What's up next
Snapshot from userig.app/changelog?tab=upcoming · 19 Sept 2026 (UTC).
Directional — not a promise. Discuss specifics in Feature ideas.
Next — Fleet remote control
Target: late beta (around beta.30–.35). Phone-friendly fleet board on the web Account dashboard, morning stacks, smart offline queues, home-Mac assign, keep-awake schedules, remote open URL + failure log tails, then peer wake, team role gates, on-call Macs, and update-all. Same device APIs the iPhone app will use — no FileVault cold-boot promises.
Next — Mesh
Mesh is live on Mac and Cloud. Last mile: Cloud sentence builder, tag rename, one Fleet Activity feed. Teleport network badge stays unshipped.
Next — Sidebar, All projects & tray popover
Switcher, All projects, and the menu-bar popover from the turn-44 board — the Mac rail still uses the older shell.
Next — Encrypted secrets sync
One-click onboard of a teammate's whole .env. Keys never leave devices; plaintext never sits on the API.
Next — GitHub in Rig
One GitHub identity for the Rig account (click to connect on Mac and in Cloud; PAT is backup). Mac: full Git plane per project — create or attach a repo, live changes, hunks, history, blame, PRs, merge, conflicts. Cloud: live branch/PR state on the catalog, Open on GitHub, GitHub.com actions from the dashboard; working-tree git still runs on the assigned Mac. Agents get the same loop over MCP. Directional: a branch becomes a whole environment.
Soon — GitHub in Rig — git & GitHub basics
Phase 2 after the Git plane: tags, revert, cherry-pick, draft PRs, issues, Cloud merge/releases, org App. SSH, LFS, and a second account come after.
Soon — Account recovery & trusted devices
Lockout recovery shipped. Next is a 30-day trusted-device 2FA skip and an optional recovery email. SMS is out of scope.
Soon — Local services catalog
A Services tab beyond managed Postgres / Redis — Mailhog, MinIO, and friends, start/stop like any project.
Soon — GitHub in Rig — agents, review, Actions
MCP mirrors the Git plane. Cloud queues pull/push/checkout to an awake Mac (same as remote start). Comment and approve on a hunk, Actions logs and rerun, vault-backed secret scan before commit, preview URL per branch, worktree per agent session.
Soon — WordPress depth tooling
Blueprints, PHP version picker UI, Mailpit, Xdebug toggle, and clone/export — the Local-depth items after one-click WP shipped.
Soon — Stable 1.0 polish
Target: Mac 1.0 after fleet foundations land. Groups, session resume, install polish, and a calmer day-to-day shell so betas feel finished, not provisional.
Soon — iPhone / iPad app
Target: TestFlight after fleet board + remote commands are solid on the web. See fleet status, start/stop/restart when a Mac is awake, morning stacks, and attention alerts — same Rig account as Mac and cloud. iPad gets the wider fleet layout.
Soon — Menu bar + Cmd-K + hotkeys
Start/stop/status from the menu bar without opening the full window, a command palette for jump-anywhere actions, and global hotkeys for the day-to-day loop.
Soon — Autopilot finish-loop
When a project dies: free the port, restart cleanly, and explain what happened in plain English — finish the self-heal loop we already half-built.
Soon — Env diff + write across Macs
See which teammate Mac is missing STRIPE_KEY (and friends) before a silent misconfig burns an hour — then write/update vars through Rig, not only switch profiles. Bridge into the secrets vault.
Soon — Live Link / share polish
One hero share CTA (copy link + QR), clearer expire/stop, MCP tool to mint a WAN URL for the current project, and demos that feel instant — not a tunnel rebuild mid-standup.
Soon — MCP: fleet, sessions, PHP/Laravel
Agent surface for list devices / remote commands, session resume/switch, env profile tools, and PHP/Laravel helpers (framework detect, log tail, Valet health) — plus a documented generic MCP config path for any editor.
Soon — JetBrains, Zed, Neovim
First-class MCP link-up beyond Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and Windsurf — especially JetBrains for the Laravel/PHP crowd comparing to Herd.
