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: documentation and delivery status
Detailed user manual · Website documentation · Version status
The last recorded internal delivery is 1.7.14 (255). 1.7.18 (259) is an unreleased candidate undergoing full CI. Current TestFlight approval, expiration and group availability must be checked with Apple; historical submissions do not deliver this candidate. See the release 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 native workbench ships in delivered Build 227; physical-device keyboard, IME and touch acceptance is still pending, and the Build 227 IDE Office-tab opening regression above is an open issue.
- 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 serves the Office engine, PDF editing, and web previews alike.
- Approve consequential actions. Task policies narrow file, network, browser, upload, credential, and remote-execution authority. Sensitive actions still require explicit confirmation.
- Resume honestly. Checkpoints, notifications, and background coordination preserve safe progress. iOS suspension and uncertain side effects are reported instead of hidden.
- Extend with audited skills. Skill Creator and Skill Finder install validated instruction and knowledge packages. A skill may bundle bounded UTF-8 Python scripts and exact-version pure-Python wheels: Floe audits them once at creation or installation, then permits only identical script and dependency fingerprints to run without repeated prompts. Native code, install hooks, changed code, and silent tool grants remain blocked.
- Automate with Apple platforms. App Intents expose immediate and scheduled Floe tasks to Shortcuts, while device-local controls govern Calendar, Reminders, Home, Maps, vision, documents, camera, location, and related integrations.
The task model
flowchart LR
A["New task draft"] -->|"Send first message"| B["Task / conversation"]
B --> C["Run 1"]
B --> D["Run 2"]
B --> E["Run N"]
C --> F["Messages · tools · evidence"]
D --> G["Plan · goal · memory"]
E --> H["Checkpoint · recovery"]
B --> I["One workspace owner"]
I --> J["Private task workspace"]
I --> K["Selected project workspace"]
The app normally opens directly into New Task. Sending the first message creates the task, workspace ownership, initial run, user message, attachments, and task policy atomically. Later messages create new runs inside the same task, so context does not fragment into unrelated jobs.
Get started
TestFlight
Floe Agent 1.7.14 (build 255) is verified available to the Floe QA internal TestFlight group: Apple reports VALID, unexpired, audience APP_STORE_ELIGIBLE and IN_BETA_TESTING for immutable tag v1.7.14 (verification). See the Build 255 delivery record; physical iPad behavior remains to be accepted.
Unsigned IPA
GitHub prereleases include an unsigned IPA for advanced testers and downstream packagers:
- Download the IPA and
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