AlexandriaWhat each release means for you, in plain words. Install · Feed the Library
October 2026
- 5.12.0Latest
Shared Libraries
A hosted Library can now be shared properly: everyone gets their own access, tied to their own Library, and you can remove one person without touching anyone else. Hosted Libraries also keep their own rhythm and have their own email address.
New
- Give each person their own access to a hosted Library. You invite them from your Library; their Library receives the invite, and saying “link it” connects them in one step, with no shared password to pass around.
- Remove one person and only they lose access, at once. Every change in a shared Library records who made it.
- Sign in from claude.ai or your phone with your own Library: the sign-in page shows a code, and you approve it from your Library after it reads back which app and which Library are asking.
- People without a Library of their own get a personal key instead, shown once and removable on its own.
- Once your own Library is linked as the owner, you can retire the shared access key for good.
- Hosted Libraries keep their own rhythm: the morning brief goes out at your hour, and the hourly tidy runs by itself. On a hosted Library the tidy only reports what it would change until you choose which changes it may make.
- A hosted Library has its own email address. Forward something to it to file it, and your morning brief can arrive by email.
Fixed
- Mail forwarded to your Library is checked more strictly: a sender can no longer dress their address up as someone you allow.
- Your own mail is filed automatically only when it is signed and recent; anything else waits in your inbox for a look instead of being dropped.
- One note per day: the morning seed, the day's log and the brief now all use the same daily note.
- Link repair no longer edits text inside code blocks, and notes your Library writes are signed as Alexandria.
- 5.11.0
One Inbox
Everything that arrives for you now waits in one inbox, and your Library tells you when something comes in. Signal joins your messages, and “what have I missed” reads every channel you have connected.
New
- One inbox. A message from a paired Library, an email you forwarded and something you saved all wait in the same list. Say “check my inbox” to see it, requests first; “file it” to put an item where it belongs; “archive it” to put it away.
- You hear when something arrives. A new session opens with a line saying what is waiting, and your morning brief and the day's note say the same.
- Signal, read-only, alongside Messages, WhatsApp and Viber. Ask what someone sent you on Signal or what you haven't answered there. It sees what Signal Desktop holds, from the day you linked it to your phone.
- “What have I missed” reads everything: every message in the window, on every mailbox and chat you have connected plus your inbox, and it leads with what needs you.
Fixed
- Your local time follows you. Change time zones and your Library keeps up without a restart; a hosted Library uses the time zone you set.
- Without a travel schedule, the morning brief now arrives in your morning, not on UTC, so the day's note no longer lands on yesterday's date.
- Checking the time no longer stalls a session start when a time server is slow.
- Links to your Gmail threads open again, in the right account when you are signed into more than one.
- An unsent draft is no longer treated as a reply: the thread stays on your list to answer, and your Library doesn't learn your voice from it.
- Two quick notes saved under the same title in the same minute are both kept.
September 2026
- 5.10.1
Reachable Relays, Reachable Files
Messages to and from paired Libraries get through on more networks, and files they send you arrive as cards you can open in a click.
Improved
- Files from a paired Library show up as clickable file cards, instead of a filename on a line.
- A hosted Library keeps the same identity across restarts, so it stays the same Library to everyone it's paired with.
Fixed
- Phone hotspots and IPv6-only networks no longer leave your messages waiting at the relay.
- 5.10.0
Your Library's Email Address
Every Library gets its own email address during setup. Forward a thread or a document to it and it arrives for your review, attachments included.
New
- An address at setup. Your Library asks which address you'll forward from (you can skip it) and then tells you where to forward to. Nothing to configure by hand.
Improved
- The address is sixteen random characters with no name in it, so nobody can guess it. You can pick your own if you prefer.
- Adding another sending address later keeps the same forward-to address.
- 5.9.0
The Mail Bridge
Email now reaches a Library that lives on a laptop, with no mailbox login on your machine. Setup is easier to read, and the front page is now called Dashboard.
New
- Email into a laptop Library. Forward a message to your Library's address: it's checked at the door (the sender must be on your list and their mail provider must vouch for it), sealed to your Library, and waits for your review.
