Rush 0.1.0 alpha 16 — Where the home screen took shape
This is the build where Rush stopped looking like a prototype. The home screen, the agent cards, and the input bar all settled into the layout we still ship today.
- Agents as the first thing you see
- One input bar that takes anything — files, sessions, references
- The build where we started catching install bugs before users did
The home you still see today
Open Rush and you see your agents. Not a chat box, not a sidebar full of folders, not a "what would you like to do today" prompt — your agents, like apps on a phone home screen. That decision settled in alpha 16, and we haven't moved it since.
Home, the way it still looks today — agents first, everything else gets out of the way.
One input bar, anything you drop in it
The input bar at the bottom of Rush is the one place every kind of
context goes. Drop a file, paste a path, type @ to mention an agent,
drag in an artifact from another session — it all becomes a chip in
the same bar. Anything you can think to send, you send the same way.
A few chips in the input bar — files, a session reference, an agent mention. One surface, many ingredients.
The release we started taking install bugs seriously
Alpha 16 was the first build we put through a full fresh-install check before shipping. We wipe the machine, install from scratch, walk through every step a new user would see, and archive evidence of each state. That discipline catches the bugs every dev machine hides — and it starts here.
Version
0.1.0-alpha.16
Channel
alpha
Released
April 22, 2026
Git commit
cc09279cd
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