A folder you pick, a card that follows your Mac, and asks that wait their turn

Nico 0.2.0. Spaces learned to hand an ask a folder, the card learned light mode, and a handful of things that had been quietly cutting your work short stopped doing it.

Give an ask any folder

A Space has always been a browser and a folder of its own. Now an ask — or an app — can be given any folder on your Mac: a client folder in Dropbox, a scans folder on a drive, another Space's downloads, or wherever you put things by hand.

Press Folder… on the ask, or drag a folder onto it. The row says which folder in words, and says the grant is read and write, because it is — an agent handed a folder can change what is in it, and that belongs on the row rather than in a tooltip.

Some folders are refused and say why: your home folder, the whole disk, a system folder, and a Space's own directory — that last one holds the logins for that business, so you are pointed at its files folder instead.

An ask waits its turn instead of being turned away

Asking a second thing while the first was still thinking used to answer "thread 2 is already running, and one runs at a time", under a row that then sat on not run yet for ever. Nothing was ever going to run it.

A press is not a timer tick. It is somebody asking once, so it joins a queue, the row says queued, and it starts itself when the one in front lands.

A follow-up remembers what you asked first

A question that was never answered used to be deleted from the conversation before the next one was sent. That is right for a run that crashed and wrong for one that never ran — so a follow-up of "retry now" reached the model with nothing attached to it, and said so.

Earlier questions now travel, marked as unanswered.

Nico stopped guessing how much room a model has

Every budget on the browser path was sized for the smallest model that could ever run it. A five-turn conversation of 1,735 words arrived as 4,091 characters of 18,688 — the rest was binned, which is why an ask would say it could not see your earlier draft.

Nico now asks each tool what it holds. Codex answers for free; Claude Code answers once and the answer is kept. Ollama was already being asked. Every limit is then a share of the real number with a ceiling on top, so a bigger window cannot quietly cost you more.

Four other limits were sized the same way: what a model may write in one go, how many of its own steps it can remember, how much of a page it reads, and how much of the conversation travels. And the code meant to shorten an over-long page turned out never to run at all.

The card follows your Mac, or you tell it

Settings → Appearance: System, Light or Dark. Both windows repaint the moment you choose. The terminal stays dark, as terminals do everywhere else on a Mac.

Your sessions are in the menu bar

Sessions, with pinned ones at the top and your recent ones under them. Press one to open it.

A browser ask keeps what it did

The working-out moved below your questions, opens with one press, and for an ask that drove a browser it is the whole step log — every page it opened and everything it pressed. It is now kept as steps.txt in the ask's own folder, so what did this do last Tuesday is a question with an answer. It is on your Mac, it is readable, and you can delete it.

One sentence we had wrong

The Status screen said "Nothing you say leaves this Mac". That was written when the only model ran on your machine, and it is not true when an ask runs on Claude Code or Codex — the question and the session's transcript go to them in the prompt.

What is true on every model is the audio: it is transcribed on your Mac and no request carries a recording. That is what the screen says now, and where an ask goes is said in the same breath. The privacy policy's heading has been corrected the same way: what never comes to us is the promise we can make, and it is not the same sentence as what never leaves your Mac.