Build Once, Run Anywhere
Describe what you want in plain English and Sandcastle builds the workflow. Run it on any model — Claude, GPT, Mistral, a local model on your own box — and move it between them with one line. Deploy it your way: cloud, your server, fully air-gapped, EU-only. And it gets better over time, on its own. This release rebuilds the whole experience around that loop — a new Omnibox, a three-verb navigation, a self-explanatory builder, a fresh look — and adds the machinery behind it: a signed Black Box audit trail, an Architect that writes workflows until they actually work, self-healing, a Model Time Machine, and a private Mesh across your own machines. The biggest drop yet.
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feat · headline
The Omnibox — describe it, ship it
The dashboard now opens with one input: "What should your agent do?" Write a task in plain English, Sandcastle generates the workflow, you run it. Also one keystroke away with
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Three verbs, not thirty doors
Navigation collapses to Build / Run / Improve (plus a quiet Operate) with a three-tier density control — Essentials / Standard / Everything — replacing the old binary Lite/Full toggle. Simple at the top, the full depth one click down.
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The Black Box — a flight recorder for agents
A tamper-evident, signed hash-chain over every recorded run, a
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The Architect — generate until it works
Generate → run → judge → refine, in a loop, until the workflow actually passes — then ship it with a recorded cassette as a Proven template. Describe a result tonight, wake up to a verified workflow.
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Self-Healing Workflows
A failed run gets an LLM diagnosis, a patched workflow version behind an approval gate, and regression tracking — so the same break doesn't happen twice. Workflows that fix themselves overnight.
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Model Time Machine
New model dropped? Replay your real recorded workload against it and get a quality / cost / latency delta — decide on data, not benchmarks. Dry-run pricing is free; live replay runs under a hard budget.
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Sandcastle Mesh — your own private cloud
Register multiple machines and route steps by capability —
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Night Shift & Mission Control
Night Shift shows what your agent learned overnight — adapter lineage, nightly eval deltas. Mission Control is a full-screen live run theater: the DAG lights up as it executes, with live cost and a thought stream.
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feat · templates
Verified template bundles
Every shared template can carry a replayable proof it works.
sandcastle template verifyreplays the bundled cassettes offline, $0, and reports PASS/FAIL — check it works locally before running anything live. No more "trust me" YAML. -
feat · builder
A builder that explains itself
Every step type now has a hover card — what it does, when to use it, an example, a cost note — plus inline field help, a plain-English summary of each step, and live validation on the canvas. Build complex workflows without reading the docs.
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design
A new look — and a new site
A warm "Sand & Ink" identity: instrument-panel layout, control-room status lights, illustrated empty states, and a settle-based motion system. The marketing site got an editorial Manifesto rebuild end to end.
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No more garbled steps
LLM steps now pin a low temperature, so output stays deterministic across providers — some endpoints default to 1.0 and produce garbage. An empty model response now fails with a clear message instead of a silent "completed". And
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Signed releases & a security policy
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SECURITY.mdwith coordinated disclosure, and releases now shipSHA256SUMSwith keyless cosign signatures — verify what you downloaded is what we published. -
milestone
21Branches integrated17.9kTests green (py + web)8New features shipped1Workflow, any model, anywhere