Froots
The field journal

Notes from the orchard.

Release notes, design essays, and short dispatches from the team building Froots. Updated about once a week, written by humans.

Releases · 9 days ago · 6 min read

Froots 1.0.4 — "Pink Lady"

Agent warm-starts cut first-token latency by 40%. The routine canvas finally has a real undo stack. And we quietly rewrote the backlink indexer so vault renames stop breaking everything. A small, seasonal release we're especially fond of.

01
DESIGN

Why the cursor is the most honest interface we have

A small essay on writing tools, accountability, and why we put ⌘⇧R on a keycap.

MAR 18 · 20264 MIN
02
ENGINEERING

Agent replay, the ugly parts

What happens when the vault changes underneath a run, and the two ways we tried to fix it.

MAR 06 · 20268 MIN
03
RELEASES

1.0.3 — "Clementine" & the IDE

The agent harness ships a real code editor. Here's how we kept it from feeling like VS Code.

FEB 22 · 20265 MIN
04
DESIGN

Drawing Lime, Yuzu, Clem & Cherry

A peek into how we gave each of the four built-in agents their face — and their voice.

FEB 10 · 20266 MIN
05
INTERVIEWS

A week in the life of a Froots power user

Six routines, twelve integrations, and one very organized graphic designer.

JAN 28 · 202610 MIN
06
ENGINEERING

How local-first survives a bad network

Our sync protocol in plain English — and why your writing never blocks on the cloud.

JAN 14 · 20267 MIN
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