What’s new in Cavvy

• Finish Task now pushes your work. Merge into main first brings main up to date with the server, then merges the task and pushes main. Set Aside pushes the task's branch before removing the task. If the merge or the push fails, main stays where it was and the task stays open.
• Merging no longer needs your project folder on main. If main isn't checked out, Cavvy merges in a folder of its own and leaves your checkout as it is.
• Changes the agent left uncommitted are committed and go along with the task, also into a merge request. Throwing them away is still an option.
• A task whose work already reached main on the server, merged under another branch's name, no longer counts its commits as open, and Open Merge Request says so instead of opening an empty request.
• A task stays indented under its project while the agent rebases it.

Restart the background service from Cavvy's banner after updating, on this Mac and on your servers, to get this.

• Sessions on a Linux server keep running after you disconnect, also on servers that end every process of an SSH login when it ends. With lingering turned on (loginctl enable-linger), Cavvy's background service runs outside your login. Run Doctor on the server tells you when sessions would stop at logout, and how to fix it. Update the server's background service to get this.
• Usage no longer cuts off the name of a model's limit.
• Texts about restarting the background service now say what happens: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and opencode continue their conversations, and shells keep their output.

• Opening Changes in a narrow window no longer crashes Cavvy, and the window no longer goes blank when Changes updates. Changes and Summary now sit next to the session with an edge you can drag; their width is remembered.
• A folder Git doesn't track yet shows how many files it holds instead of “+0 −0”, and selecting it lists them instead of “Too large to show”. Servers show the count after their background service is updated.
• Cavvy reconnects to a server right after the network changes – a VPN coming up, another Wi-Fi, waking from sleep – instead of waiting for the next retry or a restart.

• The sidebar is easy to read again in Light Mode. A dark terminal used to shine through its glass and turn it grey, with grey text on top. The same happened with a light terminal in Dark Mode.
• Session names stay dark in an inactive window, and the reset times under Usage are a little larger.

Keyboard shortcuts you know from other Mac terminals, and your own.

Editing in the terminal

• ⇧↩ starts a new line in Claude Code and other agents without sending the message.
• ⌥⌫ deletes the previous word, ⌥⌦ the next one.
• ⌘⌫ deletes to the start of the line.
• ⌥← / ⌥→ jump a word, ⌘← / ⌘→ to the start or end of the line.

Option stays free for typing characters like @, ~ and |.

Session menu

• ⌘F finds text in a session's scrollback.
• ⌘K clears the scrollback.
• ⌘1 … ⌘9 jump to a session in the sidebar, ⌃⇥ / ⌃⇧⇥ to the next or previous one, and ⌥⌘↓ to the next session that needs you.
• ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 change the text size.
• Show Changes (⌘D), Open Terminal (⌘J) and Restart (⌘R) are in the menu too. Removing an ended session is now ⇧⌘⌫, since ⌘⌫ deletes the line.

Your own shortcuts

Settings → Keyboard lists every shortcut. Click one to record other keys, or turn it off. Your own shortcuts send text to the terminal, like git status\r.

• Shell sessions keep their output when Cavvy updates or restarts: test results and everything else you printed are still there, with colors and scrollback, and the shell continues in the folder you were last in. A dimmed line marks where the new shell starts.
• Reopening Cavvy shows a shell's whole scrollback, not just the visible screen.

Programs that were running in a shell, like a test run, don't survive a restart; their output so far does. This starts with the first restart after the update.

• Cavvy no longer asks for keychain access to Claude Code's login. It reads the login the way Claude Code does, so updates and Claude Code renewing its login don't bring the prompt back.
• Updates show these notes, and Cavvy checks for updates automatically from the start; you can turn that off in Settings.
• The + and − buttons under the agent list have the same size.