Changelog

Your Playcode AI can now hand heavy work to background agents - and stay available while they run.

• It keeps talking while they work. Ask for research, an audit, or a build slice "in the background" and the AI starts a task, tells you the id, and keeps the conversation going. When the task finishes, the result lands right back in your chat.
• A tasks panel in the editor. See every background task with a live status - queued, running, finished - how long it's been going, and a stop button while it's alive.
• Every task is a real chat. Open any task to watch the agent work message by message, exactly like your main chat. Type into it to steer a running agent mid-flight, or message a finished one to continue where it left off.
• Built-in quality loop. For bigger builds the AI can run build -> audit -> fix cycles: a coder agent implements, an auditor agent reviews against your requirements and returns a concrete verdict, and fixes get their own task - before the result comes back to you.

Long tasks no longer look like a hang: if an agent hits a limit, you get the partial result and can send it a follow-up to continue. Tasks even survive our own deploys - they resume from their chat history instead of failing.

Background agents got a big round of polish the same day they shipped:

• Agents now build in parallel. The AI can run several build agents at once - each with its own slice of the work - instead of queueing them one after another. Big builds finish sooner.
• You can see what each task runs on. Every task now shows its agent type and model tier right in the tasks panel, and read-only helpers (research, code exploration) always use the economy model. A task never uses a more expensive tier than your chat is set to - upgrading is always your call, never the AI's.
• Research you can trust. A research agent must fetch real web sources now; if it ever answers without them, the result is clearly flagged so you know it came from memory, not the web.
• Smoother task navigation. The tasks panel has a proper header and close button, and the back button in a task returns you to wherever you came from - the chat or the list. Failed and stopped tasks say what actually happened instead of a generic line.
• Calmer credit warnings. Running low shows a quiet amber note above the chat box (dismissible), with a heads-up at 50% and 15% remaining - including on the Free plan, which previously got no warning at all. Out of credits is now a one-click "Top up" (or "Upgrade" on Free), never a red alarm.
• Clearer controls. Stopping a task is a stop square now (the old ✕ looked like "close"), task cards keep their title readable on narrow screens, your chat list shows a small spinner on any chat the AI is still working in, and undo works on file changes inside a task's transcript too.

The chat composer got a full redesign:

• One quiet frame. Softer corners, a lower profile, and every control in calm ink - the send button is the only thing that lights up.
• Notices slide out from behind. Credit warnings no longer stack a banner on top of the chat box; they dock behind it as a slim strip, so the composer always stays in front.
• Compact attachments. Files and images you attach are now small chips inside the frame instead of large preview cards.
• Little touches. A frosted-glass scroll-to-bottom button, a clearer sidebar icon, and a bit more breathing room in the header - especially on phones.

Every chat now carries its own receipt. Open the chat picker in the editor (click the chat name above the conversation) and the bottom of the menu shows two quiet numbers for the current chat:

• Spent in this chat - the total AI credits this conversation has used so far.
• Context - how much of the model's working memory the chat is filling.

When a chat runs long, the context number turns amber with a tip: long chats reply slower and cost more, so starting a new chat for the next task keeps you fast and cheap.

Nothing ticks while the AI works - the receipt only appears when you ask for it.

You can now pick exactly how Playcode builds - and swap the model behind each tier - right from the Choose build quality menu next to the composer.

Three tiers, your call.

• Economy - fast and low-cost, great for simple edits, fixes, and basic pages.
• Pro - the default: detailed design, the cleanest results, and the fewest errors.
• Ultra - new. Our most capable model, for the hardest, highest-stakes builds.

Pick the model per tier. Each tier has a small model chip - tap it to choose from a curated shortlist, with a cost signal so the trade-off is clear. Set your preferred Pro model once and it sticks.

Tune the context, too. A new Context dial controls how much of the conversation the agent keeps before it summarizes - turn it up for long files and deep sessions, or down to keep runs lean.

Builds on GPT-5.6 Sol (available in the Pro tier) now reuse cached context between steps, so multi-step agent runs are noticeably faster and spend fewer credits.

Why it matters. A long agent turn re-sends a lot of the same context on every step. Sol now caches that context, so the repeated parts are much cheaper - more of your credits go toward new work instead of re-processing what the agent already read.

Your teammates' names and emails now appear instantly in the People view and the share dialog - and keep working even when your connection drops.

No more waiting or blanks. Names and avatars for everyone you share a workspace or project with are kept in sync locally, so the roster renders immediately instead of blanking while it fetches. Open the People page or a share dialog offline and you still see who's who.

Workspaces now have teams - named groups of people you can share with in one step.

Create a team from Settings -> People -> Teams and add workspace members to it. Then, in the Share popup, grant access to the team the same way you would to a person: everyone in the team gets that access at once.

Teams stay live as your group changes. Add someone to a team and they immediately get everything the team has been given; remove them and that access goes away just as fast. No more re-sharing a dozen projects when a new person joins.

The Share popup shows exactly where access comes from: grants received through a team are labeled "via team", and the team's access level is edited in one place - on the team grant itself. A direct personal share and a team share can coexist; the more permissive one wins.

A workspace is no longer tied to the one person who clicked "Create".

Any number of admins. Promote as many teammates to admin as you need - every admin can manage members, sharing, settings, and billing with equal rights. There is no single "super owner" anymore; the person who created the workspace is simply its first admin.

Ownership is transferable. Handing a workspace over is now just a role change: make the new person an admin, and they can take it from there - including if the original creator later leaves the company. Playcode always keeps at least one admin in place, so a workspace can never lock itself out.

Nothing changes for your personal workspace - it stays yours.

Give a teammate Admin on a single project and they can now run it end to end.

Publish, snapshot, restore. A project admin can publish and unpublish the project, create and restore checkpoints, retry provisioning, and manage its published subdomain - without needing to be a workspace admin.

Destructive actions stay protected. Deleting or moving a project, and attaching custom domains, still require the project's creator or a workspace admin. So you can hand someone the keys to operate a project without risking that it gets erased or relocated.