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News, updates, and thoughts from the Pad team.

Feature launch · 4 min read

Pad v0.7: share collections, see your flow, tag across the workspace

Public read-only collection sharing at /s/<token>, an Insights page for cycle-time and flow, workspace-wide tags, a faster board, and richer comments — all in the same single Go binary.

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Pad on Unraid Community Apps

Pad is now in Unraid's Community Apps. One click to install, your data lives on your server, your AI agents can talk to it.

Feature launch · 3 min

Pad v0.4: real-time collab + local-first, in one binary

Multi-user live editing, agents-write-live, and an IndexedDB-backed read model that makes 5,000-item collection pages feel instant. All in the same self-hosted Go binary.

Vision · 6 min

Claude isn't getting dumber. Your project is leaving the room.

The Reddit posts about Claude getting worse are describing something real, and diagnosing it wrong. Here's what's actually happening, why CLAUDE.md and 3-file systems are patches on the symptom, and what a structural fix looks like.

Feature launch · 3 min

Pad's remote MCP server is here

Paste one URL into Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, or Windsurf, sign in, and your Pad Cloud workspace is connected. No install, no API keys, no terminal required.

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Connect Claude Desktop to your project in 30 seconds

Pad's local MCP server is here. Install the binary, run one command, restart Claude Desktop — and your AI agent can read your plans, create tasks, run your standup. Same for Cursor and Windsurf.

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Pad Cloud is here: your project, on every device, with your team

The managed version of Pad is open today. Same data model, same CLI, same /pad skill — now with sync, team invites, and zero install. Self-hosted stays first-class.

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Pad on Homebrew, signed and reproducible

You can now `brew install PerpetualSoftware/tap/pad`. Every release ships signed, with an SBOM, with build provenance — here's what each piece is and how to verify it.

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Conventions and Playbooks: teach your AI agents your team's rules

Stop reminding your AI assistant about your team's rules every session. Encode them once as conventions and playbooks — and every agent in your project follows them automatically.

Vision

Project management built for makers, not managers

Most PM tools optimize for the wrong user. Here's what we believe, what we deliberately didn't build, and why agents change the equation.

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Introducing Pad

Project management built for developers and AI agents. A single binary, a CLI, a web UI, and a natural-language skill — all in one.