Improved
- Setup asks short questions one at a time, under a header like 3 of 11, so you always know where you are.
- The front page is Dashboard, so you can name one of your areas Home. Existing links follow the rename.
- Your Library won't create an area whose name clashes with one of its own sections, such as People, and tells you why.
- Emails up to 96 MB get through.
Fixed
- Changing where your Library keeps its off-site copy takes effect at once.
- 5.8.2
The Sealed Envelope
A security pass on forwarded email, and housekeeping that never saves over a note you're editing.
Fixed
- A forged email dressed up to look trusted is turned away. Your Library only trusts what your own mail provider vouches for.
- A forwarded email files once, even if the first attempt was interrupted.
- The passphrase you put in a subject line is removed from everything saved, not just the body.
- The daily tidy-up skips a note you've changed since it last looked, so your edit is never overwritten.
- 5.8.1
The Careful Save
Settings and area changes are saved reliably, even in rare timing cases.
Fixed
- A settings change made while your Library is starting up is no longer lost.
- Adding, renaming or retiring an area always saves, even if the settings file was being edited at the same moment.
- A Library started from your Claude Code sessions remembers what it already brought in and won't offer it twice.
- 5.8.0
The Travel Desk
Your Library reads the words in pictures people send you, can start from your recent Claude Code sessions, and can turn your travel schedule into a private page for whoever books your trips.
New
- Pictures are read. A screenshot of a booking or a photo of a receipt in your messages is read like any other message. It happens on your Mac and the picture never leaves it.
- Start from your sessions. A new Library can begin from the Claude Code sessions already on your Mac instead of a blank slate.
- The Travel Desk. Turn your travel schedule into a private page: a month-by-month timeline, a card per stop, each flight and train marked booked or still to book. Share the link or send it to a peer's Library. Off until you turn it on.
Fixed
- If you or another program change your Library's settings while it's running, it picks up the change instead of saving over it.
- Items from a peer whose saved handle began with an @ open again.
- Starting from more than ten sessions keeps all of them.
- 5.7.0
The Nod
Your Library asks before it reads your messages, app by app, and updates are steadier.
New
- The nod. Setup asks whether your Library may read the messages on your Mac: iMessage, WhatsApp, Viber and Signal. Say yes to all or name the ones you're comfortable with. It only ever reads, never sends.
- Already set up? It asks once, the first time you ask it to read your messages.
- No stays no. A declined app isn't raised again unless you bring it up, and an unclear answer gets a follow-up question instead of a guess.
Fixed
- An update steps aside if your notes are mid-merge, so it never saves over unfinished work.
- Two update checks starting together no longer show a false “not signed” warning.
- Files of an unfamiliar type, like XML, now open instead of showing as unreadable.
- 5.6.0
The Open Door
Your Library collects what other Libraries send it on its own, every few minutes, with no session open and none of your usage spent.
New
- Receiving on its own. Once you pair with someone, what they send you, files included, is waiting in your inbox when you next look.
- Prefer to receive only when you ask? Turn the background check off and it stays off through updates.
Fixed
- A background check and one you run by hand take turns, so nothing you receive is half-recorded.
- 5.5.0
The Soul
Your Library starts becoming someone: it keeps a short note about who it is and grows it as it learns. Setup connects your email and Slack in one click and stops asking you to list the people in your life.
New
- The Soul. Your Library keeps a note about who it is, its name, its manner, what it cares about, and refines it a line at a time. Ask it to build out its soul and it drafts a fuller version for your approval.
- It learns how to talk to you. Reading your sent messages, it picks up how much you read, how direct you are and how you correct, and works that into how it writes to you. It never imitates you or quotes your messages.
- Connect email and Slack in one click, through your chat app's own connectors. Your sign-in, nothing stored in the Library.
- A new Library hands you the first things to say, like “read my messages” or “catch me up on WhatsApp”.
- At the naming step it may suggest one name for itself. Choose something else and it lets it go.
Improved
- Setup no longer asks you to name the key people in your life. They fill in on their own within days, from your contacts and messages.
- A served Library now keeps itself up to date like the others.
