{"slug": "conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview", "title": "Conductor 0.62.0: Repo settings, browser preview", "summary": "Conductor released version 0.62.0 with file-backed settings in TOML format, an experimental browser preview powered by Agentation, and queue improvements with keyboard navigation. The update also introduces workspace creation from new chat and various fixes for settings and terminal issues.", "body_md": "Settings, now built around TOML\nConductor now supports file-backed settings at user and repo scope.\nRepositories can use .conductor/settings.toml as the shared team config, while local user preferences stay in ~/.conductor/settings.toml or repo-local overrides.\nLearn more about how settings work here.\nBrowser preview, powered by Agentation\nBrowser preview is available under Settings \\> Experimental \\> In-app Browser!\nTo get started, run your app using the Run tab. Click open in the sidepanel or press ⌘⇧B to render a localhost page inside Conductor. It comes built in with Agentation. Click on the UI, leave precise notes, and attach those annotations to the chat composer as context for the agent.\nShout out to Benji Taylor and the Agentation team!\nQueue improvements\nThe Composer queue gets keyboard navigation! Now you can use the arrows to navigate the queue directly from the chat.\nFrom the queue, you can take action on messages entirely with your keyboard - E to edit, return to send, and delete to remove.\nWorkspace creation from new chat\nYou can now fork chats to new tabs _or_ workspaces.\nImprovements\nAdded file-backed user and repo settings.\nAdded migration from legacy conductor.json to .conductor/settings.toml.\nModified settings now show an accent border and identify the file layer that set them.\nSimplified settings resets so each scope only clears its own override.\nMade the message composer shorter by default.\nAdded Sonnet 4.6 1M to the Claude model picker.\nImproved the prompt for configuring shared repository scripts.\nYou can now copy file paths from file link context menus.\nThe model picker for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry now shows the model each option resolves to and honors your ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL environment variables.\nIn the Changes tab file tree, you can collapse directories that contain the selected file, and collapsed directories now show their total lines added and removed.\nThe sidebar now warns when you are running a macOS version older than Tahoe.\nAdded an experimental chats inbox for the sidebar.\nAdded an experimental dispatcher flow for creating workspaces from new chat.\nThe sidebar and git panel now restore more view state across app restarts.\nImproved desktop loading performance and status animations.\nUpdated the Workspace diff tool icon.\nAdded an experimental semantic code diff preview when hovering changed files in the git panel.\nWhen experimental browser preview is on, you can open a browser tab from the + menu or with Cmd+Shift+B.\nCollapsed folders in the Changes tab now stay collapsed after navigation and app restarts.\nThe repo picker in the new chat dialog now has a more subtle, borderless trigger.\nYou can @-mention repository files when creating a workspace in the new-workspace composer, before setup runs.\nAdded a chat action to fork previous context into a new tab.\nFixes\nFixed repo settings controls that could save or read user-level values instead of repository-level values.\nFixed settings issues where model settings appeared in repo settings and invalid settings files blocked saves without a clear error.\nFixed an issue where shared .conductor/settings.toml could stay git-ignored in repos set up by older Conductor versions.\nModel and other settings in ~/.conductor/settings.toml are no longer overridden by stale values saved in the local database.\nFixed the settings migration prompt so long file paths no longer overflow, and shortened the button labels.\nFixed an issue where inline diff comments could look like GitHub review comments to agents.\nFixed Cmd+N’s project menu location.\nFixed an issue where the branch name prefix setting showed nothing selected and workspace titles displayed the branch prefix.\nFixed an issue where terminal output could be hidden after restarting Conductor.\nFixed an issue where terminal arrow keys could insert escape text instead of recalling command history.\nFixed Claude Opus model selections to use pinned versioned models.\nFixed an issue where Conductor could reopen a bad saved route on startup.\nFixed an issue where creating a workspace could skip repo selection after opening an existing workspace.\nFixed an issue where the app window could not be dragged from the settings page or the sign-in screen.\nFixed an issue where pressing Command-K in a large terminal could clear the terminal instead of opening the command palette.\nFixed another case where shortcuts could trigger while the terminal was focused.\nFixed an issue where linking another workspace did not give the agent access to its files.\nFixed an issue where the agent could hang when it used its question-asking tool several times in parallel.\nFixed an issue where the agent’s work after you approved a plan could appear to be missing from the chat.\nFixed Shift+Enter in the terminal so it inserts a newline instead of submitting.\nFixed Opus 4.8 sessions failing with a thinking block resume error.\nFixed an issue where PRs with only optional check failures looked blocked from merging.\nGhostty terminal no longer jumps back to the bottom when new output arrives while you are scrolled up.\nFixed an issue handling files whose names contain $.\nFixed a bug where shift-click could cause a reload.\nFixed an issue where Codex reconnect notices showed Conductor retry counts.\nFixed an issue where wrapped terminal links opened incomplete URLs.\nFixed an issue where the changed-files list could jump when collapsing folders.\nDisabled macOS one-time code and email autofill suggestions in Conductor text inputs. Thanks Mattt Zmuda for reporting this.\nThe git panel now keeps your Uncommitted/commit diff filter when switching between All files, Changes, and Checks.\nFixed an issue where expanded unchanged diff lines could repeat while scrolling.\nFixed an issue where copying text from the Ghostty terminal renderer could rearrange selected lines.\nFixed sidebar resource usage totals that counted agent and terminal work.\nFixed an issue where the Changes file list could jump during background git refreshes.\nFixed an issue where tool approval shortcuts could trigger while typing in the terminal.\nFixed an issue where offscreen loading indicators could keep animation resources active.\nFixed an issue where terminals could steal focus from the composer when they became interactive.\nFixed an issue where dropping attachments in Chromium Alpha did not attach files.\nFixed an issue where attaching diff comments could fail when the .context folder was tracked in git.\nFixed an issue where inline diff comments could look like GitHub review comments to agents.\nFixed an issue where Claude login recovery could keep reporting that Claude was unauthenticated after a successful login.\nFixed an issue where creating a local workspace could fail in fresh or empty repositories.\nFixed an issue where Conductor could crash after reopening a restored workspace tab.\nMisc\nMoved Sync agent configs into the Providers settings tab.\nRenamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop in the Open In menu.\nRemoved GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3 models.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview", "canonical_source": "https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.62.0-repo-settings-browser-preview", "published_at": "2026-06-04 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 01:53:38.916142+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Conductor", "Benji Taylor", "Agentation", "Claude", "Sonnet", "Bedrock", "Vertex", "Foundry"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-62-0-repo-settings-browser-preview.jsonld"}}