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Release v1.6.0: Meet Frontier

We named this thing "code" because that is where it started: a place to keep coding sessions from evaporating when you closed the terminal. But the people using it kept doing other things with it. A booking desk. A phone line. A roadmap that keeps itself honest. The name had gotten smaller than the tool, so we gave it one with room to grow into. Digital Freedom Code is now Frontier.

Nothing else about it has changed hands. It still runs on your machine, still keeps everything as plain files you own, still drives the coding tool you already have. If you upgrade, your workspaces and threads come along on the first launch. The one thing to do: run "Set Up MCP Automatically" once more, so your terminal knows the server by its new name.

The part we are most excited about is small to describe. On the website there is now an Examples page. Each example is a whole arrangement, the workspaces and the agents and the written-down context, walked through as a story: here is the problem, here are the parts, here is what a typical afternoon looks like. And each one has a button that says Try it. If Frontier is installed, that button builds the entire setup inside the app, as its own separate context, with every agent switched off until you have read what it does and decided to turn it on. Explore it, take it apart, keep what you like, or delete the whole thing in one click. Your real work never even knows it happened.

Four setups ship in this release. A front desk that drafts confirmations and only interrupts you when two bookings collide. A phone line that turns voicemails into a callback list and quietly hands the ones that are really sales leads to a second room, where a draft estimate is waiting by morning. An issue tracker that reproduces its own bugs and pushes back on its own fixes. A roadmap that dispatches its own next item and never checks anything off until someone has actually verified it. None of these were built for engineers in particular. That was the point.

A few quieter things. The Timeline now reads by day and reveals a busy one a page at a time instead of all at once. Every empty list explains what belongs there and offers to add the first one. Switching threads mid-run no longer leaves a connection dangling. The type is new too, if you look closely.

What if the limitation was never the tool, but how far it let you imagine? Frontier is our answer to that question, and this is the first release under the name. Full details on the Release Notes page.