Automater Lite 0.1.26 Adds Claude Code and Codex Connections, Cloud Session Archives
Automater Lite 0.1.26 shipped October 6, 2026 with Claude Code and Codex connections under Settings > AI tools, Codex cloud-session archiving, Mini dock modes and pop-out cards, and a free leaderboard. Corrected against the current releases feed, changelog and marketing build manifest.
Automater Lite 0.1.26 shipped on October 6, 2026, and the official releases feed still carries the entry, timestamped 22:45 UTC. The notes name four changes: connections for Claude Code, Codex and other AI apps under Settings > AI tools; archiving for Codex cloud sessions; dock modes and pop-out cards for Mini; and a leaderboard that is now free (official Lite releases feed).
This report refreshes our earlier coverage of the same release against the current public sources. The verified core stands: the feed’s 0.1.26 entry is dated October 6, 2026 at 22:45 UTC and names the four changes above. What follows keeps that release distinct from the newer items now visible alongside it.
One newer build sits above it in the rolling feed. Version 0.1.27, timestamped October 7, 2026 at 00:37 UTC, moves archive source folders and history import and export into Settings > History & data so Mini’s settings reach them too. That is a separate release with its own entry; 0.1.26 remains the release covered here, under this article’s original URL.
The marketing site’s public release manifest currently records version marketing-2026.10.07.7, with a builtAt timestamp of October 7, 2026 at 05:28 UTC (release manifest). That field records when the website artifact was built. It is not a launch announcement, the manifest’s deployedAt field is null and establishes no deployment time, and nothing in it ties website builds to Lite binary availability.
Connections under Settings > AI tools
The connection entry point is specific: Settings > AI tools, with the notes naming Claude Code and Codex alongside “your other AI apps.” The notes stop there. They describe no authentication procedure, no credential storage arrangement, no proxy routing and no per-connection behavior, so this report claims none of them. What the entry supports is the settings path and the named tools.
Readers who want background on the tools themselves have two existing guides on this site: the Claude Code power guide covers Claude Code in depth, and the OpenAI Codex deep dive does the same for Codex. Both are independent guides to those tools; neither describes Automater’s connection settings.
Codex cloud sessions are archived
The 0.1.26 entry states that Codex cloud sessions are archived. That sentence carries no storage location, capture trigger, retention guarantee or completeness claim, and none is added here.
The public changelog supplies the surrounding context. Its “In beta now” section lists a session archive across 45 formats, naming Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi and Qwen “and more, in one local library.” The changelog’s own note says beta items run on real machines now and can still change, so the 45-format local library is best read as the beta program around the archive work. The 0.1.26 line about Codex cloud sessions is the shipped change in this release.
Archives sit next to wider questions about what providers keep. Our local-first AI overview and the zero retention versus agent memory guide cover that ground. Neither Automater source reviewed here promises protection from provider retention, so those stay separate discussions.
Mini dock modes, pop-out cards, free leaderboard
Mini gains dock modes and pop-out cards. The notes include no platform matrix and no per-card instructions. The changelog keeps “Pop-out mini-apps on every platform” in its Next section, describing widgets that become their own always-on windows; that item remains future work, and the 0.1.26 additions should not be read as its completion.
The leaderboard becoming free is listed as a separate change in the same entry. The notes say nothing beyond the word free about ranking criteria or what the change includes.
What the public record shows
The table below pairs each shipped change with where it is stated and how current sources label its scope.
| Change in 0.1.26 | Where it is stated | Scope in current sources |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code, Codex and other AI app connections (Settings > AI tools) | Release feed entry | Shipped in 0.1.26 |
| Codex cloud sessions archived | Release feed entry | Shipped in 0.1.26; the 45-format session archive is listed separately as beta |
| Mini dock modes and pop-out cards | Release feed entry | Shipped in 0.1.26; pop-out mini-apps on every platform remain in Next |
| Leaderboard now free | Release feed entry | Shipped in 0.1.26 |
The screenshot below captures the public releases feed readers can check for themselves.
The changelog page also carries a downloads notice as of this writing, and its scope is specific to one product. The pause it names applies to Desktop downloads: new installs of Automater Desktop are paused while a review finishes, and existing installs keep updating. The same notice separately points readers looking for the free tray app to a Download Automater Lite link, and it states no pause for Lite, the release these notes describe.
The feed’s recent cadence, including where 0.1.27 sits relative to the release covered here, is summarized in the timeline below.
For background on the tray app, the Automater Lite Windows tray guide is the place to start. Lite 0.1.26 is a focused release: a named settings path for AI-tool connections, Codex cloud-session archiving, two Mini interface additions and a free leaderboard, with the feed entry, the changelog’s scope labels and the marketing build record linked above as the sources for each claim.