Security maintenance
Updated the platform runtime with the latest security fixes.
Fixed
- Applied current security updates to the runtimes supporting Droid sessions and platform services.
Changelog
What’s new, improved, and fixed in DRD.
Droid catalog access and source validation
Improved authenticated catalog access and source validation for Droid sessions.
Improved
- Refreshed authenticated component and template catalog access for new Droid sessions.
- Streamlined source validation when Droids save drafts and integrate changes.
Clearer operations and reliable hosting checks
More reliable hosting checks, clearer incident history and safer saved-preview cleanup.
Fixed
- Fixed hosting usage checks when a daily billing period overlaps the start of a month or the current time.
- Avoided unnecessary cleanup requests for saved previews whose previous environment has already stopped.
Improved
- Incident history distinguishes loading, unavailable data and delivery status, and relates alerts from the same request.
- Recovery failures retain safe diagnostics while preserving credit review and spending controls.
A new place to start
An animated homepage with a clear starting point for your next idea.
Improved
- A bold homepage with an interactive typographic background and the familiar idea composer.
- Pause the decorative animation or follow your device’s reduced-motion setting, with layouts for both themes and smaller screens.
Reliable project creation
New projects start correctly after a platform update.
Fixed
- Fixed an error that prevented new projects from being saved after a platform update.
Three.js scenes for projects
A reusable Three.js scene component and versioned setup guidance for Droid.
Added
- An editable Three.js scene component with orbit controls, responsive sizing and a readable fallback when WebGL2 is unavailable.
- Versioned setup guidance covers exact dependency installation, client-side rendering, resource cleanup and model loading.
- A Three.js component playground in the component library.
Etsy connections and saved agent work
Connect your Etsy shop and preserve completed agent work after browser preview activity.
Fixed
- Enabled the Etsy connection setup so shop owners can begin Etsy consent from their project.
- Fixed saving completed agent work after browser preview activity.
Reopen saved project previews
Saved draft previews open again after a platform update without losing your review or conversation.
Fixed
- Reopening an older saved draft no longer fails with a project resources error.
- Preview startup preserves saved work and respects Stop and release pauses.
Reliable stopping, recovery and AI approvals
Droid stops active work cleanly, keeps recoverable partial work for review, and requests bounded AI permission in chat.
Fixed
- Stopped requests preserve their saved instructions, so you can send a fresh request in the same conversation.
- Droid confirms Stop after its request, helpers and tools have shut down. Longer stop-related instructions continue to steer the active request.
- Stalled requests are retired so a fresh request can continue.
Improved
- Saved unfinished work and failed helper output can be recovered for a fresh review. Accepting a change and integrating it remain separate actions.
- Saved work remains available while new requests pause for a DRD release.
Added
- In-chat approval for an app feature’s AI capabilities, with explicit spending limits, write permissions and finite execution limits.
- Saved approval decisions and refusals remain available when you return to the conversation.
Smoother project workspaces and preview navigation
Project navigation stays visible, the working indicator stays within the workspace, and preview history continues when native navigation is unavailable.
Fixed
- Kept global DRD navigation visible while scrolling project conversations.
- Removed blank page scrolling caused by the working indicator while preserving conversation scrolling.
- Preserved preview Back and Forward when native history cannot persist. Visiting a new page after Back clears the forward path.
Administrator default model for Droid
Administrators can choose the default model for new Droid requests while existing work keeps its selected model.
Added
- Administration now includes a Droid model setting with a saved revision and an audit record for each change.
Improved
- New Droid requests use the saved default when their plan permits it. Explicit model selections and existing requests keep their selected model.
- Until an administrator saves a default, Droid preserves its existing model selection.
Reliable project environment startup
Project environments use the current repository access configuration when starting.
Fixed
- Project environments no longer start with an outdated repository credential after access has been renewed.
- Conflicting repository access settings are detected before an environment starts.
Medium-quality project images by default
Droid uses medium quality for project artwork unless you request low or high, and presents the current cost before spending.
Improved
- Droid and its helpers use medium image quality by default. Explicit requests for low or high quality remain available.
Fixed
- Image quotes explain the default consistently and request approval for the selected quality, size and current cost.
Safer project access and clearer Etsy guidance
Project access and preview sessions are more reliable, with clearer Etsy connection guidance.
Improved
- Etsy connection settings distinguish application approval, seller consent and connection availability.
- The Etsy activation guide explains setup and seller acceptance checks, including the separate approval needed for website exports.
Fixed
- Shared projects disappear when sharing access is removed or suspended.
- Project workspaces verify the current project and workspace before granting access.
- Live project previews preserve browser session cookies during WebSocket connections.
Responsive project conversations and adaptable template appearance
Stay in conversation with Droid while helpers work, with clearer chat controls and light and dark template previews.
Improved
- Droid’s replies appear while delegated helpers are still working, and your messages take priority over helper notices.
- Template previews follow your system’s light or dark appearance, with a choice to switch modes. New projects carry the template’s appearance behavior into their editable source.
- The platform footer has a simpler layout without the promotional banner.
Fixed
- Enter sends a project message without activating Stop. Repeated Enter during delivery does not submit the message twice, and edits to your next draft remain intact.
- Streaming replies finish in their existing conversation row when helpers settle, while review and publishing checks remain enforced.
Complete delegated features and shared project capabilities
Droid’s helpers can build complete features with the project tools they need, then hand their reviewed work back for integration.
