March 24–30, 2026

Home dashboard

Your home screen is now a weekly dashboard showing tasks, meetings, and outbound in one view. Meetings display in your local timezone and tasks can be checked off inline.

  • Setup cards guide you through creating your first Track Tasks and Meeting Prep projects
  • Drag to reorder tasks, click to mark done, and see priority and due dates at a glance
  • Companies and contacts with roles, emails, and phone numbers

Also in this update

  • Polished sidebar with better overflow handling for long names
  • Task detail pages with assignee, due date, and project association
  • Project templates can now be loaded from disk alongside built-in ones
  • Scheduled jobs support structured input/output with typed fields

Calendar and email improvements

Create calendar events as drafts before sending invites, and send emails with file attachments. Draft events let you review attendees and details before notifying anyone.

  • Draft calendar events with "Drafted with Housecat" branding, convert to real invites when ready
  • Send and receive email attachments through Gmail tools
  • Archive-level permissions let you trash messages, delete events, and remove files

Also in this update

  • Gmail label management — create, update, and apply labels to messages
  • List all your Google Docs and Sheets from within Housecat
  • App-created items can be cleaned up with draft-level delete

Security updates

Strengthened security headers across the platform and patched all known dependency vulnerabilities. OIDC clients are now properly cleaned up when VMs are deleted.

  • Added Content Security Policy directives to block injection attacks
  • Referrer-Policy header prevents leaking URL paths to external sites
  • Patched vulnerabilities in gRPC, MCP SDK, and OpenTelemetry dependencies

March 17–23, 2026

New integrations

Connect Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Attio CRM to Housecat. Each integration supports read, draft, and write permission levels so you control what Housecat can do.

  • Google Docs — create, read, and edit documents
  • Google Sheets — read, update, and append data across spreadsheets
  • Attio CRM — access records, notes, tasks, meetings, calls, and emails

Also in this update

  • Smoother OAuth connect flow with success confirmation for external clients
  • Disconnected permission levels are now clickable to connect directly
  • Narrower OAuth scopes for Google Calendar for better security

VM management

VMs now get custom domains automatically and the management page has been redesigned with quick-access links. Public app users can sign in through a simplified Login with Housecat flow.

  • Each VM gets a name.vm.housecat.io domain on creation
  • One-click links to open App, Agent, VSCode, or Zed on any VM
  • Public/private toggle and access summary directly on VM cards

Also in this update

  • Non-admin users can now see VMs they have access to
  • Seamless login via magic link popup instead of unreliable cookies
  • Wildcard domain support for open-access apps

Message branding

Outgoing Slack messages, emails, and calendar invites now include a "Sent with Housecat" footer linking back to your app. You can turn this off in your user settings.

  • Footer links to the app that sent the message
  • Toggle branding on or off per user
  • Auto-detects HTML vs plain text for Gmail formatting

Also in this update

  • Choose which AI model to use for conversations and jobs
  • File viewer panel opens alongside the agent when it references code
  • Tool call cards collapse into compact chips for a cleaner conversation view

March 10–16, 2026

Notion and Attio sync

Notion now uses the official MCP server for better reliability. Attio sync lets you review and push changes with a diff-based approach that only updates what actually changed.

  • Notion integration upgraded to official MCP pass-through with full tool support
  • Refresh from Attio button loads current data before editing
  • Notes are only re-created when content has actually changed

Built-in code editor

A VS Code-based editor is now available inside the app at /code, with your app navigation and sidebar intact. For a distraction-free experience, /vscode opens fullscreen.

  • Edit files without leaving the Housecat app
  • Sidebar and navbar stay accessible while editing
  • Accounts are automatically provisioned with home directories on first login

Tool reliability

Fixed issues where AI clients couldn't call Gmail and Slack tools due to mismatched parameter names. Every tool call now includes a request ID for easier debugging.

  • Gmail parameters normalized to snake_case (e.g. message_id instead of messageId)
  • Slack channel parameter renamed for consistency across all tools
  • Request IDs returned on every tool call response for tracing

March 3–9, 2026

Connections and tools

The new Connections page lets you connect Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Granola, and Notion with one click. Each connection comes with MCP tools your AI agent can use.

  • 34 MCP tools across Gmail, Slack, Calendar, Drive, Granola, and Notion
  • Three permission levels — read, draft, and write — so you control what the agent can do
  • Tokens refresh automatically so connections stay active

Also in this update

  • Housecat CLI for calling MCP tools from the command line
  • Notion database pages support dates, relations, and multi-select properties
  • Granola meeting notes with query, list, and transcript access

VM access controls

Control who can access each VM by email domain or individual address. VMs can push code to GitHub through a secure proxy that enforces branch policies per VM.

  • Restrict access by domain (e.g. @yourcompany.com) or specific email addresses
  • GitHub git proxy with per-VM branch prefix restrictions
  • One-click VM provisioning with automatic setup

Also in this update

  • Cat-themed VM names (e.g. "sleepy-ocelot")
  • Projects and scheduled jobs for organizing recurring work

AI agent

Chat with an AI agent that can manage your documents, projects, and tools. The agent uses your connected services and follows customizable instructions stored as markdown files.

  • Create and manage documents, projects, and plans through conversation
  • Plan documents display alongside the chat for easy reference
  • Customize agent behavior by editing instruction files

March 1–2, 2026

Initial launch

Housecat launched with Google sign-in, VM browser access for admins, and a chat interface powered by Claude. The foundation for everything that followed.

  • Google OAuth sign-in with session tracking and activity logging
  • Open any VM directly from the admin dashboard with one-click magic links
  • LLM-powered chat with streaming responses and conversation history