Improvements
- Automated liveness/readiness checks for services
- Stats caching for container CPU metrics
- Ingress TLS certificate configuration enhancements
Improvements
- Performance: exclude build artifacts and temporary directories from indexing for faster, cleaner search
- Consistency: normalized ignored path handling across workspaces
- Billing & subscriptions:
- Hide trial when user already has an active subscription
Improvements
- Subscription & billing polish:
- Better subscription status handling and trial visibility
- Fixed links and labels for external billing pages
Improvements
- Updated README with comprehensive feature descriptions and clearer value proposition
- Better documentation of Monk’s autonomous capabilities and integrations
UI Improvements
- Made status bar icons larger for better visibility
- Fixed cluster switching to prevent accidental resource removal
Major Features
- Cluster Switching: You can now easily switch between multiple clusters using the status bar or command palette. Your cluster credentials and selections are saved across workspaces.
Improvements
- Improved billing transparency with centralized usage tracking
- Added real-time status updates in the chat interface
- Better status reporting showing current cluster, workloads, and secrets
Improvements
- Log retrieval now has better defaults and won’t hang indefinitely
- Fixed chat reloading - no more duplicate messages after refreshing with Ctrl/Cmd+R
- Chat conversations now restore properly when reopening
- Fixed issue where new chat messages could appear in the wrong conversation
Major Features
- Unread Notifications: Background conversations now show a green dot when complete, so you know when responses are ready
- Multiple Concurrent Chats: You can now run multiple conversations simultaneously without interference
Improvements
- Better handling of streaming messages across multiple conversations
- Improved chat history management
Major Features
- GPT-5 Integration: Monk now uses Azure GPT-5 models for better performance and accuracy
- AWS SQS Support: You can now work with AWS SQS queues
- Custom Domains: Set custom domains for Netlify and Vercel deployments
- Enhanced Documentation Access: Monk can now search and retrieve documentation to better answer your questions
- Improved Template Editing: Better YAML editing with automatic validation and error fixing
- Better Project Analysis: Improved understanding of Docker images, Dockerfiles, and build contexts in your project
Features
- New command to copy registry credentials from workspace to global scope
- Better credential management with workspace and global scopes
- Registry credentials created during cluster setup are now saved globally for reuse
Improvements
- Fixed credential deletion to work correctly across different scopes
- Better validation of configuration files with helpful suggestions
- Improved workspace analysis for more reliable builds
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can create or adopt SQS queues (standard or FIFO), set encryption, redrive and dead-letter policies, and return queue URLs and ARNs
- Monk can send and receive SQS messages, purge queues, and report queue statistics
- Monk can edit Monk YAML templates and iterate until all diagnostics are resolved to zero
- Monk can answer documentation questions about Monk concepts, CLI, and templates with enhanced semantic search
Features
- Social Login: Sign in quickly with GitHub or Google
- Improved Onboarding: Better first-run experience with provider-first authentication
- Simplified authentication - you can now sign up directly via email
- More streamlined login/signup process
Improvements
- Fixed issues with task history loading
- Better handling of authentication errors with clearer guidance
Features
- Task Board Access: New button in chat to quickly open the Task Board
- Task History Persistence: Task board now remembers your jobs and tasks across sessions
- Archive Management: Clear archived tasks with a new clear button
Improvements
- Better task timing displays showing local timestamps
- Task board continues collecting events even when closed
- Improved handling of workload deletion with options for volumes, backups, and images
- Fixed task board data corruption issues
Improvements
- More readable job names in the Task Board
- Task board now groups archived jobs for better organization
- Fixed issues with task board timing and display
Major Features
- Managed Services: You can now use managed databases from DigitalOcean and S3/Spaces storage for Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, and MinIO
Improvements
- Better session management - active sessions won’t timeout while you’re working
- Fixed task status display to correctly show errors instead of false successes
- Improved GPU support for DigitalOcean deployments
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can create DigitalOcean managed database clusters (Postgres/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB/Kafka/OpenSearch), resize clusters, list databases, create and delete databases, and provide connection strings and credentials
- Monk can create DigitalOcean Spaces (S3-compatible), configure versioning, CORS, lifecycle, and tagging, and provide regional endpoints and URLs
- Monk can create and delete DigitalOcean Spaces access keys and store them in secrets for programmatic access
- Monk can configure existing components to use managed services instead of self-hosted alternatives
Major Improvements
- Automatic Multi-Architecture Deployment: Monk now automatically detects your cluster’s architecture and builds images accordingly - no manual configuration needed!
