Amp 2026.08.19 → 2026.11.12: what changed
42 releases shipped between 2026.08.19 (August 19, 2026) and 2026.11.12 (November 12, 2026).
Changelog entries in this range
- 2026.08.21 — August 21, 2026: Explain Usage You can now ask Puck about your token, credit, and orb usage. Try questions like: - Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time? - Which mo
- 2026.08.23 — August 23, 2026: Friendly URLs for Sharing Orbs We use orb portals all the time to share what we're builing and get feedback. But the URLs were ugly and auto-generated. So, we m
- 2026.08.25 — August 25, 2026: Setup Without a Commit You can now store scripts to set up orbs outside of your repository. Amp can store pre-clone and pre-setup scripts in your project settin
- 2026.08.27 — August 27, 2026: Projects with Multiple Repositories Projects in Amp can now include more than one repository. Additional repositories are checked out to an adjacent directory i
- 2026.08.27.2 — August 27, 2026: So Long, TUI Sidebar We are removing the sidebar from the Amp TUI. Why? Because orbs, runners, and cross-agent messages means that there are more threads than e
- 2026.08.28 — August 28, 2026: Amp on iOS & macOS Control your orbs from anywhere. Install the iOS app through TestFlight[^1], and the macOS app through direct download. Download at ampcode.c
- 2026.08.28.2 — August 28, 2026: No Mailmap Required Amp can now use a Git identity that is separate from the email on your Amp account. Pick the name and verified email that should appear on c
- 2026.08.31 — August 31, 2026: Space to Talk Every thread in Amp now comes with its own space to talk. Hit Enter and you're in. Turn on your camera, share your screen, and talk it over with y
- 2026.09.01 — September 1, 2026: Fable 5.1 Claude Fable 5.1 now powers Amp's ultra mode, replacing Fable 5. It's very good at writing, very good at taking direction mid-task, and very good at w
- 2026.09.01.2 — September 1, 2026: Intelligently Ordered Diffs The first challenge in code review is figuring out which files to read first. Amp now orders diffs intelligently and highlights whic
- 2026.09.04 — September 4, 2026: Desktop Your orb now has a desktop you can see and control. Use the Desktop tab in any orb thread to get a high-resolution interactive Linux desktop. It's usefu
- 2026.09.08 — September 8, 2026: Steer, Don't Queue When you send a message while the agent is working, it's now delivered at the next possible opportunity, instead of being queued until the ag
- 2026.09.10 — September 10, 2026: Customize Your Dial You can now choose the models behind Amp's builtin modes and put your own agents on the Dial. There are two tabs in Settings → Mode Dial. Tu
- 2026.09.11 — September 11, 2026: Restack Your Changes We've added a Restack button that organizes all of your thread's changes into a cleaner set of commits. Use it to split a large diff into l
- 2026.09.13 — September 13, 2026: Free Agent Amp is now free to use when you bring your own compute and model subscriptions/keys. - No monthly plan is required anymore to use your ChatGPT subscr
- 2026.09.17 — September 17, 2026: One Runner Is Now Enough A runner can now serve many directories, not just the one it was started in. You can point it at specific projects and directories or l
- 2026.09.22 — September 22, 2026: One Runner, Many Worktrees A runner can now create Git worktrees. Pick a repository the runner serves, hit Tab, name the branch, and the thread starts in a fres
- 2026.09.24 — September 24, 2026: Shared Runners You can now share a runner with your workspace. Start it with --share and everyone in your workspace can start threads on that machine from ampco
- 2026.09.24.2 — September 24, 2026: The Mac App Is Your Runner The Amp app for macOS now starts a runner for you. You no longer need amp --no-tui open in a terminal to run threads on your Mac. Ope
- 2026.09.25 — September 25, 2026: Less Noise Amp now collapses your agent's step-by-step work even more, since you care about what the agent did, not how it got there. (You can still expand the