Improved
- Helpers can use authorized project components, resources and services, and test their own app previews in separate workspaces.
- Delegated features retain supporting routes, dependencies and tests. Droid reviews the complete changes and integrates them while preserving its own work; conflicts remain available for deliberate resolution.
Fixed
- Delegation can start without manually supplying a task identifier.
- Parallel helpers keep image, design and owner-request retries distinct while sharing the original spending limit and Stop controls.
- Project design tools receive the current design state before their first update. Worker task arguments use consistent validation, and supported field-specific errors remain visible without exposing private values.
- Usage reports remain complete when multiple helpers finish together.
- Checking worker progress no longer prevents helpers from sending messages or reporting completed work.
Reliable project updates and reusable worker checkpoints
Droid keeps project activity and controls reliable as projects grow, while preserving delegated work for review.
Fixed
- Project activity, feedback, Stop and saved settings continue updating reliably when a project has a large editing history.
- Workers retain the changes within their assigned scope as reusable checkpoints. Additional edits stay available for review and require explicit acknowledgment before scoped changes are integrated.
Correct worker workspace permissions
New editing workspaces preserve the permissions Droid needs to create and review delegated work.
Fixed
- Delegated workers start with the intended permissions for their separate workspaces, and production uses the same runner identity checked before release.
- Worker failures retain safe stage and error categories for investigation without exposing private source or credentials.
More reliable Droid teamwork and visible communication
Follow actual messages between Droid and its workers, with more reliable task coordination and clearer failure details.
Improved
- Project chat shows recorded messages between Droid and its workers, including who sent and received each message and whether it is queued or delivered.
- Droid and its team focus on a useful early preview, visual polish, ease of use, and verified results while keeping explanations clear for nontechnical owners.
Fixed
- Messages sent while a worker is starting or between responses are queued and delivered before its work is saved for review.
- Workers use the currently authorized coding model when the model changes.
- Worker failures identify the recorded stage and safe error category, while private agent credentials remain hidden from messages and the public transcript.
Droid coordinates substantial work with its team
Droid now receives active coordination guidance to enlist workers early when your project has useful independent tasks.
Improved
- Where delegation is enabled, Droid defaults to assigning independent implementation tasks early while keeping design direction, the first useful preview, owner communication and final integration together.
- Small or tightly coupled tasks can stay with Droid; workers are used only when they have useful work, with the same shared spending controls.
Fixed
- Stopping while a delegated worker is starting prevents it from beginning work after Stop.
A continuous Droid workspace with delegated coding
Keep your project conversation ready, follow work in a clearer transcript and browser preview, and let Droid coordinate focused coding workers where enabled.
Added
- Where enabled, Droid can delegate focused tasks to up to three workers, review their results and integrate accepted changes into your app.
- Droid and delegated workers use the normal coding rate with one shared request allowance of $5 or your available credit if lower.
Improved
- Project previews have an address bar, Back, Forward, Refresh and an icon to open separately; sign-in stays inside the project.
- Droid remains ready in the same conversation while your project is visible, without another startup between messages.
- Tool activity uses compact expandable rows, with named worker activity and a quiet indicator between live updates.
- Chat uploads open the file picker directly, appear in Project Resources by file type and notify Droid of their location while preserving your draft.
- Project status appears as a solid dot beside the name, with status details and workspace close controls available on demand.
- Attachment previews and the composer use a cleaner borderless layout.
Fixed
- Stopping a delegated request stops its workers; conflicting changes remain available for review instead of overwriting the live source.
Designed Blank projects and live Droid activity
Blank projects start from a stronger design foundation, while Droid’s work appears as a clear chronological project transcript.
Improved
- Blank starts with a responsive home, consistent page structure and a visible account entry instead of an empty screen.
- A working Patterns page demonstrates shared controls, forms, validation, lists, dialogs, loading and empty states for Droid to adapt to your app.
- Blank’s generated project guidance explains how to preserve the design foundation while replacing the examples with your real content, behavior and durable data.
- Project chat keeps Droid’s updates, tool activity, preview refreshes, checks and steering in chronological order throughout long turns.
- Useful tool activity remains visible without exposing raw command output, source contents, form values or credentials.
Keep editing while an earlier charge is reviewed
An unresolved AI charge no longer blocks unrelated work funded by your remaining credit.
Improved
- Project previews update live as Droid edits ordinary source files and public assets, while preserving in-progress browser state such as selected controls and unsent form entries.
Fixed
- AI requests awaiting billing review keep only their own credit reserved. You can continue editing other projects or generating images with your remaining available credit.
- Deleted projects are removed from the workspace queue automatically, preventing repeated background errors.
A clearer project workspace and visual style picker
See project activity where the conversation is happening, choose styles visually, and publish from a simpler workspace.
Improved
- The template picker keeps the live preview and style controls visible together: desktop uses a side panel, phones use a swipeable horizontal rail, and every theme has a visual color palette.
- Workspace setup and build activity stays directly below the latest chat message. Redundant startup explanations, automatic template labels, unfinished hosting choices, and the separate draft-review card have been removed.
- When a saved version is ready, owners can publish from the project header beside Preview. Starting or resuming work immediately replaces stale preview and publishing actions with the current setup activity.
Fixed
- Project deletion progress remains available after the project row is removed, so successful deletion no longer ends on a missing-project page.
