{"slug": "conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews", "title": "Conductor 0.55.0: Per-repo Spotlight, HTML previews", "summary": "Conductor released version 0.55.0, introducing per-repository Spotlight configuration, HTML previews, and automerge for pull requests. The update also includes merge queue status display, various improvements, and multiple bug fixes.", "body_md": "Spotlight\nSpotlight testing is now configured per repository instead of globally - that means you can control workspace isolation per-project.\nimage\nSpotlight is a useful feature for managing complex developer workflows - it allows you to run a single instance of your project and hot-swap branches, rather than running multiple branches in parallel.\nThe unreasonable effectiveness of HTML\nWe've added HTML previews. Thanks Thariq for the inspiration!\nAutomerge\nYou can now automerge PR's so they merge when CI passes.\nimage\nMerge queue status\nPRs in the merge queue now show their queued status in the git panel.\nMerge queue checks pending\nImprovements\nMoved the Automerge setting from Experimental to Git in Settings\nRequest metadata now shows Claude Code response speed\nClick an image in chat to open it as a file tab in the top bar\nCloud beta just keeps getting better 🙂\nFixes\nFixed an issue where Conductor would not show the restart prompt after a manually checked update finished downloading\nFixed an issue where the embedded Claude login terminal could disappear before login finished\nFixed an issue where pasted images could appear only after workspace setup finished\nFixed an issue where Claude fast mode credit limits were not surfaced in the composer\nFixed remote workspace image previews for attachments and markdown images\nFixed an issue where editing CRLF files could rewrite every line ending\nFixed diff header toggle spacing\nFixed an issue where plain git push in new Conductor workspaces did not set the branch upstream\nFixed an issue where @ referencing files could lead to files being removed\nFixed file sync startup so remote workspaces no longer require SSH config\nFixed an issue where sleeping cloud workspaces could fail to archive\nFixed an issue where typing in the file editor with Find (⌘F) open would scroll the line being edited to the top of the viewport\nFixed an issue where queued PRs could briefly appear merged in Conductor\nFixed an issue where sending a queued message immediately could miss newly added attachment uploads\nFixed an issue where queued messages could be hidden while Conductor downloads an agent\nFixed an issue where Conductor showed agent binary downloads and held messages even when a custom executable was configured\nMisc\nYou now see a heads-up toast when changing model or effort level mid-chat that the next response will be slower\nAligned the context usage control in the composer", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews", "canonical_source": "https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.55.0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews", "published_at": "2026-05-20 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 01:54:07.343333+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Conductor", "Claude Code", "Git", "SSH"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-55-0-per-repo-spotlight-html-previews.jsonld"}}