What changed, and what's still unproven.

• A scrolling introduction: What can you do with Swiftbird?, then chapters on Chat, research, your films, script corrections, review, the film editor, scene changes and the calendar, each with an example you can try. It ends at your account and layout choice.
• Connect your agent first: the introduction checks that Claude Code or Codex is connected before you continue, and can open the connections for optional tools.
• The demo ad: an illustrative, staged piece showing a block becoming a table in Blender, a lighting change and shot notes in the film editor. It's labelled as an illustrative demo wherever it appears.

The ad is an enactment, not a recording of a real agent run.

• Sign-in: a Swiftbird account with Google or an email link. The desktop app keeps its session encrypted for your Windows account, never in browser storage or conversations. Google sign-in has been completed end to end.
• Your data stays local: the account holds your email and user ID. Scripts, assets, conversations, settings and provider keys stay on your computer.
• Plans: Free ($0), Plus ($5 a month) and Pro ($10 a month). Every plan needs a sign-in.
• Membership service written: it matches Payhip purchases to your account by email and gives the app a signed, short-lived record of your plan. Settings → Subscription → Refresh membership checks it.

Not yet: the membership service isn't deployed, the Payhip memberships are drafts, and checkout is off. Plus and Pro can't be bought, and email-link delivery to general addresses still needs testing.

• Inspect and Edit: Inspect keeps the script, shots and evidence; Edit shows one picture viewport over an ordered timeline with a script lane and Voice, SFX and Music lanes. It can open in its own window.
• Timed notes attach a correction to a moment in the film and go back through Chat like any other change.
• Voice can be generated with ElevenLabs using your own key, only after you authorise each request.
• Continue in Premiere Pro: export the assembly as Final Cut Pro 7 XML with a manifest, then import it into Premiere. Swiftbird doesn't create or edit Premiere projects, and never overwrites a manually edited voice-over.

Not yet: a verified live import into Premiere, real paid voice generation, and some transitions (dip to black and wipe currently block the XML export).

• Film desks: Chat holds the film gateway. A film opens as a near-full-screen desk with Production, Thumbnails, Files and Publishing, which you can resize. Browsing a film doesn't change the conversation's context; Work on this film does.
• Calendar: editable title cards that keep their original approved wording, an animated date picker with separate Save and Draft in Chat, and alerts for Date issue, Schedule review and Approval review.
• Research in Chat: research findings become cards only when they're complete and evidenced; everything else stays as ordinary text.
• Scene changes: finishing an edit in the Scene editor lists the changed objects and camera fields in a Changes dialog. Send it as it is, or move it into full Chat to explain more.
• Warming up agent: new conversations prepare your agent with Swiftbird's guide before the first task.

Not yet: a live check of the agent warm-up with a real provider account.

• Command puts Chat beside your work, Focus shows one page, and Film gives the film a larger workspace with Chat alongside. Narrow windows switch to Focus without forgetting your choice.
• Chat-only actions no longer disturb the page beside it: an open scene, correction fields and video position stay put.
• Readable replies: Claude Code and Codex replies share one Markdown renderer, including tables. File names in a reply open the file reader, tied to the conversation that mentioned them.

• Welcome and Guide: an interactive introduction plus a tour over the real controls. Guide in the header replays it; nothing in it sends work to an agent.
• Attachment bar: pick files, drag and drop, or paste images, with upload status, retry and removal for each item. Send and Queue wait for uploads to finish.
• Return to latest now follows a reply as it grows, and stops if you scroll yourself.
• Files opens the captured file reader with its versions, and review drafts survive switching pages.

Not yet: a fresh visual check in a real browser, which was blocked at the time.

• Queue next keeps a follow-up request with its provider, model, scope and attachments, and sends it when the current one finishes. You can edit, reorder, pause and cancel the queue.
• Subagents and background tasks appear with their real transcripts, and can be stopped by the conversation that owns them.
• Images you attach reach the model as images.
• Plan mode and questions: an agent's question appears as a card you can answer.
• Compact and rewind a Codex conversation, with a preview first and a backup of the transcript kept.

Checked with single real Codex requests: queued sending, two-image input, a subagent message, a Plan-mode question, steering, compaction and an exact rewind. Still unverified: the same controls with Claude Code, permission approvals, and recovering running work after a restart.

• The mark: a swift in flight made from loose, wobbly pen strokes, cyan on charcoal and black on white. Hover the logo to watch it fly.
• Charcoal, a neutral dark desk with cyan kept for actions and the bird, and Black ink, black on white. The choice is remembered.
• A compact interface with small hand-drawn touches: a pen stroke under the selected page, and short reveals that respect your system's reduced-motion setting.

• Chat drives your installed agent. The app's first live test sent a new request and a resumed request through the installed Codex tool, and both came back.
• Production imports a film's script and visual sheet without moving or rewriting anything: rectangular shot rows that open to show stills, lane actions and source paths.
• The Scene editor arrives as a wireframe composition tool, opened from a shot row with Open in scene editor.
• Artifact buttons: agents can return buttons that open the exact page and shot they're talking about.
• Research, Calendar, Assets and corrections get their first working versions, with corrections sent back to Chat as exact, versioned notes.

Not yet: branding, sign-in, an installer, or any live test with Claude Code.