- Local development sessions can use the configured sandboxed agent model without weakening production authentication or provider boundaries.
Preview as soon as your app is ready
See your starting app and work in progress without waiting for a separate first-design reveal.
Improved
- Preview opens when the workspace and app are ready, including while Droid asks questions or works on the design. A ready preview stays available through later turns and reconnection.
- Draft approval no longer depends on a first-design reveal. Publishing still requires the owner’s approval of the current draft and the existing publication checks.
- Droid continues from established design direction without restarting discovery, and still reviews the actual app before calling its work ready.
Start with your design direction
Droid’s first-design guidance distinguishes your preferences from automatic defaults.
Fixed
- Creating a project no longer adds an instruction to choose your aesthetic on your behalf. The same automatic wording in older briefs is excluded when preparing Droid’s context; saved project records are preserved.
Improved
- For a bare project idea, Droid is guided to ask a few focused questions about the look and essential details, then wait for your reply. Detailed requests and explicit creative delegation can still start without an extra approval round.
Clearer pauses and smoother design recovery
First-design previews show when work is paused, and Droid keeps its tools available while sharing progress.
Fixed
- Before the first design is revealed, idle sessions stop showing an active preparation animation and point you back to chat. Genuine session startup still shows progress.
- Progress reminders no longer temporarily hide Droid’s inspection and editing tools. Existing permissions and approval requirements remain in place.
Improved
- Droid’s resume guidance now calls for checking saved source, the preview and design state before claiming work is missing or asking you to approve already requested work again.
More creative freedom for your apps
Droid treats templates as inspiration and reviews upstream improvements around your app’s needs.
Improved
- Droid’s guidance now makes clear that layouts, styling, components and structure can evolve around your goals and aesthetic. DRD’s own platform style does not prescribe how your app should look.
- Template and component improvements remain optional: Droid can take, adapt, skip or defer individual changes. It is guided to record the versions reviewed and its decisions, including reviews where nothing was adopted, to inform future reviews.
- New template patch releases include the updated customization and review guidance.
Clearer progress and a more careful first preview
Follow Droid’s progress while your first design takes shape, with clearer guidance to inspect the experience before revealing it.
Improved
- New projects show the current setup or build stage and recent activity beside the design orb while the initial preview stays hidden.
- Droid’s first-design guidance now calls for inspecting every reachable page on desktop and phone, including sign-in and empty first-use states, fixing visible problems and checking again before the first reveal.
Fixed
- Cancelling preview sign-in now rechecks the preview session just like closing the sign-in window, so the embedded view can refresh.
Reliable Droid setup requests
Droid can reach secure setup and Stripe Preview tools directly from editing sessions.
Fixed
- Secure setup requests and managed Stripe Preview operations now use editing-session authentication, so Droid no longer encounters a browser sign-in requirement when calling these tools.
Droid setup requests and a clearer Project workspace
Set up Stripe Preview securely when Droid needs it, continue the right work, and find project controls in a clearer shared workspace.
Added
- Droid can request Stripe Preview setup in chat. Owners use the same secure form from the request or Project settings, with saved receipts and explicit options to continue, defer or cancel.
- Managed Stripe Preview access lets Droid inspect test-account access, create and inspect one-time test Checkout sessions, and verify signed Checkout events without receiving the saved credentials. Production payment configuration remains separate.
Improved
- Project organizes controls under Files & data, Connections, People & access, Publishing, Code & updates, and General. Switching between Chat, Preview and Project retains the last setting or code location.
- Shared controls use neutral hover feedback, keep focused fields visible in small sheets, and provide consistent attachment actions. Updated component and template releases carry these refinements into new apps.
- App AI settings explain owner funding and spending limits more clearly, with better error messages and recovery spacing.
Fixed
- Delayed setup responses no longer close newer forms or clear their drafts. Lost project access clears cached setup requests and secret inputs.
- Continuations remain tied to the work that requested setup. Duplicate saves reuse their receipt, ordinary settings saves do not restart work, and stopped or replaced work cannot silently resume.
A more thoughtful first design and visual review
Start from your idea, reveal your first design when it is ready, and give Droid stronger visual checks as your app evolves.
Improved
- New projects use your initial brief to start designing directly when there is enough direction, or ask for the missing essentials while keeping setup out of the preview.
- Droid checks desktop and phone previews before completing edits, reassesses changed work, and preserves unfinished progress with a clear explanation when checks cannot complete.
- Project review groups the name, starting idea, hosting and actions with full-width dividers. Updated UI components and compatible template versions make the shared dialog treatment available to new apps.
Clearer workspace shutdown progress
Keep the workspace closing control aligned with confirmed shutdown progress.
Fixed
- Once the hosting provider acknowledges shutdown, Workspace details keeps Closing workspace disabled while shutdown completes instead of briefly offering Retry. Unconfirmed shutdown failures remain retryable, and Closed still requires confirmation.
Reliable draft reopening and workspace closing
Keep preview state through unchanged checks and show accurate workspace readiness and shutdown results.
Fixed
- Reopening a saved draft keeps the workspace in its getting-ready state until the preview acknowledges readiness.
- A successful Close workspace request no longer displays a false connection error.
- Previews retain filters and unsent input through unchanged agent checks after reopening a saved draft; actual app changes still refresh the preview.
Steadier previews and clearer workspace controls
Keep healthy previews steady during unchanged inspections and see when your workspace is working, idle, closing or closed.
