1.18 is about keeping agents productive without taking over your Mac.

Background Mac automation

Native Mac automation no longer has to steal your cursor or focus. flowdeck ui mac actions can now target a running app in the background with --background.

flowdeck ui mac click "Save" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac type "hello@example.com" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac hotkey "cmd+s" --app "MyApp" --background

flowdeck ui mac click "Save" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac type "hello@example.com" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac hotkey "cmd+s" --app "MyApp" --background

flowdeck ui mac click "Save" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac type "hello@example.com" --app "MyApp" --background
flowdeck ui mac hotkey "cmd+s" --app "MyApp" --background

Clicks, typing, key presses, hotkeys, scrolls, and launches can all run without bringing the target app forward. Agents can validate a Mac app while you keep working in your editor.

Agent-launched apps stay quiet

When an agent runs a macOS app through FlowDeck, the app now stays in the background by default. That means no window jumping to the front just because an agent needed to build, launch, and inspect a screen.

Runs you trigger yourself still behave like normal and activate the app.

Pi skill support

Pi support is back in the FlowDeck skill installer. You can install or remove the skill pack for project and user scopes:

flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode project
flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode user

flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode project
flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode user

flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode project
flowdeck ai install-skill --agent pi --mode user

Also in this release

• Cleaner installs. The installer now replaces the managed payload directory so stale files from old archive layouts do not survive an update.

• Better verification diagnostics. Failed installs include Gatekeeper and codesign details, which makes security-policy failures easier to debug.

• Web changelog. flowdeck changelog now opens the public changelog instead of relying on bundled release-note data.

Update

Run flowdeck update in your terminal to get the latest version.