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What's new on screenpipe this week?

The theme this week: do more, take less. screenpipe now runs from any terminal without a daemon, backs off automatically when your battery runs low, and redacts sensitive text on-device with a model that's 10× smaller than before.

Your agents can only act on what they can see. screenpipe is the local-first memory layer that captures it — now lighter on your machine and easier to reach from the command line.

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⭐️ New features

CLI

screenpipe search — daemon-free local history queries from any terminal. Same flags and JSON shape as GET /search, so existing jq filters work unchanged
screenpipe team devices / search / records — enterprise admins query teammates' history from any signed-in machine, no local daemon required. Uses your team_api_token from ~/.screenpipe/enterprise.json
CLI flags for keystroke, clipboard, and scroll capture — --capture-on-keystroke, --capture-on-clipboard, --capture-scroll link non-printable key events, clipboard rows, and scroll-stop triggers to the screen frame they fired on
Periodic CLI version-check nudge in the tip rotation so you don't miss fixes
Discord community link in the Help menu — jump into the screenpipe Discord from the in-app Help section

MCP

Bring-your-own MCP servers — register custom HTTP MCP servers (Brave Search, Linear, Notion, internal company MCPs) from settings → connections and call their tools from pipes and chat
MCP team telemetry tools — when authenticated with an enterprise key, the screenpipe MCP server exposes team telemetry tools to any MCP-compatible agent

Meetings

Search meetings by title, attendees, or note with explicit show-more pagination
Calendar-aware prewarm — 2–3 minutes before a calendar event, screenpipe surfaces a toast to start the live meeting note so you're never caught flat-footed
Deepgram live diarization — the live meeting transcript now labels each turn with a speaker (you on your input device, "speaker 2/3/…" for others) and adjacent turns from the same person collapse into one line

SDK

@screenpipe/sdk 0.4.x event stream — stable events (start/stop, recording_started/recording_stopped, paused/resumed, app_switched, frames_progress, permissions_changed, error) across Node, Electron, Tauri, and Swift bridges
Event-driven multi-monitor paired capture with full CLI parity — SDK sessions land in the same database your pipes already query
Runtime setFilters / filterStatus + paused/resumed events
Honor ignored_windows / included_windows / ignored_urls from SDK pipe code
Tauri SDK now a native plugin — exposes dataDir, mp4Monitors, pairedMonitors, uiCapture

Filters

Scoped window filters with App::Title syntax — ignored_windows and included_windows now accept Slack::#hr (only the #hr window inside Slack), ::Confidential (that title in any app), and bare entries like Slack keep their original meaning

Privacy / redaction

v45 phase 3 ONNX text redactor — ~278 MB INT8, 90.2% HIPAA, sub-10 ms p50, with CoreML / DirectML / CPU execution providers. Replaces the previous 2.8 GB Candle model. First run auto-downloads with SHA verification
Memories continuously sync to Claude + Codex memory so your agents see what you've seen

Power

Aggressive low-battery tiers — auto power mode now pauses microphone capture at ≤20% battery and pauses all capture at ≤10%, then resumes when you're back on AC
Power profile downgrade notification — a desktop toast on each tier change so you know why capture quality changed
Auto power mode by default on new installs

Connections

Workflowy integration — connect Workflowy and use it from chat and pipes
Tile-ified Input Monitoring plus a new Featured row on connections
Multi-account for Google Docs / Sheets with a forced account picker on Google + Microsoft to disambiguate

App

Cmd+N / Ctrl+N opens a new chat from the home page
Ctrl+Tab recent chat switcher for chats
Simplified pipes view
macOS VoiceProcessingIO microphone — opt-in Apple AEC + noise suppression on your default mic; falls back to the standard HAL path if VPIO can't start
"Check for updates" card in Settings → General so you can pull on demand

Updates

Silent background download — banner only when ready; auto-update off by default so you stay in control
Enterprise update policy — admins pin app versions per org and control whether the consumer update banner shows for employees
Failed updates are retryable — the tray says "Update failed — click to retry"; transient failures auto-retry with backoff and surface as desktop notifications

