Release notes

What changed in offtrack, newest first. To update the client: npm install -g github:offsite-solutions/offtrack-client. The web interface updates on its own.

12 November 2026

• Inactive coworkers: with the new Inactive switch in the toolbar, the map and the list show all your coworkers: first those with an open session in the shared project (one that reported in the last 4 hours), then the rest. A coworker with no visible work in the time range still gets a band with their nickname. When off, only coworkers with an open session show.
• Email about cowork requests: when a coworker asks you for a project-level cowork, you get an email from offtrack@offsite-solutions.com with the commands to accept or decline. You no longer have to wait for your next session to see it. It goes to your notification address, or your account address if you haven't set one, and doesn't reveal which project the request comes from. Turn it off with the link in the email or the Cowork requests switch on Your account.

5 November 2026

• Email about client updates: if one of your machines runs an older client, you get an email at 8 am from offtrack@offsite-solutions.com. It lists the machines with the older client, and tells you how to update, what to do with running sessions, and what's new since the version on your machine. You get at most one email per version, in your notification language. It's on by default; one click in the email unsubscribes you, and you turn it back on in Your account.
• Only the English skill in the public repo (client 1.7.2): skills.sh now shows the English offtrack skill. offtrack install puts the Hungarian skill under ~/.claude/skills/offtrack as its own copy and keeps it current at session start. After the update the old Hungarian link switches over on its own; no reinstall needed.
• Case-insensitive paths: project detection ignores letter case, so on Windows d:/… and D:/… are the same directory, and on macOS so are ~/Work/Repo and ~/work/repo. offtrack root now accepts drive-letter paths on Windows. A new project is still named after the directory as written.
• Email when you get a task: on Your account you can ask for an email when someone gives you a task: a coworker hands one off or a project member assigns you a manual task. Pick one of your sign-in addresses and the email language (English or Hungarian). The email carries the task details and comes from offtrack+<project>@offsite-solutions.com. One click unsubscribes you from that project only; your other projects still notify you, and you can turn it back on in Your account.

4 November 2026

• Finished hand-offs in the coworker band: when your coworker closes a task you handed them, it stays in their band within the time window, faded, ticked and marked “done”, with the arrow still pointing at it. The band no longer disappears, and you can see the work is done.
• Hand-offs on both maps: the recipient's map now also shows an arrow from the sender's band to the handed-off item (with a project-level cowork). An arrow arriving from the right enters the item from below, so it no longer strikes through the label. Click a coworker's milestone to see its full text and time, read-only.
• Warning on a missing source item (client 1.7.1): when Claude hands off a to-do whose text refers to an open item of yours (“Implement #1153…”) without from_item_id, the reply says the item stayed open and the link does not start from it.
• Hand off your own item to a coworker: the menu of your own open branch or manual to-do has “Hand off to Neo…”: edit the text and due date if you like, your item closes, and the new one shows up on their side. On the map an arrow leads from the link on your thread to the handed-off item in your coworker's band. Your coworker's threads and items no longer offer any action; they are read-only.

3 November 2026

• Windows client (client 1.7.0): the client now installs and reports on Windows too, with the same npm install -g and offtrack install commands. Windows support is new: if something doesn't work, let us know.
• Coworkers, after a move: when the recipient moves a shared task to another of their projects, the items linked to it before the move stay visible to the sender.
• Requests without a nickname (client 1.6.1): a project-level request shows the nickname the requester had when sending it, and you can still accept or decline it after they cleared their nickname. offtrack cowork list never prints “null”.
• Live updates from a coworker's side: when a coworker works on a shared task or in their paired project, your map and list refresh by themselves.
• Link details on the map: click a link's label to see its full note and when it was recorded in a read-only box; for a hand-off, the target item's text, when (to the minute) and where it went, where it is now, and what became of it.

2 November 2026

• Coworkers (client 1.6.0): when several of you work on the same repos, you can hand tasks to each other from your own projects (“hand this to Neo”), and both sides see how a shared task is going. At task level only shared tasks show; with mutual consent, at project level every thread of the other project shows. A coworker's items are read-only, and you see only their nickname; a received task shows “← Neo: #12” to tell who sent it. New commands: offtrack nick, offtrack coworkers, offtrack cowork, offtrack share-item. You can also manage your nickname and coworks on the Your account page. Details: /cowork.
• Coworkers on the map and the list: a coworker's threads follow yours in the project's column, in a pale blue band; the list groups by project, with a section per coworker. The “Only mine / Everyone” switch in the toolbar hides or shows them.
• Repo labels: every item shows which repo it concerns (for example “api · web”), even when the session started in another repo. Claude sets them; you can fix them from the item's menu. Only the repo's fingerprint and root directory name reach the server (details).
• New CLAUDE.md block: after updating the client, run offtrack install again so Claude knows about hand-offs to coworkers.
• Rename a thread (client 1.5.0): rename any thread, the main thread included, with offtrack rename-thread <thread-id> <title> or by asking Claude (“rename the main thread to LDU NÖP v2”). Only the project owner can do it. Renaming a project now renames its main thread too, if the thread still carried the project's old name.
• Fix (client 1.5.1): offtrack version no longer offers an older version as an update when the server doesn't know about the latest release yet.

