CodeLikeBob 1.48.0

Say what you want. Watch it appear. CodeLikeBob is a native, multi-language IDE with coding agents built in. Python/Django and React/Vite are first-class; Rust and PHP are supported. Built on Tauri 2 with a Rust core: no bundled browser, a small footprint and a fast start.

Requirements

• Windows: Windows 10 x64 or later, with the WebView2 runtime (part of Windows 11; installed automatically on Windows 10).
• Linux: a Debian or Ubuntu based x64 distribution.
• Agents (optional): Claude through the Claude Code CLI or an Anthropic API key; Microsoft Copilot; Discera.

Install

• Windows: run Architecta_1.48.0_x64-setup.exe. It installs per user and needs no administrator rights.
• Linux: sudo apt install ./Architecta_1.48.0_amd64.deb, then start codelikebob.

CodeLikeBob updates itself: when a new version is published, it offers the update and shows what changed. A 30-day trial starts with an account; a yearly license is available at codelikebob.com.

Features

Editor and tools

• Editor: CodeMirror 6 with syntax highlighting for Python, TypeScript/TSX, JavaScript/JSX, Rust, PHP, HTML, CSS, JSON, Markdown, TOML, YAML, SQL and shell.
• Language intelligence: completions, hover, diagnostics and go to definition, through the standard language servers.
• Debugger: breakpoints, call stack and variables for Python, JavaScript, Rust and PHP.
• Terminal: integrated, with multiple tabs.
• Search: go to file, search the workspace, and find and replace in a file.
• Source control: Git status, stage and unstage, diffs and commits.
• Workbench: split editors, a problems panel, breadcrumbs, several windows with one project each, and your session restored on restart.

Agent Mode

• Claude, Microsoft Copilot and Discera, each on its own or together as Omnia, which gives each part of a question to the participant best suited to it and keeps the paid turns down.
• You stay in control: every edit and command an agent proposes is shown for review first, unless you choose to approve it automatically.
• Several conversations at once, in a bar ordered by what needs you, with cost shown per answer and per conversation.
• A file viewer beside the conversation, so you can read the code the agent is working on without leaving Agent Mode.
• A mobile companion: pair your phone to follow conversations, start new ones and approve changes while you are away from the desk.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+G	Go to file
Ctrl+Shift+F	Search the workspace
Ctrl+F	Find in the current file
Ctrl+\	Split the editor
Ctrl+Shift+G	Source control
Ctrl+Shift+M	Problems
Ctrl+Shift+N	New window
F5	Run and debug
F12	Go to definition
Ctrl+`	Terminal
Ctrl+,	Settings
Ctrl+S	Save

What's new

1.48.0: diagnostics

• If a window stops answering, CodeLikeBob notices within seconds, saves a report of what the machine was doing and offers to restart that window. The next start tells you what happened and lets you copy the report.
• New launch options: --diagnose shows a startup timeline and a live heartbeat; --safe starts without the Copilot page, the phone companion and extra windows. Both are also in the command palette under Diagnostics.

1.47.2: a window can always be closed

• A window that stops answering no longer blocks closing: if the page does not confirm a close request within 4 seconds, or you press close twice, CodeLikeBob ends itself.
• The Copilot page closes itself after 5 idle minutes and reopens on the next Copilot turn, which means fewer background web views per window.

1.47.1: no more freezing in long conversations

• Each conversation is saved on its own, in the background, only when it changed: a long conversation no longer stops the window or its agents.
• Older steps' output is kept on disk until you open the step, so long conversations use much less memory.
• A long conversation redraws only what changed.

1.47.0: save a produced file from the phone

• A file a conversation produced can be saved into the workspace from the phone: the suggested place in one tap, or a name and folder you choose. The agent can use it straight away.
• Switching workspace on the phone clears the old list at once and shows the new one as soon as the desk has read it.