Added
- Workspace details show setup, agent work, idle time and confirmed shutdown, with guidance on the existing ten-minute idle policy.
- Owners can close an idle workspace after its work is saved. Closing preserves saved code and conversations, and an unsuccessful shutdown can be retried.
Fixed
- Read-only agent inspections reuse a healthy preview when its inputs are unchanged, avoiding unnecessary reloads that clear filters and unsent input. Real changes still refresh the preview.
- Workspace controls distinguish Stop from Close, check that stopped work has a current saved checkpoint, and keep showing Closing until shutdown is confirmed.
More consistent agent progress updates
Keep customers informed as agents acknowledge requests, respond to steering and continue longer tasks.
Improved
- Agents must acknowledge a request or delivered change of direction before continuing tool work.
- During longer tasks, agents must provide another short public update before further tool work at the next eligible step. A long-running operation can delay that update.
- Questions, complete final replies, cancellation and resumed work retain their existing behavior; working notes remain available in Build activity.
Customer updates and reliable account navigation
Separate useful chat updates from working notes and keep Account panels aligned with navigation.
Improved
- Agents have a dedicated way to send concise progress updates while working notes appear in optional Build activity. Questions, requested explanations and complete final replies remain in chat.
- New template versions keep architecture checks in the working process and guide agents toward customer-focused updates without changing template features or existing projects.
- Agent browser guidance distinguishes its own saved state from the state in your browser and asks for observed evidence before diagnosing data loss.
- Workspace guidance clarifies that Stop ends the current turn while a healthy preview remains available until idle closure.
Fixed
- Account switches to the correct panel after client navigation, including Plans & billing links in the footer, without requiring a reload.
Clearer conversations and more reliable preview checks
Find Chat in the main navigation, read cleaner project conversations, and explore clearer AI integration choices and refreshed editorial content.
Improved
- Chat now opens from the main navigation on desktop and phones, keeping the project controls clear of a floating launcher.
- Project AI components explain owner-funded usage, image quality choices, sign-in requirements and spending limits, while preserving accurate billing labels on recovered results.
- Agent browser checks track source revisions, document readiness and observation details; updated guidance asks for concise progress and evidence-based explanations.
- The updated business mobile app brings conversations, progress, images and owner controls together around an accessible message composer.
- Your will, not mine has a revised narrative, supporting imagery and consistent article and share presentation.
Fixed
- Identical final agent replies saved through activity and chat appear once, with complete text, distinct updates and attachments retained.
- Agent browser checks reload changed previews even when a later build reuses the same backend port.
Mobile project activity and private attachments
Adds support for richer project conversations and owner controls in the updated business mobile app.
Added
- Mobile project conversations can show live agent progress, message delivery receipts and incremental conversation history.
- Authorized project members can open generated images and other attachments through private, expiring links.
- Project owners can request a graceful stop from the updated mobile app using the same workflow as the website.
Improved
- Existing mobile sign-in and conversation fields remain compatible with earlier app versions.
Simpler mobile sign-in
Use the updated business mobile app with your verified email, password and bot verification.
Improved
- Business mobile sign-in accepts password sessions without an authenticator code, including for administrators.
- Website administration and customer-project support retain their authenticator requirements; mobile access still checks account restrictions, active sessions and project permissions.
Clearer project setup and more reliable agent reviews
Guide active setup sooner, get clearer template recommendations, and retain longer agent replies during review.
Improved
- Project setup delivers follow-up instructions when the agent starts working, without duplicating them in its conversation history.
- Template recommendations explain how they fit your requested workflow and suggest Blank for custom apps without a close match.
- Agent replies retain more detail through follow-ups and recovery, and preference errors identify the fields that need attention.
- Project setup shows its current stage and reports preview build failures more clearly.
- Browser review tools collect console errors and tie acceptance guidance to the reviewed revision.
Fixed
- Shared dialogs correctly display rich descriptions, with updated UI-kit versions available across all 15 templates.
Reliable saved-password sign-in
Saved credentials stay in place while bot verification completes.
Fixed
- Sign-in and signup preserve saved credentials when bot verification completes, expires or retries.
- Password recovery and password reset use the values filled by your browser or password manager, including after an unsuccessful attempt.
A clearer workspace, AI-powered apps and mobile access
Build with a clearer project flow, reach DRD through floating chat, and add owner-funded AI features to your apps.
Added
- DRD administrators can generate GPT Image 2 artwork in the T-shirt component preview using their own AI credits, with authenticator verification, explicit quality choices and estimated costs before generation.
- Saved low-quality concepts can become references for a separate high-quality edit. Both original PNGs remain available for download; refinement may change details.
- Add signed-in AI chat, image generation and approved tools to your apps with owner-funded credits, per-user and project budgets, explicit permissions and recoverable requests.
- Open the floating chat to use the DRD assistant or switch to your human Let’s talk conversation, with saved drafts and private account-aware history.
- Authenticated mobile companion APIs provide projects, agent messages, inbox and account access, while advanced settings and publishing remain on the website.
Improved
- Project agents offer low, medium and high image quality with a price comparison and preserve your selection when generating artwork.
- Existing image requests remain recoverable while new requests use the updated image service.
- Shirt photos fill the available preview height, and saved generated artwork remains recoverable without starting another paid request.
- Review the project name, starting point and hosting before creation, retain choices through navigation, and rename existing projects from Settings.
