What we’ve shipped, what we’re building now, and what’s on deck. Watchfire is open source, so everything here is also where you can help.
The most recent releases — pulled straight from the changelog so this stays current automatically.
A cleanup release. The per-session agent home directories under ~/.watchfire/<agent>-home/ accumulated forever — one directory per session for every non-Claude backend — and deleting a project left all of its directories behind indefinitely (#47).
A dashboard-legibility release. The list view showed different information for different projects for reasons that had nothing to do with the projects, and neither chart in the Fleet insights card rendered a single number.
A bug-fix release for Insights. Project Insights, fleet Insights, the CSV/Markdown exports and the weekly digest all showed zeros or near-zeros, because almost no completed task ever received a completed_at timestamp — and every rollup filters on it.
Firestorm turns Watchfire inside out: instead of only driving coding agents, Watchfire is now driven by them. watchfire mcp serve exposes the whole orchestrator to any MCP-capable client — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode, Copilot CLI, or a custom agent — as an 18-tool factory. The outer agent plans and reviews; Watchfire manufactures the code in sandboxed, git-worktree-isolated runs and merges the results. The canonical loop is create_task → run_task → wait_for_task → get_task → get_task_diff → iterate.
Browse the full release history in the changelog.
Actively in flight. These are the pieces being shaped, prototyped, or merged behind a flag right now.
Bring `watchfired` to Windows with native service installation, signed binaries, and a Windows-shaped sandbox replacement for `sandbox-exec`. macOS and Linux already ship; Windows is the last gap.
Surface live token spend and cumulative cost per task in the Electron GUI, broken down by agent backend. Backed by transcripts already written to disk — no extra telemetry.
Lock in Codex CLI as a first-class backend alongside Claude Code: tighter error surfaces, consistent transcript layout, parity with the chat/task/start-all modes.
Vim and Emacs profiles for the TUI — modal navigation, named registers for task IDs, customisable bindings via `~/.config/watchfire/keys.toml`.
Second iteration of the daemon's two-way integration surface: streaming task updates, scoped capability tokens, and a stable wire format for third-party clients.
Replace the static search index on `/docs` with a daemon-served endpoint so search results reflect the version of Watchfire you actually have installed.
The next quarter's intended pickups. Order is rough and priorities shift — `lib/roadmap.ts` is the source of truth.
Ship `Watchfire.app` as a signed AppImage and a `.deb` so Linux users get the same multi-project view macOS already has.
First-class secrets storage scoped to a project — encrypted at rest, surfaced to agents only inside the worktree, never leaked into transcripts.
Schedule recurring tasks natively in `project.yaml` (`schedule: "0 9 * * 1"`) so the daemon fires drafts on its own — no external runner required.
Let `watchfired` accept connections from more than one operator with per-user identity, audit log, and project-level ACLs. The piece teams keep asking for.
A browsable index of community-contributed task templates, installable with one command — built on the same YAML schema as `/templates`.
Editor plugins that mirror the VS Code workflow: open a task, jump to its worktree, watch the transcript inline.
Watchfire is Apache-2.0 open source. Every item on this page maps to a GitHub label — the easiest entry points are tagged `good-first-issue` and `help-wanted`.
Not sure where to start? Drop into GitHub Discussions — design conversations and rough ideas land there before they become issues.