1.46.0: the same IDE, now called CodeLikeBob

• The window, shortcuts, Apps & Features and the Linux menu say CodeLikeBob; settings, projects, conversations, license and paired phones carry over.
• Name a conversation before it starts.
• An empty split pane says so and can be closed.
• Long agent conversations open on the phone again.
• Files Copilot links to as data: links are taken out too, and a file linked twice is offered once.
• The OneDrive copy works without the OneDrive app, through Sluice, so it is offered on Linux as well.

1.44.1: typing in Agent Mode stays in Agent Mode

• Typing after clicking an empty spot in Agent Mode no longer edits a file open in the editor underneath it.

1.44.0: carry on your Claude Code sessions here

• Sessions you started with Claude Code in a terminal are listed on the start screen by name. Carry one on as a Claude conversation, or let Omnia use it as its Claude. Rename them here and the name shows in Claude Code too.
• A file you mention with @ in a Copilot conversation reaches Copilot: through OneDrive when it is up to date there, attached otherwise.
• New and changed files reach the OneDrive copy within seconds, whatever wrote them.
• Conversations started on the phone get your pre-prompts too.

1.43.1: Copilot opens a file in OneDrive as soon as OneDrive has it

• CodeLikeBob asks OneDrive whether each file is uploaded, instead of waiting a fixed hour after every change. An uploaded file is opened in OneDrive; one still uploading is attached. Asking never downloads a cloud-only file.

1.43.0: documents in OneDrive, files from Copilot you can save

• Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents go into a project's OneDrive copy, each checked for credentials first. Copilot opens them there instead of getting them as uploads. Spreadsheets stay out.
• A file Copilot makes, such as a ZIP or a document, appears under its answer as a card with Save as…, so you can save it wherever you like.
• Right after the copy is turned on, the start screen says until when files are still uploaded while OneDrive takes the copy in.

1.42.1: a tidier start screen

• With Omnia at Lean on Claude: Off, Claude's model and effort are hidden, because that conversation never runs Claude.
• The choices before the first message are labeled fields that fit the card.
• Conversations are listed once, on the right, grouped by what they need, with closed ones under History.

1.42.0: a pre-prompt for each project

• Each project has its own pre-prompt, kept in the project (.tvi/architecta/pre-prompt.md), so it is committed and every machine gets it. The one in Settings is now for what holds in every project. Both are sent, everyone's first.
• The start screen shows both, with one toggle to skip them, and offers Set one… for a project that has none.
• Put it in OneDrive… and the OneDrive panel open in front of Agent Mode. In 1.41.0 they opened behind it, so the button seemed to do nothing.

1.41.0: Copilot reads your project from OneDrive

• A project can have a copy in your OneDrive, and Copilot opens its files there instead of getting a few uploads per message. You never mention OneDrive. CodeLikeBob tells Copilot where each file is.
• The start screen offers the copy when a project has none. It shows exactly what would be copied and holds back anything that looks like a secret.
• The copy is kept current: when the project opens, when you save, and before every Copilot turn. A file that changed too recently for OneDrive to index is still attached, so answers never come from an outdated copy.
• If Copilot keeps asking for files it should have found, Omnia goes back to attaching them and tells you.
• The start screen says when no pre-prompt is set and links to set one.

1.40.3: a project's memory, for every AI

• What the AIs learn about a project lives in the project, in .tvi/memory/: Claude keeps its memory there (in CodeLikeBob and in a terminal), and Copilot and Discera get the memories each turn is about.
• In git by default; a project can keep its memory out. Existing Claude Code memory can be brought in from Settings → Agents → Project memory.
• The "two briefs disagree" warning no longer appears when they say the same.

1.40.2: allow what was refused, remove failed steps, full width

• A step refused by CodeLikeBob's own safety check says so, and offers to allow exactly that path, file or command for the conversation.
• Failed steps can be removed.
• The conversation uses the full width in Agent Mode.
• A Sidebar / Top bar button switches the conversation layout from Agent Mode.