- Project activity distinguishes setup, product updates and build details, with clearer saved-review guidance and confirmed versus reserved credit amounts.
- Shared controls and template menus use cleaner themed surfaces, more consistent mobile spacing and updated reusable component releases.
- Component cards show representative interfaces, and the founding article combines revised writing, typography, illustrations and real product examples.
Fixed
- Image credit accounting uses the current generation rates while preserving the rates recorded for earlier requests.
- Project preference failures provide clearer recovery guidance, and agents check image availability before offering quality choices.
Print shops, shirt design and image previews
Build a screen-printing storefront, design custom shirts and review generated artwork directly in project chat.
Added
- Screen Printing provides configurable quantity and color pricing, garment design requests, quotes, proof approvals, Stripe deposits and balances, and owner tools for production and fulfillment. Each shop connects its own services before accepting live orders.
- The reusable T-shirt designer supports garment and stock browsing, front/back artwork and text, size quantities, saved drafts and exports. Placement guides adjust for photo framing and remain approximate.
Improved
- Generated images appear as private previews in project chat and open at full size. Completed image requests can repair a missing chat attachment without paying for another generation.
- The homepage has a simpler layout, a full template carousel and clearer links to plans and mobile-app services.
- Shirt selection and editor navigation preserve designs and bring the selected step into view.
Fixed
- Print-shop order recovery retains unfinished requests during navigation and reconciles interrupted Stripe refund or dispute updates.
- Connected owner devices retain refreshed credentials when a temporary membership check fails.
Project images through Nous
Project agents support GPT Image 2 through configured Nous access, with clear quality choices and recoverable image requests.
Improved
- Image generation explains estimated building-credit costs and offers only quality and size options with verified pricing. Your chosen option is preserved when generating.
- Images that are still processing can be checked and retrieved within the same editing workspace without starting another paid generation.
- Image billing preserves confirmed usage and recovery history through interruptions, while protecting against duplicate submissions and charges.
Building plans and hosting choices
New building subscriptions combine AI credits, metered editing workspaces and managed-hosting allowances, with an option to use your own hosting accounts.
Added
- Starter, Builder and Studio building plans are available at $19, $39 and $129 per month, with $5, $15 and $75 in monthly building credits respectively. Workspace compute and managed hosting follow the published allowances.
- New projects can choose managed hosting or use their own accounts through the documented manual export and deployment workflow.
Improved
- Existing subscriptions retain their purchased price and credit allowance. Billing history preserves earlier price versions, while plan changes use the new building catalog.
- Managed-hosting budget enforcement and recovery now accept successful provider commands with empty responses and protect unrelated or unverified pauses.
Building-plan transition and hosting recovery
Updated building-plan information preserves existing subscriptions and improves managed-hosting recovery.
Improved
- Building-plan information now describes building credits, workspace compute and managed-hosting allowances. Existing subscriptions retain their purchased price and credit allowance. New building subscriptions remain temporarily unavailable during activation.
Fixed
- Managed-hosting recovery can recognize serving sites when their provider omits pause status. Pauses initiated by DRD retain recovery history, while externally paused or unverified sites remain protected from automatic restoration.
Artwork tools and Etsy commerce options
New project-agent artwork tools and Etsy storefront options are ready for configured integrations.
Added
- Project agents support GPT Image 2 artwork where enabled, explain estimated credit costs and wait for your low, medium or high quality choice before generating. Saved artwork follows the normal draft and publishing flow.
- Etsy shop settings let owners connect an approved integration, choose public listings and select Etsy checkout or independent website sales through their own Stripe account. Connecting requires DRD provider setup and storefront integration.
- Updated commerce components and templates support Buy on Etsy links and preserve existing Stripe orders and payments. Optional Etsy imports require separate provider approval and create unpublished products with zero website stock.
Improved
- Image billing preserves verified usage receipts, pending-credit recovery and protections against duplicate charges. Uncertain image requests are not automatically regenerated.
- Project settings keep Square and Hosting options alongside Etsy, and the assistant explains the new integration requirements.
Project publishing restored
Project owners can approve and publish saved changes again.
Fixed
- Fixed a permission error that prevented project owners from approving saved drafts and resuming publication. Hosting restrictions and owner-only publishing remain enforced.
Connected services, account safety and clearer usage
Connect project services, review account security and track business finances and model-usage resolutions.
Added
- Project owners can authorize a Square merchant, select an operating location and check or disconnect the connection. Printful production connections use secure store authorization while preview retains separate read-only settings.
- Administration includes recent account network history, related-account review and temporary signup restrictions with reasons and audit history. Shared networks do not automatically identify or suspend people.
- Administrators can track public-authority requests, legality reviews, minimized disclosure plans, approvals and responses in an audited register. Recording a request does not send customer data.
- Business finances brings together revenue, expense evidence, credit obligations and subscription forecasts, with incomplete evidence clearly identified.
Improved
- Billing preserves the price and credit allowance recorded for each subscription, while keeping advertised prices and checkout consistent during plan changes.
- Plans and billing show pending model usage and recent credit resolutions. Durable receipts and bounded recovery protect against duplicate charges and preserve the evidence behind released holds.
- Printful authorization, refresh and disconnect operations protect newer connections from stale callbacks. Square credentials remain encrypted and revocation clears the affected connection.
- Account network history expires automatically under the published retention policy.