- Better Build Performance: Fixed unnecessary cross-compilation when deploying from Apple Silicon to Intel clusters
- Smarter Deployments: Only builds for the architectures actually used in your cluster
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can detect cluster peer platforms and select native, cross-platform, or multi-architecture builds autonomously
- Monk can build and push images to the configured registry with platform-aware tagging before deployment
Improvements
- Improved deployment efficiency - fewer redundant operations
- Better error handling when building multi-architecture images
- Significantly faster builds when your local architecture matches your cluster
- Support for insecure (non-TLS) container registries during deployment
- Better compatibility with third-party container registries
- Improved registry reachability detection using standard ports
Major Features
- New Onboarding Wizard: First-time users get a guided setup experience
- Subscription Status: Your subscription status is now displayed on the welcome screen
- Automatic Registry Setup: No more manual registry credential prompts - Monk sets this up automatically
- Smart Deployment Checks: Monk now ensures you have remote cluster nodes before allowing cluster deployments
Improvements
- Registry setup happens automatically after cluster growth
- Better error messages and guidance throughout
- Improved update notifications
- Better handling of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB configurations
Major Features
- AWS Lambda & DynamoDB Support: Monk can now deploy AWS Lambda functions and configure DynamoDB tables
- Improved Budget Management: Chat continuation now costs 0.25 tokens with clearer prompts
Features
- New commands to update and manage registry addresses
- Command to debug registry credentials
Improvements
- Token balance updates automatically after charges
- Better handling of budget limits with clearer messaging
- Fixed chat interface staying disabled after email verification
- Improved email verification error messages with retry options
- Better registry reliability with automatic reachability checks
- Improved SSL compatibility for registry access
- Fixed budget checking to prevent prompts when you have no tokens
- Better error handling when chat sessions exceed budget
- Fixed issue where chat could hang when budget limits were reached
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can detect AWS Lambda handlers and model them as function components with an AWS Lambda deployment target
- Monk can enrich AWS DynamoDB components with schema details inferred from code and infrastructure-as-code files
- Monk can create DynamoDB tables with key schemas, GSIs/LSIs, billing modes, PITR, SSE, and table classes, and return table ARNs and names
- Monk can put, get, delete, and scan items in DynamoDB tables
- Monk can create and update Lambda functions from ZIPs or ECR images, configure environment variables, VPC networking, layers, logging, and X-Ray, and return function ARNs
- Monk can invoke Lambda functions and update function code and configuration
- Monk can create IAM roles with trust policies, attach and detach managed policies, and expose role ARNs for other services
- Monk can create IAM policies from JSON documents and manage permissions for Lambda functions
Major Features
- CI/CD Automation: New tool generates complete CI/CD configurations for GitHub Actions and CircleCI with automatic secrets management
- Vercel Support: You can now authenticate with Vercel and deploy to their platform
- Hosting Platform Selection: Monk helps you choose and configure Netlify or Vercel for your frontend applications
- Smart Conversation Management: Long conversations are now automatically summarized to keep Monk’s responses relevant and efficient
- Agent Refresh: Monk automatically refreshes its understanding based on conversation length and activity
Improvements
- Monk now validates SSL certificates and manages secrets automatically for CI/CD pipelines
- Build tool skips reporting non-critical environment issues
- Better analytics tracking
- Fixed chat spinner behavior - it now shows throughout the entire request
- Better visual feedback when Monk asks questions
- Ask prompts show immediate confirmation
- Improved connection reliability and session management
- Fixed task board event handling issues
- Better connection handling after disconnections
- More reliable task display
- Better handling of configuration validation with helpful hints
- Improved secret creation with better validation
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can generate GitHub Actions workflows that build images and deploy using the MANIFEST
- Monk can autonomously detect the repository and trigger branches for the CI/CD pipeline
- Monk can create a short-lived Monk service token and inject it into CI/CD secrets securely
- Monk can inject container registry address, username, and password into CI/CD secrets
- Monk can detect or create a GitHub environment and place secrets there when appropriate
- Monk can create or adopt Vercel projects, configure frameworks, Git repositories, build/install/dev commands, root directories, and custom domains
- Monk can add and remove Vercel project domains and fetch production URLs
- Monk can run Vercel production deployments from any directory using a managed builder image and a token from Monk secrets
