Changelog · Kovan

First release of Kovan, a multiplayer desktop IDE for software teams and the coding agents they run.

Builds for macOS (Apple silicon), Windows x64 and ARM64, and Linux x64 (AppImage).
An editor with a file explorer, terminal, Git panel with side-by-side diffs, command palette and editable shortcuts.
Dark and light themes.

A native harness that reads, searches and edits your repository and runs commands, with four permission modes: Plan, Request, Allow and Full.
Approval cards that authorize one exact action, once.
Claude Code and Codex in Kovan's chat surface or in their own terminal, with coordination tools over MCP.
Edits that stream into the editor while the model writes them.

More than 180 models through OpenRouter, with your own key or with managed usage.
JevRouter, which picks a model for each task and can be steered with directives such as [jev: only use Opus].
The cost of each turn, shown as it is reported.

Workspaces with viewer, commenter, editor and owner roles, checked on the server.
A Sessions board with live cards and an alerts strip for approvals, takeovers and conflicts.
Sessions with one branch and one plan, and a live lane for each person.
Comments on sessions, lane moments, file lines and diff hunks.
Overlap warnings before a prompt runs, advisory file locks, steer, take over and hand off.
Shared notes attached to files and commits, flagged when the code moves.

A worktree for each session and each subagent.
Snapshot sync through shadow refs on your own remote, with a three-way check; conflicts keep both versions.
Parallel subagents whose work is merged once, after its checks pass.
Pull requests created from a session.

A lead agent that splits a goal across AI teammates under a budget, with pause, stop and resume.
AI teammates as members of a workspace.
An Agents page that draws repositories, sessions and agents as a graph.

Provider cost × 1.05, charged once a day, with a spending allowance or an explicit unlimited setting.
Invoices, receipts and 30 days of usage by run, model and workspace.

What changed, release by release.