31 October 2026

• English by default: the web app starts in English whatever your browser language, and a language you pick stays. The prompt copied from the map now follows the interface language too.
• One repo, several machines (client 1.4.0): offtrack also recognises a repo by its git remote, so a second machine with a different path no longer creates a duplicate project, and the subprojects of a monorepo stay separate. The repo address never leaves your machine: the server only gets a salted fingerprint; details are in the install guide. The client README covers it too (client 1.4.2).
• Your own stats: the “Your stats” page in the main menu shows your open and closed items, sessions and most active projects over the last 30 days. It uses only your data, and only you see it. The skill knows about it too (client 1.3.2).
• The skill installs on its own (client 1.3.1): npx skills add offsite-solutions/offtrack-client brings the English skill, which explains how to install the client it needs. With the English client, run offtrack install once after updating.

30 October 2026

• Handing an item off to another project (client 1.2.0): if a to-do belongs to another project, Claude records it there (“hand this off to futureal”) and the source item closes at once. An existing item moves with offtrack move <item-id> <project> or the “Move to another thread” entry of the item menu (across projects too). On the target, the list and the map show a “← project” line for the source (“← project #id” when there is a source item), and the map arrow points at the item itself. When the target is done or dropped, the source thread’s next session gets a note (#id ✓ or #id ✗). The project name and the reference show only to people who can see the other side; members of the source thread get a short note with the id and the text, without the project name. Milestones and ideas cannot be handed off. After updating, run offtrack install once so the CLAUDE.md block is refreshed.
• Deadlines and renaming by asking (client 1.1.2): the skill knows about deadlines and offtrack rename, so you can ask Claude to record a task with a deadline (“send the quote by Friday”) or to show a project under another name (“call madsac MAD/SAC”).

29 October 2026

• Refresh button at the right end of the toolbar, with the time of the last update.
• New items as open branches: the new-item form now defaults to an open branch, which shows on the map right away. The default used to be a note, which is not an item: only the thread's next session receives it. The interface now says so when you save one. A deadline is now a visible item too: an open branch with a date, shown as “due: …” on the map and the list.
• Fix: live updates keep the map's and the list's scroll position (the map used to jump back to the top-left corner).

28 October 2026

Map

• Legend: in the header menu (“?” on mobile), explaining every symbol and state.
• Links to other projects: a row of their own on the source thread with a “→ Project” label and the note, and a teal dashed curve from there to the target project's thread. Red now means only an overdue deadline or a destructive action.
• Pinned header, date column and corner: project and thread titles and the dates stay in place while you scroll or pan.
• Pan with the mouse: grab the map's background and move it in any direction.

Interface

• New header: logo, menu (Legend, Guide, Release notes, Install) and your profile with your picture on the right. The profile menu holds Your account, the language switch and sign-out. The server downloads the picture at sign-in (Google, GitHub, GitLab).
• Appearance saved to your account: pick the theme (system, light, dark) and the map background (drawing paper, white) on Your account; it applies on every device.
• User guide (/guide), and backfill steps in the install guide.

Client

• Install without cloning: npm install -g github:offsite-solutions/offtrack-client, then offtrack install.
• Client versions and update notices (1.1.0): the client now ships as GitHub releases. When a newer one exists, a line in the terminal says so when a session starts, and the web interface tells you on first load if one of your machines runs an older one. New command: offtrack version.

27 October 2026

• Item IDs (#123) show in the list, on unsorted items and in the item menu's title, so you can refer to them, for example with offtrack publish.
• The /offtrack skill lists the commands when called without arguments.

26 October 2026

• Sign in with GitHub, GitLab or Microsoft too, and link accounts on Your account (for example a GitLab account with a personal address).
• Project filter: narrow the interface to one or more projects.
• offtrack list and offtrack_items: a project's open items by thread.
• * on the allowlist lets anyone in.

23 October 2026 – first release (beta)

• Mac client: hooks, an MCP server, CLAUDE.md rules and a skill, installed at user level so they work in every project. Sessions report milestones, open branches, manual tasks and ideas on their own; the Stop hook speaks up if a report is missing. An offline queue covers server outages.
• Startup context: each session receives the project's threads, open branches and new notes.
• Multiple users: sharing, members, ownership transfer, publishing private ideas, assigning manual tasks; admin commands and an allowlist.
• Web interface: list and map with an event-based timeline, live updates, collapsible and reorderable projects, and a mobile view; sign-in with Google.
• Backfill: offtrack backfill and offtrack import from past sessions.
• Mobile connector: add items from the Claude app (“track …”).
• Install page with client-token and connector-URL generation; Hungarian and English interface, and a choice of client language.
• The client is public: offsite-solutions/offtrack-client (MIT).