optionOS
What’s New
Every visible change, as it ships.
v0.6.0 · Upcoming
A new scene now shows the whole view before focusing the target
Open an interactive visual on the website and its numbered targets remain on the image while the scene and step count and explanation stay in the same panel.
Dictation search now responds as you type; large result sets no longer stall the panel
Search results refresh with each new part of the query. Search, list selection, and the detail surface remain usable with large result sets.
Speak, mark, and follow the agent: Dictation context now reaches Cockpit as one flow
Optionalist Dictation now does more than turn audio into text. It keeps the target app, captured visuals, drawn regions, pending recordings, and the context delivered to the agent visible inside one session. Cockpit t…
Watch your speech live, see its tags, step inside the image you captured
Speech is now visible end to end on the Dictation side: the live bar watches the speech and its context, the transformed panel shows the rectangles you drew and the images with their tags, and hovering a captured imag…
Open an agent link; jump to the exact session and follow the work in Cockpit
Click an https://app.optionos.app/agent?provider={provider}&session={sessionId} link shown in a conversation and optionOS opens the exact agent session: it focuses a live agent and asks for your confirmation before re…
Open the Settings tutorial from the graduation-cap button and move with the arrow keys or Enter
The graduation cap button in the optionOS Settings toolbar now opens the Settings tour. Its panel shows all three targets; after selecting Start , move between steps with ← , → , or Enter .
Open Shortcuts from Settings and see when each one works from its category
Shortcuts now live on one Settings surface. Each row shows the action, assigned keys, and enabled state, while its category tells you whether it works at all times, during a conversation, or in tools used outside a co…
Type the start of a word; find the right recording and every transcript match together
Type a beginning such as si , and optionOS suggests a matching search token such as signal . Once selected, matches are highlighted both in the recording list and inside the open transcript.
Images prepare faster, language issues are fixed, and long conversations feel smoother
This release improves media delivery, Turkish–English text, and long session performance together.
Flag the field first, then paste back to it even after speaking in another app
Press ⌥⇧V over a writable field to flag it as the delivery target. You can move through other apps while speaking, then press ⌥V to paste the pending dictation into the flagged field instead of the frontmost app.
Use Capture Text to copy words on screen; use Add Note to start a spoken note
Your four frequent capture actions now share one list: Screen Capture , Record GIF , Capture Text , and Add Note .
Speech flow and the source of captured content are now visible
optionOS now shows conversation order, the current word during playback and the source of captured content directly. The terminal agent and voice turns remain separate targets, the played word advances through the tra…
Stop choosing a paste format; optionOS now selects it for the target app
You no longer need to read a separate format card or choose a mode before pasting.
Screen-recording permission now leads to the right Settings page from one card
When screen recording access is needed, the correct System Settings destination and every required step remain in one guide card.
Sign in to an account once on this Mac; Cockpit keeps its usage beside your other accounts
Switching accounts no longer makes the previous usage view disappear. Cockpit remembers the Claude and Codex accounts observed on this computer and keeps their last known 5h/7d usage together in one panel.
Cockpit cards now have a stable number, a color tag, and two transcript-copy scopes
Cockpit cards now make it easier to find an agent session again and choose exactly which transcript scope should travel with you.
Cockpit shows usage limits and stable Ghostty cards
The Mac Cockpit grid now shows Codex 5h/7d usage percentages in the Usage chip. Opening it keeps the currently available Claude and Codex subscription account details on one surface. Card state changes now have animat…
Cockpit cards show an agent session as individual data-flow points
A Cockpit card now shows an agent session as separate readable data points instead of only a one line summary. The title, target, session identity, model, host app, state, transcript action, file counters, commit flow…
v0.5.0
v0.5: The system behind speech is now visible
Recording, transcription, capture, paste, storage and agent flows used to run mostly in the background; only the person building the system could see what it was doing. v0.5 brings states, choices, errors, usage and h…
The optionOS ecosystem in one working surface
optionOS now reads less like separate tools and more like members of the same AI work ecosystem: Dictation carries speech and capture, Clipboard/Pano manages visuals and paste flow, and Cockpit watches agents on Mac a…
v0.1.0
Open a guide on its own page; switch language or share the exact step
Website v0.1 is live. Every guide now has a directly accessible page in Turkish and English. The language control moves to the sibling page for the same guide.
Select a numbered area; let the visual focus and open its explanation beside it
A single Guide visual now turns the areas marked during a spoken explanation into clickable steps. Each step focuses the right region and opens its explanation beside it, so you can follow how a feature works on one v…