Fixed
- Scheduled hosting checks, recovery monitoring, workspace credit renewals and signed Square notifications reach their own authorization checks without requiring a browser login.
- Expired Square authorization callbacks return safely to sign-in without retaining provider parameters.
Refreshed templates and stronger account controls
Explore refreshed starter designs, read complete sample articles and manage verified, pending and quarantined accounts from Administration.
Added
- Administrators can send support emails to an account and quarantine or reactivate accounts with a recorded reason.
- Pending verification has its own account directory, keeping unverified accounts separate from registered users.
- Manuscript includes complete sample articles, related reading and dedicated article pages.
Improved
- The template picker has a horizontal layout and new static covers, with refreshed photography, content and styling across storefront, rental, music, event, business and editorial starters.
- Portable template artwork and updated component releases preserve the new designs in generated apps.
- Signup admission checks reduce disposable-email and repeated unverified registrations while allowing email-bound invitations for legitimate exceptions.
- Registration notifications wait for email confirmation and exclude quarantined accounts.
- Provider failures retain bounded, private diagnostic information to make troubleshooting more precise without storing customer prompts or raw provider errors.
Fixed
- Cookie settings now appears with the footer’s Legal links.
- Music controls appear when playback begins in supported templates, and booking date controls and shared typography have been refined.
More capable project agents
Project agents handle questions and changes naturally, remember useful preferences and carry out larger changes without unnecessary implementation restrictions.
Improved
- Project agents can answer questions, ask for needed input and make requested changes with the same tools and workspace, without Ask/Edit modes.
- Agent replies lead with the answer or question, and routine preview refreshes no longer add repeated chat notices.
- Agents decide what project preferences to remember and revise, with a chat confirmation showing the saved preference in their own words.
- Agents are instructed to run formatting, lint, type checks and project tests before calling code changes complete, while unfinished drafts remain saveable.
- Agents can revise project tooling, tests and design while publication continues to run quality checks on the approved draft.
- Database changes can include agent-written migrations for renames, data transformations, views and triggers through the normal publication flow.
- Agents can record useful template and component update decisions even when the library has no named improvement for them.
Fixed
- Remembering a preference no longer depends on matching an exact quote from the current request or keeping its previous confidence label.
- Active editing no longer ends at a fixed per-request time limit, and paid authorization renews while work continues.
- Larger unfinished changes can be saved and recovered in parts, and agents can prepare more than forty logical commits in a turn.
- Reconnecting an editing workspace preserves customized database definitions instead of reapplying the original template schema.
Reconnect custom-domain projects
Projects using verified custom-domain sign-in can open a new editing workspace with their complete authentication configuration restored.
Fixed
- New and returning editing sessions accept the verified origin list used by custom-domain authentication instead of stopping while connections are restored.
- The workspace keeps validating every approved sign-in origin before writing the private project configuration.
Keep live previews current
Project previews now follow completed edits within seconds, so the owner and coding agent see the same workspace while work is in progress.
Fixed
- The active Preview refreshes shortly after the latest completed edit instead of lagging one or two minutes behind the coding agent.
- Edits completed during a preview refresh trigger an immediate follow-up, preventing the visible preview from remaining on an older workspace snapshot.
Improved
- Routine source changes reuse the workspace's installed dependencies for faster refreshes, while dependency changes still activate a fresh installation safely.
Sign in from connected domains
Published websites can keep visitors on a verified custom domain throughout sign-in and authenticated use.
Fixed
- Visitors signing in from a connected custom domain return to that same address instead of seeing an expired-request error.
- Publication approves only domains verified for the project and removes stale or unverified callback addresses.
- Authenticated website changes require the exact verified address serving the request.
Improved
- App-auth 1.5.0 is available for existing projects to adopt before their next publication.
Verify protected pages while editing
Coding agents can inspect owner-only pages in updated editing previews without requesting your sign-in credentials.
Improved
- The coding agent’s browser can check owner-protected pages and isolated preview-data edits during an active editing session.
- Updated authentication and management components are included in all fourteen templates; existing projects can adopt the updates while preserving their customizations.
- Public previews and published sites keep their normal sign-in requirements. Changes to shared live media, memberships and invitations still require normal sign-in.
Resume live editing after an agent reconnect
An editing session keeps going when its coding process reconnects, without asking the user to repeat feedback or presenting saved work as rejected.
Fixed
- A warm project workspace replaces a stopped coding process once and resumes the same conversation, preview and request automatically.
- A valid saved draft remains ready to explore if the replacement also ends early, while AI usage stays attached to the original editing turn.
Keep live agent feedback moving
Messages reach an active coding agent without a resend, and routine internal retries no longer look like rejected work.
Improved
- Project messages are routed from current workspace state, so feedback submitted as a session starts or finishes reaches the active agent or begins the next turn automatically.
- Recoverable coding-tool retries stay behind the scenes instead of appearing in the project conversation as rejected work.
Keep public registration messages clear
Account creation errors no longer suggest that open registration requires an invitation.
Fixed
- Email and social registration failures show current account-creation guidance instead of obsolete invitation-only instructions.
Keep failed build history in order
Long agent transcripts stay chronological when a failed turn spans multiple history pages.
Fixed
- Saved and recently cached build activity merge by timestamp without duplicate or out-of-order sections after a long failed request.
Open account registration
Anyone can create a DRD account, and the owner receives an email when a new account is registered.
