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Nowa 3.12: Connect your own AI agent

Nowa 3.12 lets your AI coding agent work inside your project. Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor to Nowa and it can open your projects, see what's on your canvas, and build using Nowa's own tools while your board updates in front of you. 🔌 This release also adds workspace and monorepo support, Sign in with Apple, Git over SSH, and a tidier interface throughout.

📋 Check all the details of this release in the changelog.

New in This Version ✨​

  • 🔌 Connect Your Own AI Agent The Nowa desktop app can now talk to the coding agent you already use: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor. Once it's connected, your agent can:

    • Open and switch between your projects by name.
    • See what you see: your screens and components, your theme and colours, the widget tree, and whatever you have selected on the canvas.
    • Build with Nowa's own tools, so every change it makes is a real Nowa change and your board keeps up as it works.
    • Point at things visually. Ask it to open a screen, highlight a widget, take a screenshot of the canvas, or save your project.

    This one is Enterprise only for now. If you'd like access, email us at team@nowa.dev and we'll get you set up.

  • 📦 Workspaces & Monorepos Nowa can now open a Flutter app that lives inside a bigger repository. When you import a local project, Nowa reads the folder and lets you choose which package to edit. Once you're inside, a chip in the top bar switches between packages without leaving the project, and Git still covers the whole repository, so nothing about your setup has to change.

  • 🍎 Sign in with Apple You can now sign in to Nowa with your Apple ID on the web and on iOS, alongside Google and email.

  • 🔑 Git over SSH Local projects can now push and pull over SSH. Point Nowa at a key, or let it use the keys already loaded in your ssh-agent, so the setup you use in the terminal works here too.

  • 📝 Describe Your Components Your screens and components can now carry a short description, written in the details panel right next to their fields. It's a quick way to leave a note for your teammates, and for the AI, about what a component is for.

  • 🔗 Share a Preview of One Screen Hit play on a screen from the board and the share link now opens on that exact screen, so whoever you send it to lands where you wanted them to.

  • 🧭 Go to Definition in the Code Editor Hold ⌘ (or Ctrl) and the name under your cursor turns into a link. Click it to jump straight to where it's defined.

  • ✨ A Tidier Interface We rebuilt the top bar and cleaned up the dashboard. A few smaller touches come with it:

    • Switching to code mode now takes you to the code behind the widget you had selected, instead of the top of the file.
    • Run and preview controls stay with you in code mode, so you don't have to switch back to play your app.
    • The diff view has a navigator for moving between changes, so you're not scrolling to find them.
    • Widgets that offer more than one constructor now let you pick the one you want.
    • Cloning a project from GitHub shows progress, so it no longer looks stuck.

  • 🎯 Code That Looks Like Yours Nowa now follows your project's own formatting rules from analysis_options.yaml. Files it saves come back in the shape your project already uses, so your diffs only show what actually changed.

  • 🧩 Custom App Bars Your own widgets can now be used as a screen's app bar, so a custom header you built once works everywhere a Flutter app bar does.

➡️ We'd love to hear what you think of Nowa 3.12! Click the ? icon to chat with us directly, or email us at team@nowa.dev. Happy building!