- 2026.09.28 — September 28, 2026: Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5.5 now powers Amp's medium mode by default, replacing GPT-5.6 Sol. If you use a ChatGPT subscription with the ChatGPT Only preset, medium
- 2026.09.29 — September 29, 2026: Plaid Speed Amp now supports Plaid speed for modes that use GPT-6 Astra. Plaid uses OpenAI's ultrafast speed tier, which enables inference requests to run up to
- 2026.10.06 — October 6, 2026: Many, Many Pucks You can now have multiple separate conversations with Puck. We know you love Puck. We also know you've been asking Puck about your recent orbs,
- 2026.10.10 — October 10, 2026: Use Your Claude Plan in Amp You can now use your Claude Pro/Max subscription in Amp. It's free and available for everyone now. When creating a new thread, just
- 2026.10.12 — October 12, 2026: First Things First, Faster The Changes pane now automatically puts files in an intelligent order. Amp reads the diff, identifies the files that are essential to
- 2026.10.12.2 — October 12, 2026: You've Got Comments Amp now follows up on GitHub pull requests it opens. Comments, reviews, and CI results show up in the same thread. When Amp opens a PR, the
- 2026.10.13 — October 13, 2026: Take Puck with You You can now talk to Puck from ChatGPT, Claude, and other agents via MCP. After developing an idea with ChatGPT's voice mode on a walk, send i
- 2026.10.16 — October 16, 2026: See Your Runner's Desktop You can now see and control your macOS or Linux runner's desktop. This is nice for trying native apps that Amp builds for you, such as
- 2026.10.19 — October 19, 2026: Assign It To Amp Amp is now an agent in Linear. Assigning an issue to Amp starts a new Agent Session in Linear and spawns a new orb. You can also mention @Amp t
- 2026.10.22 — October 22, 2026: Run Amp orbs on your own infrastructure. Run amp orb provider, point it at your dispatch script, and Amp handles the rest. Docker, E2B, Modal and more, ready to
- 2026.10.27 — October 27, 2026: Amp is now on Android! Grab the app at ampcode.com/app or just scan the QR code and see what's new on your phone.
- 2026.10.28 — October 28, 2026: No workspace needed to self-host orbs. Add your own provider in personal Settings → Orbs, and your threads show up under Self-Hosted, tagged Personal. Ready to
- 2026.10.29 — October 29, 2026: Ask Amp to work on your iOS or Mac app and watch it build, test, and run it on a cloud Mac. It even checks layouts on a folding iPhone Duo. Join the beta waitli
- 2026.10.29.2 — October 29, 2026: Ask Amp to draw it and it will: charts, timelines, diagrams, and clickable mockups, right in your thread. Curious what it drew for Quinn's diff stat buttons?
- 2026.11.02 — November 2, 2026: Amp can now hand you a living document right inside your thread. Tick things off, fix a table, rewrite a paragraph, and the agent reads your edits before it cha
- 2026.11.03 — November 3, 2026: Amp now has service accounts: team-owned accounts for shared work like PR reviews, doc checks, and CI bots, so the work outlives whoever set it up. Want to see
- 2026.11.05 — November 5, 2026: GitLab just joined Amp. Connect your account, and orbs can open merge requests, read pipelines, and reply to reviewers right in the thread that wrote the code.
- 2026.11.06 — November 6, 2026: Spotted something on your site that needs fixing? Amp 2026.11.06 lets you click any element, write instructions, and send them straight to Amp. Your next change
- 2026.11.06.2 — November 6, 2026: Meet Spaces: one conversation with one agent that spins up and coordinates the rest for you. Birds-eye view when you need it, deep dives when you don't. Your te
- 2026.11.09 — November 9, 2026: Portals now run on your own machine too. Ask Amp to spin up a dev server or build a site locally, then open it from the Portal tab from anywhere. Private by def
- 2026.11.10 — November 10, 2026: Amp just got boxes: always-on computers for the software you build with your agents. Starts at $18 per 30 days, runs anything, and your agent lives right on it.
- 2026.11.12 — November 12, 2026: Goodbye Dial, hello model selector. Pick your model and effort per thread, switch mid-thread, and see exactly who's paying for each one. Want us to choose? Staf