- Monk can guide hosting decisions between Netlify and Vercel and configure deployments with correct install, build, and output settings
- Monk can verify Netlify and Vercel builds and provide concise, actionable guidance from build logs
Improvements
- Better version checking across all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- Welcome screen now properly waits for setup to complete
- Workload logs stay open even when containers restart
Major Features
- Full Chat Interface: New dedicated chat panel with message streaming, conversation history, and real-time updates
- Interactive Questions: When Monk asks questions, it now focuses the chat automatically so you don’t miss them
- Build Summaries: Collapsible build summaries show you what happened during builds
- Cross-Interface Sync: Answer questions in either chat or task view, and both stay in sync
UI Improvements
- Better text wrapping in chat and task views
- Improved progress indicators with checkmarks
- Better styling and visual consistency
Improvements
- Simplified budget continuation interface with just Yes/No buttons
- Budget questions won’t repeatedly prompt after you decline
- Fixed memory leaks in chat handling
- Fixed compatibility with Netlify and Windsurf
Improvements
- Fixed authentication callbacks
- Better backup scheduling support
- Improved Netlify authentication flow
Major Update
- Published to Open VSX Registry for wider IDE compatibility
- Removed preview flag - Monk is production ready!
Major Features
- Template Editor: Monk can now help you fix template errors and issues
- Task Timeline: New timeline view in task cards showing agent reasoning and decision-making process
Improvements
- Better error messages with more context and helpful hints
- Improved platform compatibility
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can delegate template editing to a specialized editor agent and return a concise summary of fixes
- Monk can edit Monk YAML templates and iterate until all diagnostics are resolved to zero (enhanced with diff preview)
Major Features
- YAML Language Support: Full YAML editing support with syntax highlighting and validation
- New Welcome Screen: Modern React-based welcome screen with interactive setup checklist
- Manifest Language Support: Editor support for MANIFEST files with DIRS directive for better project organization
Improvements
- Monk now provides diagnostics and auto-completion for manifest files
- Better visual feedback during setup process
- Improved diagnostic accuracy
Improvements
- Improved welcome screen with loading indicators
- Better layout and overflow handling
- Retry buttons for failed setup steps
Improvements
- Monk can now set up Auth0 authentication for your applications
- Welcome screen now allows continuing setup without closing
- Better Auth0 domain handling
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can extract or create Auth0 applications and provide client IDs and secrets
- Monk can configure OAuth flows and return authorization and token endpoints
- Monk can determine the application domain provider (Netlify site or container service) for Auth0 callback URLs
- Monk can configure social login providers and return provider credentials
Improvements
- Better Windows compatibility with platform-specific scripts
- Improved “Retest” functionality in welcome screen
Major Features
- Enhanced Monk Tools: New tools for calculating costs, growing clusters, pricing, and moving workloads
- Support for .gitignore-style blob exclusion patterns
Improvements
- Better Java handling
- Improved Go project support
- More reliable Monk agent responses
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can estimate costs for deployments and infrastructure choices
- Monk can scale infrastructure and workloads dynamically to meet demand
- Monk can move workloads between cluster tags or nodes to rebalance placement
Improvements
- Better server URL configuration
- Improved user preferences and tool descriptions
- Updated to GPT-4.1 for better performance
Features
- Delete and Unload Tools: Monk can now help you delete and unload workloads
Improvements
- Better error handling when operations fail
- More reliable registry credential handling
- Fixed Vercel integration
- Better error notifications
- Better Windows compatibility
- Fixed various connection issues
- Better validation of build configurations
- Connection reliability fixes
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can stop workloads gracefully to free resources without unloading templates
- Monk can delete workloads and remove all runtime resources when cleanup is required
- Monk can unload workloads to remove template definitions from the system
Features
- Monk can now read and understand your existing templates better
Improvements
- Fixed terminal tools for non-running containers
- Better Netlify deployment handling and configuration
- Cancel button for authentication flows
- Improved Vercel support
- Enhanced authentication handling
- Better image registry handling
- Fixed extension activation when no workspace is open
- Fixed startup stability issues
- Better Netlify site naming
Major Features
- Netlify Deployments: Full support for deploying frontend applications to Netlify
- Credential Management: New tool to manage and delete credentials
- Domain Generation: Automatic domain and SSL certificate generation when growing clusters