API

frame_id on /search input results so pipes can join search hits back to the exact screen frame
UI events linked to the frames that triggered them — clicks, scrolls, and key presses paired with the frame they fired on (including on Windows)
ui_recorder status in /health so external monitors can check if clipboard/UI capture is on

AI gateway

Gemini 3.5 Flash added

Accessibility

VS Code terminal logs captured plus the correct terminal window name (session name shows in the label)
macOS depth budget reset at the AXWebArea boundary so Electron apps (VS Code, Slack, Discord, Obsidian, Notion) get the full walk budget inside the web area
Default max_depth 30 → 35 to capture VS Code terminal output
Windows: WM_MOUSEWHEEL coalesced into 500 ms scroll events so scroll bursts land as one event

Domain

Canonical domain switch to screenpipe.com — desktop app and CLI website links now point to screenpipe.com. Existing screenpi.pe links still work

⚡️ Performance

macOS capture coupled to your video_quality — capture width is low 1280 / balanced 1920 / high 3840 / max native, and the GPU does the downscale at source instead of reading back native-res frames. Biggest wins on external 4K/6K displays
Pause states actually release SCStream — when capture pauses (screen locked, critical battery, DRM-protected window, outside your schedule) screenpipe releases the underlying capture stream instead of just sleeping the reader, so WindowServer / replayd stop composing frames for a sleeping consumer. Recovery on the next trigger adds a one-time ~200 ms
Exclude ~/.screenpipe from Spotlight so the system isn't constantly re-indexing your timeline
ArcSwap for cloud token state — lock-free token reads on hot paths
Meeting detector skips AX IPC for attributes the profile doesn't need
DRM-aware pause on by default (Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max), with reliable Safari + apps.disneyplus.com subdomain detection

🐞 Bug fixes

Meetings & audio

Background transcriber no longer fights live meeting notes — duplicate text gone
Duplicate transcript chunks across /search and meeting-transcript endpoints collapsed
Phantom meeting toast on the cal.com dashboard suppressed
"Join and take notes" button dropped from the in-progress meeting toast (it didn't do what it said)
Desktop app no longer misses system audio when following system defaults
macOS sample-rate fixes for VPIO and USB audio devices; falls back to system default input when a pinned mic disconnects
macOS prefers bundled ffmpeg over PATH to avoid version mismatch
TCC-denied retry spam quieted; missing ffmpeg no longer panics

Chat

Chat preset no longer snaps back to the default on send
Pipe-run titles preserved across tab switches and history sync
Silent model switch mid-stream no longer kills the active response
Source-citation noise collapsed in pipe-run transcripts; aggregation now generalizes to any agentic loop
Redundant [N] count dropped when a tool group is done
Empty-state hidden during pipe streaming; running-pipe spinner hidden when the sidebar is collapsed
Pointer cursor on markdown links in assistant messages; local media attachments render reliably
Chat input focuses on Cmd+N; the collapsed sidebar button no longer tab-cycles when all sections are empty

OAuth

Background refresh scheduler kills the Zoom 15-hour rotation bug
refresh_token + identity metadata preserved across refresh
Stale expires_at and explicit-null edge cases handled
ChatGPT shows a "session expired" warning with one-click reconnect
Zoom desktop client_id aligned with the deployed Marketplace app

Pipes

Newly-installed and stale cron pipes no longer fire immediately
SCREENPIPE_LOCAL_API_KEY exported to scheduled pipe subprocesses (unified env var)
Pipes whose config lives in the encrypted store.bin resolve presets correctly at start
screenpipe://view deep links route through the same handler everywhere (notifications → chat → viewer)
Local media markdown links and screenpipe markdown links preserved

Other

Shortcut-reminder error loop stopped; S3 upload reasons surfaced
UI events link to frames on content-dedup skip; timeline popover hit area expanded
Intel Mac Pi install ("Bad CPU type in executable") fixed
npx screenpipe and npm i -g @screenpipe/cli wired correctly via the wrapper bin

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