Soon — Desktop debug & data suite
Time-travel searchable logs across restarts, docker-compose visualiser, local request inspector, resource graphs + alerts, and seed/fixture/reset for local databases.
Soon — Secret scanning before commit
Warn before a leaked key hits git — Rig already knows what’s secret via the vault, so this isn’t another downstream CI scanner.
Soon — Live pair + request access
Share a running project’s logs/terminal read-only with a teammate, and one-tap request access to their preview — multiplayer flight board without screen share theater.
Soon — Cloud push + real team permissions
Desktop sync stops being pull-only (push channel for commands/notifications), and org roles get a real UI — seats, who can remote-start/wake/revoke — not just API scaffolding.
Soon — WordPress toolkit
After one-click install: WP-CLI command palette, Mailpit for caught mail, Xdebug toggle, safe change-URL, site shell with wp on PATH, and PHP/MySQL logs in the same place as every other Rig project.
Later — Secrets vault & deeper observability
End-to-end env vault (keys never leave devices) plus richer anomaly graphs and host health over time.
Later — Team roles + audit trail
Real RBAC beyond light owner/member/viewer — who can remote-start, wake, revoke — plus who pulled which project’s secrets and when, using vault metadata already on devices.
Later — Public @handle profiles
Opt-in userig.app/@handle backed by real activity (not a static bio) — stacks, projects, ship signal. Never publishes by default.
Later — Templates & service marketplace
User-published, versioned project templates plus a one-click service catalog beyond managed Postgres/Redis — recipes teams can add without hand-wiring every port.
Later — A branch is a universe
Checkout switches code + branched database + env + HTTPS + optional live share on that Mac. Cloud shows the universe across the fleet. Agent sessions get isolated worktrees and ports. Undo the last hour of reality. Pair on a running diff. The agent opens, waits for CI, and merges without a GitHub tab.
Later — Mission control + fleet dashboard
One live map of every project, device, live share, and database branch on the Mac; a cloud fleet dashboard with uptime timelines, resource trends, and alerts on crashes or an offline machine.
Later — Continuity as disaster recovery
Time Machine for the whole environment (code + DB + processes), full-machine restore on a new Mac, and Continuity framed as “laptop gone at 9am, working by 9:15” — not just backup.
Later — LAN pairing + identity switching
AirDrop for dev environments — discover another Rig on the LAN and pull their running project state in under a minute. Plus one switch that swaps git identity, SSH keys, and env vars together for freelancers/agencies.
Later — Predictive health + Laravel depth
Warn before a crash from resource trends, not just after — and a Herd-beating Laravel surface: Telescope-style request inspector, queue/Horizon view, Artisan command palette.
Later — One-click + preview deploys
Runs locally → ship to Railway / Vercel / Fly from the project, with per-branch preview deploys and status/rollback on the flight board.
Later — Webhooks + admin panel
Outbound webhooks for Rig’s internal events (crash, device joined, …) to Slack/Discord/generic URL, and the full staff admin panel beyond digests and release pings.
Later — Staged Mac updates
Pin or roll a Sparkle build to part of the fleet. Version data is already on each device.
Later — Desktop workflow extras
Watchers, recipe graphs, focus mode, and a keyboard / accessibility pass.
Later — Community & growth
Opt-in Friday digest, featured member, vote on what's next, plus referrals and lighter identity ideas.
Later — WordPress portability & stretch
Full site export/import bundles, clone with URL rewrite, site blueprints, multisite, then phase-2 bundled PHP binaries (no Homebrew prerequisite) — plus stretch DX like instant reload.
Later — Mesh-distributed inference & builds
Café laptop, home Studio — Rig routes heavy local LLM inference and compile jobs over Private Mesh to the machine with the silicon, then returns the result without draining the battery.
Later — Time-travel Live Links
Mint a Live Link pinned to the exact Git commit and lane. The client gets a containerized cached preview of that snapshot — you can keep breaking the UI on main.
Later — Ghost Dev iPhone handoff
Voice a task from the UseRig iPhone app. Rig wakes the home Mac, runs the agent via MCP, writes the change, restarts the local server, and pushes a Live Link back — while you are still walking.
Posted by Rig when the public roadmap changes. Private tickets still go to Support.