- 5.4.0
The Correspondence
Messages between Libraries are kept like email: every one you send or receive is on the record, grouped into conversations, with what it asks of you.
New
- Every message, kept. A correspondence page per person shows each conversation newest first: who wrote, the subject, what they asked, and when it was sent, delivered and filed.
- Conversations. A reply knows which thread it belongs to, and your Library reads the whole thread before drafting a reply.
- The ask. A message can say what it wants from you, a read, a reply or a decision, and by when. Your Library tells you; the decision stays yours.
- Waiting messages are listed by deadline first, so what needs you is on top.
- Ask about your messages in chat, by person, conversation or date.
Fixed
- Installing from your Downloads folder no longer freezes the chat doing the install.
- Upgrading a 3.0 Library also moves it to a safe home folder, out of iCloud's reach.
- 5.3.2(covers 5.3.0 to 5.3.2)
The Clock
Your Library knows what time it really is, even when your computer's clock is wrong, and you hear about new versions as soon as they're out.
New
- A verified clock. Every date your Library writes, on a todo, the daily note or the morning brief, comes from a clock checked against public time servers, not your computer's.
- Every session opens with the right time, so a date is never guessed.
- When a new version is out, your Library tells you what changed and where to get it.
- Send one message to several Libraries at once; each person sees who else got it.
Fixed
- WhatsApp group messages show the sender's name again.
- Filing from your inbox never silently drops a todo or a history line, and lists stay properly formatted.
- News links with accented characters open.
- 5.2.1(covers 5.2.0 to 5.2.1)
The Message
Sending something to another Library can carry a personal note for the person who receives it, shown first, like the body of an email.
New
- A note to the person. Write a short message above what you're sending; they see it first, and their Library files the rest.
- 5.1.0
The Attachment
You can send files to another Library, Viber joins your messages, and an update can no longer break the link between you and the people you're paired with.
New
- Send files. An image, a PDF or a spreadsheet rides along sealed, up to about 18 MB per send, and lands in the other person's inbox.
- Viber, read alongside iMessage and WhatsApp.
Fixed
- An update can no longer make your Library a stranger to the people it's paired with. If something does go missing, sends wait instead of failing.
- 5.0.4
The Smooth Map
The graph of your Library pans and zooms smoothly, even with thousands of notes.
- 5.0.3(covers 5.0.1 to 5.0.3)
The Complete Package
Fixes for hosted and served Libraries, which had been missing a few settings files and the what's-new panel. A Library on your Mac is unchanged.
- 5.0.0
The First Move
Finding things is faster and more consistent, you can recall something you sent before it's picked up, and your Library learns how you write.
New
- Faster answers to “who is linked to X” and “what does this connect to”: the second question on a large Library comes back almost instantly.
- Recall a send. Pull back something you sent to another Library any time before it's picked up, or send a correction that replaces it.
- Open your Library's graph in a browser with a one-time link, and click any dot to read the note.
- Connect Gmail, iCloud, Fastmail or any IMAP mailbox in conversation. Your password goes into a secure window, never into the chat.
- Your Library learns how you write and keeps a voice guide, so anything drafted in your name sounds like you.
- A health score for your Library and a daily productivity read, both tracked over time.
Improved
- Your Library talks about what it knows and what it did, not about files, folders or commands, unless you ask.
- The way in is Claude Desktop's Code tab. No terminal needed.
Fixed
- Tighter safety: nothing can trick your Library into writing or deleting outside its own folder.
- 4.8.0
The Sent Folder
See everything you've sent to another Library, in order, and whether it arrived and was filed.
- 4.7.0
Nothing Files Itself
Everything another Library sends you now waits in your inbox for you to place. Nothing is ever written into your notes on its own.
- 4.6.0
The Shared Lock
A served Library and your own tools no longer step on each other when both save at once.
- 4.5.1(covers 4.5.0 to 4.5.1)
The Update That Updates Itself
Your Library keeps itself current: once a day it checks for a signed release and applies it.
New
- Daily updates in the background. Turn them off with alexandria.auto_update: false in your settings.
- Say “update my brain” to update right now and hear what changed.
