## Houston 0.4.3

A reliability and polish release. Search across all your missions, see live agent activity right in the sidebar, queue follow-ups while an agent is mid-run, attach files with confidence, and a long list of small rough edges is gone.

### What's new

- **Search across every mission.** A search field in Mission Control and the per-agent board scans titles first, then falls back to mission text and full conversation history. Translated empty/loading states, fast even on large workspaces.
- **Mission search in the agent header.** The search box now lives in the agent header next to the title (not buried in a menu), one keystroke from anywhere in the per-agent board.
- **See agent activity in the sidebar.** Each agent in the sidebar now shows whether it's idle, working, or waiting on you, so you can tell at a glance which agent is busy without opening it.
- **Queue follow-ups mid-run.** Type a follow-up while an agent is still working and Houston now batches it into one combined next turn instead of dropping it. Stop/Esc still works, and you can run parallel sessions in the same folder.
- **Better attachments.** Attachments now stream through binary upload sessions, large selections chunk cleanly, unsupported files are rejected with a clear message, and your composer draft is preserved if something goes wrong with the upload.
- **Updater that actually relaunches.** When Houston downloads a new version, the install + relaunch handoff is more reliable, no more orphaned splash window or "did it update?" guessing.
- **Phone connection survives restarts.** "Connect phone" pairings used to drop after a Mac sleep or quit. They now persist across restarts, so you don't have to re-scan the QR code every morning.
- **OpenAI reconnect, no flapping.** When Codex needed to reconnect to OpenAI, the UI sometimes flickered between connected and disconnected for a few seconds. The state machine is steady now.
- **Codex recovers when its session file is gone.** If the underlying Codex resume rollout file disappears or got corrupted, Houston now falls back gracefully instead of getting stuck on "resuming...".
- **Codex config stays your config.** Houston no longer rewrites your `~/.codex/config.toml` behind your back. If you customize it, it stays customized.
- **Composio integrations refresh on connect.** Connecting a new Composio integration (Gmail, Slack, etc.) used to need a manual reload to show up in the agent. The list now refreshes the moment the OAuth window closes.
- **Provider model picker scrolls.** The model menu in agent creation no longer overflows the screen for providers with long model lists. It scrolls inside the menu.
- **Cleaner Skill picker.** Categories that were empty or showed only one Skill no longer get their own tab, so the tab bar in the Skill picker doesn't waste space.
- **Mission titles match your provider.** The auto-summarized mission title is now generated by the same provider your agent is using, so styling and tone stay consistent.
- **Bug reports go through cleanly.** The Report bug button now sends through a native webhook path that doesn't get blocked by Tauri's network sandbox, so reports actually reach us.
- **Tighter agent prompts.** Houston's bundled agent prompts had drifted into long, repeating instructions. They've been pruned, agents stay on-character with less context overhead and quicker first responses.
- **Skill search degrades gracefully.** When skills.sh hits its search rate limit, Houston now backs off and shows cached results instead of erroring.

### Behind the scenes

- **Public changelog.** [gethouston.ai/changelog/](https://gethouston.ai/changelog/) now shows release notes for every version, pulled live from GitHub. Linked from the top nav and footer.

### Before you upgrade

- Quit Houston before installing. macOS doesn't always replace a running app. If in doubt: `rm -rf /Applications/Houston.app` and drag the new copy in.

### Known limitations

- Windows support is still in progress (engine compiles for Windows, signing + CI are next).
- Mobile companion is still beta. Reconnects are now durable, but expect occasional hiccups. Keep your Mac awake while using it.
