# MAO 0.7.1

Released 2026-09-28.

## WSL workspaces

On Windows, **Open on a server** now has a **Where** list that includes your WSL distributions, each with its logo, next to **Another machine**. Pick a distribution to open a project inside it. There's no host name to type and no SSH to set up.

- **A better folder picker.** Hidden folders stay hidden unless you ask for them, folders and files have icons, and you can click any part of the path, or **Up**, to move around. **Add to** chooses the section the new workspace goes into.
- **Server workspaces live in the sidebar like the rest.** Each one is a canvas in a section, with its distribution's logo or a server icon. You can drag it to another section or use **Move to**. The row shows the connection: nothing while it's connected, an amber dot while it connects, red if it stops, and **Reconnect now** in the row's menu.

## Installing a missing agent

If an agent isn't installed where a terminal starts it, the terminal says so ("Claude Code is not installed on this computer", or on the server's name) instead of offering to change accounts.

- On a server, **Install** runs the agent maker's own installer inside the terminal and starts the agent when it finishes. If the install fails, its output stays on screen with **Install again** and **Try again**.
- On Windows, **Install** runs the official installer for Claude Code, Codex, Grok and Antigravity, and MAO picks up the new program without a restart. OpenCode doesn't publish a Windows installer yet, and on macOS and Linux the terminal offers **Try again** after you install the agent yourself.

## More reliable server connections

- **A lost connection is shown once.** While MAO reconnects, the sidebar and one notice say so, and your terminals wait quietly instead of each one turning red and playing a sound.
- **A dropped network or a sleeping laptop no longer locks you out.** The server now lets go of a connection that has gone silent for 30 seconds, so MAO can reconnect instead of being told that "another MAO is using this workspace".
- **Machines that don't answer fail faster.** MAO gives up after 15 seconds and retries, instead of showing "Connecting…" for minutes. Typing a password is never rushed.
- **MAO's skills stay current.** After an update, the copies of MAO's skills that your agents use are refreshed too. If they can't be copied to a server, MAO tells you.
- **Keyboard:** Tab now reaches the **Where** list, and the arrow keys move through it.

## Fixes

- On macOS, agents couldn't talk to each other or read connected notes when the connection file's path was too long. MAO now uses a shorter name for it.

Source: https://trymao.dev/changelog/0.7.1