1.8.0 Beta 1

Dyad v1.8.0 Beta 1 adds favorite chats for quick access, gives Agent Mode Git tools for understanding history and undoing changes, improves side panel navigation, and makes it easier to review files changed by AI.

Highlights

Favorite chats

You can now favorite important chats so they stay easy to reach from the app sidebar.

Favorite chats appear in a dedicated section above the existing date groups. Use the star action on a chat row or the chat menu to add or remove a favorite without changing chat search or the ordering of your other conversations.

Favorites are saved across restarts, making this useful for long-running work, reference conversations, and chats you return to frequently.

Git tools in Agent Mode

Agent Mode can now use Git tools to understand how an app has changed over time and help undo file changes.

The agent can look through file and commit history when earlier versions provide useful context. It can also restore changes to specific files, giving it a safer and more targeted way to recover from an unwanted edit without reverting unrelated work.

Git context is preserved when agent work is replayed, helping follow-up requests stay consistent with the original workflow.

Improved side panel navigation

The side panel now separates top-level tabs from controls that belong to the active panel.

Tabs such as Preview, Code, and Publish have their own row, while preview browser controls appear below them. This gives the address bar and other controls more room and makes the panel hierarchy clearer.

Tabs now remain available across more panel states and show both icons and labels when space allows. On narrower panels, extra tabs move into an overflow menu while the active tab remains visible.

Review modified files after AI changes

After AI generates changes, Dyad now shows a modified-files card in the chat.

The card gives you a focused summary of the files affected by the response, making it easier to review the result, open relevant files, and understand the scope of a change before continuing.

This keeps the review step connected to the request that produced the changes instead of requiring you to inspect the file tree manually.

Enhancements

• Added staged file saves and a Commit menu to the code editor for recording changes without leaving the editor.
• Added Korean translations and a 한국어 language option in Settings.
• Redesigned the Plugins page with summary cards and dedicated detail pages for connected MCP servers.
• Persisted queued prompts across app restarts so pending requests are not lost when Dyad closes or restarts.
• Improved Security panel actions by reusing existing fix chats when appropriate and making security review workflows clearer.
• Added inline warnings when Fable models refuse a request, making the response state easier to understand.
• Added SQL database schema output to make database structures easier to inspect and use during development.
• Added desktop billing notices for actionable subscription states, with links to manage the issue in Dyad Academy.
• Improved LM Studio model discovery so vision-language and other generative models appear alongside text-only models.
• Improved app naming by separating user-facing display names from filesystem-safe folder names.
• Improved Agent Mode efficiency by using Code Explorer when relevant files are unclear and reading known files directly when enough context is already available.
• Made agent investigation, debugging, file organization, error handling, and verification guidance more context-sensitive.
• Limited oversized MCP tool results to reduce context bloat during long or output-heavy workflows.
• Reduced memory pressure from preview screenshots and large images in the media library.
• Improved pnpm migrations by stopping the running app before migration begins.
• Fixed version history behavior when an expected branch is unavailable, avoiding unsafe fallback to an unrelated branch.
• Hardened local agent file mutations and media cleanup against unsafe symlink traversal.
• Prevented Build mode cleanup from deleting an app's project root.
• Redacted dotenv values from agent file reads to reduce the chance of secrets entering AI context.
• Hardened renderer navigation and communication boundaries against untrusted content.
• Removed MCP tool access from Build mode so connected tools remain available through Agent Mode workflows.

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