PX News,the cockpit.
A public newsroomfor what just shipped
The latest Influxx product news — launches, agents, notes, and cockpit updates.
Notes from the team on what shipped, what is next, and how the cockpit gets built. Here is the newsroom:
A Plain Terminal, Right Next to Your Agents
Influxx desktop now lets you open a plain terminal tab right next to your AI agents — no agent attached, just a normal shell when you need one fast.
The Small Pill That Tells You It's Time to Update
A quiet pill in the app chrome replaces the update popup, so new versions wait patiently for a convenient click instead of interrupting your actual work.
One Look, Two Platforms: Bringing Glass Chrome to Desktop and Mobile Together
Influxx brought its new translucent glass look to desktop window chrome and mobile screens at the same time, so switching devices feels like one product.
Your Phone Now Remembers Where You Left Off
A right swipe from your phone's home screen now reopens your most recent workspace instantly — no menus, no hunting, just back where you left off.
Managing Your Running Processes From Your Pocket
Forgot a dev server running when you left your desk? Influxx Mobile brings SurfStack to your phone so you can pause, restart, or stop it from anywhere.
Reading Documents Without Leaving the App
Influxx Mobile now opens PDFs, images, and text files an agent shares right inside the chat, so you never break your flow to view one.
A Fresh Coat of Glass Across Almost Every Screen
Influxx Mobile restyled About, Account, Notifications, Status, Settings, and more in one coordinated sweep instead of a slow, screen-by-screen trickle.
Getting Started Now Takes Under a Minute
Influxx sign-up moved from a cramped popup to a full page, dropped an unnecessary extra step, and fixed terms pages so section headers stay readable.
Forgot Your Password? That Actually Works Now
Influxx shipped a real password reset flow: click a link, check your email, set a new password, and you are back in your account in minutes.
Influxx Is Free. The Whole Thing.
Influxx dropped its paywall entirely — every agent, every parallel worktree, the full review and terminal experience, free with nothing held back.
One Seamless Composer, Not Two Panels: Redesigning How You Talk to Your Agent
How Influxx merged its chat composer and status strip into one seamless surface, removing the mismatched-panel look that quietly tired out long agent sessions.
Running Five Coding Agents at Once Without Losing Your Place
Inside the flexible pane grid that lets developers run several AI coding agents at once without accidental swaps, lost scroll position, or bleeding text selection.
What Happens When You Close the Lid Mid-Task
What really happens to an AI coding agent when you close your laptop mid-task, and how Influxx tells the truth about whether it is still working or truly gone.
Fixing the Hole in Our Own Vibrancy Mode
A flat black void broke our macOS translucent window effect — here is how we tracked it down and why we still won't use vibrancy everywhere.
Notes With No Edges: Why We Built an Infinite Canvas Instead of a Sidebar List
An infinite canvas for planning next to your terminals, where a markdown checklist can be run directly as an agent task — and what we did about clutter.
Every Keyboard Shortcut, On Every Operating System — No Exceptions
Why hardcoding Mac shortcuts is a silent tax on every other platform, and the discipline of true cross-platform shortcut and label parity.
The Right Rail That Knows What Project You're In
How Influxx's desktop right rail follows your active project across browser, source control, and chat — and the trade-offs of auto-switching context.
The Second Pass on Our Mobile Home Screen: What We Got Wrong the First Time
Why Influxx Mobile's first home screen felt flat, and how a bento-grid redesign fixed hierarchy without sacrificing clarity on a small screen.
One Settings Screen, Every Platform's Rules
How Influxx Mobile restyled dozens of settings screens with one design system while keeping iOS and Android feeling truly native.
Built for the people who ship.
Where this is written
Most product updates vanish into a changelog. The decisions, the tradeoffs, the leftover feeling get crowded out by the next launch.
ETAPX built PX News as the public room for that exact window. Curious first. One story at a time. Never a dump of release notes.
A launch is not a streak and not a chart. It is a story, and a studio that stays with it.
Shipped work needs a paper trail.
What this is
Most company blogs hand you the average of everything already announced. These notes are the opposite of that: unedited enough to still be useful.
We do not announce on contact. We write what shipped, why it shipped, and what we still have not figured out.
Sitting with a ship until it has a shape, then asking one more honest question.
Scoring the week, performing insight, or turning a ship into content.
This is a newsroom, not a changelog, not a pitch deck. Written by the people building it.
Write. Ship.
Share. Stay.
The newsroom is simple on purpose. Four ways to hold what shipped, and none of them ask you to perform.
Write while the decision is still close, before the next launch takes it.
One honest story at a time. Product, company, technical, the work in between.
PX News, so recurring products and people have somewhere to accumulate.
No streaks. No guilt. Public on purpose. Read anytime.
Influxx, our first cockpit.
How the cockpit works
Our first cockpit. A desktop for parallel AI coding agents and markdown notes. Worktrees, CLIs, native chat. The pieces below are the ones we keep writing about.
Read the newsroomThe everyday tools. Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor — the CLIs you already run.
One markdown file next to the agent. A thought, not a ticket farm.
The parallel lanes of those agents. A trail of work that actually ships.
Launches, people, and decisions that keep coming back, held as a newsroom.
Public on purpose. Present when it ships.
How we hold the house
A launch is not a status update. The material in this newsroom is more specific than a changelog, so the writing is slower.
The work is public on purpose. We write it down. You can read it whenever you want. The studio remembers what it shipped.
- L1Honesty. Written by the people building it. No sale. Read anytime.
- L3Craft. PX News is journalism from inside the house, and the page says so.
- L5Care. The products still have to be safe for the people who use them. We do not sign off.
We would rather be plain about the work than let the design imply otherwise.
The newsroom, still being written.
Company notes, product decisions, and the quieter community pieces. Each card opens to the full story.
Shrinking Desktop-Grade Agent Status Onto a Phone Screen
How Influxx Mobile compresses live agent status, project context, and a running plan into one thumb-friendly composer strip built for a sub-second glance.
Teaching a Voice Assistant to Actually Listen
Why a trustworthy listening/thinking/speaking state machine matters more than raw accuracy for hands-free voice interaction with a coding agent.
Why a Denied Permission Shouldn't Be a Dead End
How Influxx Mobile turns a denied microphone or photo-library permission into a recoverable moment instead of a silently broken feature.
Tracking Transparency and Analytics, Done Right
Why Influxx Mobile waits to ask for tracking permission until you've had a real moment of value — and what privacy-first actually means for a developer tool.
Designing a Verification Badge People Actually Trust
The design story behind Influxx's 12-point starburst verification badge — point count, weight, spacing, and what separates official from homemade.
The Workspace Screen That Shows You Everything at Once
Why Influxx Mobile splits its workspace screen into agents, tasks, and accounts tabs — and what was deliberately left off mobile on purpose.
Why Kimi CLI Needed Its Own Session Detector, Not a Shared Table
Kimi CLI's event-sourced wire log and multi-file session index broke Influxx's shared provider pattern, so Influxx 1.2 gave it a dedicated detector instead of a wider abstraction.
From Open PR to Reviewing It, Without Leaving the Tab
Influxx 1.2 rebuilds the new-tab modal and adds a worktree context bar above native chat, so branch state, diff stats, and Create PR reuse Source Control's own flow in one tab.
Stabilizing the Stream: Collapse-Stable Activity Cards in Influxx
How Influxx 1.2 rebuilt native chat so agent activity cards, thinking labels, and tool results stop jittering while an agent works, grounded in the actual rendering code.