What’s new in Embedr

What’s New

• Edit and inspect PCB layouts with the agent, with board previews and checks before changes are applied.
• Check your board’s physical layers and manufacturing issues, get a PCBWay quote, and prepare fabrication or assembly files for review.
• Choose from a refreshed model lineup, including GPT-6 Sol as the Embedr default, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Sonnet 5.5, with clearer reasoning and speed controls.
• Fixed cases where a rejected AI request could hold up later requests or a completed answer could be lost.
• Keep more project context when long agent conversations are compacted.
• Enjoy a more consistent loading experience, a clearer model picker, and quicker project opening.

What’s New

• Agent sessions recover more reliably after reconnects, retries, long responses, and automatic context compaction.
• Long-running work now has clearer progress and reconnection markers, with fewer duplicated or missing turns.
• Added Embedr Access support and more reliable usage accounting when several requests begin at the same time.
• Project datasheet indexes can now be discovered directly by the agent, and unsupported encrypted PDFs produce clearer errors.
• PCB capability checks now recognize pad-only connections, and mechanical builds are more robust with complex CAD assemblies.
• Improved reliability across hosted agents, billing, analytics, and background services.
• Updated macOS packaging and signing support for current release infrastructure.

This release also includes performance, stability, and diagnostics improvements across the desktop and web agent experience.

What’s New

• Embedr's agent is clearer and more persistent, with stronger PCB, schematic, datasheet, firmware, and mechanical-design guidance.
• Embedr's PCB agent now follows a complete design-to-manufacturing workflow, with exact component selection, two-layer-first board planning, mechanical constraints, manual placement, routing review, and fabrication readiness.
• Auto Place and Auto Layout now perform stronger checks before using credits, preserve intentional placement locks, explain provider constraints, and avoid repeating unchanged paid jobs.
• Mounting holes and other non-plated mechanical holes are carried into routing automation as keepouts.
• New PCB checks combine schematic validation, KiCad design-rule checks, and manufacturing checks while keeping warnings visible until reviewed.
• Added indexed datasheet knowledge and semantic search to support component onboarding and grounded design decisions across desktop and web projects.
• Added clearer manufacturing-provider discovery, live quote estimates, supplier-aware BOM exports, and fabrication artifact handling.
• Web research now supports deeper cited research, focused page extraction, and retained results that can be read without issuing another research request.
• New PCB, datasheet, and research actions use the same compact, readable tool-call presentation in the desktop and browser apps.

This release also improves error explanations, rollback safety, packaged runtime reliability, and parity between desktop and web PCB workflows.

What’s New

• A refreshed workspace. Switch between Agent and IDE views, find recent projects faster, and get started with guided project ideas.
• Simpler setup. Connect your ChatGPT or OpenCode account during onboarding, with clearer model choices and billing labels.
• Bring your KiCad projects into Embedr, review board checks, and explore parts in the new bill of materials workspace.
• Go from board to manufacturing. Preview your design, prepare fabrication files, and request PCBWay quotes from one guided workflow.
• Keep agent work moving with improved follow-up messages, editable chat titles, clearer activity, and richer completion notifications.
• Find targets, devices, branches, and keyboard shortcuts more easily with updated editor controls.
• Use more of your development workflow in the browser, with improved terminals, Git, firmware, PCB tools, and recovery after reconnecting.
• More reliable sign-in recovery, datasheet tools, project builds, and board exports.

PCB Auto Place and Auto Layout now require an active paid Embedr subscription, with plan guidance shown before you continue.

Windows users: install v0.3.1 manually to enable in-app downloads and installation for future updates.

What’s New

• Talk to Embedr with the new Voice Mode. Ask a quick question, hear a response, or hand project work to your agent without leaving the conversation.
• Design around your board in the new Mechanical workspace. Build and review enclosures, adjust named parameters, inspect revisions, import STEP models, and export standard STEP files.
• Move PCB work forward with guided placement and routing automation, clearer progress, and review-first controls.
• Select components directly from the 3D board, add them to chat, and inspect larger boards with improved detail and performance.
• Follow agent work more easily with a cleaner activity timeline and a direct handoff from planning to implementation.
• Enjoy more reliable voice turns, cloud tools, Mechanical rebuilds, model context, images, and release builds.