What's New in Glass.

A broader Glass foundation

Glass 1.7.5 expands model choice, brings Skills and MCP Servers deeper into Settings, and sharpens the chat, update, and workspace flows across Claude, Codex, and Gemini.

• Expanded model picker: GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 were added to the unified Glass model picker.
• More durable model sessions: Glass remembers the selected model per chat session and can restore the provider binding when reopening or continuing a session.
• Shared Skills in Settings: Shared Glass Skills now live in ~/.glass/skills and work across Claude, Codex, and Gemini, with Settings controls to create, open, enable, disable, and delete Skills.
• Provider-native Skills discovery: Glass also surfaces Claude and Codex native Skills, while cached Skill lists remain visible during refreshes so temporary provider errors do not blank the UI.
• MCP Server management: Configure MCP servers for Claude, Codex, and Gemini from Glass Settings, backed by ~/.glass/mcp.json and ~/.glass/mcp.env.
• Provider runtime support: MCP server definitions can be compiled into provider-specific runtime configs with support for stdio, HTTP, SSE, env files, required servers, and tool include/exclude filters.
• Richer chat rendering: Chat now has cleaner Markdown and code rendering, Mermaid diagrams, clearer tool call blocks, collapsible thinking streams, image attachments, better titles, session restore, and conversation compaction.
• Smoother approvals and modes: Provider questions and approval prompts now appear inside Glass, while Safe Mode, Autopilot, and Full Send have clearer behavior for different levels of tool access.
• Workspace polish: The main workspace and Settings received usability improvements that make daily navigation and setup feel cleaner.
• Under-the-hood upgrades: Glass now builds on a VS Code 1.116 foundation with updated Electron/dependencies, packaging preservation, extension compatibility cleanup, broader tests, and more reliable Claude, Codex, and Gemini provider transport.

Reliability across updates, chat, and CLIs

Glass 1.7.3 focused on reliability: cleaner app updates, more dependable CLI login, better Codex reasoning output, Gemini rate-limit fixes, and a smoother Glass Chat surface.

• Better update experience: The titlebar can show update status, Settings now includes an Updates section, and the update flow has clearer checking, downloading, preparing, and restart states.
• Cleaner chat startup and reasoning: Assistant turns show a lightweight loading state while providers start responding, and thinking blocks now stay visible only when real reasoning content is available.
• More reliable Codex sessions: Glass preserves provider thread continuity more carefully when switching Codex model variants in the same workspace and runtime mode.
• CLI login fixes: Codex CLI detection avoids the desktop app bundle, stale executable checks refresh correctly, shell startup files are left untouched, and Codex login avoids double-opening the browser.
• Gemini rate-limit hardening: Gemini requests include additional provider metadata to reduce 429 failures and make Gemini turns more dependable.
• Workflow polish: Agent is now labeled AI, Canvas is now labeled Preview, the welcome screen behaves better on smaller windows, and bug reports now route into the Glass support pipeline.

Fixed a critical issue where Intel Mac users could not authenticate with AI provider CLIs (Claude, Codex, Gemini). Login flow now works correctly on x86_64 builds.

The Genesis Release

Welcome to Glass. This initial release marks the beginning of the most fluid, aesthetic, and AI-native development environment ever built. We've torn down the legacy constraints of traditional editors to craft a workspace designed for pure velocity.

• Liquid Glass Aesthetic: Stripped away all generic Microsoft visual boilerplate in favor of a stunning, refractive UI with immersive depth, blur effects, and geometric precision.
• Native Next-Gen AI Integration: Sovereign agentic models are built directly into the engine's core architecture, rather than being layered on as a bolted-on extension.
• Frictionless OTA Pipeline: A custom-engineered update infrastructure using Cloudflare R2 means you get instant, silent background capability upgrades, bypassing clunky traditional update prompts.
• Distraction-Free Orchestration: Total elimination of jarring color palette flashes (like the default Microsoft blue/purple status bars) in favor of sleek, coherent neutral tones that never break your focus.
• Zero Microsoft Telemetry: Total independence from Microsoft's pervasive data telemetry, tracking hooks, and cloud polling logic for a genuinely private, sovereign environment.
• Focus-First Canvas: Ruthlessly minimized default sidebars, action bars, and widget clutter to prioritize code visibility. The tool gets out of your way.
• Premium Typography: Hand-tailored default font weights, syntax highlighting curves, and line-height configurations optimized for extended deep work and modern Retina rendering.
• Pre-Optimized Perfection: No more spending hours configuring hundreds of generic JSON settings just to make the editor bearable—Glass looks and feels perfect on boot.
• Seamless Authentication Layer: Custom license validation gateways that protect the build without blocking your offline workflows or requiring complex wrestling during a session.
• Built for Creators, Not Mechanics: Glass is designed to let you describe what you want and watch it instantiate, rather than forcing you to constantly manage your local environment configuration.