya can now put a task's demo on a public demo site by itself as soon as you approve the task, so you no longer have to click Share separately.
• Obeya's replies wait as unread while the sidebar is closedOctober 19, 2026 · Obeya sometimes answers a question straight away, without running any action or looking anything up.
• A task only says “Agent answered” when the agent really didOctober 19, 2026 · A task used to show “Agent answered, waiting for you” even when the agent never replied to your latest message.
• Demo language per repositoryOctober 19, 2026 · Each repository can now set the language of its demos in its own settings.
• Opening the sidebar puts the cursor in the text fieldOctober 19, 2026 · When you open Obeya's sidebar with the C key or the chat icon, the cursor now goes straight into the text field, so you can start typing right away.
• Feedback sent on another canvas now gets its own draftOctober 19, 2026 · When you send feedback about Obeya from another canvas, Obeya turns it into a draft wish.
• Opening the archive with A leaves its search field emptyOctober 19, 2026 · When you press A to open the archive, its search field is now empty and has the cursor, so you can start typing a search straight away.
• Headless test browsers no longer speak out loudOctober 19, 2026 · Agents test pages in a headless browser, and demo videos are recorded in one too.
• Phone: comments go out when you close a card from another canvasOctober 18, 2026 · On the phone, a comment left on a card used to stay unsent after you closed the card if that card was on a different canvas than the one you were talking to Obeya about.
• Split off the settled part of an idea as a taskOctober 18, 2026 · When part of an idea is settled and part is still open, the idea's agent can now suggest splitting off the settled part.
• Agents can carry out what a card's task asks of ObeyaOctober 18, 2026 · When a card's task asked Obeya itself for something, like creating a canvas for a new repository, the card's agent used to be turned down.
• Obeya hands machine work to an agent instead of refusingOctober 18, 2026 · Ask Obeya's main chat for something outside your repositories, like creating a new repository or installing a tool, and it now makes a task for it, and that task's agent does the work.
• Phone: the keyboard stays open when you tap a misspelled wordOctober 18, 2026 · On the phone, tapping a misspelled word in the chat input used to open the keyboard and close it again right away, leaving only Chrome's spelling suggestions.
• Update notice for Obeya run from a git cloneOctober 18, 2026 · If you run Obeya from a clone of the repository, it now checks the clone's upstream when it starts and then once an hour.
• Replies you watch arrive are no longer marked as newOctober 17, 2026 · Until now, an agent's reply that arrived while you had its conversation open still got the orange "new" edge, as if you had missed it.
• Agents can wait for another task to finish, not just for a set timeOctober 17, 2026 · Until now, an agent that depended on another task could only snooze until a set time, then check whether the other task was done.
• Answered questions no longer look openOctober 17, 2026 · Before, once you answered an agent's question in a task's conversation, the question still had an orange edge.
• Demo videos show at full size as soon as a card opensOctober 17, 2026 · When you open a card with a demo video that has no poster image, the video now shows at its full size with its first frame.
• Obeya's answer no longer pops up while you're reading the main chatOctober 17, 2026 · When you ask Obeya something in the main chat, its answer used to show up twice: in the chat, and as a short white-on-black pop-up above the microphone.
• Phone: room below “Nothing waits for you.”October 17, 2026 · On the phone, the line "Nothing waits for you." under "For you" used to sit right on top of the first snoozed card below it, so the two looked stuck together.
• Unread messages are marked in a card's conversationOctober 17, 2026 · When you open a card, its new messages now have the same orange left edge that Obeya's main chat uses for answers you haven't read yet.
• Highlight labels in demo videos stay inside the pictureOctober 17, 2026 · Before this change, a highlight's label in a demo video always started at the left edge of its highlight and stayed on one line.
• Phone list: tasks stay visible while their agent works on your noteOctober 17, 2026 · On the phone, a task you sent a note to while it waited for your review used to drop out of the list.
• Agents can take back their own suggestionsOctober 17, 2026 · An agent that suggests a new task and later finds its reasoning was wrong can now withdraw that suggestion, or name a newer one that replaces it.
• Long text in the chat field gets the full widthOctober 17, 2026 · When you write or dictate a longer message in the field under a conversation, the screenshot, microphone and Send buttons now stack in a narrow column at the bottom right instead of sitting side by side.
• Swipe pop-ups away on the phoneOctober 17, 2026 · On the phone, you can now dismiss Obeya's black pop-ups above the microphone by swiping them left or right.
• The video menu (⋮) opens againOctober 17, 2026 · The ⋮ menu in a demo video's controls opens again, on the phone and on the desktop, so you can download the video, turn on captions, change the playback speed or use picture-in-picture.
• Phone checks in real Chrome on an Android emulatorOctober 17, 2026 · A new script, bun scripts/android-phone.ts, lets agents test the phone view in real Chrome on an Android emulator.
• Flick the phone's conversation panel up or downOctober 17, 2026 · On the phone, you can now throw the conversation panel instead of dragging it all the way.
• Proposals from the work retrospective can be accepted againOctober 17, 2026 · Proposals that the work retrospective puts on the canvas can be accepted again with "Übernehmen und starten", "Übernehmen" or "Als Idee besprechen".

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