Floe Agent turns a model conversation into a durable task. Each message continues the same task, while every model execution becomes a separate run with its own progress, tool evidence, approvals, checkpoints, and recovery state. A task can use an app-managed private workspace or an explicitly selected project workspace.
Floe 1.7 internal beta
Current internal TestFlight: 1.7.0 (225). Apple VALID, unexpired and IN_BETA_TESTING in the sole private internal Floe QA group, verified September 22 at 20:17 UTC. The accepted-SDK release run preserved the unsigned IPA before signing and upload; the matching GitHub prerelease is public. Device behavior still belongs to user acceptance. Build 225 release notes · Delivery record · GitHub prerelease.
Build 225 is the current internal delivery. It carries the Build 224 candidate slice — Build 223 Runtime v2 startup/migration repairs (fresh registries and older Linux installs open again, verified content is never mistaken for uninstalled, environments needing repair fail closed), MLX residency across retained-task idle gaps, the PPT/PPTX edit-entry first render, and GitHub-first sharded Gitee fallback with a one-way GitHub→Gitee repository mirror — and fixes the single Swift 6 typed-throws error in the Linux image downloader that stopped the Build 224 accepted-SDK App build, without changing fail-closed mirror switching or cancellation. Focused Linux image tests (23), a Swift 6 iOS-SDK object compile, the cloud accepted-SDK build and distribution gates passed. Physical-device Linux, local-model, PPT and PiP behavior remains user acceptance. Release notes.
Build 224 never compiled. Its immutable tag v1.7.0-beta.81 (c36b7b24) and failed accepted-SDK run 35767875337 (exit 65, no artifact or upload) are retained as the failure record; see the Build 224 notes and the Build 225 failure table.
Source status — Build 226 candidate (unreleased). The source since delivered Build 225 adds a native iPad IDE workbench, compressed-archive operations, reusable Linux templates, Runtime v2 resource management, background and notification repairs, local-model tool continuation, a multiline composer with per-conversation drafts, one third-party license entry, native-first media routing, and the pinned Office host. Component and cloud checks are recorded in the candidate notes; the final App build, TestFlight availability and physical-device behavior are separate pending gates.
Floe 1.7 upgrades the iPad-first Notes workspace with illustrated mind maps, native Office editing, image and creative tools, on-device speech, and task-owned environments running TinyEMU/Linux. TinyEMU provides the main local Linux path; guest package managers own Linux language/tool installation, while WASM remains a separate compatibility route. See the implementation status, migration guide, build boundaries and version archive.
Notes, Office and local speech
Notes (手记) is a separate workspace above Creative mode, with its own durable content and undo history while sharing Floe models, tools and permissions. PDF/image annotation, illustrated mind maps with document windows, native Office editing, selection questions and editable archives are available; full Office layout fidelity and physical-device acceptance remain tracked in the implementation status. The whole app prioritizes iPadOS 27, also validates iPhone, and keeps version 26 compatible.
Mind maps reflow as topics, images and branches change, preserve zoom during editing, and fit independent PDF windows. Notes supports Trash recovery and confirmed permanent deletion with deferred collection that protects shared files and undo history.
Voice input, video automatic captions and Agent file transcription now share on-demand multilingual Whisper Small with Apple recognition fallback. Timed exports support SRT, VTT and JSON. Home, conversations and Canvas can explicitly select Notes material and revoke access. Installing speech resources does not establish bilingual recognition quality. See the implementation and evidence record for remaining work; full package/model delivery and physical-device acceptance remain incomplete.
Why Floe Agent
- Bring your own models. Connect compatible providers with credentials you control. Agent, vision, image-generation, and image-editing roles can be configured independently.
- Run on device when it fits. Use the iOS 27 Apple Foundation Model or downloaded MLX models. Floe validates the installed snapshot and the real device allowance, including a running Linux guest's memory reservation, before mapping weights. Local models have their own context and memory policy, while cloud-model context and tools remain unchanged.
- Keep work inspectable. Reasoning previews, tool calls, file changes, browser state, child agents, approvals, and errors live in one continuous timeline.
- Work where the files are. Use Files workspaces, local image tools, SSH terminals, jump hosts, VNC, and a visible WebKit browser without a Floe-operated relay.
- Build visual workflows inside the workspace. Each workspace can open one native infinite-canvas project with multiple canvases, direct touch navigation, editable content nodes, explicit generation-task nodes, artifact nodes, in-place node AI, and a scoped Canvas Assistant.
- Connect standard MCP servers. Add optional Streamable HTTP servers for ordinary Agent runs; every remote tool remains namespaced, locally policy-checked, and disabled for canvas by default.
- Manage source without leaving the workspace. Inspect changes and diffs, initialize a repository, stage, commit, branch, fetch, fast-forward pull, push, and connect GitHub from a lightweight native source-control surface.
- Edit code in a native workbench. The IDE uses native SwiftUI/UIKit for its activity bar, file/search/Git sidebars, editor tabs, text and code editing, terminal panel and status bar. There is no Web text editor switch. The native editor supports multiple buffers, line numbers, bounded highlighting, find/replace, undo/redo, code-text zoom and conflict-safe saving; Markdown adds an outline, formatting controls and native preview over the same draft. The targeted cloud App/UI run passed on iPad mini and iPhone simulators, including native save and cold reopen. One iPhone DXF preview assertion failed on its first attempt and passed on automatic retry. The new workbench is not in delivered Build 225 or yet accepted on a physical device.
- Convert existing documents directly. Convert Markdown, Word, HTML, RTF and text files, with PDF input/output. The model supplies paths instead of rewriting the body; source files remain intact and scanned-page/format limits are reported.
- Create and revise Office files. Build DOCX, XLSX and PPTX locally, inspect read-only inline previews, then edit document pages, spreadsheet cells and slide objects with the local Office engine. Editing from a workspace preview opens the standalone full-screen editor; only an open that starts in the IDE file tree keeps the embedded tab. Closing with unsaved changes asks to save, discard or cancel, Command-S saves in place through the shared save path, and documents need not be uploaded. Full layout fidelity and advanced Office features remain under qualification.
- Run long work in the background. Submit large downloads and Python data jobs with a jobID, keep conversing, and collect results on completion — with suspension-surviving downloads and local notifications.
- Render Chinese documents correctly. A curated bundle of nine open-license CJK font families serv