1.40.1: more room for the conversation

• The stage beside a conversation opens when you press Stage, open a file or open the cost view, not by itself whenever an agent works. A setting brings the old behavior back.
• Conversations in a sidebar (optional, Settings → Agents): grouped by what they need, hidden with one button, with Park and Bring back on every row.
• Bringing a parked conversation back works from the bar and its ☰ list too.

1.40.0: guardrails you control, a pre-prompt, organized settings

• Settings → Guardrails: keeping the agent inside the workspace, refusing files that look like secrets, and asking every time for commands that reach another machine, run in a container, open a database, touch a credential or can destroy data are now toggles. Each conversation can change its own from the Guardrails button beside the composer. All are on by default.
• Auto-run commands says what it still asks while a command guardrail is on.
• A pre-prompt: set once in Settings → Agents, sent ahead of the first message of each new conversation, with a toggle on the start screen to skip it. Omnia still chooses the route on your own words.
• Settings has tabs, with every setting explained where it is.
• Omnia no longer sends a message to Copilot just because it mentions Outlook, Teams, an inbox or a meeting.

1.39.1: sign in to Claude without leaving CodeLikeBob

• When Claude Code's sign-in lapses, CodeLikeBob signs it in for you: your browser opens on Claude's sign-in page, and once you have signed in the same turn carries on and answers your message.
• "Please run /login" no longer appears as Claude's answer.
• If the browser does not open, the step shows the link. If Claude's page shows a code, send it as your next message and CodeLikeBob finishes signing in.

1.39.0: a file viewer in Agent Mode

• A file clicked in Files, picked with Go to File or found by workspace search now opens read-only beside the conversation. You stay in Agent Mode, and the editor's tabs and splits are left as they were.
• The agent keeps working while you read. The viewer's header names the step it is on, and shows Needs you: review when it is waiting for your approval.
• Find, next and previous match, and go to line all work. Open in editor takes you to the same file and line.
• Unsaved edits, changes on disk, deleted files, large files and binary files are each shown for what they are.

1.38.2: the conversation bar works left to right

• Conversations are ordered by what they need: needs you, waiting on you, working, new, resting, parked. Every conversation is in reach from the bar's list button.
• Park sets a conversation aside without closing it.
• Idle conversations give their memory back and pick up the same session when you return.
• Save as… for files Copilot produces opens the system save dialog.

1.38.1: Claude can run a team of agents

• Claude can split work into sub-agents that run side by side. Each one has only the tools the conversation has, and its changes are reviewed like any other. You can follow each sub-agent's steps in the timeline.

1.38.0: current models, uninterrupted typing, files that are sent

• Claude's model list comes from the installed Claude Code, which is kept up to date automatically, so new models appear without an CodeLikeBob update.
• Typing in one conversation is no longer interrupted by another that is working.
• A file you mention with @ is sent in full to Copilot and Discera, and chips under the message show exactly what will be sent.

1.37.0: one release line

• Copilot receives a project's working core when you ask about it by name.
• Conversation summaries are checked before they are kept.
• A Claude session that stops is continued instead of restarted.
• The phone reconnects to the desk by itself after the connection breaks.

1.36.0: several windows and a new mobile companion

• Run several windows, each on its own project.
• The mobile companion is redesigned around conversations: start one, read answers with full formatting, and approve edits and commands from the phone.
• Closing a conversation puts it in a Closed list instead of deleting it.
• A session-size setting keeps long Claude conversations from getting more expensive with every turn. The cost view explains each turn's cost.
• Copilot patches keep their indentation and are applied where they were written.

1.33.0: long conversations cost less

• Workspace context is sent to Claude once per session rather than every turn: 84% less sent across twelve turns in our measurement.
• In Omnia, questions another participant handles better go to that participant at no cost.
• The model fits the size of each turn, within the limit you set.
• Optional: tools from an MCP server, and Discera over the standard OpenAI-compatible protocol.