Improved
- Notes you're still editing no longer block an update. They're saved first, so there's always an exact point to go back to.
- 4.4.1(covers 4.4.0 to 4.4.1)
The Mail Update
Your Library reads your email next to your texts and WhatsApp, through the mail connector your chat app already has.
New
- Ask what someone sent you, what you owe a reply, or for one thread in full. Read-only; your Library never sends mail.
- What another Library sent you shows up in the same read.
Improved
- “What needs me” now reads email, texts and WhatsApp at once.
- A health check also tidies the empty files Obsidian leaves behind, and shows you what it would remove first.
- 4.3.5(covers 4.3.4 to 4.3.5)
The Skills Review
A shorter, clearer skills list: type /ax to see every Alexandria skill in one place.
Improved
- One skill reads iMessage and WhatsApp together. Name a person and it reads both.
- One health check tells you how your Library is growing and whether anything is broken.
- The Mac readers (Messages, WhatsApp, Contacts, Screen Time, Screenshots) are listed from day one and switch on the first time you ask.
Fixed
- Updates refresh your skills list and clear out old names.
- Skills no longer show up as stray dots in your Obsidian graph.
- 4.3.3(covers 4.3.0 to 4.3.3)
The Owner-First Update
Sharing between Libraries works like the rest of Alexandria: your Library proposes, you decide.
New
- What someone sends lands in your inbox, not your notes. File it, approve it as suggested, or decline it.
- Longer items arrive as their own note, not a bullet in one of your pages.
- Receipts tell the truth: received, filed, or declined.
Fixed
- Blocking someone also clears anything they left waiting for you.
- 4.2.0
The Census Update
A Library that goes quiet for a while is never forgotten by the relay.
- 4.1.4(covers 4.1.0 to 4.1.4)
Contacts and WhatsApp
Two more of your Mac's own stores, read on demand and read-only.
New
- Import contacts selectively: put names on your message threads, fill blanks on people you already have, or add the people you name. Never the whole address book.
- Read your WhatsApp: what someone sent, what you owe a reply, catch me up on a group.
- Cards exported from Contacts, Google or Outlook work too.
Fixed
- Two different people can no longer be merged into one, and a field you filled is never overwritten.
- 4.0.2(covers 4.0.0 to 4.0.2)
Linked Libraries
Link your Library to someone else's and hand each other work, agent to agent.
New
- Pair once with a short code. Then send a todo, a note, a fact or an event straight to their Library, end-to-end encrypted.
- Nobody can read or pull from your Library, and nothing leaves until you say so.
- See what's waiting before you open it, and pull back anything not yet delivered.
Improved
- Your Library lives at ~/Alexandria, out of iCloud's way.
August 2026
- 3.4.0(covers 3.2.0 to 3.4.0)
The Signed Update
Your Library updates itself, and only from releases it can prove are ours.
New
- Every release is signed, and your Library refuses an update it can't verify.
- The previous version is always one step away if you need to roll back.
- No account or token needed to update.
- 3.1.4(covers 3.1.0 to 3.1.4)
The Folder Is the Brain
The folder you unzip is your Library; the software tucks away inside it.
New
- Say “show me my brain” and your Library draws itself: every note a dot, sized by its links, that you can hover and pan.
- Three new readers: a world news briefing from many newsrooms, your screenshots, and your screen time.
- Update from a fresh zip in one step. Your notes are never touched.
- 3.0.0
One Folder
One zip. Unzip it, open it in Claude Desktop's Code tab, say Install.
New
- No accounts, no keys, no technician. Your Library stands up on your own machine in one conversation.
- Everything is plain Markdown in a folder you own, readable in any editor and browsable in Obsidian.
- 2.117.1(covers July and August 2026)
The Foundations
Where it started: the installer, the launch screen, and the daily habits that make a Library grow.
New
- Paste anything and say “file this”. Your Library breaks it into pieces, proposes a home for each, and files on your approval.
- The daily motions: good morning, what's on my plate, debrief, log this.
- People, events, areas, knowledge: every note linked, every change saved, nothing silently lost.
Every release, newest first. The launch screen shows the current release's notes too.