Added
- Create an account with email and password without an invitation. Google, GitHub and Facebook can also create an account when they provide an email address.
- The DRD owner receives an email notification for each new registered account.
Improved
- Targeted invitations and customer-app registration links keep their access checks while ordinary registration stays open.
- New account notifications retry independently, so an email delivery problem does not block registration.
Preserve editing work through interruptions
Project editing keeps completed work and visible progress when an agent process stops unexpectedly.
Fixed
- Unexpected agent-process exits preserve completed source, run independent checks and save a reviewable partial draft when the work is valid.
- Public build activity remains in project conversation history after failures and later requests, with failed activity opened automatically for review.
- Updated the editing runtime with upstream stability fixes for long tool runs and cancellation races.
Publish safe database additions
Project drafts can publish new database columns while preserving existing data.
Fixed
- Publishing accepts safe added database columns instead of rejecting every change to an existing table.
- Database additions apply together and roll back on failure; destructive changes still require separate migration review.
Recover temporary AI provider failures
Project editing can recover from short provider errors and explains provider failures separately from pending credit.
Improved
- Temporary AI provider errors receive one automatic retry within available credit, with each attempt accounted for separately.
- Project chat distinguishes provider unavailability, rejected requests and connection failures from pending usage reconciliation.
- Support diagnostics retain provider status and recognized error labels without storing prompts or raw provider error messages.
Reliable publication checks
Project agents can complete publication checks without a browser sign-in session.
Fixed
- Fixed authentication routing for agent publication results and diagnostics so approved drafts can finish their required checks.
Keep editing, check before publishing
Save and explore drafts without waiting for enforced quality checks, with browser tools for project agents and checks at publication.
Improved
- Editing agents choose useful checks while they work. Drafts save without a forced quality-check repair loop, and previews stay available for continued feedback.
- Approve & publish checks the approved source before deployment. Failed checks return to the agent as a repair request using the project owner’s credits; corrected drafts remain available for review.
Added
- Project editing agents can inspect real screenshots and interact with the preview using clicks, typing, scrolling and timed observations. Protected flows still require authorized test access.
- Agents can read deployment diagnostics and compare actual preview and production database definitions without accessing production rows or credentials.
Sign in within Preview and follow deployment progress
Stay in the editor while signing in, use simpler chat defaults, and follow approved changes through deployment.
Added
- Updated templates support sign-in and registration in a separate window while keeping the app inside Preview, with recovery options when sign-in cannot finish.
- The Preview toolbar includes a Sign in action for existing projects. Projects can adopt the updated authentication component while preserving their customizations.
Improved
- Project chat uses the default model and automatic request mode, with the mode and model selectors hidden for a simpler composer.
- For substantial requests, Droid is guided to explain the likely wait early, let you know you can step away and return, and share meaningful progress through building and checking.
- Approving a draft immediately opens deployment progress in Preview, including on phones. Progress survives refreshes, failures provide retry actions, and the live site appears when ready instead of an unusable View draft button.
Reliable first project startup
New projects start their editing workspace without requiring a retry.
Fixed
- Fixed an internal permission check that could prevent a newly created project from starting its first editing session.
Blank canvas and flexible AI credit top-ups
Start a custom app from a blank foundation and choose how much AI credit to add.
Added
- A Blank starter template provides an empty app canvas with shared design tokens, SQLite, authentication and standard administration ready for customization.
Improved
- Subscribers can enter a custom USD amount in Plans & billing instead of purchasing fixed $5 packages. A bottom sheet shows the amount before secure checkout, and confirmed payments add the same dollar amount to the AI credit balance.
- Changing a top-up amount replaces the previous unpaid checkout. Existing $5 checkouts remain supported, and retries and refunds preserve the correct credit amount.
AI credit top-ups and project commit history
Buy extra AI credit when you need it and explore the changes saved to your project.
Added
- Subscribers can add $5 in AI credits from Plans & billing through a one-time checkout. Confirmed purchases increase the rolling balance without changing the subscription or its renewal date.
- A Commits view in the project editor shows draft and main history, with messages, authors, times and links to the saved code. Owners, contributors and support can inspect it without closing the preview or losing chat.
Improved
- Project agents prepare related changes in logical chunks with descriptive messages. The runner saves separate commits after the completed draft passes its checks.
Reliable authenticator QR setup
Authenticator setup displays QR codes returned by the identity provider.
Fixed
- Fixed missing QR codes during authenticator setup so you can scan the code instead of entering a setup key.
Account security that belongs in your workspace
Set up two-step verification with a QR code inside Account, with clear guidance for protected administrator access.
Improved
- Security now uses the shared Account navigation on desktop and mobile, with authenticator setup and verification in the existing settings interface.
- Scan a QR code to add an authenticator, use manual setup when needed, and manage backup authenticators with clear retry and cancellation flows.
Fixed
- Administrators keep their Administration entry while verification is required, with a direct path to Security instead of appearing to lose their role.
DRD-branded alerts with fewer repeat reminders
Operational alerts use DRD’s email identity and avoid repeating unchanged warnings every hour.
Fixed
- Operational emails use the DRD-authorized sending credential and a drdindustries.com sender.
- Repeated alerts for the same event and route retain their history and send reminders at most once daily. Distinct alert types and routes still notify promptly.
Reliable background processing as the template library grows
Keep background recovery and operational alerts running without loading the entire template release history.
