New
- Kimi Code is a stock agent. Pick it in the agent sheet, under "More agents…", like Claude Code or Codex. MAO resumes each node's own Kimi session after a restart, and the agent sheet's Session section lists that node's past sessions so you can pick one. Tasks reach a Kimi agent by themselves when its turn ends, with no Send. To do this, MAO adds a clearly marked block of hooks to ~/.kimi-code/config.toml. It saves a backup (config.toml.mao-bak) before its first write, keeps the file's permissions, never touches anything outside its block, and mao hooks remove kimi takes the block out again.
- Desktop apps on Windows (beta). You can now host a Windows app inside MAO, so your agents can test the app they are building. Put the app in a node, connect an agent to it, and the agent can see the app, click, type, read its controls and press its buttons through mao portal. The app runs as a window of your own desktop, and MAO shows that one window in the node, as it does on macOS. When the app opens a dialog, the node says "The app is waiting on a dialog". The New desktop app sheet lists the apps installed on your computer, Start Menu shortcuts and Store apps included. This is a beta and still needs work: some apps and launchers are not recognised yet, and while an agent is typing, the app may come to the front for a moment. Tell us what does not work for you.
- A permission checklist for desktop apps on macOS. The New desktop app sheet shows one row each for Screen Recording and Accessibility, with whether it is allowed. Allow opens the exact pane in System Settings, and the sheet notices by itself when you have flipped the switch. When macOS needs MAO to restart before Screen Recording takes effect, a button reopens it for you.
Fixes
- Codex agents can talk to the agents they are connected to on Linux and macOS. Codex's sandbox blocked every connection, so a Codex agent received its tasks but could not run mao peers, mao send or mao result ("Operation not permitted"). It only worked after you gave Codex full access by hand. A Codex connected to at least one other agent now starts in Codex's workspace-write mode with networking on, so it can reach MAO without asking you for anything. This also means it can edit files in its project folder without asking, and the commands it runs can reach the internet. To turn it off for a node, open its agent sheet and switch off "Network for connected agents". Windows was never affected.
- The same Codex fix works on remote and WSL canvases. The server never passed Codex those settings, so a remote Codex always failed this way. It now does.
- A renamed agent is found by its new name on remote and WSL canvases. After you renamed a node, the other agents still listed it under its old name, and mao send with the new name found nobody.
- A browser hosted on Windows shows its window. A Chrome node handed its launch to the Chrome you already had open and never showed anything. Each hosted browser now starts with a profile of its own, as it already did on Linux and macOS.