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can create or adopt Netlify sites, configure custom domains and aliases, enable password protection and force SSL, and return site/admin URLs
- Monk can list, create, get, and restore Netlify deploys for a site
- Monk can run Netlify site deployments from any directory using a managed builder image and a token from Monk secrets
- Monk can configure SPA rewrites for single-page applications on Netlify when frameworks do not handle routing
- Monk can check whether required credentials are present for any provider or service
- Monk can request cloud or service credentials from the user and store them securely
- Monk can delete stored credentials on request to revoke access
Major Features
- Cross-Platform Support: Full Windows support with automated setup checklist
- Welcome Page: New welcome page for macOS with automated remediation
- Blob Storage: Support for distributed blob storage across cluster nodes
- Monk is now aware when you’re not in a workspace
Features
- Progress updates during deployments
- Automatic registry setup with retry support
Improvements
- Better event-driven status updates
- Fixed icon bundling
- Better ARM64 Mac support
- Improved deployment reliability
- Better image rebuilding before deployment
- Enhanced credential management
- Better manifest format for Docker images
- Improved deployment process
- Fixed credential handling
- Better service provider recommendations
- Improved image registry handling
- Welcome screen now shows upgrade recommendations
- Better error tracking and diagnostics
- Improved macOS Podman detection
- More robust welcome screen
- Better Podman machine handling on macOS
- Automatic upgrade support
- Better image registry search
- Better reconnection handling when server connection drops
- Fixed WebSocket event handling
New Agent Capabilities
- Monk can store and retrieve distributed blobs across cluster nodes
- Monk can mount blobs into containers for application data
- Monk can synchronize blobs across cluster peers automatically
Features
- SSH machine connections on macOS
- Automatic cluster registry setup
- Better registry push support
- Improved release automation and deployment pipeline
Core Chat & AI Capabilities
- AI-powered chat interface for natural language infrastructure management
- Monk expert agent with comprehensive documentation knowledge
- Agent reasoning and decision-making transparency
- Custom instructions support
Infrastructure Management
- Cluster creation and growth tools
- Cloud provider integration (AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure)
- Multi-architecture image builds (ARM64/AMD64)
- Container image management
- Workload deployment and management tools
Developer Tools
- Template editor functionality
- File search and analysis tools
- Manifest and template validation
Authentication & Security
- Authentication flow with token management
- Budget management system
- Credential storage and management
Network & Reliability
- WebSocket-based communication protocol
- Network failure recovery with automatic retry
- Session management
Initial Agent Capabilities
- Monk can analyze a codebase and autonomously identify components, dependencies, and required services
- Monk can discover environment variables, defaults, and service endpoints used by each component
- Monk can infer relationships between variables across components and generate connection mappings
- Monk can suggest safe default values and randomized secrets for configuration
- Monk can operate across monorepos and multi-language stacks while ignoring non-deployable assets
- Monk can containerize services by creating or adapting Dockerfiles specific to each component
- Monk can build container images and run sanity checks, iterating until services start without critical errors
- Monk can generate deployment configurations for projects end-to-end
- Monk can bootstrap new clusters with minimal setup and without requiring an external control plane
- Monk can manage clusters fully inside your cloud accounts (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean)
- Monk can autonomously configure networking, including subnets and security groups
- Monk can set up encrypted overlay networks for secure intra-cluster communication
- Monk can provide a built-in container registry for fast image pulls
- Monk can provision a built-in container registry inside the system namespace with TLS and basic auth
- Monk can deploy workloads locally or to a selected cluster using the project MANIFEST
- Monk can create and provision clusters (VMs, networking, registries) as required by a deployment plan
- Monk can deploy workloads by managing containers, secrets, environment variables, firewall rules, and external service wiring
- Monk can update configurations and fix deployment errors autonomously
- Monk can stream logs in real time from any container
- Monk can provide instant shell access to any running container
- Monk can open a shell terminal into a running workload for live debugging
- Monk can stream logs and open a live logs terminal for a selected workload
- Monk can answer natural-language questions about deployments and cluster health
- Monk can select and integrate reusable vendor templates for databases, caches, queues, and other services
- Monk can inject and propagate connection details between components via explicit variable relationships