Fixed
- Template and component snapshots load only when requested, reducing startup memory while preserving historical versions and integrity checks.
- Production checks now verify background endpoint startup before promotion.
Stronger account protection and workspace capacity controls
Protect administrative access, manage account and project restrictions, and keep saved work queued when workspace capacity is full.
Added
- Authenticator setup and backup factors for protected administrator actions, with compatible sign-in in Android 0.1.3.
- Audited account and project suspension with retryable workspace shutdown.
- Shared storage allowances, workspace admission limits and queued startup.
- Operational incident history and configurable delivery with retries.
Improved
- Administration navigation preserves its reading-order focus without drawing a border around static headings. Updated admin components and templates include this refinement.
- Email signup now guides you through verification with a resend countdown and a clear return to sign-in.
Custom projects from approval to invoice
Agree on custom work, review progress and access one-time invoices from your account.
Added
- Custom projects let administrators define requirements, acceptance criteria and a fixed price, with customer approval and a shared revision history.
- Customers can request changes, follow completed work and open or download their one-time invoice.
Improved
- Searchable customer and project pickers simplify creating and linking custom work.
- Updated UI kit and template releases include the shared searchable select control and improved dialog layering.
A clearer guide to building with DRD
Explore how AI credits, managed infrastructure, quality checks and human support work together.
Added
- A dedicated How it works page explains the building process and links to plans, templates, components and support.
Improved
- The homepage introduces the four parts of the service, with navigation and footer links to the full guide.
Safer publishing and smoother project conversations
Strengthened publishing and browser protections, bounded contact delivery, and easier access to long project conversations.
Improved
- Project conversations open with the newest messages, load earlier history on demand, and retain your place while new messages arrive.
- Publishing retries verify the project’s hosting connection before applying settings.
- Sign-in, account, administration and project pages receive stronger browser protections while public pages retain their caching.
- Public contact delivery now has shared visitor and hourly limits, with clear retry responses.
- External applications can use operator-managed DRD authentication registration and verified origin updates.
- Updated contact-form and template releases provide an optional delivery-admission hook while preserving published versions.
Keep editing your reopened draft
Move from viewing a saved draft to requesting changes without losing your preview.
Improved
- After View draft, send feedback in the same chat to start your agent in the open workspace with your saved conversation.
- The preview stays available as editing resumes; viewing uses no model credits, and editing keeps the usual credit and subscription checks.
Reliable project editing
Reopen saved drafts before publishing, send follow-up messages reliably and change website colors through shared theme overrides.
Added
- View draft reopens the saved version awaiting approval without requesting more agent work or using model credits.
- Closed drafts now show a clear preview action instead of displaying the published site in their place.
Fixed
- Messages no longer fail with “Your workspace just changed” when a healthy workspace updates in the background.
- Automatic retries preserve your conversation, preview and newer settings without duplicating the message.
- Theme color edits now work alongside saved Appearance choices, preserving unrelated settings and allowing later owner edits.
- The live theme preview updates without restarting the page or losing open dialogs and unfinished inputs.
Reusable updates
- New projects include the updated theme component. Existing projects can adopt its documented theme override improvement while preserving their customized source.
Active Droid sessions at a glance
Administrators can now follow active project sessions from one live directory.
Added
- Administration now includes Active sessions, showing preparing, starting, and running Droid sessions across projects, with the owner, model, and latest activity.
- Search by project name, browse pages of active sessions, and open a project directly in its editor.
Improved
- The active-session directory refreshes every ten seconds while visible and removes finished sessions. Temporary errors clearly label the previous snapshot, and loss of administrator access clears it.
Clearer maps for church events
Choose street maps or satellite imagery, with clearer map credits and a better starting view for Common Ground events.
Improved
- Switch between Street and Satellite in maps and location pickers while keeping your zoom, selected place, and edited pin.
- Common Ground event maps and owner location pickers now start in Street view, making roads and nearby places easier to find.
- Map source credits appear in a readable line below the map. Retry a failed map load without losing your view.
Reusable updates
- The map component and Common Ground template include these improvements in their release history, ready for Droid to review and selectively adopt in existing projects.
Our starting point
The first versioned snapshot of DRD. This entry brings together what the platform already offers; future entries will describe what changed with each release.
Build with Droid
- Start with an idea, choose a template, and refine your website through a conversation with Droid.
- Work with live previews, agent activity, model selection, project preferences, and controls to steer, stop, and resume work.
- Choose foundations for shops, bookings, music, events, portfolios, and business websites, with interactive owner previews for supported templates.
- Browse reusable building blocks for accounts, payments, chat, comments, galleries, audio, video, maps, and more.
Manage your projects
- Review drafts and publish approved changes from the project workspace.
- Browse source files, export project code and data, and manage domains, environment variables, database storage, and payment setup.
- Review template and component release history, then ask Droid to assess and adopt selected improvements.
- Use a shared light and dark design system with responsive navigation, clearer settings, and content-shaped loading states.
Account and support
- Manage your profile, plans, billing, and AI-credit balance in Account.
- Get platform guidance from the DRD assistant and contact the DRD team through private conversations.
- Administration brings together user and invitation management, project support, and QA agents with session reports and feedback.
Release tracking
- DRD now has a date-based platform version, starting at 2026.9.10.
- Open the version link in the footer to read the changelog and follow future releases.