{"slug": "conductor-0-78-0-introducing-conductor-cloud", "title": "Conductor 0.78.0: Introducing Conductor Cloud", "summary": "Conductor released version 0.78.0, introducing Conductor Cloud, a platform for cloud workspaces that run in isolated sandboxes and persist when users close the app. The update also launches the Conductor API for programmatic workspace management, along with numerous improvements and fixes.", "body_md": "Conductor Cloud is here!\nCloud workspaces run in isolated sandboxes, so agents keep working when you close the app or step away from your computer.\nTo get started, sign up for Pro and create an organization.\nWork from anywhere, together\nConductor Cloud runs on isolated microVMs with your repos and dependencies pre-installed.\nWorkspaces keep going when you close your laptop and can be opened from the desktop app, the mobile app (coming soon), or the Conductor API. Share a workspace link (⌘⇧C) with teammates, see who is active, follow work you care about, and prompt agents together in real time.\nAPI\nToday we’re also launching the Conductor API, which lets you manage **cloud workspaces** programmatically. Use it to do things like:\nCreate workspaces, send prompts to the coding agent, and read its replies.\nBuild bots that kick off agent work.\nRun and manage Conductor workspaces from your OpenClaw.\nWe’ve already seen users build awesome stuff like their own mobile apps 👀, UI clients, and internal tools, like Slackbots.\nGet started with the API.\nImprovements\nAdded guided onboarding for new Cloud organizations and members joining an existing organization\nRedesigned Cloud computer builds with clear status, build history, failure details, logs, and one-click activation of earlier builds\nCloud computer setup now imports both local and Cloud environment settings\nAgent setup can import API keys already configured on your Mac, and the claude setup-token command is now copyable\nCloud computer setup chats now open with an editable draft that helps you describe the changes you want\nYou can connect multiple GitHub organizations and add repositories directly from Cloud computer settings\nAdded shortcuts for managing repositories from the Cloud workspace picker, plus a Clear action during onboarding\nThe workspace top bar now lets you copy a link to a Cloud workspace or follow it\nCloud chats with long histories now load faster and catch up with less UI jank after launch or reconnect\nWorkspaces in the sidebar, Home, and the command palette now show their repository icon and git state as a colored stripe\nHome now shows the active organization, its members, and a shortcut to organization settings\nThe account menu and sidebar now show your Free, Pro, or Team plan, with clear actions for upgrading and setting up a new Cloud organization\nBilling now lives in Personal → Account and opens the Stripe billing portal\nRedesigned the Account settings page and GitHub connection dialog\nRedesigned the experimental compact model picker with search, clearer effort and fast-mode controls, and model configuration in each row\nAdded an experimental setting for forking a chat into a new tab at any time—even mid-turn—from the tab menu or with ⌘⌥↩\nSplit tabs is now available under Settings → Experimental\nComputer-use tool calls now show their step title beside the tool name\nCopied files now keep their names when attached to a chat\nYou can now stop agents while they wait on background tasks\nDiffs for large files now display when the change itself contains only a small number of lines\nThe draft pencil now appears on the session tab that holds the draft and on Create when a new-workspace draft is unsaved\nConductor now requires an update when the installed version is no longer supported\nTeammate avatars beside Home now open Home instead of filtering workspaces\nImproved sidebar performance when you have many workspaces\nWorkspaces with a dev script running now also show agent activity\nAdded the /prototype skill for executing a request immediately with minimal process\nMade the pending-checks animation in the sidebar more subtle\nAdded Ithaca to the legendary cities in the Passport\nFixes\nFixed background tasks started by subagents appearing in the main chat transcript\nFixed background tasks and long-running workflows being stopped when a chat sat idle\nFixed stale account state after identity changes\nRestored Cloud environment variables and workspace setup scripts for local organizations\nRestored the Following section to team organization sidebars\nFixed Cloud file mirroring using the wrong GitHub credentials\nFixed Cloud file sync repeatedly touching unchanged Git LFS files or misclassifying files after a re-baseline\nTurning Sync files off now sticks, and local terminals ask before turning it back on\nFixed synced files remaining on your Mac after a Cloud workspace was archived elsewhere\nFixed Cloud file sync retrying in a tight loop when it could not start\nFiles to copy patterns now skip matching binary files instead of blocking Cloud workspace creation\nImproved recovery when local agent replies arrive before their turn is ready\nFixed Cloud session durations sometimes showing 0 seconds after loading chat history\nFixed workspace creation when Skip new workspace modal is enabled in a Cloud organization\nRepository environment variables can now share a name with a user-level variable\nCloud data such as members, computers, and API keys now refreshes after transient failures instead of staying stale until restart\nWorkspace updates now recover from startup connection failures\nClarified Cloud connection errors when sending a message and removed internal service names from error messages\nFixed text typed immediately after opening Create or Search landing in the composer behind the dialog\nFixed the new-workspace dialog focusing Create more while it was still loading\nFixed the @ mention menu closing and reopening on every keystroke\nFixed model-picker mouse-wheel scrolling, held-arrow navigation, and first-press Escape behavior\nCorrected model-picker copy that said a model would open in a new tab instead of a new chat\nFixed the unread dot in session tabs shrinking when the tab bar was crowded\nKept recording controls visible while the composer is minimized\nFixed creating workspaces from pull requests opened from contributor forks\nNewly pushed branches now appear in Create From without restarting Conductor\nArchived workspaces no longer appear in Pinned\nFixed the workspace list shifting horizontally when its scrollbar appeared\nFixed a crash that could occur when opening the macOS file picker\nTop-left controls no longer leave traffic-light spacing while the window is fullscreen\nFixed messages being dropped when chat settings changed while Claude was responding\nFixed messages sent while an agent was working sometimes never reaching the agent\nFixed the end of dictated voice messages being cut off\nFixed low-contrast text on cost and NEW badges in light mode\nFixed clipped text in terminal status indicators\nRemoved Spotlight testing from Cloud organizations, where it does not apply\nCloud computer environment values now preserve line breaks when pasted\nFixed Fable subagents using Opus 4.8 instead of Opus 5\nFixed Conductor sometimes taking a long time to reopen a workspace\nClicking a notification now opens the session that triggered it\nFixed a crash when a second collaborator started typing in a chat\nFixed run and setup scripts silently restarting after a Cloud connection drop\nThe Run tab no longer stays on Stopping when a Cloud workspace stops responding, and now labels unconfirmed stops\nEditing a queued message now restores skill references as skill pills\nFixed sidebar indicators flashing when a workspace run started\nGitHub App installation links now always open the correct Conductor GitHub App\nFixed Codex review comments showing the Claude logo\nOnboarding now explains when Conductor cannot access a selected GitHub repository\nClarified how to recover from expired or disconnected GitHub credentials during local repository setup\nFixed Cloud setup chats pairing an agent with the wrong model\nCloud computer settings now show their layout immediately while loading\nFinishing onboarding now waits for your latest repository selection\nText attachments are no longer dropped when creating a Cloud workspace\nCloud workspaces can now reuse the same display name\nFixed the organization-settings button on Home shifting slightly on hover\nMisc\nCloud computer settings now identify Amazon Linux 2023\nUpdated Cloud workspace hosting labels to say Conductor Cloud\nMarked the previous Cloud settings section as Legacy and moved it to the bottom of Settings\nReduced the height of the Settings top bar\nRemoved the outdated directory diagram from Cloud computer settings\nUpdated Cloud onboarding to highlight API access", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/conductor-0-78-0-introducing-conductor-cloud", "canonical_source": "https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.78.0-introducing-conductor-cloud", "published_at": "2026-07-30 00:00:00+00:00", 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