YouCoded Files

YouCoded 1.3.1

Claude Code CLI baseline: v2.1.302 (desktop review); Android bundles v2.1.300.

Changes since 1.3.0: built-in Office editing, the assistant's browser, expanded Pages capabilities, a rebuilt Android backend, and improvements to appearance, conversation continuity and performance.

Office editing — desktop

• Create and edit Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files inside YouCoded.
• Autosave, crash recovery, kept versions, Save As, PDF export and printing.
• Assistant comments on files open in Office go through the editor, so the next editor save does not overwrite them.
• Office editing is desktop-only; Android and remote browsers do not offer the built-in editors. Older Office formats and OpenDocument files are not opened for editing.

The assistant's browser — desktop

• Native and Claude Code conversations can use the same browser tools to read pages, click, type and navigate.
• Follow along or interact yourself in the Browser panel, with tabs, navigation and shared page zoom.
• Browser permission cards ask before interacting with a site, with separate confirmation for final actions such as submitting a form.
• Browser configuration is available in Assistant settings. The assistant's browser is not available on Android or through remote access.

Pages and connections

• Pages can declare approved connections, restricted by host, request method and write paths; permission changes require approval again.
• Added device socket requests, live connections and camera video played by the app.
• A page can open the new-conversation window with a proposed message visible for review before sending.
• Pages can access approved conversation information and run explicitly approved local program files, with file-content checks before execution.
• Added app-style building blocks and a control for showing the theme background behind pages.
• Added Plaid connection support for personal finance pages. Home Assistant and Money dashboards are personal, hand-installed pages, not dashboards bundled with the app.

Android

• Replaced the separate Kotlin backend with the desktop backend running headlessly in bundled Node. The Android shell retains phone-specific services such as file picking, microphone access, notifications and opening links.
• Bundles its own shell, Git, search tools and unmodified Claude Code. Unsupported desktop-only features remain gated by the phone's capabilities.
• The runtime source build currently requires a Linux x64 environment; updated the build documentation with its prerequisites.
• The matching runtime source, patches, build inputs and instructions are distributed as YouCoded-1.3.1-android-corresponding-source.tar.xz with its checksum beside the APK/AAB. GitHub's automatic app-source archives do not replace this runtime source archive.

Appearance and interface

• Added YouCoded and YouCoded Night themes, refreshed app icons and a glass buddy look.
• New installations use the new default; existing users who never explicitly selected a theme retain Midnight.
• Floating controls, global Look settings and theme-controlled roundness, with more consistent dialogs, error notices and file-viewer controls.

Models and conversation continuity

• Recommended available plan and OpenRouter models, with improved local-model memory estimates, quantization detection and vision recognition.
• Improved near-limit summarization and restore, preserving recent conversation history and asking before switching to a model too small for the conversation.
• Improved prompt-cache reuse and ChatGPT session routing.
• Provider-specific image limits, downscaling and recovery from oversized-image rejections.

Performance and reliability

• Reduced background work in hidden chats and terminals and made session switching cheaper.
• Streamed code blocks update in smaller pieces; chat redraws adapt to the display rate, and desktop scrolling stays native.
• CSV and XLSX viewers draw visible cells rather than building the entire sheet at once.
• Improved terminal flow control and preservation of output at process exit.
• Phone reconnects refresh theme, pinned pages and session information.

Security and updates

• Tightened remote file and secret access, upload limits and permission checks around sensitive reads and destructive commands.
• Backup staging excludes secrets and protects unmanaged or conflicting local files.
• Linux updates select the installed package format; macOS updates select a compatible architecture.
• Added Azure signing and signature verification to Windows release builds.

Known limitations

• Mac builds retain ad-hoc signing and are not Developer ID–signed or notarized; macOS may show an unverified-developer warning. Developer ID signing/notarization is deferred to 1.3.2.
• DOCX previews use an older bundled XML parser with reported denial-of-service issues. Opening a crafted document could hang the app window; avoid untrusted DOCX files pending the deferred hardening work. No code-execution or zero-interaction exploit was demonstrated in this review.
• Some reopened conversations can show the reopen time rather than the original message time.
• Large-project search is not exhaustive: file discovery can be truncated, and searching inside files stops at 200 matches without continuation. Tracked files can supplement the discovered list; ordinary folder browsing is separately paginated.
• Native personal and project filesystem skills still use ~/.claude/skills and <project>/.claude/skills. Skills work through those locations; a separate YouCoded-owned skills home is not included in this release.