Tidebreak v1 is a local-first coworker for real work: it can use configured models, work over user-approved files, call bounded tools, run code in an isolation boundary, and produce files you explicitly export. That is a useful foundation, not a claim that every kind of automation is already present.
Not yet, by design
Scheduled work
Future runs will reuse the durable run journal and never turn a schedule into blanket permission.
Browser automation
Browser control needs its own isolated profile and visible, reviewable action boundary.
Connected services
Managed OAuth integrations belong with gateway entitlements, not a parallel desktop-owned connector catalog.
A coworker that can work later
Tidebreak has durable background runs, but it does not schedule work for a future time or recurring cadence yet. The first local-first scheduler should support one-time, daily, and weekly tasks with visible history, explicit enable/disable controls, and bounded catch-up after sleep or offline time. It will reuse the existing journal and admission path instead of introducing a second automation engine.
A schedule cannot manufacture consent. Actions with external effects will remain subject to the applicable approval boundary; future recurring grants must be limited to exact, canonicalized destinations.
A browser without ambient computer control
Browser automation is valuable, but Tidebreak will not take over your everyday browser profile or silently become general desktop control. A future browser capability needs an Tidebreak-managed profile with explicit rules for cookies, logins, reset, uploads, downloads, cancellation, and a visible foreground control surface.
It must keep web-page content separate from model instructions, credentials, and host capabilities. Personal-profile access by default, CAPTCHA evasion, and password-manager integration are outside this direction.
Connected services
Tidebreak supports local connected folders, MCP servers, web search, and user-configured REST definitions. It does not intend to publish and operate a separate desktop-owned OAuth catalog for services such as Slack, Google, Microsoft 365, Dropbox, or Box.
For services that require a registered OAuth application, the intended managed path is a gateway entitlement that Tidebreak consumes and explains. Local users retain their escape hatches: mounted MCP servers and user-provided REST definitions and credentials.
Further out
Later work can add connected-folder search from the composer, reusable output templates, an instruction-only plugin marketplace, and eventually capability-bearing plugin components with explicit per-component consent.
Deeper isolation is also planned carefully. Detached background agents require scoped model tokens, provider lifetime caps, verified images, no reachable host authority, and enforceable credential-egress rules. Until those properties fit together, durable background runs remain local and attached.
What we are finishing now
The v1 foundation still has ordinary implementation work: consolidating the pre-v1 schema baseline, closing the remaining self-hosted prompt-inbox ownership gap, enforcing Docker's strict network-off policy, surfacing the built-in project model, and tightening deletion and audit behavior. These are active, buildable slices rather than deferred promises.