Changelog

The latest improvements, fixes, and platform updates.

1. v0.1.0

   2026-06-08
   • Initial public release — an agentic development extension for VS Code that drives the Claude Code CLI hands-free, by voice. Wake by voice, dictate your prompt, submit, and hear Claude's replies, permission requests, and summaries spoken back to you.
   • Channels — run a whole team of Claude agents at once. Group your Claude sessions into channels (a channel per project, feature, or area) and run several agents inside each one, all working in parallel. Manage it all from the Verbative panel: add a channel or an agent, rename them, and start fresh, resume, or continue any session. Your dictation and the voice key route to whichever agent you've selected, so switching focus is a single click, and each channel keeps a shared notes file woven into every agent's prompt — note a decision there (or ask an agent to) and the others see it on their next turn, no re-explaining context. Available on every plan — Free includes one channel with up to two parallel agents; Advanced is unlimited.
   • Mechanics — reusable shell scripts, organized in groups right in the Verbative panel. Save the commands you run all the time (start a dev server with npm run dev, spin up a browser, kick off a build), then run or stop each one with a single click. Every Mechanic runs in its own terminal, so it gets your real shell and PATH, streams its output live, and stops cleanly. Organize them into groups you create, rename, and delete; edit each script in a built-in shell editor or import an existing .sh file. Free includes up to two Mechanics; Advanced is unlimited.
   • On-device wake-word and command recognition with whisper.cpp — your voice commands never leave your machine.
   • Speak any language — dictate your prompt in any language and Verbative translates it to English entirely on-device with whisper.cpp, then types the clean English prompt into the CLI. Always on, on every plan; the voice commands stay English. On the full Large v3 model it also detects and names the language you spoke.
   • Two transcription modes, switchable in a tap: Local (whisper.cpp on-device, full privacy) with a selectable whisper model and a live transcript, or Cloud (Claude Code's built-in dictation).
   • Local neural voice output with Kokoro — spoken summaries, permission prompts, and progress, with no cloud TTS. Choose the Claude and mediator voices, adjust playback speed, and set how much of each permission prompt is read aloud.
   • A full spoken command vocabulary: listen, stop listening, hold on, approve, deny, explain, update, stop claude, repeat, repeat review, skip, pause, and resume.
   • Answer permission prompts by voice — hear what Claude wants to do, then approve, deny, or ask it to explain before deciding.
   • Live Hands-Free panel with a real-time equalizer, an optional working pulse, and an attention beep when Claude needs you.
   • Advisory Board — six domain advisors review every prompt and its result, each speaking in its own voice; the roster is fully customizable. Free includes up to 10 reviews a day; Advanced is unlimited.
   • Project Roadmap — a live project map plus a Spec → Build → Review → Ship board that Claude keeps in sync. Free includes up to 10 board updates a day; Advanced is unlimited.
   • Editable voice commands (Advanced) — rename any trigger phrase to whatever feels natural.
   • Verbative Shot — press ⌃⌘S (or the panel button) and drag a region anywhere on screen straight to your clipboard. Keep dragging for several in a row (Esc to finish) and they're stacked into one image on your clipboard, so a single paste shows Claude everything at once — a design to build, a render that looks wrong, an architecture sketch to scaffold from. Captures stay on your Mac, nothing is uploaded. Free covers 10 captures a day; Advanced is unlimited.
   • Per-workspace isolation — separate VS Code windows run independent Verbative sessions without cross-talk.
   • Bluetooth headset (HFP) support and selectable audio input/output with hot-restart.
   • Built for accessibility — run a complete coding session by voice, keyboard optional.
   • Runs on your existing Claude Pro or Max subscription through the Claude Code CLI — no API key, no SDK. Free includes 10 hands-free loops a day, cloud and local on-device transcription with your choice of whisper model, the Advisory Board and Project Roadmap (10/day each), and Verbative Shot (10/day); Advanced unlocks unlimited usage, editable commands, and a 48-hour cached license.
   • macOS · VS Code.